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Wheel of Fortune


 A wheel could be small and crude in the making using wood and mounted on a wall.
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Or, it could be a gaudy floor model with pictures and lustrous abalone inlays standing seven feet tall. With such agonizingly slow turning of the wheel gamblers found it very suspenseful which attracted a lot of play.


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Still played today and with pretty much the same rules all a player needs to do is put his money down, stand back and wait to lose.