Wheel of Fortune is a relatively simple game, which is likely why it’s been on TV in one form or another since 1975. Originally spun out from creator Merv Griffin’s games of Hangman on the road as a kid, it’s a word-guessing game broken down into individual letters. What matters most in Wheel of Fortune, beyond getting good spins,is extrapolating full words and phrases from a few scattered letters.
Or so contestant Charlene Rubush thought. Rubush had made it through the initial competitive
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