Post by mechamind on Jul 5, 2022 22:17:15 GMT -5
Airdate: Late 1988 (after November 28)
Look at this studio filled with fabulous bonus prizes including:
A 6-acre estate in Maine!
A carved 18-karat gold necklace!
A 26-foot Travelcraft motorhome!
Plus thousands of dollars in cash!
Over $216,000 just waiting to be won on...
Wheel of Fortune!
Today's contestants:
Kathy Jefferson: Teaches a group of young women at church, from Flint, MI
Carol Newman: Assessment auditor for a major corporation, from Naperville, IL
Matt Gibbs: Highway patrolman (who has never pulled Pat over), from Marina Del Rey, CA
The top-dollar value on the Wheel is $1,000. We are playing for cash, and here's our first puzzle:
Carol solves SET THE WORLD ON FIRE.
Matt solves TRAVELING INCOGNITO.
There's no need for the $3,500 space to arrive in the studio incognito...or is there?
Carol reads what's on the board. "That's a delightful category, isn't it?" "It's like COW AND POTATO CHIPS, the same kind of thing."
DING DING! DING DING!
She got the prize, but can she solve after Pat gives the Wheel a Final Spin? Consonants are worth... $200 a piece.
Kathy: T (x2) ($2,150+)
Perfection! Kathy solves YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT to keep the necklace and steal the game!
BONUS ROUND:
She'll love to hear those three magic words from that puzzle so that she can take home one of these prizes:
RSTLNE gives her:
CGDO gives her the consonants but not the vowel.
Look at this studio filled with fabulous bonus prizes including:
A 6-acre estate in Maine!
A carved 18-karat gold necklace!
A 26-foot Travelcraft motorhome!
Plus thousands of dollars in cash!
Over $216,000 just waiting to be won on...
Wheel of Fortune!
Today's contestants:
Kathy Jefferson: Teaches a group of young women at church, from Flint, MI
Carol Newman: Assessment auditor for a major corporation, from Naperville, IL
Matt Gibbs: Highway patrolman (who has never pulled Pat over), from Marina Del Rey, CA
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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KATHY | Carol | Matt |
| $500: T (x2) Free Spin! $450: H -$250: E (x3) $400: S $400: N -$250: O (x2) $350: R (x2) BANKRUPT! ($2,450) | $1,000: L $500: D $400: W Solve: Correct! | |
$1,900 |
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Carol solves SET THE WORLD ON FIRE.
Kathy (FS) | Carol | Matt |
$1,900 |
We'll need our players to pull over so that we can bring a prize wedge to the Wheel, and it's for a ski trip to Colorado and 7-night stay at Copper Mountain Resort plus Outdoor Products gear (labeled TRIP) worth $2,723.
If one bad turn starts a fire, we'll have to trust the $2,500 space to put it out.
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Kathy (FS) | CAROL | Matt |
| $450: N (x3) Lose A Turn! | $400: G (x2) -$250: I (x3) $250: L $800: S (DUD!) | |
$1,350 | $800 | |
| $900: R $250: T (x2) $800: H (DUD!) | $400: Y (DUD!) | -$250: O (x2) $450: C $400: V Only vowels left! Solve: Correct! |
$1,400 | $1,350 | $1,400 |
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Matt solves TRAVELING INCOGNITO.
Kathy (FS) | Carol | Matt |
$1,900 | $1,400 |
There's no need for the $3,500 space to arrive in the studio incognito...or is there?
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Kathy (FS) | Carol | MATT |
| $600: N (x2) $400: D (x4) -$250: A (x3) -$250: E -$250: I $500: S (DUD!) | ||
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| $600: R (x2) $200: H $500: T (DUD!) | $200: L (x5) $550: B (x2) -$250: O (x2) -$250: U (x2) $200: F (x2) Solve: Correct! | |
$1,400 | $2,000 | |
Matt himself actually said there was no S just as the buzzer sounded.
Carol's spin for the B's just barely clicked from $400 to $550 after she called the letter.
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Carol reads what's on the board. "That's a delightful category, isn't it?" "It's like COW AND POTATO CHIPS, the same kind of thing."
Kathy (FS) | Carol | Matt |
$3,900 | $1,400 |
It's one of those days that you hope saving your Free Spin pays off. Kathy might want a Fred Joaillier gift certificate featuring a horse's head necklace (labeled JEWEL) worth $12,600!
Kathy's looking for thousands, not hundreds. The $5,000 space could give her some.
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KATHY (FS) | Carol | Matt |
| $250: R (x2) -$250: E (x2) $900: S JEWEL! $300: Y (x2) | ||
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DING DING! DING DING!
She got the prize, but can she solve after Pat gives the Wheel a Final Spin? Consonants are worth... $200 a piece.
Kathy: T (x2) ($2,150+)
(Kathy is briefly overcredited by $100 before it's corrected.)
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Perfection! Kathy solves YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT to keep the necklace and steal the game!
Kathy (...) | Carol | Matt |
| $14,750 | $3,900 | $1,400 |
We were absolutely wrong to assume Kathy would need her Free Spin token.
BONUS ROUND:
She'll love to hear those three magic words from that puzzle so that she can take home one of these prizes:
His-and-hers Buick Reatta and Electra
Estate in Maine (over $35,000)
Motorhome (over $47,000)
Chinchilla coat ($40,000)
"Good ol' American cash" ($25,000)
Kathy will try to add...
"Good ol' American cash" ($25,000)
She must solve this extra puzzle:
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RSTLNE gives her:
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CGDO gives her the consonants but not the vowel.
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She instantly solves ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN to take the money! "Why waste time?" Kathy will just take home $39,750 in cash and prizes!
In the post-game chat, Pat admits he was sure that Kathy would go for the estate in Maine, but it didn't happen. It's a nice tough, though. Pat suggests adding some tombstones. 
