Lose a Turn is one of the gameplay elements on Wheel of Fortune.
History[]
Original yellow Lose a Turn wedge.
Present since the Shopper's Bazaar pilot (the only non-cash wedge from that pilot's Wheel to survive to this day), Lose a Turn simply makes the contestant lose his or her turn, but unlike Bankrupt does not remove money or prizes. When the show debuted, a second wedge was added in Round 3; this was removed by November 3, 1975.
For Bazaar, Lose a Turn was white-on-black, a color scheme famously associated with Bankrupt. Beginning in 1974, the wedge was yellow with white outlines around the lettering and the space itself; by mid-October 1975 the outlines were removed, in September 1986 the wedge was changed to a brighter shade of yellow, and on September 16, 1996 the wedge adopted its current appearance (a very light shade of yellow, nearly white) and has since stayed beside the red $800 clockwise. Around January 2003, the wedge changed to its current Clarendon font. For a brief period after the font change, the "LOSE" text was extremely close to the Wheel's rim; this was fixed by February.
On Wheel 2000, Lose a Turn was renamed "Loser".