April 5, 2023 Recap

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April 5, 2023 Recap Apr 5, 2023 17:57:15 GMT -5

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Post by logicman27 on Apr 5, 2023 17:57:15 GMT -5

Tonight, there's these people...

Olivia Barger (CSU Fullerton senior)
Gordon Wilson (Texas A&M senior)
Tomia Gordon (Alabama A&M Univ. junior)

...all competing in the midweek edition of...

S40, EPISODE #7768: COLLEGE WEEK SPRING BREAK

Airdate: 4/5/23

$1,000 Toss-Up

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PROPER NAME

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Gordon names STANFORD UNIVERSITY.

Olivia	Gordon	Tomia
	$1,000

Today's contestants:
Gordon Wilson: Salado, TX (between Austin and Waco). Ag leadership and development major (he considers it to be a people-person major) who's also an apart of the Dr. Joe Townsend Leadership Fellows Program and the Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Tomia Gordon: Phoenix City, AL. Communications major who wants to become a news anchor. She's president of the Honors Program and captain of the Speech & Debate Society (she also won second place in a "Shark Tank"-like pitch competition).
Olivia Barger: Fullerton. Also majoring in communications who studied abroad at the Univ. of Birmingham in England and the Cal State satellite campus in Florence, Italy. She also co-founded a clothing company during COVID with her best friend (and it blew up on TikTok).

$2,000 Toss-Up

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COLLEGE LIFE

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COLLEGE LIFE

I don't think Gordon was on ACADEMIC PROBATION, but he's gotten both puzzles so far.

Olivia	Gordon	Tomia
	$3,000

$9,400 CONTIKI TRIP: SPAIN

Round 1

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Olivia	GORDON	Tomia
	$900: N $650: S -$250: 5 E's $800: 3 T's -$250: 3 O's -$250: I LOSE A TURN!	WILD + $500: M $700: 2 F's $850: 3 R's -$250: 2 A's -$250: U No More Vowels! $2,500: 2 P's WILD used: 2 L's Solve Attempt...
	$3,200	$13,950

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There's PLENTY OF TIME TO READ FOR PLEASURE and Tomia has scored big.

Olivia	Gordon	Tomia
	$3,000	$13,950

MYSTERY ROUND

$10,000 SPONSOR: Prevagen

Round 2

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CROSSWORD (SUPER ?)

Olivia	Gordon	TOMIA
		$600: H


$850: T	$850: 2 L's -$250: A	$700: D -$250: 2 E's -$250: I $500 ($550): 2 R's LOSE A TURN!
	$1,450	$1,200

$650: K	MYSTERY ($650): 2 G's FLIPS...BANKRUPT! (-$1,450)	LOSE A TURN!
		$1,200

$650: F	$700: 2 P's No More Vowels! Solve Attempt...
	$1,400

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Gordon finally fills in GLUE, DUPER and GROUP.

Olivia	Gordon	Tomia
	$4,400	$13,950

Round 3 (Trip Puzzle)

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FUN & GAMES

OLIVIA	Gordon	Tomia
THE ENDS + $500: S	$850: 2 T's $500: 2 H's -$250: E -$250: 3 A's BANKRUPT! ($3,500) (-$2,200)	$600: 3 N's -$250: O -$250: U -$250: 3 I's No More Vowels! $600: 2 L's Solve Attempt...
		$2,250

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Tomia will be CHILLING OUT IN THE CABANA while she's at the GRAND CAYMAN Marriott Beach Resort ($10,500).

Olivia	Gordon	Tomia
	$4,400	$26,700
		GRAND CAYMAN

TRIPLE TOSS-UP

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Tomia's SITTING IN CLASS.

Olivia	Gordon	Tomia
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Puzzle 2

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Olivia's LISTENING TO A LECTURE.

Olivia	Gordon	Tomia
$2,000		$2,000

Puzzle 3

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I'm THINKING ABOUT THE WEEKEND at the moment and Gordon has solved.

Olivia	Gordon	Tomia
$2,000	$2,000	$2,000
$2,000	$6,400	$28,700
		GRAND CAYMAN

Round 4

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RHYME TIME

DING DING! DING DING!

FINAL SPIN: $1,500

Gordon	T
Tomia	H	$1,500
Olivia	T (DUPE)	$
Gordon	S	$
NULL CYCLE
Tomia	A	$1,500
Olivia	C	$1,500
Gordon	N	$1,500
Tomia	D	$3,000	There was a strange cut to her calling said letter...and another NULL* happens after.*
Olivia	2 Y's	$4,500
Gordon	U	$1,500
Tomia	2 E's	$4,500

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Tomia solves GOOEY AND CHEWY.

FINAL SCORES

Olivia	Gordon	Tomia
$2,000	$6,400	$31,700
		GRAND CAYMAN

PENALTY BOX	Duds	Lose a Turns	Bankrupts	Repeats	Missolves	Other
ROUND 1		Gordon
ROUND 2	H (Tomia) T, K, F (Olivia) A (Gordon)	2 (Tomia)	Gordon
ROUND 3	S (Olivia)		Gordon
ROUND 4	T, S, U (Gordon)			T (Olivia)
OVERALL	at least 16	3	2 (-$3,650)	at least 1		$4,400

WINNINGS SO FAR: $40,100

Joy, it's this set again for Tomia...

