Wheel of Fortune Recap: 5/7/1990

Tonight's the beginning of the week ad it's oing to be a big week too, since over...



...in luxury prizes and lots o' cash can be won... on Wheel of Luxurious Fortune! Now let's meet the players who can cash in big this episode.

Debi Arnoldson: A professional gardener.
Claire Edelstein: The returning champion who has won $37,050 in cash and prizes on the last episode!
Kamee Uptontini: Makeup artst, likes to do charity work.

These are the contestants today and they want to win big, so let's go!

Free Spin Location: $400



$1,000 is the most you can land on this round, but whatever you do land on is cash. The first category tonight is Person.



Debi won the draw backstage, so she'll be spinning first and she hits the purple $400 immediately for an R. She spins again, but then duds with a T on the blue $300. Our returning champion doesn't have much good luck either since she is the first Lose a Turn victim tonight. Kamee tries her luck at the wheel and right off the bat, she'll pick up the Free Spin and for $400, she lights up an N! She makes a purchase next and there are a couple As to help out. She hits $750 next, but that unique K call is a dud. Back to Debi, she puts up the S and then buys the E... and it's a trap! Claire calls the pair of Ms an then spends a quarter of her earnings on a couple Is. Then she lands on both $150s for an L & a C before Bankrupt sweeps her out of money! Kamee calls the Hs...



Kamee solves MARVIN HAMLISCH for $950.

Debi:
Claire:
Kamee: $950 (Free Spin)

Bankrupts: 1 (Claire - $1,050)
Lose a Turns: 1 (Claire - $0)
Duds: 3 (Debi (3) - T, E - both with $400), (Kamee - K - $150)
Missolves: 0
Top Dollar Hits: 0

Prize #1 on the Wheel: Software City provides this cmputer valued at $3,150! It's on the second $150 named COMPUTER.



$2,500 is the top dollar value on the wheel now, the computer is also on the wheel. Our category this time is Phrase.



Claire's in Yellow, so she'll begin this round, but she begins it with a dud S. Kamee hits $800 for a T, followed by a triple N for $1,200 more. Then she purchases a couple Es, followed by landing on 700 for a pair of Ds. She gets a triple A with her next purchase...



Kamee says she is solving AND I DON'T MEAN MAYBE she's solving. She got it for $2,900 more!

Debi:
Claire:
Kamee: $3,850 (Free Spin)

Bankrupts: 0
Lose a Turns: 0
Duds: 1 (Claire - S - $0)
Missolves: 0
Top Dollar Hits: 0



Now we're upgrading a lot of things, including the top dollar which is now $3,500! Now let's see the puzzle, it's a Megaword-like Thing, I suppose.



Kamee will start the round and she immediately duds with an N on the red $800. We go to Debi who makes a perfect rotation for an R, followed by a L and a dud T on the blue $400. Claire lands on the blue $200 for an S and then finds zero Ds on the blue $250. Kamee spins for a C and then does it again for a pair of Hs on $700. She makes a purchase, but A is a dud, making her give the Free Spin up. She spins again, but checks to see if the D is really not there. That brings things back to Debi, she hits $450 and duds again with an M! Claire spins once for a P, then buys the last multiple of two Is, then two more spins come...



Claire solves HIEROGLYPHICS for $800.

Debi:
Claire: $800
Kamee: $3,850

MINI ROUND OF DUDS!

Bankrupts: 0
Lose a Turns: 0
Duds: 6 (Debi (2) - T, M - both with $750), (Claire - D - $200), (Kamee (3) - N, A, Repeat D - $0 + FS, $1,550 + FS, $1,550)
Missolves: 0
Top Dollar Hits: 0
$1,000 Hits: 0

Prize on Wheel #2: Now, umm... there's something going on here... the prize on the wheel is a Chevrolet CAR valued at $13,394! That's marked CAR on the weel and all you have to do is land on it, pick it up, and solve the puzzle without hitting Bankupt!



There's a $5,000 silver wedge on the wheel on top of that and the next puzzle is Phrase.



Debi will start the spinning this time, but she duds with an R on the blue $250. Claire puts up the N quickly, but then she calls a bad T on the pink $600. Kamee also calls a dud, a C, so we go back to Debi. She'll lose her turn, however, with Bankrupt. Claire puts up the S for $900 and then buys the single I. She spins again and calls a D that won't work. Kamee calls the G, followed by three Ls and an E purchase. Then she calls the Y on $350 and she claims she has to spin again, but that will be bad for her since she repeats that dud C... on $5,000. Debi goes for the Ps...



Debi's on the board with PLEASINGLY PLUMP.

Debi: $2,100
Claire: $800
Kamee: $3,850

Bankrupts: 1 (Debi - $0)
Lose a Turns: 0
Duds: 5 (Debi - R - $0), (Claire (2) - T, D - $500, $1,150), (Kamee (2) - C, Repeat C - $0, $1,500)
Missolves: 0
Top Dollar Hits: 1
$1,000 Hits: 0



Round 5 is here and $5,000 is still on the wheel, the next category is Place... and it's a four liner!



Claire will begin this round and she calls the trio of Ns, followed by one W...



Speedup has come! Looks like Pat will be spinning.



Debi:
Claire: $1,250
Kamee:

Final Spin Result:
$250

Not much, that kind of fits the theme for the amounts being won tonight.



Here comes the table, not much to see, but you'll see it.





Claire quickly gets RUTGERS UNIVERSITY IN NEW JERSEY for $2,500 but it's not enough for the win.

Debi: $2,100
Claire: $3,300 (2-day winnings: $40,350)
Kamee: $3,850

Bankrupts: 0
Lose a Turns: 0
Duds: 1 (Kamee - D - $0)
Missolves: 0
Top Dollar Hits: 0
$1,500 Hits: 0

Low Maingame Winnings: $9,250



Kamee won the maingame with $3,850 in cash and now she'll play the Bonus Round for some prizes or more money.



Those five prizes are in a quintet of cards.



Kamee cooses the H envelope, H as in "Heidy-Ho". Now she'll be presented a puzzle and the category's Thing.



We begin with RSTLNE as usual and we'll work from there...



Just that duo of letters. Now, we'll probably need more than that. Kamee's relying on CDGA...



Not a lot of help with that... let's see if she has it...



She only has the last part, she needed the whole word which was PHONOGRAPH and she lost this:

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The cash... more of it, anyway. She has $3,850 in cash and she'll be returning for a second day.