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🎡 Overview

Wheel of Fortune is a word-puzzle game. Players take turns spinning the wheel to earn money and guess letters to reveal a hidden phrase. The player who solves the puzzle keeps all the money they earned that round!

👥 Players & Rounds

• 2–12 players can join a room. The first player to join becomes the host.
• The host chooses how many rounds to play (1–3) before starting.
• Each round features a new hidden puzzle. The player with the most money after all rounds wins.

🔔 Toss-Up

• Before each main round, a Toss-Up puzzle reveals letters one at a time automatically.
• Press BUZZ IN as soon as you think you know the answer, then type it.
• A correct answer wins the toss-up prize ($1,000 – $3,000) and gives you the first turn of the round.
• A wrong answer disqualifies you for the rest of that toss-up.

🎰 Your Turn

• Spin — Spin the wheel to land on a dollar amount, then guess a consonant. Each occurrence of that letter in the puzzle earns you that dollar amount.
• Buy a Vowel — Spend $250 to reveal all occurrences of a vowel (A, E, I, O, U). You must have at least $250.
• Solve — At any time on your turn, attempt to solve the full puzzle by typing the answer. A correct solve wins the round!

⚠️ Wheel Wedges

• Bankrupt — You lose all money you've earned this round and your turn ends.
• Lose a Turn — Your turn passes to the next player with no penalty to your bank.
• Free Play — Guess any letter (consonant or vowel) for free. Consonants still earn their face value; a wrong guess doesn't end your turn.

💰 Money Rules

• Only the player who solves the puzzle keeps their round earnings. All other players lose their round earnings for that round — even if they guessed many correct letters.
• $1,000 minimum: If the solver's round earnings are less than $1,000, they are automatically bumped up to $1,000 before being added to their overall bank.
• Round earnings are added to your overall bank once you solve.
• Bankrupt wipes only your round earnings — your overall bank total from previous rounds and toss-ups is never affected.

🌟 Bonus Round

• After all regular rounds, the player with the most money plays the Bonus Round solo.
• The bonus puzzle starts with R, S, T, L, N, E already revealed.
• The bonus player picks 3 additional consonants and 1 additional vowel.
• Those letters are revealed, then the player has 15 seconds to solve the puzzle.
• A correct solve wins a prize from the bonus envelope (worth $500 – $25,000)!
• If the minimum prize is less than $1,000, it is bumped up to $1,000.

🎲 How the question pool works

• Questions are drawn from a shared pool. Once a question has been used in this room, it will not come up again in this room — so a long session keeps serving fresh material.
• The pool is tracked per room. Starting a game in a different room gives you the full pool again, including everything already used here.
• The host can wipe this room's used-question list from 👑 Host Controls → Question Pool, which makes every question available in this room again. That cannot be undone.