Start It Right! (Episode 2)
Tonight's contestants are all involved in the arts...
J.P. Burns: Music producer for local hip-hop artists from Los Angeles, CA
Stephanie Marone: Local actress from Colorado Springs, CO
Greg Chan: Dance instructor from St. Paul, MN (originally from Hong Kong)
Toss-Up 1: Food & drink
_ _ _ E S E
C _ O _ T _ N S
J.P. eats up some CHEESE CROUTONS for his first grand.
Toss-Up 2: Phrase
_ I L K / R U _
Stephanie takes a MILK RUN to spin first.
Trip on the Wheel: Seattle, Washington, $5,500
Jackpot Round: On the map
Stephanie starts out with an R for wrong on $300. Greg then slips past that wedge to Free Play an S for sorry, but then picks a T for terrible while on $500. Not many common letters in there, huh? J.P. then lands misses $600, lands on the $2,500 wedge...and finds FOUR N's! WOW! After buying an E (He said, "E...I mean, I!", but the judges went with the first letter; the I would've been a dud.), he picks up the Gift Tag with a pair of D's and barely misses Bankrupt (No one reacted to that? Shame on you!) to find a pair of $1,800 L's...
L _ N D _ N
E N _ L _ N D
...and IDs LONDON, ENGLAND for $11,550 and the gift tag, totaling $12,550 that round!
Jackpot Left Behind: $9,700
J.P.: $13,550 cash and gift tag
Stephanie: $2,000 Toss-Up money
Greg: $0
Mystery Round: Things
Greg starts out with a $300 R and $800 worth of two S's. He lands on the Mystery Wedge near the MDW and finds a T, flips that wedge over...nothing but a Bankrupt there, sorry. J.P. Bankrupts on the left side of the MDW. Stephanie finds a $500 L, then buys an A and a trio of I's. And this is gonna be the kicker...she lands on $3,500...and gets THREE N's! After clearing out the vowels with a pair of O's...
_ L O _ I N _
S A T I N
R I _ _ O N S
...she catches some FLOWING SATIN RIBBONS for the $10,250 leftover and is now $1,300 off of J.P.'s lead! J.P. and Stephanie are having a blast tonight!
J.P.: $13,550
Stephanie: $12,250
Greg: $0
Prize Puzzle: What are you doing?
That's the first time we ever asked that question on this video game. Anyway, J.P. finds a $300 N and three O's, but then calls U for uh-oh...but it's on Free Play, so lucky him. By the way, Vanna explains that you can guess a $500 consonant, buy a free vowel, or attempt to solve the puzzle on this wedge. If you get it wrong, you still have your turn. Still in control, J.P. collects a $1,200 pair of G's. After buying the rest of the vowels: an I, two E's, and an A...
G O I N G / T O
T _ E / O _ E _ A
...he has only $500, but he can use that money while GOING TO THE OPERA on his $8,500 trip to PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC, totaling $9,000 that round!
DOMINATION! (My version of a "perfect round", when one person dominates the entire round. A Free Play dud does not affect it!)
J.P.: $22,550 cash, gift tag, and Prague
Stephanie: $12,250
Greg: STILL $0
Toss-Up 3: Food & drink
N _ C _ _ _
S U P _ E M E
J.P. eats up some NACHOS SUPREME for another three large, putting him at $25,550!
Round 4: On the map
J.P. gets $1,800 worth of two N's, but after buying quadruplet E's, he buys an A for awful. Anyway, it's Final Spin time (Pat always explains the Final Spin)...
...and consonants are worth $1,900 each. (That wheel slipped past the Bankrupt near $900.)
Stephanie - 2 R's!
Greg - 2 L's! Can he get it with this showing?
N E _ / R _ _ _ E L L E
N E _ / _ _ R _
Nope, his game is over.
J.P. - 2 critical W's...
N E W / R _ _ _ E L L E
N E W / _ _ R _
Thanks to those W's, or perhaps those L's, J.P. IDs NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK for $5,100 worth of icing on his cake!
J.P.: $30,650
Stephanie: $12,250 (not a bad second-place total)
Greg: $1,000 consolation prize
Total Maingame Winnings: $43,800
Bonus Round: Rhyme time (it's a one-liner)
That's an uncommon Bonus Round category. Anyway, the big winner lands on the I in AMERICA'S.
RSTLNE give only an L...
_ _ _ _ / _ L _ _
J.P.'s First Four Letters strategy, that being BCDA, may help a bit...
C _ _ _ / C L _ _
He's not so sure if he's got a CHIP CLIP...but he's absolutely right! And he deserves a $65,000 Sports Car for that guess! He leaves us with $95,650, cash, gift tag, Prague, and car! Great night for this man!
By the way, J.P.'s Gift Tag is a Large Flagpole from Washington, DC. All gift tags are worth $1,000.
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ReplyDeleteGreat show tonight!
ReplyDeleteToss-Ups: Good job to J.P. for getting #1 and #3!
Round 1: Great round for J.P. thanks to picking the huge letter of N on $2,500!
Round 2: Great round for Stephanie thanks to calling the same big letter Greg called, N, on $3,500! She left off the B's, but that's all right.
Round 3: Another nice round for J.P.!
Round 4: How did Greg blank out on that puzzle despite calling the L's? At least we got all the multiples (and all of them were pairs) thanks to J.P. A shame Greg didn't get to play much.
Bonus Round: WOW! I would NEVER have gotten that puzzle! Someone deserves that car!
Rating: 9 out of 10. J.P. and Stephanie had a good match between them, but this was all J.P. It would've been a perfect 10 if Greg had earned something.
I picked the $30K Hawaii set for this episode; this was the 1st-played episode.