I don't want to spoil the fun with too much of an explanation. Become a winner by trying it for yourself.

Hopefully the result is almost as fun as the pleasure I had writing it. 

sub p{print@_}$p="ITRS ZMNSGDQ ODQK GZBJDQ";$p=~y:ZA-Y:A-Z:;@a=split
//,$p;@k=map{/\w/?'*':$_}@a;Z:until($v){p"$/\$$t: ",@k,$/;$n=int(rand
(9))*100+100;p"Spin:\$$n. Guess letter, or phrase to solve$/";$g=
<STDIN>;chomp($g=uc$g);if(length$g>1){if($g eq$p){$v++}else{$t=0}last
Z}for(@k){if($g eq$_){p"Already used $g$/";next Z}}if($g=~/[AEIOUY]/
){$t-=100;p"Vowel costs \$100$/";$n=0}$c=0;for($i=0;$i<@a;$i++){if($g
eq$a[$i]){$t+=$n;$c++;$k[$i]=$a[$i]}}p"$c $g\'s.$/";$v++if join("",@k
)eq$p}p@k,$/;if($v){p"Congrats, "}else{p"Wrong, "}p"win \$$t$/"

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All it needs is Vanna White. Enjoy!!!

Dave

"If I had my life to do over again, I'd be a plumber." -- Albert Einstein

Technical discussion follows

Interesting to me is the fact that while this code runs fine (and even ran under strictures before I took out the 'my' declarations), it won't deparse using B::Deparse, at least under Perl 5.8.0 on Win32. I typically deparse a script by removing the shebang line, and then running it as, perl -MO=Deparse script >deparsed. That approach fails with 'Can't call method "isa" without a package or object reference at C:/indigoperl/perl/lib/Deparse.pm line 1080. Check failed--call queue aborted.'

Stumping B::Deparse is trivial if eval is used, or fork or something like that. But this obfu doesn't use any unusual trickery that I expected to be capable of stifling B::Deparse.

This being an obfu (though not a terribly obscure one at that), I consider the fact that it stumps B::Deparse a little added bonus.

In reply to Perl of Fortune by davido

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