EPISODE #7903: ✈️COLLETTE SHOW YOU THE WORLD✈️
$1K Toss-Up: PLACE
S _ D _ W A _ K
C A _ E
Diana or one of these midweek panelists could visit a SIDEWALK CAFE if they win a Collette trip…
Diana Ardehali: adventurous traveler (she spent a week roughing it in the Amazon rainforest, camping in the Namib Desert, and most recently reindeer sledding in Norway) from Plantation, FL
Scott Ewing: mobile librarian (he drives a custom-made bookmobile w/ about 1,500 books including a computer and scanner) who brings a library to retirement communities in his area and is married to Shari w/ an 8-year-old son Daxton from Pottstown, PA
Xavier Berry (female): married lady to her high school sweetheart for 7 years w/ a 10-yr.-old child and owner of a Maltese named Bentley (she also grew up watching the show w/ her grandma) from Pinola, MS
$2K Toss-Up: THING
T H E / I _ S _ D E
_ C O O P
Scott has THE INSIDE SCOOP of this game and will spin first.
FEATURED COLLETTE TRIP: islands of New England worth $9,198
Round 1: SAME LETTER
Scott: instant dud of T
Xavier: instant SL Bonus of three S’s for $2,950, $650 H, sole dud vowel of A
Diana: $2,800 worth of four N’s, three I’s, $2,400 G quartet (just dodged trouble), buys of E and O, BANKRUPT near $2,500 (lost $4,450)
Scott: $900 R, last vowel of U…
S H O _ _ I N G
S _ E N _ I N G
S _ _ U R G I N G
…but he FLUNKS OUT w/ C, allowing Xavier to solve SHOPPING, SPENDING, SPLURGING for $3,350 (could’ve gone for the four P’s, though).
Mystery Round: LANDMARK
Xavier: $1,500 T trio, LaT
Diana: three H’s on MW near $650 and DECLINES (huh?), three E’s, BANKRUPT near $650 (lost $2,750)
Scott: one R on other MW but SHOCKINGLY DECLINES (why?!), $3,400 N quartet, solve…
T H E / _ _ R T H E N _ N
_ N / _ T H E N _
He locates THE PARTHENON IN ATHENS for $4,400.
Xavier: $3,350/Diana: $1K/Scott: $6,400
PP/Express Round: WAYD?
Diana: $1K N pair, three I’s, obvious $650 G, $2K T quartet, $600 H, three E’s, $500 M, $800 C (close call), $900 W, CRITICAL PURCHASE of A ($5,700 at risk)
Scott: $650 X, $600 R…
_ _ R _ T I N G / W I T H
E X C I T E M E N T
…but he buys the other dud vowel of O. And after Xavier flunks out w/ L, Diana will be BURSTING WITH EXCITEMENT over winning $5,700 and a tour of ITALY worth $10,498.
Xavier: $3,350/Diana: $17,198 cash & Italy/Scott: $6,400
Triple Toss-Up: PERSON
1.
A D _ E N T _ R _ U S
_ R _ V _ L E R
Diana better get this one because she mentioned this in her interview…she did w/ ADVENTUROUS TRAVELER.
2.
_ _ O _ _ T _ O T T _ R
Diana’s right again w/ GLOBETROTTER.
3.
H O M E _ _ D Y
This is someone who stays the home unlike the other two, and Diana completes the bonus sweep w/ HOMEBODY!
Speed-Up: PHRASE
Diana makes it a $1,600 Final Spin.
Diana: N
Scott: 2 T’s
Xavier: 2 S’s
Diana: R
Scott: M
S _ _ N _ S / R _ _ _ T
T _ / M _
That answer SOUNDS RIGHT TO ME, Scott, and you’ve won $4,800 more.
| PENALTY BOX | DUDS | LaTs | BANKRUPTS | DQs |
| Round 1 | T, C (Scott) A (Xavier) | Diana | ||
| Round 2 | Xavier | Diana | ||
| Round 3 | A (Diana), O (Scott), L (Xavier) | |||
| Round 4 | NONE |
FINAL SCORES
Xavier: $3,350/Diana: $27,198 cash & Italy/Scott: $11,200
GT: $41,748
Diana’s BANKRUPT TRASH: $7,200
Diana’s generic category list…
- PERSON
- THING
- PHRASE
Pat correctly predicted she looks like a PHRASE kind of person.
$100K Bonus Round
After we see Diana’s mom Mallie, she lands on what’s under the M of GAME. From the early looks of this, it might be the winning $100K puzzle for Uwimana Waller early in S28…
_ N / _
_ _ _ _
PDGO causes me to stick a fork in her…
O N / _
_ _ _ _
…my suspicion was right. Diana, however, doesn’t solve this puzzle ON A WHIM (she had LOG, BOAT, and KITE for the last word), and the BMW X1 is lost yet again.
There’s footage of Maggie visiting some places in New England courtesy of Collette and she mentions that viewers can also win one in this week’s Fan Friday.
MY RATING: 6
WHEEL of FORTUNE with Andy Nguyen 
Hoy boy yet a threepeat of BR reprisal cum car loss in a more improved maingame improvement, but Diana for tonight was in a comfortable position and it is not PP-mattered (despite the early bad luck).
Our rating: 6 🙂 (emoticon despite the early bad luck)
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Better thanks to the triple toss-ups and the Italy trip being a little on the plus side, but still so many flaws and misfortunes!
If we get skunked this week and get a car-landing sweep in the same week, that’d be a first. And maybe throw a female maingame sweep in there too.
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The last time we have a five-consecutive car landing was also the one where they swept the Bonusland with cars about 13 years ago. We might suspect that there got an even spread of cars-$40K envelopes in the wheel, as it was demonstrated in the S40 whereas all but one week that offered cars did landed on the car envelope. Was it just a hypothesis, and as a replacement of $45K envelopes? Andy, Gopher, Justin, Jerry, Nick? 🤔🤔🤔
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The maingame was a bit shaky, due to critical duds, but Diana picked things up after the PP round, and the triple toss-up sweep, but in bonus round, she didn’t call the right letters, and we have another BMW loss. I hope we’re not on our way to our skunking of 2024.
My rating: 6
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First skunking of 2024.
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Quite a few critical duds in this game and why Diana and Scott decided not to risk on the MW without any money in their bank is beyond me. Things picked up, however, from Diana’s Prize Puzzle and Triple Toss-Up sweep.
Bonus Round: I somehow managed to get the puzzle with just the free N, but too bad Diana only got the obvious O for the fifth consecutive car loss.
My Rating: 6 (D+)
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The adventurous Diana cleaned up from the PP onward, but the BR had a lot of possibilities.
My rating: 6
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