Not a bad week overall compared to last season’s edition thanks to some dominant performances this week except for Monday, even though we went 1-4 on BR wins again.
Total for this Week: $252,887
-Maingame: $212,887
-BR Wins: $40K
Total for the Season: $7,009,860
-Maingame: $4,964,026
-BR Wins: $2,045,834
Prize Wedge Wins: 25
MW was Flipped-Declined: 35-16
MW Flip was $10K–BANKRUPT: 13-22
$10K MW was Next to LaT–$650: 14-21
MW Wins: 6
EXPRESS was Played-Passed: 25-7
–Successes: 9
–Crashes: 16 (Wipeouts: 8)
WC Usages: 22
-Maingame: 3 (2 on $3,500, 1 on $550)
-BR: 19
5-Round Games: 17
Triple $10K+ Finishes: 3
Perfect Rounds: 51
Gooseegg Victims: 20
Toss-Up Triple Stumpers: 4
Triple Toss-Up Sweeps: 21 (2 swept every Toss-Up)
Red/Yellow/Blue Winners: 54/45/31
Biggest Margins of Victory
- $65,700 (Oct. 13)
- $42,630 (Oct. 10)
- $37,400 (Oct. 16)
Smallest Margins of Victory
- $233 (Jan. 16)
- $260 (Dec. 11)
- $547 (Dec. 12)
Players who Needed the PP to Win: 40 (25 lost BR)
$0 Prize Puzzle Wins: Week: 0, Season, 22
House Minimum Bumps: Week: 2, Season: 60
Average Maingame Winning Score this Week: $32,337 (+$9,725)
Average Maingame Winning Score this Season: $23,760 (+$353)
Median Maingame Winning Score this Week: $31,648 (+$9,312)
Median Maingame Winning Score this Season: $22,929 (+$579)
This Week’s BANKRUPT Trash: $13K
Total BANKRUPT Trash for the Season: $593,998 + 1 trip of unknown value
Biggest Known BANKRUPT: $25,900 (Jan. 3)
Biggest Known BANKRUPT Trash in a Game: $31,750 (Oct. 25)
BANKRUPT Trash-Free Games: 14
BANKRUPT-Free Games: 3
Penalty Spin-Free Games: 3
BANKRUPT Trash by Only One Contestant: 59
Aired BANKRUPT Hits
-Near $650: Week: 3, Season: 110
-Near TD: Week: 1, Season: 125
-Via MDW: Week: 2, Season: 68
Aired LaT Hits: Week: 2, Season: 82
Aired Duds: Week: 20, Season: 753
Aired DQs: Week: 0, Season: 83
BANKRUPT Losses
WCs: Week: 0, Season: 22
MDWs: Week: 1, Season: 7
$10K MWs: Week: 0, Season: 3
Prize Wedges: Week: 2, Season: 7
Cash: Week: $13K, Season: $515,600
Unclaimed
MDWs: Week: 0, Season: 13
$10K MWs: Week: 0, Season: 4
Prize Wedges: Week: 0, Season: 19
Cash: Week: $77,800, Season: $1,746,400
Forfeited WCs: Week: 0, Season: 18
Forfeited MDWs: Week: 0, Season: 2
Top Winning Totals
Contestant (Overall)
- $136,386 (Feb. 9)
- $126,714 (Nov. 17)
- $119,500 (Jan. 2)
- $90,820 (Dec. 26)
- $85,950 (Oct. 16)
Contestant (Maingame)
- $71,700 (Oct. 13)
- $48,480 (Oct. 10)
- $46,690 (Mar. 7)
- $46,250 (Feb. 8)
- $40,794 (Sept. 19)
Episode (Overall)
- $151,414 (Nov. 17)
- $131,100 (Jan. 2)
- $106,979 (Sept. 27)
- $102,720 (Dec. 26)
- $91,050 (Oct. 26)
Episode (Maingame)
- $79,700 (Oct. 13)
- $63,950 (Feb. 8)
- $63,036 (Nov. 3)
- $62,830 (Dec. 25)
- $62,799 (Sept. 27)
Bottom Winning Totals
Contestant (Overall)
- $10,250 (Dec. 1)
- $11,550 (Jan. 29)
- $11,900 (Jan. 16)
- $12,949 (Nov. 24)
- $13,650 (Dec. 11)
Contestant (Maingame)
- $10,250 (Dec. 1)
- $11,550 (Jan. 29)
- $11,900 (Jan. 16)
- $12,298 (Oct. 18)
- $12,650 (Dec. 7)
Episode (Overall)
- $24,517 (Dec. 8)
- $25,567 (Jan. 16)
- $26,290 (Sept. 12)
- $26,410 (Nov. 21)
- $26,900 (Jan. 29)
Episode (Maingame)
- $21,470 (Oct. 27)
- $23,550 (Nov. 22)
- $24,517 (Dec. 8)
- $25,506 (Dec. 7)
- $25,567 (Jan. 16)
Season-High Week: Home for the Holidays ($395,364)
Season-Low Week: European Vacation ($179,526)
MAINGAME PUZZLE STATS
