Wheel Of Fortune Arcade Games Datamine

Fascinating stuff, thanks. I look at a lot of arcade stuff in my spare time like the back of my hand, so here goes my attempt to try to make this explanation not too complex about why you’d be safe releasing the puzzles:

As far as I know, doing so likely wouldn’t be that much of an edge. Like many arcade games with wheels, but not all, you do not have absolute control of the wheel. Somewhere like a Bay-Tek game like Big Bass Wheel, you have total control but how much power a given spin goes neatly varies by machine. That’s all skill. This likely, but not with absolution, isn’t.

Instead, I believe you have approximate range of skill and power. Basically, as far as I know, the game has a payout as to when it can hit the center of the Oreo wedges, likely determined by the operator, much like the Wheel’s layout. Operators have a choice of nine layouts for the wheel, according to the manual.

That is to say in more basic terms, X amount of plays, credits, dollars, etc. have to be put on until it’s even possible to hit the big tickets, let alone execute them. You could know the sweet spot on which to land but you’d still be off a hair and land on the bankrupt equivalent to the Oreo wedge and end up with a tiny amount of tickets/points (as is the case with Wheel type 1-G) per letter.

ICE’s Monopoly is a similar game with a similar design of spinner and, personally, an ultimate flaw, if so. I can’t confirm this but the physical design of both cabinet and spinner are so similar makes me believe this is the case.

If my presumption about the payout rate is not the case, well, that’s notable. And it has absolutely certain appeal. Without saying any specifics, many games are like this but to an even stronger degree of ticket:cost where you come out ahead.

Of what I know of Dave and Buster’s in particular, you don’t want to slam these things but it takes a lot to nerf a game like this, especially because it’s so expensive relative expensive relative to expected and known return, even on half-price Wednesdays. Plus, you ultimately don’t control what puzzle you see, could always see a real cheap solution like ZZ TOP which in fact exists in-game. Besides, if you ask me, if you can get an edge on one of these machines at any arcade, you should do so. Not to overdo it, that kills it for everyone. But just enough to come out ahead for a sustained bit if at all possible—which I question if it’s consistently possible to do so.

In short: I would love to have the puzzles.

Second wave of stuff:

ICE Wheel sound files archive. Has voice clips in a "wof_2017_vo2" directory that use similar lines as the final but are left unused. Presumably are temporary voice-overs from PM devs during testing before they got licensed/professional voice clips in. There's not much else I can dissect with this game and Raw Wheel at this time due to the Play Mechanix asset file formats. I am aware of what sort of data compression scheme they use, but not much else.

ICE Wheel audio files can be found here

Now for the Raw Wheel puzzle bank download: