Wheel Practice App

17,254 puzzles: 11,256 from the show’s first twenty seasons, 5,724 from seasons 40–42 with full category and round-type metadata, a 220-puzzle kid pack, and a 54-puzzle starter set, ingested through a small data pipeline from text and JSON sources. Three modes mirror the show: the main game with an authentic 24-wedge wheel (21 cash wedges from $500 to $2,500, two bankrupts, one lose-a-turn), toss-ups where letters reveal one per second until someone buzzes, and the bonus round with RSTLNE pre-revealed, three consonants and a vowel to pick, and a 20-second solve timer.

The engine is a pure reducer over explicit turn states, with all randomness routed through a seeded Mulberry32 generator, so the wheel landing and the toss-up reveal order are deterministic per seed and a practice session is exactly repeatable. There are two builds from a shared design: a React Native and Expo app, and a Vite web build that deploys under this site at /games/wheel-of-fortune, built with an explicit base path because the default root-relative asset URLs 404 on a subpath deploy and render a blank page. State persists to local storage only, with no accounts and no tracking.

The reveal machinery is deliberately plain. Toss-up letters uncover one per second on an interval tick, with the order fixed by the same seeded engine that drives the wheel, so a given seed always plays back the same reveal. Because a timer that behaves on desktop can drift or stall under mobile Safari’s Low Power throttling, a Playwright WebKit test polls the revealed-tile count on the engine iOS actually uses, confirming the letters surface progressively rather than dumping in a burst.

The suite is 57 test files across the engine, both apps, and the ingestion pipeline, plus a strategy-analytics layer that computes letter frequencies and category bias per pack for anyone who wants to practice like they mean it.