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If you ran Wheel of Fortune, what would you do?

Asked by mathwhiz1 (264points) November 17th, 2009

If there were no money limits or any kind of limits, here’s what I would do:

1. Make the dollar amounts on the wheel range from $750 to $7,500 in every round. It takes too long for the money to build up when the contestants keep landing on small dollar amounts, especially when they keep buying vowels, although I know how important vowels are. I get really into the show when a contestant has a lot of money in the bank.
2. Have the staff design more puzzles that are long.
3. Have a Big Money round, much like in Season 25, but with bigger amounts. The computer monitor would rotate between Bankrupt, Lose A Turn, $25,000, $50,000 and $100,000. This would be the true wheel of fortune. The wedge could be used over and over again, instead of turning to a regular $1,000 space.
4. In the bonus round, I would replace the $100,000 envelope with the $1,000,000 envelope and I would have a $10 million space on the wheel in the first round only, designed like the $1 million space that was used in Season 26. But for a contestant to get a chance to spin for $10 million in the bonus round, he or she would have to solve the puzzle in the round they picked it up in, plus he or she would have to solve at least 2 additional puzzles with a minimum amount of $7,500 in the bank and the toss-ups wouldn’t count.
5. Since there are three wedges that make the wheel slow down, each contestant who spins can add the three dollar amounts together.
6. Bring back the opportunity to win a car during the Mystery Round.
7. Make the puzzle board have a different color for the letters on each round.

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14 Answers

tyrantxseries's avatar

I’d get a new job

CMaz's avatar

Fire Vanna White. She is so useless.

eponymoushipster's avatar

I’d show Pat Sajak the picture that he has hidden in his basement that keeps him young.

hearkat's avatar

I honestly had never given much thought to game-show development. But I would teach the contestants the wonders of audio equipment… they are wearing microphones, and yet they insist on yelling out the letters and words!

aprilsimnel's avatar

I’d hire Johnny Depp to be the letter-turner.

It’s been so long since I’ve seen this show, I don’t know if anything’s been changed. But if not, for the last round, D, R, S, T, N and E should be there already and constestants pick other letters.

buckyboy28's avatar

The million dollar wedge is such a tease. You have to get the wedge, win that round, win the game, spin the bonus wheel and land on the million dollar spot, and then solve the bonus puzzle. I would change it into a guaranteed amount (maybe $15,000).

nxknxk's avatar

@eponymoushipster

Attic, basement: same difference.

PretentiousArtist's avatar

Change it to Wheel of torture!
But seriously, instead of the money going to the contestants, it will go to starving kids in third world countries

Bugabear's avatar

I wouldnt even bother playing. I’d jump on the wheel and spin around.

Dr_C's avatar

I’d take the money and run. Fuck the show… I’m rich biatch!

eponymoushipster's avatar

@nxknxk Pat Sajak does it backwards.

augustlan's avatar

I love this show! Don’t judge me. I hardly ever see it anymore, but I’ve been watching since I was little… back when you had to go on “shopping sprees” and spend all the money you just won on stupid shit like dinette sets and porcelain dogs. Over the years, there have been a lot of good changes, but don’t shoot me! I wish the episodes were longer. Make it an hour long show, so there’d be twice as many puzzles to solve (and twice as many opportunities to win money.)

faye's avatar

I would yell at people who couldn’t guess the vowel in a 3 letter word!

shego's avatar

I would cancel the show, for something more entertaining.

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