I'm pretty sure that when Pat tried to touch the letters, it didn't light up because on the right side of each monitor, there is a dot in which Vanna touches to make the letter light up. The dots are located on the top-right corner, the middle (the middle of the right side of the monitors), and the bottom-right corner. If you look closely, Pat is not touching either dots. Notice how Vanna touches the middle of the right side of the monitors. HOPE THIS HELPED!
In 1982, Vanna's first letter revealed during her career was a T. In 1997, the first letter ever revealed on the new puzzle board was an S. The new computerized puzzle board looks cool, though I miss the classic font so much. Not to mention that this was seen as the beginning of the end of classic displays for game shows. The TPIR pricing game Temptation was given a makeover in 2010 and features computer animation. Only 5 Price Tags, Race Game, and a couple of others will remain "classic."
I've gotten used to the new puzzleboard, it's way cool, but I still miss the old one though, seems like I heard at one time the old puzzleboard was going to be donated to the Smithsonian Institution in Wasington DC.
I wondered when they went to this electronic thing, that if Vanna's time on the show was coming to a close since she really isn't needed (the toss-ups and the way the entire puzzle lights up when it is solved), but I guess, thankfully, that they didn't want to mess with a good thing.
@erikdraven1731 I would always say "They can't get rid of Vanna--it's a union thing." However, I get the impression that they wanted to keep Vanna while using the video board, so they came up with the "letter-touching" to allow her to still operate the board in some fashion. Of course, the video board allows quick changing of puzzles, so more puzzles can be played, as well as toss-ups. Vanna couldn't run fast enough to turn letters manually for a toss-up!
@josephamaker94 - It would have to be a Friday, since the Saturday show is always a rerun from the previous season (also, not all markets choose to carry the Sat reruns of Wheel and Jeopardy...I know WABC in NY didn't until about 10 years ago).
In 2007 the board was updated again. The gold spiked lights border was replaced with a multicolored LED border, the CRTs were replced with LCD screens and the borders around the screens were changed to blue.
isn't it interesting that the clip of them dismantling the puzzleboard is the other one they had? (they had 2 of them at the time. the boarders were alittle different.)
Kai Anderson likes that puzzle board a lot. As a little boy, he would see it and play with it. He misses it tremandously. His brother, Jake likes the current puzzle board.
You can clearly see that pat made it not work on purpose. if you look carefully, you can see that he was touching the board stud just to the right of the monitor, not the monitor itself.
When they change the puzzleboard next time, they should keep the actual electronic board and put the spiked border around it. That would keep the format the same and bring back the nostalgia that so many people miss.
I always thought that the current season of WOF, they should do a retro week and bring the old puzzle board back for one week. They should also play some old themes starting with the 1975-1983 on Monday and the 1994-1997 Theme on Friday. But, thhey have to stop the toss-up puzzles though. And it's too bad they're not showing any flashbacks this month for some damn sweepstakes.
Apparently, the Puzzle board change was done to keep up with the time because, the show was heading into the new Millennium, which was 3 years away at the time.
There was also time considerations with the change to. It saved the production a LOT of time to upload a new puzzle electronically rather than to manually load each letter after every round. Also, it enabled the show to do those toss-up puzzles too.
Exactly. Just like on family feud where starting w/ Louie Anderson, they changed the board from a rotating trilon to a video screen, in order to save a TON of time re-loading each set of survey answers; they can do it all on the vid screen.
Truthfully the new board for family feud started on the 1994-1995 season the new board overlap the fast money board. but it wasn't permented until the return of the feud on 1999-2000
The board during the 1994-1995 Feud was the FlipDot sign used on Fast Money. That's why the available positions for survey answers was 8 (it was an 8-line FlipDot board) down from 12 answers.
What people saw at home was a CGI rendering of a survey board (or Bankroll money amount).
In 1999, the FlipDot board was gone, replaced with the projection monitor which was used until 2006. Now it is a huge HD display panel.
