Wheel of Fortune makes me angry

**Hosakawa Tito** · 01-17-2010, 14:18

Yeah, I used to feel the same way when Publishers Clearing House used to send me that big envelope telling me I'm an Instant Winner for their $10 million grand prize. All I had to do was attach the winning sticker provided in the envelope to the form and mail it in. Then you'd get another big envelope stating you were one step closer, just attach the winning sticker in the second envelope and...blah, blah, blah...Lame. I think they were in cahoots with the postal service & sticker company...

Ed McMahon should be ashamed of himself!

**KukriKhan** · 01-17-2010, 18:48

Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito

Yeah, I used to feel the same way when Publishers Clearing House used to send me that big envelope telling me I'm an Instant Winner for their $10 million grand prize. All I had to do was attach the winning sticker provided in the envelope to the form and mail it in. Then you'd get another big envelope stating you were one step closer, just attach the winning sticker in the second envelope and...blah, blah, blah...Lame. I think they were in cahoots with the postal service & sticker company...

Ed McMahon should be ashamed of himself!

PCH funds my retirement; them and Netflix. :)

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I've only watched Wheel of Fortune to see if Vanna White was gonna trip, slip and fall in her 4-inch heels. I guess it's been awhile since I watched, I never knew about a million-dollar panel.

**Askthepizzaguy** · 01-17-2010, 19:29

It's a little sliver that says "One Million" between two tiny bankrupts. If you land on it, you pick it up like the wild card or other prizes. But that's just it; all those other prizes you get to keep if you solve the puzzle. And you certainly get to keep them if you're the game winner. But you don't get the million unless you spin in the bonus round and land on it...

I don't know. You kinda have to be there, rooting for them to win week after week, and always failing, to understand my particular frustration with it and the strange rules regarding how you win that prize as opposed to the other prizes. Otherwise it truly is a "who cares" situation (and it may still be).

After a while you wonder if that panel isn't just there to make people lose their concentration and get more nervous, because it seems to excel at that.