Post by mechamind on Apr 19, 2023 23:21:27 GMT -5
Airdate: May 24, 1995
From the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in Norfolk, It's America's game! Wheeeeeel Of Fortune!
Today's contestants:
Victoria Bergquist (returning with a 2-day total of $56,565)
Mark Banker: Corporate accounts supervisor for a professional basketball team in the Twin Cities (the Timberwolves), from Minnetonka, MN
Mark Rankin: Senior at Old Dominion in Norfolk majoring in criminal justice, also referees high school basketball and coaches at a middle school; from Virginia Beach
The top-dollar value on the Wheel is $1,000. We are playing for cash, and here's our first puzzle:
Perfection! Victoria solves HOT-AIR BALLOON RACE, and she's in a hurry to hear about the SURPRISE...a Kay Ameche Eisenhower Farm serigraph worth $2,500.
Yellow Mark solves THREE-PIECE SUIT YOURSELF.
All dressed up for our game, Mark wants to look good for the $3,500 space. Feeling gutsy? Suit yourself with a $10,000 space all dressed in black.
Yellow Mark solves SWEARING-IN CEREMONY.
That could keep Victoria from getting sworn in as an undefeated champ. The $5,000 space can put her back in line, but so could a CHINA trip.
DING DING! DING DING!
We swear we heard a bell. Yes, it's the bell for Pat to give the Wheel a Final Spin. Consonants are worth... $800 a piece.
Mark: H ($1,900+)
Mark: P (DUD!)
Victoria: L ($800)
Mark: F (x2) ($3,500+)
Yellow Mark solves FRESH FRUIT SALAD for the cash and the prize...a trip to China including Beijing and the Great Wall, plus Xi'an and Nanjing, and finally Shanghai, and it's worth $6,000!
BONUS ROUND:
RSTLNE gives him:
From the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in Norfolk, It's America's game! Wheeeeeel Of Fortune!
Today's contestants:
Victoria Bergquist (returning with a 2-day total of $56,565)
Mark Banker: Corporate accounts supervisor for a professional basketball team in the Twin Cities (the Timberwolves), from Minnetonka, MN
Mark Rankin: Senior at Old Dominion in Norfolk majoring in criminal justice, also referees high school basketball and coaches at a middle school; from Virginia Beach
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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| $200: T $750: N $300: R (x2) -$250: E -$250: I SURPRISE: L (x2) -$250: A (x3) Solve: Correct! | ||
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Perfection! Victoria solves HOT-AIR BALLOON RACE, and she's in a hurry to hear about the SURPRISE...a Kay Ameche Eisenhower Farm serigraph worth $2,500.
Victoria | Mark | Mark |
$3,300 |
Meanwhile, it's another day that we're racing against the clock to add a Round 2 prize. Someone here could just as quickly win a Fila golf club set and Konica Big Mini 35-mm compact camera (labeled HOBBY) worth $2,170.
This is Mark's chance to get off the ground, and his race to the end may start with a $2,500 spin.
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Victoria | MARK | Mark |
| $500: R (x2) $300: T (x2) -$250: E (x5) $2,500: N (DUD!) | $900: S (x2) $500: H -$250: A (DUD!) | |
$1,350 | $2,050 | |
| Lose A Turn! | Lose A Turn! | $200: M (DUD!) |
$2,050 | ||
| $500: L -$250: O -$250: I (x2) $500: P $500: C -$250: U (x2) Lose A Turn! | Solve: Correct! | |
$750 | $1,350 |
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Yellow Mark solves THREE-PIECE SUIT YOURSELF.
Victoria | Mark | Mark |
$3,300 | $1,350 |
Before the next round, Pat asks the staff to move that ship in the background just a little bit to the left. "You have a lot of power when you host a game show." 
All dressed up for our game, Mark wants to look good for the $3,500 space. Feeling gutsy? Suit yourself with a $10,000 space all dressed in black.
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Another hyphen to amuse Pat. 
Victoria | Mark | MARK |
| $250: T (DUD!) | ||
| Lose A Turn! | $600: S $700: N (x3) -$250: I (x2) $800: G -$250: A -$250: E (x3) $800: P (DUD!) | $400: L (DUD!) |
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| $250: H (DUD!) | $400: R (x2) Solve: Correct! | |
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Yellow Mark solves SWEARING-IN CEREMONY.
Victoria | Mark | Mark |
$3,300 | $4,900 |
That could keep Victoria from getting sworn in as an undefeated champ. The $5,000 space can put her back in line, but so could a CHINA trip.
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"No hyphen? Sheesh! I feel empty, somehow."
VICTORIA | Mark | Mark |
| $350: N (DUD!) | $600: T $500: R (x2) -$250: E -$250: A (x2) CHINA: S (x2) | |
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DING DING! DING DING!
We swear we heard a bell. Yes, it's the bell for Pat to give the Wheel a Final Spin. Consonants are worth... $800 a piece.
Mark: H ($1,900+)
Mark: P (DUD!)
Victoria: L ($800)
Mark: F (x2) ($3,500+)
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Yellow Mark solves FRESH FRUIT SALAD for the cash and the prize...a trip to China including Beijing and the Great Wall, plus Xi'an and Nanjing, and finally Shanghai, and it's worth $6,000!
Victoria | Mark | Mark |
$3,300 | $14,400 |
The other Mark just isn't going anywhere, other than disembarking from the carrier with some nice parting gifts.
Victoria could've tied it up, but instead, she's leaving with a 3-day total of $59,865.
BONUS ROUND:
Maybe Mark could become an undefeated champion before the end of the week? He should start by winning a Camaro, twin Yamahas, a van, or the $25,000.
Down to one Mark who's narrowing it down to one envelope, which will be the H. Down to one puzzle, too.
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Not entirely like Monday for the puzzle or the letter choices. He wants CGMA...
...but the results of his picks are exactly like Monday.
His full guesses are OVER, ODOR, WEAR. The second one could've been it, but he does not solve HOUR...
...and it would've have taken longer than that to win the van. Mark finishes with $14,400 in cash and prizes, but he'll try again tomorrow.