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Rules Bibles
clemon79:
I'd be curious to know if they define "a spin" as the entire process of "spin the wheel, call for a consonant, resolve the letter call."
To Scott's loophole, I assume the instant the wheel lands on a negative outcome, you no longer have control and therefore may no longer opt to solve the puzzle.
Jack521:
Yes I apologize - I don’t have the exact wording of it, but it was definitely a cash value (and I would assume a prize wedge/special wedge?).
What was also fun was when they asked for any questions, and I confirmed you could use the Wild Card after buying vowels. Someone else asked if you could use it without spinning first (i.e the amount that your pointer was on) and that was an instant no.
Joe Mello:
--- Quote from: Jack521 on September 24, 2025, 04:14:42 PM ---What was also fun was when they asked for any questions, and I confirmed you could use the Wild Card after buying vowels.
--- End quote ---
So a legal play would be to spin X00, call consonant at X00 each, buy vowels, then call another consonant at X00?
Matt Ottinger:
Back in the 70s there was a paperback book about Wheel of Fortune which somehow managed to have the complete rules as provided to the contestants. The one rule that has stayed with me all this time was, "The letter Y is always treated as a consonant."
TLEberle:
I was going through stacks of stuff and junk on my day off and what do I find but that scruffy ancient text which also mentioned thst a contestant who solves with no money gets I think $200 so they can at least buy a lighter or magazine rack to take home.
A rules Bible would be meant to cover what do you do in edge cases like revealing the wrong monitor, or stunt equipment falls apart. Since most game show contestants are agreeable and desire piles of loot, you don’t really need to devote a ton of time to “whoever was last in control shall choose the next category except in case of sudden intestinal mutiny or violent death in which case the standby paramedic shall choose.”
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