He's referring to the clips that Wheel shows amidst commercial breaks. They usually show a different "flashback" each show in celebration of their 25th anniversary.
i saw this clip on Wheel of Fortune 25th Anniversary flashback clip yesterday, where Vanna turn the letters on the final episode of the old puzzle board, and the first episode of the new puzzle board with gold borders where Vanna touch letters, and Pat was saying "I betcha a dollar it won't work" after he introduced the new puzzle board.
I remember when that happened. The first time I saw the new puzzleboard, I could hardly believe my eyes. It even took me by surprise when I saw the Lights on the board.
The reason they switched was that the old board needed to the letters to be manually changed and the new board just needs a stroke of a keyboard to change.
It was to cut costs on production and since they tape 5 shows in 1 day, they can go bang-bang-bang through the shows now instead of having to stop and wait around to get a new puzzle loaded on the board, which took forever.
During the last day of the old trilon puzzle board, Vanna says "Bye puzzle board." And Vanna kiss the old puzzle board goodbye and Pat gives her a big hug. I think the location of the episode of last day of the old puzzle board was Phoenix, Arizona in February 1997.
Now the new puzzleboard is 15 years old.
c8a6lvin 1 week ago
it came just in time for Vanna White's 40th birthday. In her 30's she turned, in her 40's and on she touches now.
ir10031981 2 months ago
The puzzleboard itself - the old one where Vanna would turn the letters - IS rather rickety.
Angie2343 4 months ago
1:12....That Monday
Thompsonnw 5 months ago
id like to solve the puzzle ******* oh naggers right
pre76dator 6 months ago
I'm pretty sure that when Pat tried to touch the letters, it didn't light up because on the right side of each monitor, there is a dot in which Vanna touches to make the letter light up. The dots are located on the top-right corner, the middle (the middle of the right side of the monitors), and the bottom-right corner. If you look closely, Pat is not touching either dots. Notice how Vanna touches the middle of the right side of the monitors. HOPE THIS HELPED!
narnia0100 1 year ago 2
I would buy that old puzzel board
REDXY727 1 year ago
When Pat is trying to touch letters, he's not touching the right spot.
hallpriest9 1 year ago 4
1:00 I'll buy it. How much?
PGOLDEN88 1 year ago 3
In 1982, Vanna's first letter revealed during her career was a T. In 1997, the first letter ever revealed on the new puzzle board was an S. The new computerized puzzle board looks cool, though I miss the classic font so much. Not to mention that this was seen as the beginning of the end of classic displays for game shows. The TPIR pricing game Temptation was given a makeover in 2010 and features computer animation. Only 5 Price Tags, Race Game, and a couple of others will remain "classic."
JonSea31 1 year ago
I've gotten used to the new puzzleboard, it's way cool, but I still miss the old one though, seems like I heard at one time the old puzzleboard was going to be donated to the Smithsonian Institution in Wasington DC.
Kjr0se 1 year ago
@Kjr0se The puzzleboard was rejected due to its large size.
PGOLDEN88 11 months ago 3
I wondered when they went to this electronic thing, that if Vanna's time on the show was coming to a close since she really isn't needed (the toss-ups and the way the entire puzzle lights up when it is solved), but I guess, thankfully, that they didn't want to mess with a good thing.
erikdraven1731 2 years ago
@erikdraven1731 I would always say "They can't get rid of Vanna--it's a union thing." However, I get the impression that they wanted to keep Vanna while using the video board, so they came up with the "letter-touching" to allow her to still operate the board in some fashion. Of course, the video board allows quick changing of puzzles, so more puzzles can be played, as well as toss-ups. Vanna couldn't run fast enough to turn letters manually for a toss-up!
jeopardy60611 10 months ago 3
@josephamaker94 - It would have to be a Friday, since the Saturday show is always a rerun from the previous season (also, not all markets choose to carry the Sat reruns of Wheel and Jeopardy...I know WABC in NY didn't until about 10 years ago).
WhatsAYak 2 years ago
In 2007 the board was updated again. The gold spiked lights border was replaced with a multicolored LED border, the CRTs were replced with LCD screens and the borders around the screens were changed to blue.
