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Wheel of Fortune (Philippine game show)

Philippine adaptation of the classic American game show.

Wheel of Fortune is a Philippine television game show based on the American original of the same name. It aired on ABC from November 19, 2001, to May 31, 2002, hosted by Rustom Padilla, and later on ABS-CBN's Primetime Bida line up from January 14 to July 25, 2008, with Kris Aquino as the final host. The ABS-CBN version did not acknowledge the earlier ABC version in its advertisements or press releases.

Quick Facts

Genre
Game show
Runtime
30 minutes
Based on
Wheel of Fortune, Merv Griffin
Director
Al Quinn (ABC); Bobet Vidanes (ABS-CBN)
Company
  • Califon Productions
  • ABS-CBN Studios
  • ABC Entertainment Department
  • Sony Pictures Television
Country
Philippines
Language
Tagalog
Episodes
278

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Common rules

The format generally followed the American version, with rules reflecting the era of each Philippine version: the ABC version used rules from 2001, while the ABS-CBN version used rules from 2006. In the ABC version, the Red player started Round 1, Yellow began Round 2, Blue commenced Round 3, and play continued in that order. The ABS-CBN version featured Toss-Up Rounds valued at ₱5,000 and ₱10,000; the winner of each toss-up started the next round, and the ₱10,000 Toss-Up puzzle was played before the third round. In both versions, play passed from Red to Yellow to Blue and back to Red. The ABC version's 24-wedged wheel originally had mostly three-digit amounts starting at ₱500, later replaced with four-digit amounts from ₱1,000 to ₱4,000. The ABS-CBN version's basic amounts ranged from ₱3,000 to ₱15,000. Both wheels included Bankrupt and Lose A Turn spaces. The ABC version had a unique Surprise Wedge: a detachable wedge won by landing on it and guessing a correct letter, with the prize kept only if the player solved the puzzle. The ABS-CBN version had two unusual wedges: a one-thirds size ₱100,000 wedge flanked by two one-thirds size Bankrupt wedges; landing on it and guessing a correct letter awarded that value as spendable cash. In later rounds, that space was replaced by a Jackpot wedge in Round 2 and the Power Wedge in Round 3 and beyond. A similar ₱200,000 one-thirds size wedge appeared in Rounds 4 and beyond. The ABC version's ₱4,000 space, placed between a Lose a Turn and a Bankrupt space, served a similar purpose.

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