Wheel's got some BIG MONEY!

Hmm, interesting she'd be at Wheel even this week given the last day of taping for Season 33 was April 1st, for America the Beautiful Week. Very curious photo indeed, and this warrants some speculation and discussion, at minimum.

Looks like Philadelphia Week if you ask me.

What the...   ?


OK, first off, here's a blowup and crop of the second post.




The only unique values are $1800, $3600 and $7200. This includes, for some reason, a sparkly gold or silver $1800 where Lose a Turn goes and a dark sparkly purple $3600. Why would they make those wedges sparkly?

This is not for Big Money Week. trisspinner went to the tapings for that week and confirmed nothing changed on the Wheel. And this is not for Philadelphia Week or America the Beautiful Week; they just kept the set up since that's what was used for the last tapings of the season. And all Instagram posts relevant to this were posted yesterday.

I really doubt this is going to be used during gameplay on the show proper. This is probably for a commercial or parody skit. Or maybe this has something to do with the upcoming Lottery Players games, as they have made Bonus Wheel envelopes of non-gameplay amounts for Lottery-related sweepstakes, but those aren't going to be played until after next season begins taping.


A bonus: an up-close look of the yellow $1800 wedge being made. Strangely posted without any description or hashtags. The "1" looks kind of odd, but a great-looking wedge nonetheless.

http://instagr.am/p/BD9pBrgFGNe

Whoa, what? Dang.

This has to be just for the lottery, right?

That's...different. Really interested to see what the point of this is.


Wait, what? They're doing Lottery Players games again?

Strange, but to me the 2's in the $7200 spaces look off-model (curly base, as opposed to the flat base on the normal $2500 wedge).

Why are most of the amounts multiples of $1800? And why no $5400 space?

Any chance this could be the wheel for a new BR format where:
- you spin to call consonants
- vowels cost $1800
- one bad letter call or Bankrupt and you lose
- all consonants in the BR puzzle must be called before you can solve
- if you hit a sparkly wedge it acts like the Express wedge

Thanks for clearing that up, Robert. They'll probably be held to the same limitations the 2012 games were, though, which means the general public won't ever see 'em.


Wouldn't that border on false advertising, though? "It's Big Money Week on Wheel of Fortune, so here's footage we shot after we finished taping for the season with Wheel values we'll probably never actually use!"

They already filmed promos for the Scopely game several months ago, but who knows?



Unless somebody's relative decides to rip the DVD and upload it to YouTube like last time.