IAmNotAFunguy 2 years ago 2
I'll bet you a dollar it don't work! LOL!
cartoongameshowfan76 2 years ago
"FOR SALE"
That's too cute! lol
KonohaNinjaFel 2 years ago 2
52 crt screens more screens then the jeopardy bore duz
shaneinkster 2 years ago
1:50 i miss that puzzle bord
shaneinkster 2 years ago
Could somepost post the whole show?
Lupton2000 2 years ago
It's now up.
DownsA530 2 years ago
So basically, the rims of all the monitors on the puzzle board are heat sensitve?
Osric44 2 years ago 3
That Was 12 Years ago!!!!!!!!!
horrorbro 2 years ago
It never went to the Smithsonian.
BerserkerSkye77 2 years ago 2
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Aamigo19126 2 years ago
for sale
shaneinkster 2 years ago
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I'll give u one dollar!
the06bug 2 years ago
no no i was reforing to somthing past 0:48
shaneinkster 2 years ago
Pat should touch the blue space, not the black space!
Biszkopt96 2 years ago
His hands must be very cold, then.
the06bug 2 years ago
the audio on this video SUCKS
Christian4Yeshua 2 years ago
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dus not
shaneinkster 2 years ago
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Learn to spell...and then talk to me
Christian4Yeshua 2 years ago
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why the hell woad i want to walk to you
you go lick a dick
shaneinkster 2 years ago
The current puzzle board was revamped with new flat-screens.
Commentaur 3 years ago 2
She makes a millon dollars for touching a board. Maybe I can become the co-host of Jeopardy. I'll touch the screen when they take a pick.
9CornerPocket 3 years ago 2
Hope you can jump then. ;)
vernanonix 3 years ago
nah she makes 4 million ...i always said pat and vanna r the luckiest people on the planet...both r mediocre and fell into a good thing
mannysdaman 2 years ago
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Aamigo19126 3 years ago
You're right, Yutzwagon404!
Biszkopt96 3 years ago
isn't it interesting that the clip of them dismantling the puzzleboard is the other one they had? (they had 2 of them at the time. the boarders were alittle different.)
neilrocks87 3 years ago
2:30 - pat's doing it wrong...
Yutzwagon404 3 years ago
LOL! You're telling me!
dwtsgirl750 3 years ago
Kai Anderson likes that puzzle board a lot. As a little boy, he would see it and play with it. He misses it tremandously. His brother, Jake likes the current puzzle board.
scoreboardE 3 years ago
this Make Me Spechless for old Puzzle Board
horrorbro 3 years ago
ONLY VANNA HAS THE POWER OF REVEALING THE LETTERS! She is the chosen one.
TheRedGuy9 3 years ago 3
Pat Sajak's wife used the new puzzleboard on the April fools episode from 1997. When Alex Trebek hosted Wheel of Fortune.
BuddyBoy600 3 years ago 2
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Commentaur 3 years ago
Friday show....it was aired February 21, 1997
mylesspike119 3 years ago
you are tolatly worng
hurracine 3 years ago
I cried over the end of the old puzzleboard. Bring it back, Smithsonian!
LeothePatrioticLion 3 years ago
Now the "new" puzzleboard is almost as old as the old puzzleboard!
c8a6lvin 3 years ago 3
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Aamigo19126 2 years ago
You can clearly see that pat made it not work on purpose. if you look carefully, you can see that he was touching the board stud just to the right of the monitor, not the monitor itself.
Sharkie626 3 years ago
I have a question. What was the first letter correctly called and thus lit up on the new puzzle board. My bet is T.
SilentBob20 3 years ago
The first puzzle on the new board was "VALENCIA SPAIN". Therefore, you lose your bet.
denelson83 3 years ago
Wow I can't believe its been around that long already. How time flies!
LOL at Pat saying I bet a dollar it doesn't work!
asianles69love 3 years ago
Question...was it ever sold? :P
SilentBob20 3 years ago
It did -- to the Smithsonian Museum.
