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February 27, 2023 recap Feb 27, 2023 15:52:31 GMT -5

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Season 40, Episode #7741

Airdate: February 27, 2023

From the Sony Studios, it's America's Game! Another week of Wheel of Fortune XL!

$1,000 Toss-Up

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Alex guesses GREAT DOVE.

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Michelle solves GREAT DANE.

La Donna	Michelle	Alex
	$1,000

And here's our great trio!
Michelle Jones: From Estancia, NM; involved with the city as a clerk treasurer in "the heart of New Mexico", home of the Bears and the best pinto beans in the world
Alex Pimentel: From La Quinta, CA (originally from Brazil); married to his wife Cynthia for almost 9 years, and he's also a tennis player and can't get enough of it
La Donna Chandler: From Fort Worth, TX; Dallas Cowboys fan, and likes "miniatures" (strange for Texas where everything's bigger) such as pots and pans or a smoker

$2,000 Toss-Up

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Michelle solves FINE ART GALLERY.

La Donna	Michelle	Alex
	$3,000

Wheel Prize: Collette vacation (labeled COLLETTE), and you'll find out how great it is when someone wins it!

Gift Tag (Brooklinen), Wild Card, XL Wedge, and full-sized Million Dollar Wedge on Wheel!

Top dollar value: $2,500

Round 1

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La Donna	MICHELLE	Alex
	$1 MILLION: T (x4) $500: H (DUD!)	$600: S (x4) -$250: A (x4) $700: H (Repeat)
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$600: N (DUD!)	$900: D -$250: E (x3) -$250: I (x2) -$250: O $600: R (x5) -$250: U (x2) $500: L (x2) Solve: Correct!
	$3,900

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Michelle solves TOTALLY SURPRISED AT A SURPRISE PARTY and could surprise us in the Bonus Round if things work out.

La Donna	Michelle (1M)	Alex
	$6,900

$10,000 XL Mystery Round

Top dollar value: $3,500

The second Million Dollar Wedge is back!

Round 2 (Crossword)

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SAVE ROOM FOR DESSERT

La Donna	Michelle (1M)	ALEX
		$1 MILLION: P XL: S (DUD!)

$700: D (x2) BANKRUPT! ($1,400)	$650: G -$250: I (x3) $700: C (DUD!)	$600: N (x2) BANKRUPT! ($1,200) (MDW lost)
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BANKRUPT! ($0)	$700: T (x2) -$250: U -$250: E $650: B Solve: Wrong!
	$1,950

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Michelle guesses TORT, BROWNIE, PIE, PUDDING.

La Donna	Michelle (1M)	Alex

		$900: R $900: W Only vowels left! Solve: Correct!
	$1,950	$1,800

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Alex solves TART, BROWNIE, PIE, PUDDING.

La Donna	Michelle (1M)	Alex
	$6,900	$1,800

Express Round ("XL Prize Puzzle")

Top dollar value: $3,500

Round 3

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FUN & GAMES

LA DONNA	Michelle (1M)	Alex
BANKRUPT! ($0)	BANKRUPT! ($0) (MDW lost)	$1 MILLION: N (x2) EXPRESS: T (He declines.) $650: G -$250: I (x2) $700: M (DUD!)
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$600: R $550: L (x2) $650: P (DUD!)	$650: D (DUD!)	$650: S -$250: E Solve: Correct!
$1,700		$1,800

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Alex solves LEARNING HOW TO SAIL for his own green, plus he wins a trip to Cancun and stay at the Hyatt Ziva Riviera with $5,000 cash for a total value of $11,860.

La Donna	Michelle	Alex (1M)
	$6,900	$15,460

Triple Toss-Up!

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La Donna	Michelle	Alex (1M)
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Michelle solves LAUNDRY LIST.

La Donna	Michelle	Alex (1M)
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La Donna rings in with silence, though it may have been an accident.

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Michelle solves WINE LIST.

La Donna	Michelle	Alex (1M)
	$10,900	$17,460

Round 4

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WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

DING DING! DING DING!

And this was no accident. We need to end the game, so Michelle will give the last spin of the day.

Final Spin: $500

+$1,000 = $1,500

Michelle: T (x3) ($4,500)

(Unknown edit)

Alex: H ($1,500)
La Donna: N (x2) ($3,000)
Michelle: O ($4,500)
Alex: S ($3,000)
La Donna: G (x2) ($6,000)
Michelle: W (DUD!)

Alex: L ($4,500)

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Alex solves STICKING TO THE GAME PLAN.

La Donna	Michelle	Alex (1M)
$1,000	$10,900	$21,960
Consolation

Pat apologizes to La Donna on behalf of the Wheel, as she deserved better than that.

Alex plans to win $1,000,000 in the Bonus Round! He has two chances to hit it!

We have to stick to the current rules and make Alex pick one of three Bonus Round categories first:

AROUND THE HOUSE
THING
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Alex picks Phrase.

$1 MILLION BONUS ROUND #7

The Bonus Round is sponsored by Slotomania.

Featured Car: BMW X1 ($43K+)

Bonus Spin: C in AMERICA'S

Bonus Puzzle

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He instantly solves THAT WAS FUNNY...

...and he might look funny in his BMW worth $43,565! Alex leaves with $65,525 in cash and prizes!

We still need to find those $1,000,000 envelopes. One of them was under the apostrophe, and the other could be found in the twin stars.

