Recap Example Alert!

I'm gonna post some of my recaps that I already played as examples. No video included, however. That'll come later.

Awesome Contestants!

Well, with all that's said and done, let's FINALLY meet our contestants. They also have real names. Male contestants are indicated in blue, and females in red.

Contestant 1 - Patrick

• Light brown skin
• Bald
• Dark mustache
• White T-shirt
• Light blue jeans
• Black Converse shoes

Contestant 2 - Rachel

• Peach skin
• Long brown hair
• Red short-sleeved top
• Blue flooding pants
• Black Converse shoes

Contestant 3 - Greg

• Peach skin
• Straight black hair
• White short-sleeved polo shirt
• Khaki pocket jeans
• Black Converse shoes

Contestant 4 - Jo Ann

• Peach skin
• Short blond hair
• Big yellow glasses
• Pink long-sleeved button-up shirt
• Black flooding pants
• Black dress shoes

Contestant 5 - Mark

• Peach skin
• Short red hair
• Small black glasses
• Red long-sleeved shirt with a white polo shirt
• Black jeans
• Red Converse shoes

Contestant 6 - Charise

• Light brown skin
• Long, wavy black hair
• Gray dress
• Brown belt
• Black dress shoes

Contestant 7 - Tony

• Peach skin
• Short black hair
• Black mustache and goatee
• Black T-shirt
• White pocket pants
• Black Converse shoes

Contestant 8 - Katie

• Peach skin
• Short, curly brown hair
• Pink short-sleeved top
• White short skirt
• Black dress shoes

Contestant 9 - Daniel

• Peach skin
• Long, wavy blond hair
• Blue T-shirt
• Gray pants rolled up at the bottom
• Black Converse shoes

Contestant 10 - Jennifer

• Peach skin
• Long blond hair
• Red short-sleeved top
• Black skirt
• Red dress shoes

And then there's customization...but then there's my XBOX 360 avatar! I'll use him later!

A Note On "Our Favorite Game!" + The First Themes!

To start off the series, I have many themes. They're grouped into segments which are divided by "Our Favorite Game" weeks.

What is "Our Favorite Game", you may ask? Well, "Our Favorite Game" is what's known as an extra-episodes week. Every theme week has six taped episodes. I'll pick an episode that I personally decide to pick to be used in the "Our Favorite Game" weeks. Got that?

Here's the themes and the stages they will take place on for Part 1.

• Grand Opening (America's Game)
• American History (Washington, DC)
• Spa Experience (Cruise Week)
• My Kind of Autumn (Halloween)
• Cruising On the Wheel (Cruise Week)
• Head of the Class (America's Game)
• Halloween Holiday (Halloween)
• Our Favorite Game! 1 (America's Game, Washington DC, Cruise Week, Halloween; should give you a clue!)

We'll just use the real themes, but the weeks will have names.

Cool Prizes!

It's great that you win on Wheel of Fortune, but the prizes make it even better! Here's a list of all the prizes you could win.

Stages/Locations

• America's Game (Classic Game) - $0!
• Hawaii - $35,000
• Las Vegas - $40,000
• Hollywood - $45,000
• Washington, DC - $35,000
• New York (or New York City) - $30,000
• Cruise Week - $30,000
• Great Outdoors - $30,000
• Halloween - $30,000
• Happy Holidays - $30,000
• Celebrating New Orleans (or just New Orleans) - $30,000
• 80's Retro - $0, but downloadable!

This is the Hollywood stage.

Props/Gift Tags

All gift tags are worth $1,000. None go with the America's Game or 80's Retro stages.

• Hawaii - Feather Stand, Tiki, Surfboard
• Las Vegas - Playing Cards, Craps Table, Roulette Table
• Hollywood - Film Camera, Hand and Foot Prints, Director's Chair
• Washington, DC - Horse Statue, Fountain, Large Flagpole
• New York - News Stand, Hot Dog Cart, Taxi
• Cruise Week - Hot Tub, Life Preserver, Nautical Map
• Great Outdoors - Hunting Bow, Water Ski, Skis (The ones for the snow!)
• Halloween - Skeleton, Gargoyle, Statue
• Happy Holidays - Swing, Gazebo, Wreath
• New Orleans - Jazz Sign, Street Sign, Banner

Notice the Featured Prize wedge, the 1/2-Car plates, and the Gift Tag?

Featured Prizes/Trips on the Wheel

• Seattle, Washington - $5,000
• Lake Tahoe, California - $5,500
• Grand Canyon, Arizona - $6,000
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - $5,000
• Vancouver Island, Canada - $5,500
• Canadian Rockies - $6,000
• Prince Edward Island, Canada - $5,000
• Mexican Riviera - $6,500
• Cancun, Mexico - $7,500
• Belize - $7,500
• Bermuda - $7,000
• Jamaica - $8,000
• St. Lucia - $6,500
• Brazil - $7,000
• Scotland - $9,500
• Dublin, Ireland - $9,000
• Barcelona, Spain - $8,500
• Florence, Italy - $8,500
• Venice, Italy - $8,000

Trips from the Prize Puzzle

• San Francisco, California - $5,500
• Boston, Massachusetts - $5,500
• Miami, Florida - $5,000
• Alaska Cruise - $6,000
• Quebec, Canada - $5,500
• Montreal, Canada - $6,000
• Mexico City - $6,500
• Costa Rica - $8,000
• Barbados - $7,000
• Aruba - $6,500
• Buenos Aires, Argentina - $7,000
• London, England - $9,500
• Paris, France - $9,000
• Berlin, Germany - $8,000
• Prague, Czech Republic - $8,500
• Rome, Italy - $8,500
• Athens, Greece - $8,000

Vehicles

The 1/2-Car vehicles are worth $10,000, while the Bonus Round vehicles are more expensive.

• Sedan - $10,000
• Sports Utility Vehicle - $10,000
• Motorcycle - $55,000
• Sports Car - $65,000
• Pickup Truck - $60,000
• Hybrid Sedan - $70,000

This is the Las Vegas stage's backdrop.

Concept Art
These are the ideas for the video game. Instead of their individual themes, the sets have the Wheel of Fortune logo against a purple/red backdrop.

• Halloween
• Hawaii
• Hollywood
• Las Vegas
• Washington, DC
• New York City
• Pat Sajak
• Vanna White
• Happy Holidays
• Cruise Week
• Great Outdoors
• New Orleans

Videos

These animated videos are season 28 intros.

