Fox’s new big-money summer quiz Spin The Wheel suggests, in its title, an embrace of game show basics. As TV spectacles go, what is more straightforward than Jane Citizen spinning a wheel of cash?

You’ve seen this optical illusion in movies — but it happens when you’re watching in person too. What’s really going on? It’s a familiar scene to most anyone with a television: The wheels of a forward ...

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