PrinceWatercress plays Wheel of Fortune: Deluxe Edition - Part 1 of 2

Not much to this one. I mean, it's Wheel of Fortune.

Once you look at the brief intro sequence with a digitized photo of Vanna White, it's off to the gameplay screen, which you're going to be looking at about 90% of the time. You'll put in your name and choose one of six characters to represent you.

The aim of the game is simple. Spin the wheel, guess what letters are in there to get money, and solve the puzzle to keep the bounty you just scrounged up. The more times a letter appears in the puzzle, the more money you get when you correctly guess its appearance.

You can change puzzles before a round begins with Select, and choose with X. Before the beginning of the first round, you can also change the appearance of Vanna White's dress and shoes, which always match.

There are four rounds, followed by a speed-up round. In the speed round, Vanna spins the wheel, and whatever value the wheel lands on is how much a correctly guessed letter is worth per how many time it appears in the puzzle. Unlike the TV show, vowels are worth the same value as consonants in this game. Whoever has the most money at the end of the speed-run gets to go on to the final puzzle. After you pick your prize, and all R's, S's, T's, L's, N's and E's are revealed, you'll pick three consonants and a vowel, and then you have to solve the puzzle with the letters you have. Regardless of whether you win or lose, you'll see what prize you got (or could have gotten).

Press Y to spin, B to buy a vowel for $250 of your current score, or press A to solve. When you land on a cash value, select a consonant with X and, if you choose correctly, you'll get that cash value for every time the letter appears in the puzzle.


R, S, T, L, N and E are the most common letters. R and S are the consonants to start with, and E is the one to start with. If there's a single-letter word, start with A or I, then use E, as A and I are the only letters in the English language to have a meaning.