Lucky Wheel Review

What’s the name of the game where you spin a wheel, and then guess letters to solve an unknown phrase? It’s not that show you always see on TV, in this case it’s Lucky Wheel.

Lucky Wheel is based off of Wheel Of Fortune, where players spin a wheel to determine the score given, and then choosing a letter to try and solve the sentence or phrase available. If you’re correct, then you spin again, and choose another letter, otherwise the next person in line goes. If you know the answer ,you can always try and take a guess, but if you’re wrong in Lucky Wheel, you lose all of your points, but if you’re correct, you get 150 bonus points. At the beginning of each game, it’s possible to choose the amount of players, and the number of rounds taken to win.

Lucky Wheel is simple. Flick the wheel to determine the amount of points awarded, and the harder you flick it, the more the wheel will spin. Then, you have 20 seconds to decide what letter to choose. Keep guessing until the puzzle is solved, or you think you know what the answer is. That’s basically it. Beware of the “sit out” symbol, and the “bankrupt” symbol, as those will cause you to miss a turn and lose all your points, respectively.

There are many phrases to solve for, but some things just cut down on the fun. First of all, there’s no penalties for buying vowels, so people who start first have a way slanted advantage. Also, the graphics are unimpressive and just boring. The wheel isn’t very polished, and the rest of the game is just plain and a bit cheesy; nothing stands out. The sounds are good though, with realistic “tick sounds”, even though there’s no actual thing that would cause them, as the wheel is completely smooth. The sounds for correct and incorrect selections are fitting and not bad. There’s no music though, and when you want to listen to your own songs, there’s no way to turn of the in game effects.

Worst of all though, has to be that there’s now way to play against the computer. You either play by yourself for some extremely boring games, or you have to find people next to you to play with. It’s just not fun to play alone, and there’s not always people willing to play, when they’d rather play other choices available on my iDevice. There’s also the annoying habit of having to re-enter the player names every time, and gameplay is cut down so there’s nothing other than the standard “solve the phrase” mode. Last of all, the instructions are sprinkled with errors, such as having ,,Start New Game’ ‘ with quotation marks in the wrong place and direction, and other grammatical glitches. You’d expect a released game to have been fully checked for mistakes first, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here.

It does say in the app description that there are phrases and sentences in many other languages, such as French and German, so that could extend longevity and provide an alternative for players wanting to get a hang of other languages, but that’s not even explained in the instructions, and requires going into the iDevice settings and adjusting the actual language of the entire iPod, not just that of the app. At $2 this is a cheaper alternative to the official Wheel of Fortune game. So if you have a huge desire for these types of games, you could try out the Lite version first.

The Good

Many languages to choose from
Easy to play

The Bad

Nowhere near Wheel of Fortune
Errors throughout the game
No CPU play

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