• Video Pack 1
• America's Game #1 - Pat and Vanna walk into the stage with the board reading, "AMERICA'S GAME".
• America's Game #2 - Pat just can't get a letter to show up on the board, so Vanna lights it up. It's the ending letter of "WHEEL OF FORTUNE", E, and the entire puzzle is shown.
• Cruise Week - Pat and Vanna throw confetti from a cruise ship.
• Desert Oasis - In the desert, Vanna looks for Pat and finds him relaxing in a pool.
• Wendy's Family Week - Vanna pushes Pat on a playground swing.
• Video Pack 2
• Get Out of Town/Road Trip - Pat hops in a car Vanna is driving on the road, with the license plate saying "WHEEL OF FORTUNE".
• Gone Fishin'! - While fishing with Vanna in the forest, Pat's hook plunges him into the water! He gets himself back up.
• Give Me a Break! - This is similar to America's Game #1, but Vanna is wearing an orange dress instead of a blue one, and the board reads "GIVE ME A BREAK!"
• Great American Cities - Pat and Vanna are on the road! Pat's reading a road map containing cities such as San Francisco, New York, Miami, Las Vegas, and Seattle, but it goes away in the wind.
• Halloween - Pat and Vanna are zombies, floating in the air.
• Video Pack 3
• Happy Holidays - Pat and Vanna are ice skating in the snow together, with the ice reading the Wheel of Fortune logo.
• Leave Winter Behind - Pat and Vanna, wearing winter clothes on a cold winter day, open a door...and transform into summer-like clothers on a summer-like day, only it's not summer...it's spring.
• National Parks - Pat and Vanna are located near Old Faithful, and it shoots out water! Pat and Vanna end up covering up with an umbrella.
• Outdoor Adventures - Pat and Vanna kayak through the forest.
• Pet Lovers - Pat and Vanna are at a park. Pat plays fetch with his dog, while Vanna holds her cat.
• Video Pack 4
• Picture Perfect - Pat successfully tries to take a picture of Vanna near Mt. Rushmore.
• Sand & Sea - Pat and Vanna kayak in the ocean, off the beach coast.
• Teachers' Week - Pat and Vanna successfully try to present the Wheel of Fortune logo to the class, but some rowdy kids throw school supplies at Pat!
• The Good Life - In a high-rise, Pat and Vanna give each other a toast. They also point to another high-rise building that says "The Good Life!" and later reads the Wheel logo.
• Vacation of a Lifetime - Pat and Vanna walk through many different countries around the world, such as Italy, Greece, Japan, and China, where Vanna bangs a gong.
• Video Pack 5
• Wheel Around the World - In the Egyptian desert near Cairo, Pat and Vanna walk through London, Paris, Tokyo, and - where else? - Cairo, where Pat's suitcase drops.
• Wheel Loves L.A. - On the Hollywood Hills, Vanna lights up the last two letters of HOLLYWOOD on the Hollywood sign, while Pat stands near a limo.
• Wheel Was Here - Pat and Vanna take photos of each other in different U.S. cities. Vanna's riding a cable car in San Francisco, Pat's playing a trumpet in New Orleans, and Vanna's playing bongos in Hawaii. At the end, we go to New York, where Pat and Vanna are pointing to a high-rise with the Wheel logo showing.
• World Class Spas - Pat and Vanna go to different saunas; Pat draws a smiley face on his door window, while Vanna draws the Wheel logo on her door window.
• World's Best Beaches - Pat builds a sand castle on the beach, while Vanna builds a Wheel castle. And the waves wash away Pat's castle.

Body Features
Of course, all of them are free. Blue indicates male faces; red, female. Black for both genders!

• Skin colors
• Light peach
• Dark peach
• Light brown
• Dark brown
• Hair colors
• Yellow
• Brown
• Black
• Red
• Heads
• Brown mustache, small beard
• Puffy cheeks
• Glasses, triangular chin
• Black mustache, goatee
• Square chin
• Beautiful
• Big yellow glasses
• Triangular chin, warm
• Shy
• Triangular chin, serious
• Hair (including similarly-colored eyebrows)
• Bald
• Wavy hair
• Curly hair
• Straight hair
• Surfer hair
• Long hair
• Short curly hair
• Long wavy hair
• Medium-sized hair
• Short wavy hair

Clothes

Boring, but creative. Blue clothing is for men, red clothing is for women, and black clothing is for everything else, basically.

