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Post by woffan4ever on Aug 31, 2020 9:46:19 GMT -5
I didn't see this posted anywhere, but I have always wondered...which international version of Wheel was the first to get an electronic puzzle board after the US in 1997?
Also, which version do you think had the best puzzle board? I always like the 2008 Filipino board and the Aussie Million Dollar board.
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Post by MarioGS on Aug 31, 2020 10:38:08 GMT -5
The kids' version of Glucksrad in Germany had an electronic board before the US, but it was basically an LED dot matrix display rather than a setup of monitors.
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Post by HamOnTheGrill on Sept 14, 2020 8:14:26 GMT -5
Also, which version do you think had the best puzzle board? The US electronic puzzle board has always been my favorite one. In Vietnam, we used 8 television screen, each displaying 8 spaces and I'm pretty sure that they weren't "touch-to-reveal".  |
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Post by germanname1990 on Sept 15, 2020 2:41:08 GMT -5
Even before the German kids' version, Italy was perhaps the first country to have an electronic board by any means in the franchise. From 1985 to 1987, they had a show called Pentatlon, which was basically a whole bunch of game shows (including Wheel of Fortune) in one show. From 1987 to 1988, Italy had another show called Parole d'Oro, translated as "Golden Words." Both Pentatlon and Parole d'Oro used a dot-matrix board. Because of this and the possibility that neither show may have been officially part of the franchise (I'm not saying for sure they weren't), I don't know if those boards should count.
Even so, after our version adopted the electronic board, Italy was indeed one of the first (if not the first) to follow suit. They did so by late 1998 with a board that operated with a method of one letter occurrence revealing the rest. By late 2001, Germany, the Philippines, and Turkey were three countries whose versions adopted electronic boards of their own.
As for which version had the best puzzle board, that's a tough one. I liked the letter-reveal structure of the Philippine version's board from the ABC era. I read it had an autostereoscopic 3D effect. Although it could've used a more unique font for the letters, I'd probably go with that.
Now on the other hand, if I were to choose which version had the best set overall, that's an easy one for me, but I'll save that for another topic.
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Post by jimhattenwoffan on Sept 15, 2020 18:59:56 GMT -5
I had always thought that the Australian "Wheel" was the first to have a touch-base puzzle board after ours. It was early 2004, when Steve Omecke (the Rolf Bernischke of the Australian version) replaced Rob Elliott as host when their puzzle board was changed to the touch-base (while the golden light borders remained until 2006). As far as favorite puzzle board goes, in my opinion, I have TWO: the 1988-1997 travel puzzle board (I especially loved the light border design)...  And the 1999-2003 Australian puzzle board (before it was changed to the touch-base), I loved that they designed this board to somewhat resemble the USA puzzle board at that point in time (I loved that set in general)....  |
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