Wheel 2000

Wheel 2000 was a children's version of Wheel of Fortune created in 1997. It was hosted by David Sidoni, with Tanika Ray as announcer and the voice of CGI hostess "Cyber Lucy".

On September 13, 1997 CBS and GSN concurrently debuted the show, which aired on Saturday mornings. Unlike the "adult" version, Wheel 2000 used a smaller set and a scaled-down play-for-points format. Any prizes won were more geared towards children.

The game itself had many changes, in particular a "hipper" set of category names. Place, Proper Name and Thing were renamed Globetrotter, VIP and Just Stuff, respectively, and new categories such as Word Rap (grammar-related puzzles) were included. On the Wheel, Bankrupt was renamed The Creature, and Lose a Turn became Loser. After a contestant solves a puzzle, Cyber Lucy or a CBS actor explains the solved puzzle in more detail.

The winner proceeded to a bonus round, which was very similar to the "adult" version

Wheel 2000 last appeared on the CBS schedule in September 1998. The show's website, plugged by a special wedge worth 750 points ("www.wheel2000.com"), remained through at least October 13, 1999. At a point between then and May 10, 2000, it began redirecting to GSN. At some point between March 9, 2001 and November 28, 2003, it began redirecting to various search engines instead.

Links

 * Official website, Wheel 2000 (latest revision available via Archive.org)