Post by whammy007 on Dec 8, 2011 21:26:01 GMT -5
Nighttime Wheel of Fortune: "Wheel Across America" - Original Airdate 5/1/1997 (Season 14)
We've combed the country to find contestants for America's Game, and tonight's winner may be invited back to compete on the Friday Finals, if they can beat the mark of $17,750 playing WHEEL! OF! FORTUNE!
Let's meet our three players for the night:
Angila Woodward-Stavros, a newlywed graphic designer and PR coordinator from Boca Raton, Florida
Ryan Vickers, an aspiring arts/business student from Ingleside, Ontario, Canada
Jonathan Goldstein, a runner and soon-to-be CPA from San Jose
ROUND 1:
$1,000 is the top dollar value in the first round. The SURPRISE is also available from the start of the game.
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_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ / _ _ _ _ _
BEFORE & AFTER
Angila drew number 1 in the backstage draw, so she goes first long enough to introduce herself to LOSE A TURN. Ryan takes over instead, and he hits $350 for two T's. He puts up lots more letters, spinning and buying... and along the way hits $1,000 for a pair of C's! Right after that, he would like to solve:
_ O C _ E T
C H A _ _ E
O _ / H E A R T
BEFORE & AFTER
and he nails POCKET CHANGE OF HEART for $3,050!
Lose a Turn: Angila
Angila: unlucky first spin
Ryan: $3,050
Jonathan: no first spin yet
ROUND 2 - $10,000 ROUND:
The golden Oreo wedge is on the wheel, along with tonight's featured prize:
it's a luggature (decorative chest of drawers) retailing for $5,800!
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
EVENT
Ryan, our leader, will start this round off, and he picks a great letter to do it with - FIVE T's at $800 each! Then he goes for the logical E's (two) and H's (a pair, to pick up the LUGGATURE). A few turns later, he decides to close it out...
H I T T I N G / T H E
_ N O O _ E
_ _ T T O N
EVENT
and solves HITTING THE SNOOZE BUTTON for $4,750 and the prize!
PERFECT ROUND!
Angila: still just one unlucky spin
Ryan: $13,600 cash and luggature
Jonathan: will finally get a turn soon
ROUND 3 - JACKPOT ROUND:
The Jackpot starts at $5,000, and grows with every spin... will someone claim a big payday?
_ _ _ _ _ / _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _
_ _ / _
_ _ _ _ _ _ ' _ / _ _ _
QUOTATION
After waiting for two full rounds, Jonathan gets a turn at last - and what a spin - $3,500 for two T's! A couple spins later, and he's back again for two R's - over $15,000 in his bank at this point! Then he hits it yet again for a Y! But it all comes crashing down with an earth-shattering BANKRUPT that costs him $18,550... let's not say any more and just go to Angila. After a couple middling spins (and buying the last vowel in the U), Angila hits the JACKPOT with $17,400 currently in it - and there is NO K... our first dud of the match is a painful one. Ryan doesn't call a bad letter on $3,500 though - he finds the last multiple with the pair of L's - $7,000 for him! There's over $20,000 in the Jackpot now, but he'll just solve...
S H A L L / I
_ O M _ A R E / T H E E
T O / A
S U M M E R ' S / D A Y
QUOTATION
and he says SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY for that $7,000! That puts him over the threshold for the Friday Finals, which means whoever wins the game will be back tomorrow!
Duds: K (Angila)
Bankrupt: Jonathan ($18,550)
Unclaimed Jackpot: $20,900
Angila: proud owner of tonight's only dud so far
Ryan: $20,600 cash and luggature
Jonathan: the world's unluckiest lucky spinner
ROUND 4:
Ryan's got all the cash so far, but the silver $5,000 wedge is waiting...
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
OCCUPATION
Angila will try to start from scratch and make some money... but BANKRUPT isn't the way to do it. Back to dominant Ryan, who begins with a $900 R before the Bankrupt finds him too - his first stumble of the night. Jonathan hopes that he can find big money, and he does get a different result on the wheel - it's LOSE A TURN instead. Angila tries again, and this time she gets a T up before returning the $450 to Bankrupt. Ryan goes for it and gets an S and Y before Bankrupt ruins his turn again to the tune of $1,200. Jonathan desperately wants to get on the board and he finds the SURPRISE with a P! Taking no chances, he solves...
P _ S T R Y
_ _ _ _
OCCUPATION
and PASTRY CHEF nets him the Surprise of a Mediterranean cruise worth $8,355!
Bankrupt: Angila x2 (loss of turn, then $450), Ryan x2 ($900, then $1,200)
Lose a Turn: Jonathan
Angila: gooseegg alert
Ryan: $20,600 cash and luggature
Jonathan: $8,355 in cruise
ROUND 5 (Partial Speedup):
Still got some time, so let's get right to it!
_ _ _ _ -
_ _ _ _ _ _
PHRASE
Ryan begins this one with BANKRUPT before he has a chance to find a letter, and that was the last of our time. Jonathan is already spinning as the bells sound, so we're going to let him get a $250 T. Now Pat spins the wheel and finds a final spin value of $900, so that's what it will be from here on. Here's the board entering the speedup:
_ _ _ T -
_ _ _ _ _ _
PHRASE
Jonathan finds two S's but SALT-SHAKER is not the correct answer. On Ryan's second turn of the speedup, he finds a K...
S _ F T -
S _ _ K _ N
PHRASE
and solves SOFT-SPOKEN for $1,800 to close out the game!
Duds (post-speedup): R (Angila), Q (Jonathan)
Bankrupt: Ryan (loss of turn)
Missed Solve: Jonathan with SALT-SHAKER
Angila: GOOSEEGG'D
Ryan: $22,400 cash and luggature
Jonathan: $8,355 in cruise
Ryan almost sweeps the game, he's definitely headed for the Friday Finals, but can he add money in Bonusland?
BONUS ROUND:
From the remaining letters of WHEE, Ryan picks the second E.
_ _ _ _ _ _
THING
RSTLNE will get us started with a third of the puzzle...
_ _ _ _ E R
THING
CDMO only gets him up to half...
_ O _ _ ER
THING
Ryan has no guesses at all, so he doesn't get the right answer of GOPHER. Couldn't give him the pair of Harley-Davidson motorbikes, but he may have another shot at it on tomorrow's Friday Finals... till then, he has $22,400 in combined cash and prize value!
We've combed the country to find contestants for America's Game, and tonight's winner may be invited back to compete on the Friday Finals, if they can beat the mark of $17,750 playing WHEEL! OF! FORTUNE!
Let's meet our three players for the night:
Angila Woodward-Stavros, a newlywed graphic designer and PR coordinator from Boca Raton, Florida
Ryan Vickers, an aspiring arts/business student from Ingleside, Ontario, Canada
Jonathan Goldstein, a runner and soon-to-be CPA from San Jose
ROUND 1:
$1,000 is the top dollar value in the first round. The SURPRISE is also available from the start of the game.
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ / _ _ _ _ _
BEFORE & AFTER
Angila drew number 1 in the backstage draw, so she goes first long enough to introduce herself to LOSE A TURN. Ryan takes over instead, and he hits $350 for two T's. He puts up lots more letters, spinning and buying... and along the way hits $1,000 for a pair of C's! Right after that, he would like to solve:
_ O C _ E T
C H A _ _ E
O _ / H E A R T
BEFORE & AFTER
and he nails POCKET CHANGE OF HEART for $3,050!
Lose a Turn: Angila
Angila: unlucky first spin
Ryan: $3,050
Jonathan: no first spin yet
ROUND 2 - $10,000 ROUND:
The golden Oreo wedge is on the wheel, along with tonight's featured prize:
it's a luggature (decorative chest of drawers) retailing for $5,800!
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
EVENT
Ryan, our leader, will start this round off, and he picks a great letter to do it with - FIVE T's at $800 each! Then he goes for the logical E's (two) and H's (a pair, to pick up the LUGGATURE). A few turns later, he decides to close it out...
H I T T I N G / T H E
_ N O O _ E
_ _ T T O N
EVENT
and solves HITTING THE SNOOZE BUTTON for $4,750 and the prize!
PERFECT ROUND!
Angila: still just one unlucky spin
Ryan: $13,600 cash and luggature
Jonathan: will finally get a turn soon
ROUND 3 - JACKPOT ROUND:
The Jackpot starts at $5,000, and grows with every spin... will someone claim a big payday?
_ _ _ _ _ / _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _
_ _ / _
_ _ _ _ _ _ ' _ / _ _ _
QUOTATION
After waiting for two full rounds, Jonathan gets a turn at last - and what a spin - $3,500 for two T's! A couple spins later, and he's back again for two R's - over $15,000 in his bank at this point! Then he hits it yet again for a Y! But it all comes crashing down with an earth-shattering BANKRUPT that costs him $18,550... let's not say any more and just go to Angila. After a couple middling spins (and buying the last vowel in the U), Angila hits the JACKPOT with $17,400 currently in it - and there is NO K... our first dud of the match is a painful one. Ryan doesn't call a bad letter on $3,500 though - he finds the last multiple with the pair of L's - $7,000 for him! There's over $20,000 in the Jackpot now, but he'll just solve...
S H A L L / I
_ O M _ A R E / T H E E
T O / A
S U M M E R ' S / D A Y
QUOTATION
and he says SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY for that $7,000! That puts him over the threshold for the Friday Finals, which means whoever wins the game will be back tomorrow!
Duds: K (Angila)
Bankrupt: Jonathan ($18,550)
Unclaimed Jackpot: $20,900
Angila: proud owner of tonight's only dud so far
Ryan: $20,600 cash and luggature
Jonathan: the world's unluckiest lucky spinner
ROUND 4:
Ryan's got all the cash so far, but the silver $5,000 wedge is waiting...
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
OCCUPATION
Angila will try to start from scratch and make some money... but BANKRUPT isn't the way to do it. Back to dominant Ryan, who begins with a $900 R before the Bankrupt finds him too - his first stumble of the night. Jonathan hopes that he can find big money, and he does get a different result on the wheel - it's LOSE A TURN instead. Angila tries again, and this time she gets a T up before returning the $450 to Bankrupt. Ryan goes for it and gets an S and Y before Bankrupt ruins his turn again to the tune of $1,200. Jonathan desperately wants to get on the board and he finds the SURPRISE with a P! Taking no chances, he solves...
P _ S T R Y
_ _ _ _
OCCUPATION
and PASTRY CHEF nets him the Surprise of a Mediterranean cruise worth $8,355!
Bankrupt: Angila x2 (loss of turn, then $450), Ryan x2 ($900, then $1,200)
Lose a Turn: Jonathan
Angila: gooseegg alert
Ryan: $20,600 cash and luggature
Jonathan: $8,355 in cruise
ROUND 5 (Partial Speedup):
Still got some time, so let's get right to it!
_ _ _ _ -
_ _ _ _ _ _
PHRASE
Ryan begins this one with BANKRUPT before he has a chance to find a letter, and that was the last of our time. Jonathan is already spinning as the bells sound, so we're going to let him get a $250 T. Now Pat spins the wheel and finds a final spin value of $900, so that's what it will be from here on. Here's the board entering the speedup:
_ _ _ T -
_ _ _ _ _ _
PHRASE
Jonathan finds two S's but SALT-SHAKER is not the correct answer. On Ryan's second turn of the speedup, he finds a K...
S _ F T -
S _ _ K _ N
PHRASE
and solves SOFT-SPOKEN for $1,800 to close out the game!
Duds (post-speedup): R (Angila), Q (Jonathan)
Bankrupt: Ryan (loss of turn)
Missed Solve: Jonathan with SALT-SHAKER
Angila: GOOSEEGG'D
Ryan: $22,400 cash and luggature
Jonathan: $8,355 in cruise
Ryan almost sweeps the game, he's definitely headed for the Friday Finals, but can he add money in Bonusland?
BONUS ROUND:
From the remaining letters of WHEE, Ryan picks the second E.
_ _ _ _ _ _
THING
RSTLNE will get us started with a third of the puzzle...
_ _ _ _ E R
THING
CDMO only gets him up to half...
_ O _ _ ER
THING
Ryan has no guesses at all, so he doesn't get the right answer of GOPHER. Couldn't give him the pair of Harley-Davidson motorbikes, but he may have another shot at it on tomorrow's Friday Finals... till then, he has $22,400 in combined cash and prize value!