{"id":5366,"date":"2012-02-22T23:33:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T23:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2012-02-22T23:53:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T23:53:20","slug":"its-glucksrad-thursday-wednesday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=5366","title":{"rendered":"It’s Gl\u00fccksrad Thursday (Wednesday night)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re (I am a)\u00a0modern and hip kids (kid)\u00a0on Bother’s Bar, just like that Channel 4. So here’s a post about a show I bloody loved when growing up, Gl\u00fccksrad<\/strong> aka Wheel of Fortune<\/strong> in German, possibly my favourite version of all time mainly because of the styling and crucially, Klaus-Peter Sattler’s music. The best bit about having satellite and cable as a 10 year old wasn’t the obvious stuff, it was the foreign channels and seeing the way our international friends made shows which basically forms one of the key backbones of the Bar. You don’t need to know the language, you can work things out\u00a0with observation. A bit like life, really.<\/p>\n

It’s all rather more homogenous these days which is a shame. But anyway.<\/p>\n

The German show had a unique round (the Super-spiel)\u00a0between the maingame and the winner’s bonus round. The three contestants worked as a team to solve a sort of crossword puzzle, they’d have 90 seconds to do it with each person being effective team captain for thirty seconds each. If they won, they split a progressive jackpot between them.<\/p>\n

You will like it if you like words of exactly\u00a0four and up to 13 letters in length.<\/p>\n

But which version\u00a0had the best clock music?<\/p>\n

Is it this one? This was filmed in 1992 and is a charity edition with Angela Merkel.\u00a0As it’s for\u00a0charity it’s played by slightly different, cheaty rules but features extra comedy running around from Maren Gilzer:<\/p>\n