| CATEGORY | TU1 | TU2 | R1 | R2 | R3 | TTU | R4+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AROUND THE HOUSE | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| BEFORE & AFTER | — | — | 13 | 35 | — | — | — |
| CHARACTER(S) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| CROSSWORD | — | — | 6 | 19 | — | — | — |
| EVENT(S) | 6 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 4 |
| FAMILY | 1 | ||||||
| FOOD & DRINK | 7 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 23 | 18 | 12 |
| FUN & GAMES | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 |
| IN THE KITCHEN | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||
| LANDMARK(S) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||
| LIVING THING(S) | 1 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | |
| MOVIE QUOTE | 1 | ||||||
| MOVIE TITLE | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| OCCUPATION | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||
| ON THE MAP | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| PERSON/PEOPLE | 9 | 14 | 1 | 8 | 19 | 11 | |
| PHRASE | 12 | 10 | 15 | 7 | 19 | 7 | 29 |
| PLACE(S) | 17 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 9 |
| PROPER NAME | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |||
| QUOTATION | 1 | ||||||
| RHYME TIME | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | |
| SAME LETTER | — | — | 25 | — | — | — | — |
| SAME NAME | — | — | 3 | 21 | — | — | — |
| SHOW BIZ | 2 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | |
| SONG/ARTIST | 1 | ||||||
| SONG LYRICS | 2 | 3 | |||||
| THING(S) | 19 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 12 | 31 | 12 |
| TITLE | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||
| TV TITLE | 1 | ||||||
| WHAT ARE YOU DOING? | 8 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 26 | 16 | 18 |
| WHAT ARE YOU WEARING? | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
FINAL SPIN STATS
Occurrence
Start of Round 4: 87
Middle of Round 4: 26
Start of Round 5+: 13
Middle of Round 5+: 4
Spun by Red/Yellow/Blue: 38/39/53
Final Spin Amounts
$1,500: 37
$1,550: 4
$1,600: 18
$1,650: 17
$1,700: 22
$1,800: 7
$1,850: 4
$1,900: 12
$6K: 9
Final Spins Edited Out: 10
BONUS ROUND STATS
BR Win Record: 45-85 (.346)
PBRWs: 0
4-1 Weeks: 1
3-2 Weeks: 6
2-3 Weeks: 7
1-4 Weeks: 9
SKUNKINGS: 3 (TOTAL TAPING DAY WASHOUTS: 2)
MDBRs: 7
Letter Combo Wipeouts: 7 (TOTAL TRAINWRECKS: 0)
Perfect Letter Combos: 4
BR Categories
Top/Middle/Bottom Chosen: 39/36/55
AROUND THE HOUSE: 1/1; 1-0
EVENT(S): 6/15; 2-4
FOOD & DRINK: 11/14; 4-7
FUN & GAMES: 2/3; 1-1
IN THE KITCHEN: 1/2; 0-1
LIVING THING(S): 2/6; 1-1
ON THE MAP:
PERSON/PEOPLE: 8/30; 3-5
PHRASE: 52/126; 18-34
PLACE(S): 8/22; 3-5
THING(S): 8/130; 0-8
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?: 27/38; 11-16
WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?: 3/3; 1-2
Dreaded Category Trio Encounters: Week: 2, Season: 36
THING-Free Category Choices:
BR Prizes
CAR: 14/37 (1 car sweep)
$40K: 24/72 (4 minimum sweeps)
$50K: 4/11
$75K: 1/4
$100K (or $1M): 2/6
Car Wins
- 1 Lincoln Corsair Standard
- 2 Nissan LEAF SV Pluses
- 2 Nissan Pathfinder SLs
- 3 MINI Cooper SEs
- 1 Ford Bronco Sport Big Bend
- 1 BMW X1 xDrive28i
- 2 Ford Mustang MACH-E Selects
- 1 Ford Mustang EcoBoost Premium Convertible
- 1 Volkswagen Atlas 3.6L V6 SE
MDBR Result
Landed on $1M:
1 Space Away:
2-3 Spaces Away: 1
4-5 Spaces Away: 1
6 Spaces Away: 1
7-8 Spaces Away: 1
9-11 Spaces Away: 3
12 Spaces Away:
BR Wins Despite Losing WC to BANKRUPT: 4
BR Losses Despite Having WC: 11
Non-$100K Wins After Losing MDW to BANKRUPT:
Toughest BR Puzzle this Week: STAYING ABOVE THE FRAY
Easiest BR Puzzle this Week: I AM LOVING LIFE RIGHT NOW despite its long length
Player of the Week: Joey Covey
WEEKLY RATING: 6 (D+)
Next week, since spring is coming, we’re about to Leave Winter Behind (rookie @jbeaugard01 will cover that week in its entirety (unless he always gets off work late on Fridays, which in this case I’ll cover the Friday episode)).
WHEEL of FORTUNE with Andy Nguyen 
Highlights of this week
🙂 Best 🙂
Yeah, Courtney and Joey helped got us a back-to-back MDBR night but the result was nah. (The last occurance was on Nov 30-Dec 1, as mentioned) and we do need the former anyways for the food to prevent sour.
Temika’s big night on Thursday, but even better some Wheel Watchers are too coincident that she won a Prize Puzzle trip to Paldea (place based in Spain and Portugal, Iberian Peninsula to be exact) because the anime was released on Netflix on that episode.
😦 Worst 😦
Another $40K minimum and a 1-4… -__-
😛 Wild 😛
At least something went better compared to the last season, but there is no way we could match to S28 edition (although the level is par with S29 and S38 IMHO)
What we learnt:
Stupid outage in Facebook on Tuesday. Also, the dreaded Feb 8 last year got into trending because our Singapore feeds unlucky hit one. -__- (come on guys, PLEASE JUST MOVE ON ALREADY!)
We know the Jan 23, 2017 recap got on the trending because of the MDBR puzzle reprisal, but it would have been a lot more hell worse if that “the cash 3.0”, (or Jim’s memetic mutation or biggest multiples) showed up at a rotten time.
Also, happy birthday Jim as well, our dedicated announcer since S28. And March 8 had been a bit trending (but also because the next week is LWB)
Short intro does not mean bad news, but can be a blessing in disguise.
Reminder to change your daylight time because it will be effect on Sunday!
Personal comment: Second straight week in which the female contestant from Wednesday saved everybody else’s butts. And we suspect the $40K sweep means that this season is on track to budget mode…
10 words or less: Not meant for foodaholics.
Our rating: 5
P.s. Happy birthday to Jim tonight.
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Typo in the emoticon: should be 6 🙂 (at least the big maingame on a majority should suffice)
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I wish we got at least one more BR win or our contestants landed on different envelopes, but winnings-wise, this week was scrumptious.
Weekly rating: 7
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While we had players dominating the maingame, I wish we had saw some more bonus round wins.
my weekly rating: 6
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And perhaps document your first BR win this time to start Daylight savings? We see it soon!
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Well, some nice maingame performances, but shame we were held to another 1-4 week in Bonusland.
My Rating: 6
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