Wheel of Misfortune!
by Jamesk on 5/1/24Treasure Island Resort & Casino - WelchUnlike "Wheel of Fortune"the television show, "Wheel of Fortune"Live! was far from any fortune. "Wheel of Pocket Change"would be more accurate unfortunately. I, like hundreds of others bought the VIP tickets, seated center stage, third row however it felt distant and hard to see so that "live action"feel of the show was lost due to how it was set up on stage. It did have great hosts and you did get a lot of laughs with the comedy dialogue but this is a game show with a Chance to be one of the seven chosen contestants to win up to $5000 or great prizes right? Well the reality is one person, the champion to play the bonus final round had that opportunity but if spinning the bonus wheel and it stopping on that one of many other lower amounts was hard enough, answering the phrase given coincidentally didn't have any of the let's say common letters and vowels normally that was seen in the phrases in the previous rounds was a slim as winning the lottery. And the consolation prize $200 and for winning one of the two rounds $200 and for the non-winning contestants... A fabulous Wheel of Fortune umbrella, the same umbrella a few lucky members of the audience received while some other members of the audience received Wheel of Fortune men's necktie, or a Wheel of Fortune coaster set. All in all after the show ended walking out talking amongst other people we all came to the same conclusion the real winners were Wheel of Fortune live! for receiving tens of thousands of $$$ in ticket sales and in return they were able to give away a few of their leftover marketing promo items that none of the employees wanted pretty disappointing say the least... and a total of $1000 divided out to 4 "lucky"people. I bet that was painful for them to do. So if you wanted to go but missed the show all you missed was a big disappointment so consider yourself a lucky one!