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round were turned into additional winning spaces. As this was seen as providing an unfair advantage in a game of chance, the bonus wheels were replaced later in the series by "Golden Euros", which could instead add bonus spaces to Win & Spin that awarded €10,000 cash when revealed. With the switch to the
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