• Unlocked Clothes
• Tops
• Suits with colored ties and long sleeved white shirts - blue, red, green, purple ties
• T-shirts - white, black, blue, red
• Short-sleeved polo shirts - white, silver, blue, gray
• Short-sleeved polo shirts with white stripes - olive green, blue, red, brown shirts
• Long-sleeved V-neck sweaters with white shirts - white, blue, red black sweaters
• Gray/black striped long-sleeved V-necks with colored stripes - green, blue, red, yellow stripes
• Diamond-shaped black sweaters - gray, blue, red, green diamonds
• Tops with very short sleeves - red, blue, pink, purple
• Jackets with black bottoms - pink, purple, white, black
• V-neck sweaters - white, black, light pink, purple, yellow, green, dark pink, orange
• Bottoms
• Gym pants with white/red stripes on the sides - blue, red, green, brown
• Gym pants with white/red stripes on the bottom - gray, blue, red, green
• Jeans with a belt - light blue, dark blue, red, black
• Jeans rolled up at the bottom - black, blue, red, gray
• Pants with side pockets - silver, green, black, white
• Jeans rolled up at the bottom - blue, red, purple, dark green
• Skirts - black, white, red, purple
• Long jeans - dark blue, black, light blue, indigo
• Dresses (female only)
• Black belt, shorter - purple, red, pink, yellow
• Brown belt, longer - white, pink, purple, sky blue
• Shoes
• Dress shoes - black, brown, gray, white
• Converse shoes with white fronts - black, blue, red, green
• Dress shoes - black, blue, red, pink
• Converse shoes with white fronts - gray, blue, red, black
• Locked
• Light purple long-sleeved button-up shirt
• Black jacket/white long-sleeved button-up shirt
• Black stuffed coat
• Black coat with a zipper/white long-sleeved shirt
• Gray/blue-striped sweater with a zipper
• Purple long-sleeved jacket
• Gray long-sleeved button-up cardigan/white shirt
• Pink button-up jacket/white shirt
• Gray button-up jacket/white shirt
• Light blue short-sleeved button-up shirt
• Dark brown jacket
• Tank top with white and black stripes
• Red sweater
• Beige button-up sweater
• Beige short-sleeved shirt
• Gray pants with a black belt
• Khaki shorts with a brown belt
• Black basketball shorts
• Beige flooding pants
• Green short shorts
• White pants
• Purple plaid shirt
• Green sandals
• Black/red/white heels
• Black sandals
• Black boots
• Orange boots with beige tops
• Gray dress shoes
• Orange/black-spotted dress with a black short-sleeved shirt
• White-and-black plaid dress with no sleeves
• Short-sleeved dress with black and white checkers
• Long blue dress with no sleeves
• Long black dress with no sleeves

Are these contestants well-dressed or what?

Labels

These labels lie on T-shirts and polo shirts.

• Unlocked
• Black/white headphones
• Red fiery guitar
• Light blue wave with a white gradient on top
• Brown paw print
• Gray cat with its back turned on us
• Light yellow bolt of lightning
• Pink flower with a yellow center and a green stem
• Irish shamrock
• Light blue whale with a white gradient on the bottom
• Purple/blue butterfly with a red head
• White eagle's head with a yellow beak
• Red dragon
• Black vampire bat
• Yellow sun
• Blue teardrop stencil
• Pair of clones
• Red lucky number 7
• Pair of white dice (one red-dotted, one black-dotted)
• Red heart
• Soccer ball
• Baseball
• Golf player's silhouette
• Purple horseshoe with holes on it.
• Yellow humpty
• Cheeseburger
• White open book
• Laptop computer
• Red sports car
• Blue helicopter
• Locked
• Red question mark
• White mug of coffee with a shadow and air floating out
• Yellow glasses and a black mustache
• Chocolate cupcake with a light blue cover and a cherry on top
• Football
• Shooting star with a pink/blue/light blue/bright green/yellow comet
• Rain cloud with a gray gradient
• Strawberry
• Yellow frog
• Unicorn with a yellow horn

How to Play the Game!

If you don't know how to play the game, here we go...I'll mention it in my recaps as well.

Round Structure
Here's how the rounds will work.

• Intro
• "Wheel! Of! Fortune!"
• Audience/contestant shots
• Pat/Vanna intro, Pat's quote
• Vanna explains the Toss-Ups
• Toss-Up 1
• Toss-Up 2
• Jim's plug
• Jackpot Round intro
• Featured Prize intro
• Round 1 (Jackpot Round)
• Jim's Mystery Round plug
• Round 2 (Mystery Round)
• Round 3 (Prize Puzzle)
• Jim explains the Prize Trip
• Toss-Up 3
• Round 4, Part 1 (Regular play)
• Pat explains that Round 4 becomes the Final Spin
• Round 4, Part 2 (Final Spin)
• Bonus Round
• Credits/prizes won

Spinning, Buying, and Solving!
Before we go into the rounds, let's get to know the wheel better.

The red player, Hastin (a YouTube user) has an opponent,
the blue player, who chooses to spin. He can't buy a vowel,
and doesn't know what the puzzle is yet.

