Even better is when they 'ride on the Express' from beginning to end: i.e., hitting it on their first spin and filling out the entire puzzle with no wrong letters. While wins in excess of $4,000 were awesome as they could put the game out of reach, the highest it ever got was $22,000.

The daytime version had a Jackpot wedge with different rules: the value started at $1,000 and went up by that amount each day until won.

From Season 14 through Season 30, any Jackpot win.

Any time a contestant solves a Main Game puzzle with only one or two letters showing (see Main Game below).

On April 5, 2011, a contestant not did only that, but also went to the Bonus Round with the Million-Dollar Wedge and the Wild Card.

wins all the Toss-Ups and rounds, plus the Bonus Round).

Whenever a contestant makes a clean sweep (i.e.

The third $100,000 win, by a contestant who solved the bonus puzzle JOCKEY with only the O and E revealed.

This was later beaten on Februby a team consisting of country singer Julie Roberts (playing for charity) and a contestant, who exceeded $120,000 by clean-sweeping and winning the $100,000. The second $100,000 win, by a pair of contestants in the Decemepisode who performed a clean sweep, leading to a then-record total of $121,831 (counting a $100,000 win in the Bonus Round).The first $100,000 win, made even more amazing in that the contestant had just barely hit the $100,000 envelope, and his bonus puzzle had only one letter missing after he called his extra letters.Pretty much any $100,000 win, but especially:.

The 2022 revamp of the puzzle board to actually use Frickin' Laser Beams just to keep track of Vanna's hands.

Bonus round wheel of fortune 2002