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We just got word about more "Wheel of Fortune" changes. The Buzzer reader who stated them wished to be unnamed.

The Jackpot space is now a $500 space also. Everytime the space is hit, $500 is added to the jackpot. Also, the player receives $500 each time the letter appears. There is no visual change to the Jackpot space.

MAJOR MIDSEASON CHANGE: Coming in somewhere in the middle of the season is the "Wild Card". It's basically one of the old cardboard wedges, and you earn it the same way. Land on it, get a letter right, you receive it. What you can do with that is when you spin the wheel and guess a letter correctly, you may surrender the Wild Card for another guess. Obviously, the best strategy here would be to save it until you get the biggest value. You can't do this for prizes obviously, but you can on the Jackpot space and on unturned Mystery Wedges, worth $1,000 each.

An extra wrinkle to the Wild Card: If you are brave enough to carry it into the bonus round, you are allowed to select another consonant, making it 4 consonants and a vowel. So, as always, what do you guys think of the changes? Personally, it still doesn't make "Wheel of Fortune" appointment TV, or even casual TV, for me, but I will watch to see the new changes.

posted by Alex Davis * Permalink

7 Comments:

Permalink, Anonymous said…

While I like the wild card idea, I think most people who watch/play Wheel of Fortune will be too dumb to understand it. Reminds me of that double $ card they used to have that let you double your spin amount before you spun. Lots of those just went unused.
Permalink, Anonymous said…

I agree with above but I do like the idea to give a small twist to a long running show.
Permalink, Anonymous said…

I like the Jackpot change because not only the money is added to the pot, that $500 is added to his/her score per constanant.

As for the Wild Card, it's an idea that's been long overdie. It's better than the Double Play(if that was the first poster was trying to say) wedge. And it adds a new twist to the bonus round. My feeling is 9 out of every 10 players will save it for the bonus round. I only wish there was a choice to get either an extra vowel ot constanant upon the Wild Card's usage.

I'm anxious to see what it looks like & what round it first appears in 2007.
Permalink, Anonymous said…

Making the Jackpot space a $500 is a welcome addition--often, a player lands on the Jackpot space early in the round, guesses a letter, and he can't cash in because he can't solve it. At least now he gets money for the letter.

The wild card idea sounds cool, too.
Permalink, Anonymous said…

I think that is a great new twist to the game. If the wild card space was done before, I don't remember it. And I'm a Wheel Watcher since I was a baby.
Permalink, Alex Davis said…

OK, if you call a letter CORRECTLY, you can use it again. It's just an extra letter with a correct guess, basically. Nothing fancy. No idea about what happens if it lands on a prize space, but that's rare so we'll have to see. As far as I know, it's a round disc.
Permalink, Anonymous said…

ICK! Just what we didn't need. More glitter on the wheel. The top $ ones are fine as they are. If they gonna do that, they should wait untill next season to mark their silver season in syndication, not now. Yeesh!