In the final segment, Vanna knows there's a lot going on during the XL shows. More than Pat's little brain can handle sometimes, but thanks to cue cards, he's never at a loss for words.

Last Edit: Apr 26, 2023 23:53:20 GMT -5 by mechamind

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February 27, 2023 recap Feb 27, 2023 19:45:06 GMT -5

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It seemed there were some cuts from the interview segment, and I was optimistic...but it must have been due to some bad spins. I thought it would be due to a grand prize win.

I got the bonus puzzle with RSTLNE. He didn't need any help down below, as it makes sense for FUNNY to be the first word you think of.

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February 27, 2023 recap Feb 27, 2023 23:32:57 GMT -5

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Post by jjc927 on Feb 27, 2023 23:32:57 GMT -5

Feb 27, 2023 19:45:06 GMT -5 mechamind said:

It seemed there were some cuts from the interview segment, and I was optimistic...but it must have been due to some bad spins. I thought it would be due to a grand prize win.

It did definitely feel like there were a few cuts, especially from La Donna's interview.

How is Totally Surprised at a Surprise Party a Phrase? They could have added BEING at the beginning and made it What Are You Doing?

Michelle looked like she was going to run away with the game early but then she had that missolve and the Bankrupt hit. Alex took over after that, and poor La Donna couldn't get anything going.

Very easy bonus puzzle with the two Ts and Ns showing.

Last Edit: Feb 27, 2023 23:34:53 GMT -5 by jjc927

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February 27, 2023 recap Feb 28, 2023 0:52:10 GMT -5 via Tapatalk

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Post by genius2751 on Feb 28, 2023 0:52:10 GMT -5

I wasn’t expecting a change in stage for the third XL week, but I guess it was long overdue.

Anyway, the front game was a bit messy, no thanks to the black wedge claiming Michelle and Alex’s $1M wedges and giving La Donna a hard time. 😔 As stated, once Michelle flubbed the second round, Alex pretty much took over (sans two of the Triple Toss-Ups). Good thing he didn’t need help on the last word of the Bonus Round to win a new car.

Maybe one day, we’ll get a $1M win on an XL week. And I sure thought the last Triple Toss-Up was WISH LIST.

My rating: 6

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February 27, 2023 recap Feb 28, 2023 9:25:49 GMT -5

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Post by dim3ns10n on Feb 28, 2023 9:25:49 GMT -5

Alex slowly picked himself up to win the main game despite him making a repeated H call in R1 and a dud on the XL wedge in R2 (The latter didn't matter because the Bankrupt would have made him losing the XL).

I thought the last word in R3 would be SWIM and when the buzzer sounded on the M, I was thinking what else could it be. I was surprised that the full MDW was hit and claimed three times and despite two of them were lost on Bankrupt, we could still see someone holding the MDW to the BR

BR puzzle was easy for me but I was not sure about Alex based on his looks and the picks he had made. Fortunately, he got it and won (Two spaces too far from the grand prize, ouch!). In conclusion, that was a funny little game.

I also noticed about the cuts from the interview segment and it looks like every week regardless of the sweepstakes, there will be at least one episode that the show will rush from the interviews to the BR. Also, whenever I notice that the screen fades to black after Pat throws to commercial or I hear Vanna saying "Closed captioning is sponsored by..." when a contestant is shown clapping after R3, I know that tonight's episode is 'rushing for time'

Hope that tomorrow's episode will turn out good.

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February 27, 2023 recap Feb 28, 2023 17:49:05 GMT -5

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Post by logicman27 on Feb 28, 2023 17:49:05 GMT -5

Maybe it's just me, but I think the dark generic set fits more with the XL weeks. It makes it more of a big deal that way.

R1: I can confirm that they've scrapped the bottom of the barrel with this puzzle. Rob and Matt, do better (FYI, Rob writes all of the puzzles while Matt picks them out for the shows...I've learned this on the most recent taping I attended.).

R3: One of the rare cases where declining the Express was a better move.

R4: Figured the streak of normal R4 gameplay would end right there, considering that there's less game time in these weeks.

The game overall wasn't very good thanks to a lot of bad stuff that got cut out, leading to an understandable bumpy final product in the end. La Donna really deserved a better fate after all that.

BR: Figured this would be won with what was up there.

6/10

The Collette trip was to Australia.

Jan 18, 2019 16:31:06 GMT -5 wheelinganddealing said:

This is why we watch. Not only for the gut punch, but the random acts of insanity that make you cheer for total strangers, the brothers doing "YMCA," or the wife jumping into her husbands arms which led to the greatest ad lib between Pat & Vanna, etc, etc, etc).

There's a reason this show has been on so long.

I'll never quit watching. Hopefully, you won't either.

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February 27, 2023 recap Nov 18, 2023 21:43:33 GMT -5

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Post by MarioGS on Nov 18, 2023 21:43:33 GMT -5

Today's rerun of this episode contains footage unused from the original airing. Since there is no giveaway, R3's outro has Pat mention that Alex locked in the MDW, which was edited out of the original airing, and a "Vanna on location" closed captioning bumper is used instead of the stock voiceover that's been in use for at least two decades now. The intro of the rerun also removed Pat mentioning the giveaway just before throwing to TU1, though the clip of Vanna in front of the board with the giveaway graphic was still intact.

Original version:

Rerun version: