Despite this, the $10,000 side drops onto the blue $600 on the Round 1 template and the wedges themselves are clearly edited onto the Season 25 wipe.

The Mystery Round wipe is finally updated to reflect the alterations to both the Wheel template and the wedge itself.

The $10,000 side has the numbers and dollar sign widened and moved upward, removing the $10,000 bill at the top of the wedge. This color also applies to the Bankrupt side, although the lettering is now smaller.

The Mystery Wedges become a blue-purple gradient, with the circles becoming shiny.

According to the official site, the wedge they win is the purple wedge from 1996-2012. Fans post photos and/or explain why they deserve to win the 'prize' of the $350 wedge and a $350 cash prize.

In relation to this, from October 4-19, Wheel holds a Win the Wedge promotion on Facebook.

The $350 is increased to $550 (and for the first time since August 1986 and outside of rug and turntable layouts, $550 is in a color other than purple), $400 upgrades to $700, the blue $300 doubles to $600, the orange $300 triples to $900, and $450 is upped to $650.

The minimum value is increased from $300 to $500.

This also occurs with sister show Jeopardy! However, repeats from the previous season continue to use the 2002 version of the SPT logo. The accompanying theme is also shortened, and it now plays only after the 'explosion' has occurred.

A new Sony Pictures Television logo is introduced, consisting of the Sony corporate logo with a small white starburst between the O and N that 'explodes' into the regular logo.

The intro is similar to Season 16: the camera zooms to the logo over the doors, and, after the 'Wheel! Of! Fortune!' chant, goes through the doors, which have 'STAGE 11' on the right and the Sony Pictures Television logo on the left.

The lights may be a representation of the Wheel's spokes, which would be directly outside the wedges, as the Season 31 logo appeared to be mimicking the long-since-discontinued overhead logo shot. The logo is mostly the same as last season, but now has a ring of lights around the Wheel graphic.

Wheel of fortune logo