WoF Retro Recap: May 10, 2000

EPISODE #3298: WHEELOFFORTUNE.COM SWEEPSTAKES (WK. 2)

Mak Abulhosn: medical student in podiatry and coach in soccer and basketball who wanted to visit every MLB ballpark in the country from Seattle, WA

Kimbley Craig: account executive at a Top 40 radio station who won first place in a Monica Lewinsky look-alike contest (her reward was an internship w/ a radio station) and collected airline motion sickness bags (she has 200+ of these) from Monterey, CA

Andre Wilson: marketing consultant and kickboxer married to Leah who had a kidney transplant on March 1st from Gilbert, AZ

FEATURED PRIZE: $3,500 Miadora.com shopping spree (MIADORA)
Gift Tag: eBags

Round 1: BEFORE & AFTER

Mak: insta-dud of D

Kimbley: $1,650 R trio, S for sorry

Andre: $1,800 T trio, N for negative

Mak: $400 H, $1,200 C pair, $300 K (NMC), solve…

T H _ / R _ T
R _ C _
T R _ C K

He solved THE RAT RACE TRACK for $1,900.

FEATURED PRIZE #2: Marriott Vacation Club trip to Desert Springs Villas in Palm Desert, CA worth $3,300 (VACATIONCLUB.COM)

Jackpot Round: STAR & ROLE

Kimbley: four R’s for Miadora.com SS, $10K’s left side

Andre: five S’s on JACKPOT, two N’s on JACKPOT again, one P for $10K, $1,600 C pair, three E’s, $900 L trio, BANKRUPT near $600 ($12,250 flushed away)

Mak: exact same fate

Kimbley: THROWAWAY DUD OF Z (huh?!)

Andre: $700 Y, four A’s, solve…

L _ C Y / L A _ L E S S
A S / _ E N A
_ A R R _ _ R
P R _ N C E S S

He IDed LUCY LAWLESS AS XENA WARRIOR PRINCESS for $450 bumped to the $500 minimum.

UNCLAIMED JACKPOT: $7,150

Mak: $1,900/Kimbley: ZIP/Andre: $500

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Dot Com Puzzle of the Night: PHRASE

Andre: $600 T, $1,800 R trio, one A and two E’s, $500 Y, two O’s, $1,200 S pair, SOLE CRITICAL PURCHASE of I ($3,100 at risk)

Mak: $300 N, $300 D, $600 P, $600 W (NMC), solve…

E N T E R / Y O _ R
P A S S W O R D

He solved “ENTER YOUR PASSWORD” for $1,800.

Mak: $3,700/Kimbley: ZILCH/Andre: $500

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Round 4: ON THE MAP

Mak: BANKRUPT near $500 right away

Kimbley: $1K R pair, $600 M, P for phooey

Andre: $300 D

SPEED-UP

_ _ _ D _ _ _ _ R _
_ _ R M _ _ _

Consonants were worth $1,900 apiece.

Andre: N
Mak: H
Kimbley: C (DUD)
Andre: Y
Mak: L

H _ _ D _ L _ _ R _
_ _ R M _ N Y

Mak just beat the buzzer by locating HEIDELBERG, GERMANY for $3,800.

PENALTY BOX	DUDS	LaTs	BANKRUPTS	DQs
Round 1	D (Mak), S (Kimbley), N (Andre)
Round 2	Z (Kimbley)		3 (everybody)
Round 3	I (Andre)
Round 4	P, C (both by Kimbley)		Mak

FINAL SCORES
Mak: $7,500/Kimbley: PARTING GIFTS/Andre: $500

GT: an underwhelming $8K
BANKRUPT TRASH: a whopping $15,750 cash & SS

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Bonus Round

The $25K from USABancShares.com was won the previous night, and so it’s back in play w/ the show’s two-row logo on the top flap of the envelope; Mak chose the W from WHEE-.

Category: THING

It’s an underwater living thing that has a long, flat, pointed bill…

S _ _ R _ _ _ S _

PCDA only added…

S _ _ R D _ _ S _

He didn’t even get the first half w/ SURE, SHIRT, or SOUR; it was SWORDFISH and he lost the Sony Card.

MY RATING: 3 (originally a 4)