VikutaaChyaaruzu 2 years ago
I read somewhere that the old board's last puzzle was "POUND SIGN" which was not solved. The new board's first puzzle was "VALENCIA SPAIN".
IAmNotAFunguy 3 years ago
not be sad
linkhill17 3 years ago
it say cool whip
dogalways 3 years ago
COOL HWIP!! haha
ldaniel2337 3 years ago
Can anyone upload those two episodes.
MimsFamilyGang 3 years ago 2
Pat:I betcha a dollar it don't work.. LOL!!!!!!!
SamoaJoe300862 3 years ago 2
she molests letters. mmm
Limewan 3 years ago
Whether the letters want it or not. :D
gtey 3 years ago
'You're now a toucher not a turner' lol
lycrags 3 years ago 6
"I'll betcha a dollar it don't work." LOL!
TVLubber 3 years ago 3
Don't they also have plans to somehow make the wheel electronic?
CharlieGProductions 3 years ago
"i betcha a dollar it don't work" lol
moonoink 3 years ago 7
I imagine with the new puzzleboard they can film even more games per day, because they don't have to manually load-in and load-out the letters.
gtey 3 years ago
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Well all they have to do is stop the tape for making new puzzles so it really doesn't change anything.
Wolfman12395 3 years ago
...I said it enables them to shoot more shows in a day. When they "stop the tape," it doesn't also "stop actual real-world time."
gtey 3 years ago
Everything's becoming electronic and more distracting with stage lights these days.
The Price is Right still uses non electronic props the contestants touch around.
xcxzvrtz 3 years ago
I agree w/ NintentoGX159 For April Fools day next year they should:
revive the old format (w/ Shopping)
use the Old Puzzleboard
and...
LET CHUCK HOST!
Disneydanny 3 years ago 2
When they change the puzzleboard next time, they should keep the actual electronic board and put the spiked border around it. That would keep the format the same and bring back the nostalgia that so many people miss.
geniusjonw 3 years ago 2
Has anybody seen it at Smithsonian yet? I've searched their website, but I couldn't find it.
NintendoGX159 3 years ago
I was going to the Smithsonian this May,for a school tirp, but They took it off the list.
gsn93 3 years ago
Has anybody seen it at Smithsonian yet? I've searched their website, but I couldn't find it.
NintendoGX159 3 years ago
i would buy the old puzzle board and if i had a big enough basement i would put it there
hssenior 3 years ago
i like the old one better
hssenior 4 years ago
i feel that the puzzle board would not be right anywhere besides the Smithsonian museum. it would get harmed or rust away anywhere else.
geniusjonw 4 years ago
I always thought that the current season of WOF, they should do a retro week and bring the old puzzle board back for one week. They should also play some old themes starting with the 1975-1983 on Monday and the 1994-1997 Theme on Friday. But, thhey have to stop the toss-up puzzles though. And it's too bad they're not showing any flashbacks this month for some damn sweepstakes.
NintendoGX159 4 years ago
I would love to see that.
Godzillaman 3 years ago
Apparently, the Puzzle board change was done to keep up with the time because, the show was heading into the new Millennium, which was 3 years away at the time.
jarvisbrodiea1 4 years ago 3
There was also time considerations with the change to. It saved the production a LOT of time to upload a new puzzle electronically rather than to manually load each letter after every round. Also, it enabled the show to do those toss-up puzzles too.
dknights411 4 years ago 2
Exactly. Just like on family feud where starting w/ Louie Anderson, they changed the board from a rotating trilon to a video screen, in order to save a TON of time re-loading each set of survey answers; they can do it all on the vid screen.
barber747 3 years ago
Truthfully the new board for family feud started on the 1994-1995 season the new board overlap the fast money board. but it wasn't permented until the return of the feud on 1999-2000
1981BSAlpha 3 years ago
The board during the 1994-1995 Feud was the FlipDot sign used on Fast Money. That's why the available positions for survey answers was 8 (it was an 8-line FlipDot board) down from 12 answers.
What people saw at home was a CGI rendering of a survey board (or Bankroll money amount).
In 1999, the FlipDot board was gone, replaced with the projection monitor which was used until 2006. Now it is a huge HD display panel.
UmedaRaton 3 years ago
Orignally it was 11; never 12.
quiznationrules 2 years ago
was it ever sold?
jkrb05 4 years ago
i think the obvious hint is WOF wanted to auction the old puzzle board off, and it currently resides in Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.
mylesspike119 4 years ago
o cool
jkrb05 4 years ago 2
It's at the Smithsonian.
scoreboardE 3 years ago
Mylespike19- Do you watch every WOF clip every day. Sure sounds like it. There's millions of other vids you can watch on youtube.
baconhead2008 4 years ago
He's referring to the clips that Wheel shows amidst commercial breaks. They usually show a different "flashback" each show in celebration of their 25th anniversary.
CJBojangles 4 years ago
i saw this clip on Wheel of Fortune 25th Anniversary flashback clip yesterday, where Vanna turn the letters on the final episode of the old puzzle board, and the first episode of the new puzzle board with gold borders where Vanna touch letters, and Pat was saying "I betcha a dollar it won't work" after he introduced the new puzzle board.
mylesspike119 4 years ago 2
I saw this clip earlier tonight. Yep even I remember this puzzle board, although I was only like 5 years old.
NintendoGX159 4 years ago
Besides the old puzzle board retires, the automatic spinning wheel from the opening and ending credits also retires the same year.
mylesspike119 4 years ago
That sounds about right to me.
samsticka 4 years ago
"COOL GRIP". That was the puzzle Pat was trying to reveal at the end.
samsticka 4 years ago
I hope you're joking.
CJBojangles 4 years ago
No, I'm not.
samsticka 4 years ago
pretty sure its cool whip. cool grip doesnst make any sense.
burr1aj 4 years ago
You know something, I think you're right.
samsticka 4 years ago
funny.i though it was "cool whip"
lklk90 4 years ago
It is Cool Whip. I don't know why the hell I said "Cool Grip". That comment should be thumbed down.
samsticka 4 years ago
Stewie Griffin would say Cool H-Wip.
80zdude4 3 years ago
I remember when that happened. The first time I saw the new puzzleboard, I could hardly believe my eyes. It even took me by surprise when I saw the Lights on the board.
jarvisbrodiea1 4 years ago 3
What was the puzzle showing when Vanna shows Pat how to use the new puzzleboard?
zackmanw1993 4 years ago
"COOL WHIP".
CJBojangles 4 years ago
"Cool hwhip".
TVLubber 3 years ago 3
Does anybody know the font used for the old puzzle board letters?
RAS310 4 years ago
The reason they switched was that the old board needed to the letters to be manually changed and the new board just needs a stroke of a keyboard to change.
It was to cut costs on production and since they tape 5 shows in 1 day, they can go bang-bang-bang through the shows now instead of having to stop and wait around to get a new puzzle loaded on the board, which took forever.
vjmlhds 4 years ago
Good-Bye old Puzzle Board. We miss you.
viddykiddy18 4 years ago 4
it looked like Pat was touching a screen that wasn't Blue.
Disneydanny 4 years ago 2
During the last day of the old trilon puzzle board, Vanna says "Bye puzzle board." And Vanna kiss the old puzzle board goodbye and Pat gives her a big hug. I think the location of the episode of last day of the old puzzle board was Phoenix, Arizona in February 1997.
mylesspike119 4 years ago
I remember that old puzzle board and I miss it too.
munchkinthecat 4 years ago
I believe the last regular puzzle with the old board was "POUND SIGN".
Man, I should get to the Smithsonian to see the old board.
simpsonsfan2007 4 years ago 3
i miss the old puzzle board, cause the current puzzle board is all digitalized.
mylesspike119 4 years ago
One last turn on the old puzzle board for old times sake. "FOR SALE"!
TVLubber 4 years ago 3