Spinning and Buying
Who wouldn't like to go for a spin? It's important to spin so you can reveal consonants. Various dollar wedges and prizes are on the wheel, so you can claim any consonant you like! If you have $250 or more, you can buy a $250 vowel. Remember, the vowels are A, E, I, O, and U. The letter Y counts as a consonant. Once all the vowels are gone, you'll see a sparkle sound with the words "NO MORE VOWELS" showing. Once all the consonants are gone, you won't really see a "NO MORE CONSONANTS" signal, but you'll hear a three-beep sound. Unlike the real TV show, that WILL happen when the puzzle is completely filled in. And then you just have to say what's up there!

Getting It Right or Wrong...or In Time, At Least
Speaking of saying what's up there, you don't need to have any money to solve the puzzle, you just have to have a letter on the puzzleboard. You get it right, you win the stuff you have! However, if you call a wrong letter or guess the puzzle wrong, you will lose your turn and that turn will be passed on to the next player. You will have 30 seconds to spin, solve, or buy a vowel; 10 seconds to pick a letter; and 50 seconds to solve the puzzle. Run out of time and you will lose your turn.

Special Wedges and Prizes
My favorite part of the game is winning some prizes! Some wedges will be explained later because they are special to certain rounds.

There's Tammy on the left, and Casey
on the right. They won the prizes they are
holding: Tammy has a California trip, and
Casey has a Bed & Breakfast gift tag.

Taking a Trip Without the Prize Puzzle
You always see this "featured prize" on top of the purple $350 wedge. All the featured prizes are trips, so let's call them "Trips on the Wheel". They range from a $5,000 trip to Maine to a $9,500 trip to Scotland! If it goes unclaimed in Rounds 1 and 2, it is never seen again...

Going on a Shopping Spree
Who likes to go shopping? Well, we've got gift tags! This white prize appears in Rounds 1, 2, and 3 on top of the pink $500 wedge. It's worth $1,000 after you solve the puzzle.

The 1/2-Car plate, the Wild Card, and
the front (with two Bankrupts) and
back of the Million Dollar Wedge!

Driving a Car Without the Bonus Round
There are two 1/2-Car plates in the first three rounds: one on the green $700 and the other on the blue $350. Each plate has a $500 consonant value. No matter how many plates you pick up, they'll always appear at the start of Rounds 1, 2, and 3. If you Bankrupt, you'll lose all of the plates you've collected after solving a puzzle. On the flip side, if you collect two plates (two plates in one round or one plate in one round and a second plate in another), you'll win a $10,000 car! Either a Sedan or a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV). If that happens, all other 1/2-Car plates are GONE for the rest of the night.

Earning Some More Money or Something Else
On top of the green $600 wedge is a little pink Wild Card. It's available in Rounds 1, 2, and 3. If you pick up the Wild Card after calling a consonant, you can eventually land on a dollar wedge, call a correct letter, and hand over your Wild Card to Pat to get another consonant for the value you just landed on. This can be really useful when landing on $2,500, $3,500, or $5,000! Just watch out, though...call a wrong letter after handing over your Wild Card, and it will BACKFIRE. Ouch. Anyway, there's another purpose for the Wild Card. Just read the Bonus Round section.

Winning a Million Dollars!
Here's to picking up the always-popular Million Dollar Wedge! It lies on top of the orange $800 wedge and appears in Rounds 1, 2, and 3. It consists of a bright green "ONE MILLION" center with the other two thirds being Bankrupts. If you land on the green center and call a correct letter, you can pick it up to find a fully-green "ONE MILLION DOLLARS" sign on the back! If you avoid you-know-what - Bankrupt - and win the game, you'll be playing for one million dollars in the Bonus Round! See that section to see how you'll do it! By the way, it also goes by the term "MDW".

Bankrupt, Lose a Turn, Free Play,
and the three Big Money wedges.

Getting It For Free!
No wonder there's a Free Play wedge between the blue $700 and purple $600 wedges. You can call a $500 consonant, get a free vowel, or attempt to solve the puzzle! If you do anything wrong, no harm done...you still have your turn!

