Planning My WOF Viewing Party

Julie, I've moved this to its own topic because I think this can bring up a lot of cool ideas and discussion. A party for watching your episode followed by a New Year's celebration. How cool is that?!

As far as I know, the only place you can buy that stuff online is on eBay, so you probably won't find a lot of WOF prizes to give out.


As for your party, I have lots of ideas...

First of all, here's a Wheel layout for at least your mini Wheel.

And for any logos that you may want to use for anything, here's the "straight" logo...and the "round" logo.

If you need any other WOF images of any sort, please tell me and I (or someone else here) will be happy to give them to you.

How about making blue WOF name tags for all your guests? You can print them out on sticker paper, cut them out, and leave them on a table for people to get. I can make them for you if you want. You can tell me all the names to use on them, or I can send you a template for you to type the names yourself. Of course, you can wear your real name tag.

Do you have any device that can play WOF on a TV? (Wii, PS2, PS3, Roku, the WOF Plug-and-Play game) If so, what about a Wheel of Fortune tournament? Then the winner can compete against you in a final match.

Have you considered a WOF cake? If so, see if you can go to a business that does "photo cakes" and give them the layout I linked above to print on top of a round cake. You can even put it on a lazy susan and cut the cake so that each of the 24 wedges is a slice and you can think of the green center circle as an "inner cake".

How about making various wedge replicas out of colored posterboard or foamboard (or printing them off your computer if you don't need them so big) and decorating your party room with them? And don't forget the glitter.

Here's a tip for when you all watch the show. Put closed-captioning on your TV so that everyone always knows what is being said whenever they cheer or something and the show's audio gets drowned out.


And Julie, don't forget to take lots of pictures!

Lots of great ideas! I did think about the cake, but the rest of those ideas are new to me.

I started making my WHEEL today using a lazy Susan from IKEA ( $7 ) and some dowels. I decided on 16 wedges because 24 would have been too thin on my 15" wheel. I will post pictures when it's finished. I haven't decided to make it like the wheel or make each space a prize wedge ( chocolate bar with custom wrapper of puzzle board made by me; party hat; WOF item; etc.). I'm thinking of giving out a prize every round that goes with the puzzle ( more like a gag gift).

I love the suggestion to turn on the captions! That would never have occurred to me.

We usually spend New Years playing games, so a PS3 tournament would fit right in. I'm also glad pizza is wheel shaped!

I have lots of time...please keep the ideas coming. I will post lots of pix!

Maybe you can hammer nails in it instead of dowels to help the Wheel accomodate 24 wedges better, but that's not a big deal if you're going to make it a "prize wheel". Either way, let me know whawt you want the Wheel to say and I can make a layout for you, whether it's prizes, or a 16-wedge show-based layout.

Ah, Michaels. Great place. That's where I got all the stuff to make my "NY Wheel sign".

Nice job on those envelopes (though they're actually gold with dark blue edges, not silver/green), and great idea for a game.

That Wheel is coming along great, too! Did you make a flipper yet?



Great thinking. I would have done the same, too.

Can you take the dowels out, though? If not, with 16 in already, you won't be able to evenly have 24 or 72 pegs. You can have 48, though, which could do as long as you don't have the Million Dollar Wedge, or you could even make it a Bonus Wheel, which does usee 48 pegs.

Brilliant!

Mighttttt be stealing some of these for my own viewing party . Got to get that phone call first though

At my party I had everyone guess how much they thought I had won, and I had a prize for the person who was closest. I also found a shirt online that said I'd like to buy a vowel. Enjoy your party! I remember having so much fun at mine!

Thanks! The only new things are lists...lots of lists. I have some ideas and have some Wheel swag on its way for prizes that I got through eBay and Craig's list. I will put up pictures of everything. Or a link to the pictures. There Meyer be a lot of them.