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Wheel of Fortune players lose all cash on a bankrupt wedge

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Because apparently, logic has no place in spelling games, an entirely random spin of a giant carnival wheel can instantly obliterate thirty minutes of hard mental work. You could successfully guess every consonant in the alphabet, but if friction stops that ticker on the black triangle, your financial ruin is absolute. It is a beautiful metaphor for the cruelty of random chance.

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