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November 21, 1988 recap Jul 2, 2022 17:52:12 GMT -5

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Post by mechamind on Jul 2, 2022 17:52:12 GMT -5

Airdate: November 21, 1988

From Radio City Music Hall in New York, it's America's #1 game show! Wheel of Fortune!

Check out a fully-equipped $50,000 coach...

...a $37,000 Regal Velocity boat...

...and a pair of Cadillac Eldorados!

Over $271,000 in cash and prizes just waiting to be won as the Wheel takes Manhattan!

Today's contestants:
Jason James: Professional pianist and vocalist and works with his wife in a club in Nashville, from Nashville, TN
Denise Kabum (?): Trial lawyer with the Board of Education in Newark, from Plainfield, NJ
Jane Boylen: Aerobics instructor, from East Lansing, MI (originally from Brooklyn)

The top-dollar value on the Wheel is $1,000. We are playing for cash, and here's our first puzzle:

Round 1

PHRASE

JASON	Denise	Jane
$800: N (DUD!)	$200: T (x2) $200: Y -$250: E $900: L (x2) Solve: Correct!
	$2,150

PHRASE

Denise solves LICKETY-SPLIT.

Jason	Denise	Jane
	$2,150

Hurry and get that cardboard on the Wheel! It's for a Pearl Graceland grandfather clock (labeled CLOCK) worth $5,000.

Let's pump up those scores even quicker with a $2,500 space!

Round 2

SAME NAME

Jason	DENISE	Jane
	$200: N (x3) $150: D -$250: A (x2) $2,500: T -$250: E (x3) $300: R (x3) $400: L Solve: Correct!
	$4,050

SAME NAME

Perfection! Denise solves FOREST AND LONE RANGER.

Jason	Denise	Jane
	$6,200

That doesn't seem like lickety-split for Jane. She only starts spinning now...though she can start with the $3,500 space if she's lucky.

Round 3

PEOPLE

Jason	Denise	JANE
		$400: S (x2) -$250: E (x2) $150: N (DUD!)
		$550
$500: T (x3) Lose A Turn!	$700: R (x2) -$250: O (x2) $200: C (x3) $600: L (x2) Solve: Correct!
$1,500	$2,950

PEOPLE

Denise solves RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL ROCKETTES...and guess what? The Rockettes have broken into the studio for a quick dance!

Jason	Denise	Jane
	$9,150

Well, now that they're off the stage, we can think about prizes again. Don's ready with a Van Cleef & Arpels parrot pin carved in 4 shades of coral with 2-karat diamonds (labeled PIN) worth $15,200!

Okay, maybe the $5,000 space does have some competition after all. Can it shine brighter than the Rockettes?

Round 4

PEOPLE

JASON	Denise	Jane
$550: N (x2) $200: G (x2) $500: S -$250: I (x2) $700: R -$250: O (x2) $900: D (DUD!)	$500: P -$250: U -$250: E (DUD!)	Lose A Turn!
$2,200
$500: C (DUD!)	$250: T -$250: A $200: H (DUD!)	$900: M $5,000: K Solve: Correct!
$2,200		$5,900

The "ding" does not sound on the K.

PEOPLE

Jane reads what's on the board. It's time to break our addiction to this game.

Jason	Denise	Jane
	$9,150	$5,900

Denise was extremely close to a sweep. Jane broke free, but Jason goes home with the nice parting gifts.

BONUS ROUND:

So she couldn't sweep the game, but Denise still has a shot at one of our perfect prizes in Bonus Land!

We'll give her a break, and then she'll play for...

"Good ol' American cash" ($25,000)

She gets a one-word puzzle.

Bonus Puzzle

PLACE

RSTLNE gives her:

PLACE

DMCA gets her halfway there.

PLACE

She says BREADPAN and BREADPIN, then she says BROADWAY on the buzzer. Denise got it at just the last possible moment! She leaves with $34,150 in cash!

In the post-game, the Rockettes have returned! They do some more dancing for the New York audience before we end the show.