UK's Wheel of Fortune

Ah, well if it isn't you! Glad to see you here!

Yeah, it really would have been nice. If there's a British Wheel fan who knows how it worked, I'd love for him to tell us about it. Above all, Wikipedia's article about that version could surely use that info, not to mention another pic from me.

I do have an idea, I'll upload that, and see what happens from there.

BTW, how about I showcase my British Wheel artwork here?


This is the round three wheel from 1988. I do not know the layouts from the first two rounds at this point.


The round one layout from 1992. I don't know the round two and three layouts, but since the value layouts were constant from this point on, I have a feeling about where the second Bankrupt and the other two 1000 point spaces would have occupied.


The round one wheel from 1998 to about 2000.


Round 2 with a second Bankrupt and second 1000 point space.


Round 3 wheel with third 1000 point space. Note values are doubled from this point on.


And here's the round 1 layout from 2001. Rounds 2 and 3 will come soon.

It's all right, Sam. Hopefully someone will help us out somehow.

Now apart from an episode that shows us how the 500 Gamble space worked as well as an episode just before that spot made its debut, I also want to see an episode from 1988. There is indeed the round three wheel, but the round one wheel looks quite different. If you look closely, you'll see a yellow wedge worth 350 points, a value I haven't seen on British Wheel since.

I'd certainly love to see that. By the way, who wants to see an episode of British Wheel from early 1993? The uploader believed it to be from 1990 or 1991, but I know it's 1993 by its Roman numerals at the end.

It's plausible, especially for newer episodes (since I don't think Grundy has the rights to non-US Wheel anymore), but precedent seems to be that it's the channels airing foreign Wheel versions that take them down.

I don't know why they are doing that, but they don't do reruns on TVs

Another British Wheel episode from 1991 has surfaced.



BTW, for those who want to know the font used for the categories and credit rolls, it's Robur. Even so, the capital J that is used on the show is like the lowercase j only without the dots above it.

It's possible, or he may have temporarily filled in for Hendy.

Now the big thing I wanted to discuss was the Gamble wedge. I've been waiting like - What? - seven years just to see how that thing worked. From the looks of it, it's kind of like a combination of the American Express wedge and the Polish Mystery wedges. If that's the case, it's certainly a predecessor of those elements. When you land on it, you have a choice to make. One, simply go for 500 points per letter. Two, gamble your round score. In either case you have to call a letter. If you gamble your points and call an incorrect letter, it's a Bankrupt. If you gamble your points and call a correct letter, your score is increased. How it's increased, I don't know, but here's what I know.

Joe gambled 250, got a letter that appeared once and his score increased to 1500.
Terry gambled no points, got a letter that again appeared once, and her score increased to 2000.

Maybe it's random? Possibly increased to a random multiple of 500?