100 Objects #16: Wheel of Fortune Dalmatian

99% Invisible
100 Objects #16: Wheel of Fortune Dalmatian

100 Objects #16: Wheel of Fortune Dalmatian

Sep 4, 202646m
0:0046:52

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This episode is sponsored by Claude. For problems worth solving, get started with Claude at Claude.ai. If you watched Wheel of Fortune in the 1980s, you probably remember one prize more than all the others: the ceramic Dalmatian. For a brief moment, that prize—perhaps the ultimate useless object—became the mascot for one of America's most popular game shows, appearing on tens of millions of TV screens, night after night, all across the country. But…why? Game show historian Adam Nedeff and cerami

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