Spain's La Ruleta de la Fortuna/Suerte

They can choose any contestant if they consider that (s)he made something interesting in the episode in which (s)he appeared (not only good players, but also humorous contestants, players who sang with the band, as Joaquín did, or even players who showed an special ability).

This tournament will be a little different: the three players chosen by each of Jorge, Laura and Joaquín will face together in a Toss-Up and a normal round, and the three winners will continue until the end of the show.

I wonder how the tournament will go. In the meantime, I thought I'd let you all know that someone uploaded an episode from February 1, 1994 just the other day. Enjoy!

Just for you, guys: I've just discovered a YouTube channel that is uploading daily episodes of La Ruleta. The image is not very clear, but I suppose that it's because they want to avoid the YouTube bots:

www.youtube.com/channel/UCwmUYR8ccbBUi8dmKv1Z26Q

It will be like the 9th anniversary special: when players land on the "Verano" wedge, they will be given a replica of the wedge. If they solve the puzzle, they will go to the little wheel to choose an envelope with a cash amount and a question. If they answer correctly, they will add the amount to their totals (up to €500).

Well, that's not directly related to "La Ruleta" or its gameplay, but it's funny to watch.

Antena 3, the same channel that airs "La Ruleta", has another show called "Hipnotízame" ("Hypnotise me"). In that show, celebrities are hypnotised by Jeff Toussaint, a professional hypnotist, so Jeff makes celebrities to do whatever he wants.

In the last show, Jeff hipnotised Laura Moure, "La Ruleta"'s hostess, and a contestant of the show. They wanted to make a joke to Jorge while recording a fake episode. And that was the result. Probably you won't understand at all as it's in Spanish, so I'll make a little summary: in the first part, Jeff made the contestant to flirt with Jorge, and in the second part he played with Laura, making her stopping in the middle of the puzzleboard after revealing the letters and doing strange movements while the Wheel was spinning. In fact, it ended with Jorge having a different puzzle in his tablet, as one of the players called the L and he was extremely convinced that it was in the puzzle.

I hope that you can watch it: www.antena3.com/programas/hipnotizame/hipnotizame/jorge-fernandez-conquista-a-una-hipnotizada-concursante-de-la-ruleta-de-la-suerte_2016090757d089f20cf2d961f2cf357c.html

They're celebrating their 12th anniversary in style right now:

• The contestants for the next three weeks appear to be top money winners from the past year.
• They've introduced a new wedge/token, "Empiezo Yo" (I Start). A player can use this at the beginning of a round, after the clue has been announced, that they wouldn't normally start, and control of the wheel immediately goes to them to start the round.
• There's a new kind of puzzle, the "Prueba de Velocidad Decreciente" (Decreasing Toss-up). Played like a normal Tossup, except that there's a pot of 2,000 euros to start. It decreases by a certain amount (proportional to the number of letters in the puzzle) for each letter that's revealed. The player who buzzes in and solves wins however much money is showing on the counter when they buzzed.
• For this celebration, any player who correctly solves the bonus puzzle wins not only what they would normally get from the bonus wheel, but an additional 25,000 euros.
• The top three money winners from these three weeks of play come back for one final game, where they will compete for 100,000 euros.

Yikes!

Well, on a better note, here's an episode of the elder version from October of 1991. Note much of the music and sound effects from the German version have been borrowed. It also appears they've been experimenting with increasing the top peseta value every round which resulted in a lot of adjacent wedges of the same value.

October 24, 2014: An absolute monster of a score pre-bonus round. Quoth Jorge at the end of the game: "I think this is a record."

This may seems like an unrelating question, but does anyone know where can I find a clean version of the sound they used when the puzzle is revealed on the board?