Wheel of Fortune | |
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Genre | Game show |
Created by | Merv Griffin |
Presented by | Nicky Campbell Bradley Walsh John Leslie Paul Hendy |
Starring | Angela Ekaette Carol Smillie Jenny Powell Tracy Shaw Terri Seymour |
Voices of | Steve Hamilton |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of series | 14 |
No. of episodes | 746 |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes (inc. adverts) |
Production company(s) | Scottish Television Enterprises |
Distributor | King World Productions The Walt Disney Company Limited and Action Time Productions (1988-1989) Buena Vista International Television (1991) |
Release | |
Original network | ITV |
Original release | 19 July 1988 – 21 December 2001 |
Chronology | |
Related shows | Wheel of Fortune |
The round one wheel used in 1988. The following year, this layout was reversed and the red 250 next to 750 was decreased to 200. The resulting layout was used until 1991. | The round one wheel used from 1992 to 1993. | The round one wheel used from 1994 to 2000. | The round one wheel used in 2001. Note the 500 Gamble and Miss A Turn spaces. |
Series | Start date | End date | Episodes | Host | |
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1 | 19 July 1988[3] | 27 September 1988[3] | 12 | Nicky Campbell | Angela Ekaette |
2 | 5 September 1989[3] | 19 December 1989[3] | 16 | Carol Smillie | |
3 | 4 June 1991[4] | 27 August 1991[5] | 13 | ||
4 | 18 May 1992[6] | 24 August 1992[7] | 13 | ||
5 | 7 June 1993[8] | 30 August 1993[9] | 13 | ||
6 | 11 July 1994[10] | 12 December 1994[11] | 23 | ||
7 | 30 August 1995[12] | 27 December 1995[13] | 18 | Jenny Powell | |
8 | 24 July 1996[14] | 24 December 1996[15] | 23 | ||
9 | 3 January 1997 | 12 December 1997 | 50 | Bradley Walsh | |
10 | 1 June 1998 | 7 December 1998 | 26 | John Leslie | |
11 | 2 March 1999 | 20 December 1999 | 135 | ||
12 | 3 January 2000 | 8 December 2000 | 250 | ||
13 | 2 January 2001 | 4 August 2001 | 125 | Terri Seymour | |
14 | 12 November 2001 | 21 December 2001 | 30 | Paul Hendy |
Date | Entitle |
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22 December 1988[3] | Christmas Soap Stars Special[3] |
29 December 1988[3] | Christmas Celebrity Special[3] |
31 December 1988[3] | Hogmanay Special[3] |
26 December 1989[3] | Christmas Celebrity Special[3] |
31 December 1989[3] | Hogmanay Special[3] |
###############################FUNCTIONS CREATED BY GROUPS#################################### |
#INTERMEDIATE GROUP 1 |
#TAKES A STRING INPUT AND RETURNS A STRING THAT HAS ALL THE |
#LETTERS REPLACED WITH DASHES (THE SPACES REMAIN AS SPACES) |
defreplaceWithDashes(string): |
dashes=' |
#fill in here |
returndashes |
#INTERMEDIATE GROUP 2 |
#FUNCTION THAT TAKES THREE INPUTS: THE CURRENT PHRASE (MOSTLY DASHES), THE SPOT IN THE |
#PHRASE TO BE REPLACED, AND THE ORIGINAL PHRASE. THIS FUNCTION REPLACES THE DASH AT THE GIVEN |
#SPOT WITH THE LETTER FROM THE ORIGINAL PHRASE. IT RETURNS THE NEW STRING |
defrevealSpotInPhrase(phrase,spot,original_phrase): |
#fill in here |
returnnew_phrase |
#BEGINNER GROUP 1 |
#FUNCTION THAT TAKES ONE INPUT OF THE CURRENT PLAYERS TURN |
#IF IT IS CURRENTLY THE 1ST PLAYERS TURN, THIS FUNCTION RETURNS 2 |
#IF IT IS CURRENTLY THE 2ND PLAYERS TURN, THIS FUNCTION RETURNS 1 |
defnextPlayersTurn(current_turn): |
#fill in here |
returnnextTurn |
#BEGINNER GROUP 2 |
#FUNCTION THAT TAKES A STRING AND A LETTER AS AN INPUT |
#IT RETURNS THE STRING 'true' IF THE LETTER APPEARS IN THE STRING AND THE |
#STRING 'false' IF IT DOES NOT. ALSO PRINTS A MESSAGE TO LET THE PLAYER KNOW |
defisLetterInPhrase(string,letter): |
#fill in here |
return'false' |
#BEGINNER GROUP 3 |
#FUNCTION THAT TAKES A LETTER AS AN INPUT AND RETURNS THE |
#STRING 'true' IF IT IS A VOWEL AND 'false' IF IT IS NOT |
defisGuessAVowel(letter): |
#fill in here |
return'false' |
##################################FUNCTIONS PROVIDED########################################### |
