Spain's La Ruleta de la Fortuna/Suerte

Let us know what you found there. That version's hard to find info about.

It's an Spanish song It's quite amazing because the day before the finals someone posted that song in La Ruleta's Facebook, telling them that they could use it as a puzzle.

About La Ruleta de la Fortuna... Well, I've watched one of both episodes. The game structure was the following: they played three rounds, one started by each player. The minimum value on the Wheel was 5,000 pesetas (30 €, today $32.77) and the maximum was 100,000 pesetas (600 €, $655.45). I'll look for the complete layout when I have enough time, but there was only one Bancarrota (Bankrupt) and Turno Pasa (Lose a Turn), and there was a wedge called Turno Extra that it wasn't hit during that episode but I guess that it's the same that the old Free Spin, which awarded one Free Spin every time it was hit, because in the Telecinco version there was a Comodín wedge that acted in this way. Vowels costed 25,000 pesetas (about 150 €, $163.86), but I was surprised since players were not tempted to buy them, in fact only one or two vowels (I don't remember exactly) were bought during all the show. In every round there were some prize wedges: one on R1 and R2 and two on R3 (all of them different), and prizes weren't added to the scoreboards. When landed, the player picked up them and called a consonant for the value under them.

After playing the three maingame rounds, there was a round for home viewers: the hostess recieved a celebrity and them spun the Wheel for the contestants that were called to their houses. The four prize wedges were on the Wheel during that round, and contestants continued calling consonants (and buying vowels if they wanted to) until they failed with the consonant that they called. In that case, they won what they had accumulated to their scoreboard. That was repeated until a home viewer solved the puzzle, who won the cash and prizes in their scoreboard plus 1,000,000 pesetas (6,000 €, $6,554.52). I didn't understand very well, but there was a Jackpot that I guess that home viewers would won if they solved the puzzle only themselves.

The show was quite strange for me, it was very different to the current Spanish version and to the American. But the most strange part for me was the Bonus Round. After the home viewers round, the maingame winner returned to the studio to play the BR. The hostess showed to the winner four possible prizes that she could win if she (in that case the winner was a woman) solved the puzzle. And she was told to choose directly for which prize would she play. After that, they showed her the bonus puzzle, and she could choose six consonants and a vowel. And only after choosing her letters, they gave her the category of the puzzle.

10 seconds, it was the only thing that was not changed.

The first pic has some pretty unusual contestant podiums. Not even the railing is connected from one podium to the next!

I made that layout too, Mario.
www.deviantart.com/art/La-Ruleta-de-la-Fortuna-1998-297544312
By the way, I found a neat photo of the stage it sat on, albeit in different colors. 



Now if there were any Spanish Wheels that I know of that I haven't created yet, here are two. Note every value and special wedge is color-coded in some way.



I know the layouts of both Wheels, even the one in the second video. So if anyone wants them, please let know.

So it's starting to look like the international legacy of America's Wheel 2000 has a third country on its list, the other two being Turkey and Vietnam.

So a spot worth 5000 pesetas on this era? Interesting.

Now I got something to ask you, lousan92. Did the title card look anything like this? It certainly shows a similar industrial look that the American Wheel 2000 had.




For those wondering where I got this from, it was from an American episode that aired in November 1998, celebrating 3000 episodes in syndication.

a question for lousan92: did you have to pay taxes on your winnings? and were you paid in real money? in Italy prizes are much bigger but they are heavily taxed and paid in specially minted gold tokens.

Well, next Monday, a new season of La Ruleta starts, and we will have a new set that has just been shown. Here is a link with a few pics and a video in which the hostess makes a little tour:

www.antena3.com/programas/la-ruleta-de-la-suerte/noticias/nuevo-plato-ruleta-suerte_2015082800119.html
www.antena3.com/programas/la-ruleta-de-la-suerte/noticias/ruleta-suerte-llega-cargada-novedades-nueva-temporada_2015082800113.html

Moreover, they explain that they will add some new things, but they don't explain much about them. I'll translate to you what the news says:
- A new wedge, Exprés, in which contestants will have 45 seconds to solve the puzzle (I bet that it will be the same as Wheel's Express, but they say that contestants will have 45 seconds to solve the puzzle).
- A new feature, "Tú eliges" ("You choose"), that lets contestants to choose between two possibilities (they don't explain anything more, so I have no idea what it refers to).
- "Canciones con pregunta" (songs with questions, in which contestants can answer a question related to the song in order to win more money, probably a variant of out current Panel con Pregunta but surely applied to Toss-Ups, that are the only puzzles with song lyrics).
- New things related to the Bonus Round and related to the Ayuda Final wedge (for people that don't know about this wedge, the contestants that have this wedge and they play the Bonus Round can choose one of three envelopes offered by the hostess, and they can give an extra consonant, and extra vowel or an extra clue for the puzzle).

EDIT: a television website has also uploaded another tour by the set, but made by the host. He explains that now, when contestants pick a wedge, he will change it by a little wedge that they can put in their podiums, because often contestants forgot about some wedges that they had only because they didn't see them. Here is the link:

www.formulatv.com/videos/9181/jorge-fernandez-ensena-nuevo-plato-ruleta-suerte/

Wow, some major improvements here for their new season, that's for sure. Now this is Season 10, right, lousan92?