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December 13, 1988 recap Jul 9, 2022 12:45:22 GMT -5

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Post by mechamind on Jul 9, 2022 12:45:22 GMT -5

Airdate: December 13, 1988

Look at this studio filled with fabulous bonus prizes including:

A carved amethyst pendant on diamond chain!
A Saab 9000 Turbo sedan!
A compact Eagle Summit sedan!

Plus thousands of dollars in cash!

Over $268,000 just waiting to be won on...

Wheel of Fortune!

Today's contestants:
Bob Carrey: Golf facility developer (building a driving range before the course to go with it)
Joe Kotch: System division controller for an international engineering and construction company, from Oak Ridge, TN
Carol Matushevsky: Bartender in Plymouth, from Detroit, MI

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

Round 1

EVENT

BOB	Joe	Carol
$1,000: T (DUD!)	$1,000: S $1,000: N (x2) $200: H -$250: I (DUD!)	$300: R -$250: A $450: B $150: D $900: Y Solve: Correct!
	$2,950	$1,550

EVENT

Carol solves SUNDAY BRUNCH.

Bob	Joe	Carol
		$1,550

Try adding a prize wedge if our Wheel was set up vertically on the wall! We could still give away a ski holiday at the Alamosa Inn in Colorado and a Ricoh XR-M 35 mm camera (labeled TRIP) totaling $3,900.

The good thing about the $2,500 space is that you don't have to lift it off the Wheel.

Round 2

PHRASE

Bob	JOE	Carol
	$300: N (x2) $200: S (DUD!)	$250: T (DUD!)
	$600
$450: R (x3) -$250: E -$250: A -$250: I (x2) $200: L (x2) -$250: O (x4) $300: D $500: C (x2) Solve: Correct!
$2,050

PHRASE

Bob solves IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.

Bob	Joe	Carol
$2,050		$1,550

It's more exciting if we save the bigger values for later. Going in order, we'll put the $3,500 space on the Wheel next.

Round 3

QUOTATION

Bob	Joe	CAROL
		$450: R (DUD!)

$250: T (DUD!)	$3,500: S (DUD!)	Lose A Turn!

$250: N (DUD!)	$3,500: L (DUD!)	$500: D (x2) Lose A Turn!
		$1,000
$250: M (x2) -$250: A (x4) $400: Y (x2) $200: K -$250: E (x2) Solve: Correct!
$1,000

QUOTATION

Bob solves GO AHEAD MAKE MY DAY.

Bob	Joe	Carol
$3,050		$1,550

If they dare put up another difficult puzzle like that, they might just get run over by this Eagle Summit DL 4-door sedan (labeled CAR) worth $12,751.

We should just get our revenge by finding the best letter on the $5,000 space.

Round 4

SAME NAME

BOB	Joe	Carol
$400: N (x2) $200: D -$250: A $600: R $800: T (x2) -$250: I (DUD!)	$300: C (DUD!)	$200: L (DUD!)
$2,700
BANKRUPT! ($2,700)	$1,500: M (x2) $900: P (DUD!)	BANKRUPT! ($0)
	$3,000
$200: S (DUD!)

SAME NAME

DING DING! DING DING!

Pat didn't know what we were trying to communicate, so we're making him give the Wheel a Final Spin. Consonants are worth... $200 a piece.

Joe: G ($3,200)
Carol: H ($200)

SAME NAME

Carol solves TOM AND GREEN THUMB.

Bob	Joe	Carol
$3,050		$1,750

We were this close to making Joe's day, but no. He couldn't get it in time, and he's stuck with the nice parting gifts.

BONUS ROUND:

At least we can still make Bob's day! He's walking to Bonus Land for one of these prizes:

Build your own log cabin ($59,000)

Corvette convertible (over $41,000)

Sports events package (over $36,000)

Saab 9000 Turbo (over $34,000)

Necklace ($55,000)

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

Bob will play for...

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

Let's play with one more puzzle:

Bonus Puzzle

THING

RSTLNE gives him:

THING

DMCA gets him halfway there.

THING

He says APPLE near the end, but he does not solve APPLE JUICE. Bob leaves with $3,050 in cash.

In the post-game chat, Joe handed Pat some green "slimy stuff". Anyway, Vanna's necklace is a rose tourmaline pineapple. It's fun to wear $55,000 jewelry around your neck. Pat tries to hand Vanna the "slime", but she's not having any of it. Pat apologizes to anyone who's eating dinner while watching.