#PROVIDED, BUT CAN MODIFY |
#FUNCTION THAT DOESN'T HAVE ANY INPUTS AND USES THE GAME'S VARIABLES TO |
#PRINT THE CURRENT PHRASE, THE PLAYERS TURN, AND THEIR SCORE |
defprintGameState(): |
print('******************************************************') |
ifplayerTurn1: |
print(player1Name+'s turn, $'+str(player1Score)) |
else: |
print(player2Name+'s turn, $'+str(player2Score)) |
print('Board: '+current_phrase) |
#PROVIDED, BUT CAN MODIFY |
#FUNCTION THAT DOESN'T HAVE ANY INPUTS AND USES THE GAME'S VARIABLES TO |
#PRINT THE FINAL PHRASE AND THE WINNER |
defgameOverMessage(): |
#PRINT OUT FINAL PHRASE, WINNER |
print('******************************************************') |
print('Game Over!') |
print('Board: '+original_phrase) |
print(player1Name+'s Score: '+str(player1Score) +', '+player2Name+'s Score: '+str(player2Score)) |
ifplayer1Score>player2Score: |
print(player1Name+' wins!') |
else: |
print(player1Name+' wins!') |
#PROVIDED, BUT CAN MODIFY |
#RETURNS A RANDOM NUMBER BETWEEN 1 AND 10 |
#THE GAME LOGIC WILL USE THIS FUNCTION TO MAKE 1 - LOSE TURN, |
#2 - BANKRUPT, #3 - $300, 4 - $400, ETC. |
importrandom |
defspinWheel(): |
spin=random.randint(1,10) |
returnspin |
#PROVIDED |
#FUNCTION THAT READS IN THE PLAYERS GUESS FOR A LETTER AND RETURNS |
#THE UPPERCASE OF IT |
#NOTE: THIS CAN BE ENHANCED TO 1) VERIFY EXACTLY ONE LETTER WAS TYPED IN |
#2) VERIFY THE LETTER HASN'T BEEN GUESSED BEFORE |
defplayerGuess(): |
guess=raw_input('Your guess: ') |
guess=guess.upper() |
returnguess |
#PROVIDED |
#FUNCTION THAT TAKES THE CURRENT PHRASE, ORIGINAL PHRASE, AND GUESS AS INPUTS |
#IT CALLS THE revealSpotInPhrase FUNTION TO REPLACE ALL THE DASHES FOR THE GUESSED |
#LETTER. IT RETURNS THE NEW PHRASE WITH THE DASHES REPLACED |
defrevealAllOfGuess(current_phrase, original_phrase, guess): |
count=original_phrase.count(guess) |
startSpot=0 |
new_phrase=current_phrase |
foriinrange(0, count): |
replaceSpot=original_phrase.find(guess, startSpot) |
new_phrase=revealSpotInPhrase(new_phrase,replaceSpot, original_phrase) |
startSpot=replaceSpot+1 |
returnnew_phrase |
#PROVIDED |
#FUNCTION THAT TAKES THE CURRENT PLAYERS NUMBER AS AN INPUT AND |
#UPDATES THAT PLAYERS SCORE VARIABLE TO ZERO |
#Note: 'global' is needed to modify the variable in a function |
defmakePlayerBankrupt(playerNumber): |
ifplayerNumber1: |
globalplayer1Score |
player1Score=0 |
else: |
globalplayer2Score |
player2Score=0 |
#PROVIDED |
#FUNCTION THAT TAKES THE CURRENT PLAYERS NUMBER AND AMOUNT TO INCREASE AS |
#INPUTS. IT ADDS THE AMOUNT TO THE PLAYERS SCORE |
#Note: 'global' is needed to modify the variable in a function |
defaddToPlayersScore(playerNumber,amount): |
ifplayerNumber1: |
globalplayer1Score |
player1Score=player1Score+amount |
else: |
globalplayer2Score |
player2Score=player2Score+amount |
##########################PLAY THE GAME USING THE FUNCTIONS ABOVE############################### |
original_phrase='THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS' |
current_phrase=replaceWithDashes(original_phrase) |
#print the welcome message and ask for player names |
print('Welcome to Wheel of Fortune!') |
player1Name=raw_input('Player 1 name: '); |
player1Score=0 |
player2Name=raw_input('Player 2 name: '); |
player2Score=0 |
playerTurn=1 |
#REPLACE THIS PSUEDO-CODE WITH PYTHON TO PLAY THE GAME |
#while the game is not over |
#print the current game state |
#spin the wheel |
#if spin is 1, lose turn |
#print message |
#set playerTurn to next players turn |
#else if spin is 2, go bankrupt |
#print message |
#set players money to 0 |
#set playerTurn to next players turn |
#else spin was a $ |
#print message that your spin money was 100 times spin value |
#take user input for guess |
#if the letter is in the phrase |
#reveal the letters in the phrase |
#if the letter is a consonant (vowels don't make money) |
#change the player's score (add the letter count times spin money) |
#else set playerTurn to next players turn |
#print the game over message |