Wheel of Fortune Recap: 10/30/1989

It's Monday! But it doesn't seem like Monday since only over...



...in cash and prizes can be won... on Wheel of Possible Fortune! Tonight's contestants are here to win that possible fortune.

Tom Miarane: A dentist that's been doing dental work for 10 years.
Nicole Morphus: Had a great run on the last episode, $65,250 in cash and annuity! She's back for a second day.
LaTanya Rude: A junior at a university majoring in political science.

Alright, here comes the game!

Free Spin Location: $300

Nice location, I like it there.



The Random Free Spin disc is located two wedges away from $1,000, the top amount for this round. They're playing for money and here's the first puzzle. It's a Thing.



Tom won the draw, he's going first. He calls the T, buying a vowel is key when the puzzle's small, he wisely chooses to buy the E. He spins again, but he calls the first dud of the night, N on $900. Our returning champ has a turn and she gets three letters in the puzzle before a dud L stops her. LaTanya spins and calls a bad F on the orange $400. Tom has his turn again, but not for long, thanks to Bankrupt. Nicole does another spin and it escapes out of Bankrupt into $350, only to have a dud D end her turn anyway. LaTanya also duds on $350, with an M. Back to Tom, who lights up every letter in the second word but the second one. Hmm... what can fill that second word? Certainly not an H as long as it's a family show! A dud H on the red $400 brings play to Nicole. She fills in every letter remaining, the P being a guess.



Nicole reads BARBECUE SPIT and that gives her $2,000 more!

Tom:
Nicole: $2,000
LaTanya:

MINI ROUND OF DUDS!

Bankrupts: 1 (Tom - $250)
Lose a Turns: 0
Duds: 6 (Tom (2) - N, H - $250, $50), (Nicole (2) - L, D - both with $1,050), (LaTanya (2) - F, M - both with $0)
Missolves: 0
Top Dollar Hits: 0



Heding right into round 2 with this green little wedge called WATCH on the other $150, it's a watch from Jaeger Le-Coultre valued at $3,500! And there's also a blue sparkly wedge called $2,500. This next category is an unwanted Phrase.



Nicole will start this second round and she plays pretty well, so well that she doesn't lose her turn...



FIRST AND FOREMOST, Nicole solves this puzzle, adding another $4,550 to her lead!

Tom:
Nicole: $6,550
LaTanya:

PERFECTION!

Bankrupts: 0
Lose a Turns: 0
Duds: 0
Missolves: 0
Top Dollar Hits: 0



So far, Nicole's been wheel hogging! Everyone still has a chance, thanks to that Clarendony, glittery $3,500! Before & After is the category this time.



A lot of letters up there, some potential for a big win, LaTanya gets to start this third round. She starts it with a dud, though, T on the pink $200. Tom controls the rest of the round and right before he buys the O, he calls a ton of Ss, in total, FIVE. That was only on $500 though.



For $2,800, he will solve MICHAEL JACKSON MISSISSIPPI.

Tom: $2,800
Nicole: $6,550
LaTanya:

Bankrupts: 0
Lose a Turns: 0
Duds: 1 (LaTanya - T - $0)
Missolves: 0
Top Dollar Hits: 0
$1,000 Hits: 0



There's another green wedge on the wheel, this one is called SHOP! Charlie explains that this is a shopping spree prize to a fashion store in Beverly Hills valued at $5,500. Silver, silver is on this wheel too, it's $5,000! Now that we know what's on the wheel, we need to know a puzzle. This puzzle is... Phrase, Phrase, Phrase.



This fourth round will be started by Tom, but he Bankrupts after calling the T. Nicole repeats what Tom did, so we go to LaTanya, who will try to turn her luck around. She starts by picking up the Shopping Spree prize and she calls the H for what's beneath it. She puts up a ton of letters, but she duds with an N on the purple $350 after a lot of work. Tom goes for the rest of the letters...



Tom reads those four words and that reading of GOOD FOR THE SOUL will get him $1,550 more, but there's not enough time for another round so he will stay in second place.

Tom: $4,350
Nicole: $6,550
LaTanya: Unlucky

Bankrupts: 2 (Tom - $250), (Nicole - $0)
Lose a Turns: 0
Duds: 1 (LaTanya - N - $1,300 + Shopping Spree)
Missolves: 0
Top Dollar Hits: 0
$1,500 Hits: 0

Low-Medium Maingame Winnings: $10,900



Nicole won yet again, so she's moving on to Bonus Land and since it's Monday, there are five great prizes in stock! They include...



They are all buried somewhere... amongst these five cards!



All five are available and up for grabs, but the one Nicole wants to grab is the second E card. Thing is the category this Bonus Round.



RSTLNE will be popping up any moment now.



Now she has to do some letter picking, CDFI is what she requests.



Not quite a ton of help. Solves can happen, will she solve it?



Nicole got BLACKBOARD, she easily figured that out, and this is what she won!

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That Hi-Tech package is what she got, it's a $19,230 value, and that brings her two-day total all the way up to, listen to this, $91,030 in cash and prizes! Quite a huge amount, she'll be returning on the next episode facing two challengers!