Post by mechamind on Feb 28, 2021 11:28:59 GMT -5
Airdate: December 3, 1987
Look at this studio filled with fabulous bonus prizes including:
A $37,000 Mercedes Benz!
A $12,000 chinchilla jacket!
A hi-tech sea bike!
Plus thousands of dollars in cash!
Over $202,000 just waiting to be won during our Big Bonanza of Cash on...
Wheel of Fortune!
The top-dollar value on the Wheel is $1,000. We are playing for cash, and here's our first puzzle:
Dean solves A BOLT FROM THE BLUE.
Dean solves AIRCRAFT CARRIER.
Send your score flying even higher with a $3,500 space on the Wheel!
Perfection! Dean solves LET YOUR CONSCIENCE BE YOUR GUIDE.
BONUS ROUND:
Look at this studio filled with fabulous bonus prizes including:
A $37,000 Mercedes Benz!
A $12,000 chinchilla jacket!
A hi-tech sea bike!
Plus thousands of dollars in cash!
Over $202,000 just waiting to be won during our Big Bonanza of Cash on...
Wheel of Fortune!
(Due to an edit, the contestant interviews were cut from the source video.)
Today's contestants are Norm, Marci, and Dean Aamodt!
The top-dollar value on the Wheel is $1,000. We are playing for cash, and here's our first puzzle:
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$300: T (x2) Free Spin! $400: H -$250: E (x2) $600: S (DUD!) | $1,000: N (DUD!) | $300: L (x2) -$250: A $750: R -$250: O (x2) $750: F $200: M $200: B (x2) Only vowels left! Solve: Correct! |
$1,000 | $2,200 |
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Dean solves A BOLT FROM THE BLUE.
Norm (FS) | Marci | Dean |
$2,200 |
Like a bolt from the blue, we have a rather unusual prize! It's a Leisure Tech Boats C-Bike (labeled C-BIKE) worth $6,525.
It's time to add a nice blue $2,500 space on the Wheel! Well, it's almost blue...
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Norm (FS) | MARCI | Dean |
$250: T BANKRUPT! ($250) | $400: S (DUD!) | |
$500: H (DUD!) | Lose A Turn! | $450: L (DUD!) |
Lose A Turn! | $250: N (DUD!) | $150: R (x5) -$250: E $200: C (x2) -$250: A (x3) $400: F Only vowels left! Solve: Correct! |
$1,050 |
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Dean solves AIRCRAFT CARRIER.
Norm (FS) | Marci | Dean |
$3,250 |
Send your score flying even higher with a $3,500 space on the Wheel!
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Norm (FS) | Marci | DEAN |
$250: T $3,500: R (x2) -$250: O (x3) -$250: E (x5) $3,500: Y (x2) $3,500: L -$250: U (x3) $900: B -$250: I (x2) Solve: Correct! | ||
$17,650 |
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Perfection! Dean solves LET YOUR CONSCIENCE BE YOUR GUIDE.
Norm (FS) | Marci | Dean |
Should you keep spinning for another prize? The Wheel offers a Dicker & Dicker chinchilla jacket (labeled FUR) worth $12,500.
Norm still has his Free Spin, so he may have an advantage now that we've added a $5,000 space to the Wheel.
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NORM (FS) | Marci | Dean |
FUR! $300: T $300: B (DUD!) | $500: N (DUD!) | $300: R $500: H -$250: A (x4) -$250: E (x5) $250: V $5,000: S $5,000: L $300: P (x2) $5,000: M $300: Y $300: C Only vowels left! Solve: Correct! |
$300+ | $16,450 |
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Dean solves MAY I HAVE A RECEIPT PLEASE for even more cash! That's all we've got...
...so Dean sweeps the game!
Norm (...) | Marci | Dean |
$37,650 |
Hopefully, Norm and Marci saved their receipts. They wanted more than just the nice parting gifts.
Unfortunately, we can't trade Free Spins for cash.
BONUS ROUND:
Dean's a really big winner, but he doesn't want to stop there! He could win one of...
Around-the-world trip
Mercedes Benz
Motorhome
Diamond choker
"Good ol' American cash" ($25,000)
Dean took a quick look, and he's going to play for...
Mercedes Benz 190E ($37,184)
There's just one more puzzle for him!
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He hopes STRNLE will do it.
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He's silent, but then he solves JANE EYRE ...too close to the buzzer!
Pat asks for a ruling ...and he did it just in time to keep the car! Dean leaves with $74,834 in cash and car!