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$100,000 BONUS ROUND

Tomia has her mom (Antoya) and brother (Tommy).

SPACE SPUN: M in GAME

Bonus Puzzle

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RSTLNE gives a quarter of this one-wordy:

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Tomia...forgets the category and says AUDITIONS instead of the right one of AUDITING, so no VW (not Vanna White, Pat!).

TOMIA’S FINAL TOTAL: $31,700 ($21,200 and the Cayman trip)

Back then, people made connections with Vanna and Volkswagen (they have the same initials). Her first car was a Beetle.

SPOILER: Click to show

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Last Edit: Apr 6, 2023 16:44:28 GMT -5 by logicman27

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.

wheelfan910 The production values Bellamie SHOULD strive for. Posts: 572	April 5, 2023 Recap Apr 5, 2023 18:41:55 GMT -5 via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by wheelfan910 on Apr 5, 2023 18:41:55 GMT -5 The bench for puzzle material should be way deeper for weeks like these, we just had CLASS in a TTU puzzle not even 24 hours ago. That College Life TU was a surprisingly dark turn for regular WOF.

mechamind VIP Wheel! Archivist! Aspiring recappers just need a little spark. Posts: 5,215	April 5, 2023 Recap Apr 5, 2023 20:54:06 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by mechamind on Apr 5, 2023 20:54:06 GMT -5 Back to a more normal main game, though high scoring for Tomia. Another one-word bonus puzzle! I wouldn't have thought of AUDITING before her picks, but I got it after. That was a painful miss.
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jjc927 Posts: 1,082	April 5, 2023 Recap Apr 5, 2023 21:00:25 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jjc927 on Apr 5, 2023 21:00:25 GMT -5 A surprisingly short bonus puzzle. I got it, but AUDITING wasn't easy to think of. Maybe if they made it Auditing a Class it would've been solved.

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April 5, 2023 Recap Apr 5, 2023 22:01:50 GMT -5

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Apr 5, 2023 21:00:25 GMT -5 jjc927 said:

A surprisingly short bonus puzzle. I got it, but AUDITING wasn't easy to think of. Maybe if they made it Auditing a Class it would've been solved.

Unlike last Monday, there was also a so-close bonus puzzle solve.

Last Edit: Apr 5, 2023 22:02:01 GMT -5 by legotrolls54

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April 5, 2023 Recap Apr 6, 2023 16:51:12 GMT -5

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Post by logicman27 on Apr 6, 2023 16:51:12 GMT -5

All I can take away from this was that R2 and R4 were a lot more aggravating in the studio with all of those duds.

That was a tough BR miss too (although I would love to see more puzzles like this). Most of the people in the studio got it (including me) and even the audience manager said that was gettable.

That wraps it up for part 1 of this taping week. The second half also has some quirks that I should find worth mentioning.

Last Edit: Apr 6, 2023 16:53:40 GMT -5 by logicman27

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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April 5, 2023 Recap Apr 7, 2023 7:33:16 GMT -5

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Post by MarioGS on Apr 7, 2023 7:33:16 GMT -5

Apr 5, 2023 17:57:15 GMT -5 logicman27 said:

Tomia...forgets the category

Not so much that as forgetting the number of letters and S already being given.

Apr 5, 2023 21:00:25 GMT -5 jjc927 said:

Maybe if they made it Auditing a Class it would've been solved.

Then she would have said AUDITIONING A CLASS. 🙄

Last Edit: Apr 7, 2023 7:35:08 GMT -5 by MarioGS

jjc927 Posts: 1,082	April 5, 2023 Recap Apr 7, 2023 21:04:41 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jjc927 on Apr 7, 2023 21:04:41 GMT -5 ^I suggested that since auditing a class is a term used in college, and she would've had everything but the C showing in CLASS.

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April 5, 2023 Recap Apr 8, 2023 0:08:04 GMT -5 via Tapatalk

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Post by genius2751 on Apr 8, 2023 0:08:04 GMT -5

Tomia cleaned up despite a messy second round. But maybe the G would’ve led her to the right answer in the Bonus Round; I had a bad feeling she’d say AUDITIONS.

I’m gonna guess that on College Week, there’s a 50-50 of Proper Name categorizing a university or young celebrity. Oh, and what’s up with What Are You Doing? being in the Triple Toss-Up three times in a row?!

My rating: 6

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Post by logicman27 on Apr 5, 2023 17:57:15 GMT -5

Post by wheelfan910 on Apr 5, 2023 18:41:55 GMT -5

Post by mechamind on Apr 5, 2023 20:54:06 GMT -5

Post by jjc927 on Apr 5, 2023 21:00:25 GMT -5

Post by legotrolls54 on Apr 5, 2023 22:01:50 GMT -5

Post by logicman27 on Apr 6, 2023 16:51:12 GMT -5

Post by MarioGS on Apr 7, 2023 7:33:16 GMT -5

Post by jjc927 on Apr 7, 2023 21:04:41 GMT -5

Post by genius2751 on Apr 8, 2023 0:08:04 GMT -5