Penalty Spins
Here comes the bad part. If you land on Lose a Turn (located between the blue $700 and red $800 wedges), you will lose your turn but keep your earnings for the moment. Bankrupt will not only take away your turn, but also anything you have. There are four Bankrupts...one next to a big-money wedge ($2,500, $3,500, or $5,000), a second next to the purple $600 wedge, and two on each side of the Million Dollar Wedge. Just try to avoid them.

Big-Money Wedges
There are three glittering wedges on the wheel next to Bankrupt: $2,500, $3,500, and $5,000! The $2,500 wedge appears in Round 1, the $3,500 wedge in Rounds 2 and 3, and the $5,000 wedge in Round 4!

All the Rounds and REALLY Special Wedges
Here come the rounds that REALLY matter.

Toss-Ups
In a Toss-Up, letters randomly appear until someone rings in and solves the puzzle. If you give a wrong answer, you are disqualified for the rest of the puzzle...and if NO ONE rings in with the right answer, no one gets the amount the Toss-Up is worth. Toss-Up 1 is worth $1,000, #2 is worth $2,000, and #3 is worth $3,000. The player who solves Toss-Up 2 will start Round 1, then the player to his/her left will start Round 2, and the last remaining player will start Round 3. The player who solves Toss-Up 3 will start Round 4. The first two Toss-Ups usually have to do with the theme.

The Jackpot wedge.

The Jackpot Round
Round 1 has a special Jackpot wedge on top of the of the red $900 wedge. The Jackpot is worth $5,000 at the start of the puzzle. Every dollar wedge you land on adds to the Jackpot's value. The 1/2-Car and Free Play wedges have a $500 consonant value. The trip on the wheel, Wild Card, gift tag, and MDW do not add to the Jackpot's value. If you land on the Jackpot, call a correct letter, and solve the puzzle, you'll win the Jackpot plus what you already have! And there will be a fireworks display!

The Mystery wedge...will you
take $10,000, a Bankrupt, or $1,000?

The Mystery Round
Round 2 has a special Mystery wedge...actually, two of them. One of them lies on the blue $300 wedge and the other lies on the blue $700 wedge. One of them has a Bankrupt on the back, and the other has $10,000! I won't say which one, it's a mystery. If you flip it over, you'll find either one, and the other wedge disappears. If you don't flip it over, you'll get $1,000 per consonant. If you solve the puzzle and the wedge you find is $10,000...well, $10,000 plus whatever else you have is yours!

Looks like the Prize Puzzle. Who will claim
that guaranteed trip?

The Prize Puzzle
Round 3...well, this round is EXTREMELY important. If you solve this puzzle, you will win a trip to somewhere. The puzzle will relate to the trip.

The Final Spin
Round 4 allows three turns before Pat explains the Final Spin. In this mode, each consonant is worth $1,000 plus whatever dollar wedge Pat lands on. Vowels are helpful, but they are not worth anything. (If Pat lands on $5,000, then it's really anybody's game!) After guessing a correct letter, you will have 15 seconds to solve the puzzle or pass your turn to the next player.

Looks like a lady broke $100,000 without hitting that card
in the Bonus Round! Great job!

The Bonus Round
OK, this is where it gets crucial. There's a Bonus Wheel that has 24 card in it. They range from $25,000 to $50,000 and even some vehicles and $100,000! If you bring the Million Dollar Wedge to the Bonus Round, the $100,000 card becomes a $1,000,000 card! First, you have to spin the Bonus Wheel, and you'll be given indications of R, S, T, L, N, and E in the puzzle. You then have three extra consonants and an extra vowel to choose. And if you have a Wild Card, you can guess an additional consonant. Then, you'll be given any indications of the letters you picked. You'll have 50 seconds to keep guessing the answer. Get it right, and you'll find out what you won! Get it wrong, however, and you'll find out what you lost.

Here's a photo of what you could win!

Welcome to the Blog!

Hi, it's JP Genius! Welcome to my blog, Wheel's Gaming Adventures! If you like Buy a Vowel Boards, Game Show Kingdom, and Wheel of Fortune Recaps, you'll love this blog! Not only will my blog have detailed recaps of my weekly Wheel of Fortune adventures on the XBOX 360, there will be video coverage! Trust me, it's gonna be awesome!