Lykkehjulet

Lykkehjulet is the Danish version of the Wheel of Fortune television game show.

[2] The show ran for 3,599 episodes until it was cancelled in 2001 due to declining viewership and a failed attempt at modernizing the format in the final year.

[3][4] The show originally used the "shopping" format of the American program in which winnings were used to buy studios prizes, such as furniture, appliances, and trips.

Thereafter, the show was hosted by Bengt Burg from 1989 to 2000, with a short stint by Keld Heick during the 1996-1997 season.

The show's announcers during the run of the program were Ole Jacobsen,[1] then Henrik Hannibal and later, Dennis Johannesson.

In the bonus round, the player must choose five consonants and a vowel and solve the puzzle within 15 seconds.

The bell indicating a correct letter had a high D-note pitch to it (similar to the sound effect used on the American version when a bonus envelope is taken), while the horn for a wrong guess or a Tabt Tur (Lose a Turn) was borrowed from the American version of The Price Is Right, and a downward whistle for "Fallit" (bankrupt) making a player lose all of their money and losing their turn.

2001 was also the first and only year the show introduced a video wall behind the contestants, but at that point, the puzzleboard still used trilons.