WoF Recap: May 2, 2024 (🙏National Day Of Prayer🙏)

EPISODE #7984: MARGARITAVILLE RESORTS WEEK

$1K Tossup: WAYD?

P _ _ S I N _ / W _ T _
F _ Y _ _ G / _ O L _ R S

Charlene or one of these Thursday contestants from left to right hope to be PASSING WITH FLYING COLORS…

Charlene Hering: 5th grade teacher of 15 years (she gives a shoutout to her school, Haude Elementary) who recently got engaged to fiancé Mike with a big blended family with seven kids from Porter, TX

Danté Alexander: Veterans Affairs Hospital program specialist and union vice-president born and raised in Philadelphia, PA

Irenelle Redfearn: likes going to poetry slams (though she doesn’t write poetry but she knows how passionate people are when writing poetry) and binge watching “The Golden Girls” (she usually stays up late night to watch this show to the point where she has to turn the TV off so the next episode, she won’t catch the beginning) from Belmont, NC

$2K Tossup: AROUND THE HOUSE

_ R E _ _ H
_ _ _ _ S

Irenelle opens some FRENCH DOORS.

FEATURED MARGARITAVILLE TRIP: San Diego Gaslamp Quarter worth $7,500

Round 1: RHYME TIME

Irenelle: Four N’s ($700), four I’s, four E’s, five T’s ($600), four A’s, four S’s ($700), two D’s ($700), two U’s (NMV), L ($500), CRITICAL DUD of R ($500)
Charlene: Two C’s ($650), two H’s (MDW)

C H A N _ E S / I N
L A T I T U D E S
C H A N _ E S / I N
A T T I T U D E S

She notices the CHANGES IN LATITUDES, CHANGES IN ATTITUDES for $1,300.

Eggland’s Best Mystery Round: SAME NAME

Charlene: S ($500)
Danté: N ($650), T ($500)
Irenelle: C ($600)
Charlene: R ($700), three E’s, FOOLISH DUD of J ($500)
Danté: Two M’s ($700), A, L ($650), O, I (NMV), Y ($600)

_ I _ E / &
M E M O R Y
L A N E

He solves BIKE & MEMORY LANE for $2,550 and the early lead by the cost of a vowel.

Charlene: $2,300 MDW/Danté: $2,550/Irenelle: $2K

Not too good of a game thus far…

PP/Express Round: THING

Danté: S ($500), two T’s ($900), two A’s, N ($500)
Irenelle: L ($850)
Charlene: Three R’s ($600), two I’s, three E’s

A / T E R R I _ I _
A T _ _ S _ _ E R E

She wins $1,300 and will be going to a place with A TERRIFIC ATMOSPHERE: Ambergris Caye, BELIZE worth $10K.

Charlene: $13,600 cash & Belize MDW/Danté: $2,550/Irenelle: $2K

Triple Tossup: FOOD & DRINK

_ A N _ L _ A
C A _ E

Danté cuts into a VANILLA CAKE.

_ _ _ _ L ‘ _
F _ _ _ / C A _ E

Charlene is incorrect w/ ANGEL’S FOOD CAKE even though it fits.

D _ _ I L _ ‘ _
F _ O _ / C A _ E

Danté gets the right one of DEVIL’S FOOD CAKE.

C R _ _ / _ A K E

Danté flubs w/ CREW CAKE, so no Triple Tossup sweep for him.

C R A _ / _ A K E

Charlene has a CRAB CAKE.

Speed-Up: PHRASE

Final Spin Amount: $1,500 (it looked like she initially hit the BANKRUPT near $5K)

Charlene: S
Danté: Three N’s
Irenelle: T
Charlene: R
Danté: H
Irenelle: L

_ / L _ _ R N _ _
S _ _ _ T H _ N _ / N _ _

Irenelle admits “I LEARNED SOMETHING NEW” for $3K.

PENALTY BOX	DUDS
ROUND 1	R (Irenelle)
MYSTERY ROUND	S (Charlene), T (Danté), C (Irenelle), J (Charlene)
PP/EXPRESS ROUND	N (Danté), L (Irenelle)

FINAL SCORES
Charlene: $15,600 cash & Belize MDW/Danté: $6,550/Irenelle: $5K

GT: An underwhelming $27,150
NO PENALTY SPINS!

Choose your generic category wisely, Charlene…

THING
PLACE
PHRASE

MILLION DOLLAR BONUS ROUND #9

SPIN: G

This was used in another MDBR from S29 during Wheel Across America week…

_ _ T / _ _
S _ _ _ T

HMPA only adds…

_ _ T / _ _
S _ _ H T

She flubs the top line w/ FIT AT, GET AT, and SIT AT, so this is going OUT OF SIGHT because she doesn’t win it…

…

…$40K.

$1M LOCATION: P (6 away)

MY RATING: 4
MY GRADE: F+

Friendship Feed May 2, 2024 / 7:39 pm

Not too good on the maingame on the accord, but at least there got a MDBR, that’s a merit. Like Heidi of the S29 episode on April 18, 2012, a BGHO might have won the exact same amount, but she was half of half (a quarter to the right) to BIGGIE 2.0.

Our rating: 4 😮 (orig. A 😦 )

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jpgenius May 3, 2024 / 12:29 am

Pretty lackluster front game, but Charlene gave it some excitement; I thought she’d solve the BR even with just the H.

My rating: 4

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JL323 May 3, 2024 / 2:42 pm

Not too good of a game, although we had no penalty spins and a MDBR. Charlene needed the O’s for a better shot at the BR, but at least she didn’t lose the super big one.

My Rating: 4 (F+)

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jbeaugard01 May 3, 2024 / 3:04 pm

This was a pretty lackluster maingame, even though we had no penalty spins, and MDBR, I think Charlene would’ve had a better shot if she had called the O’s.

My rating: 4

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andynwof June 12, 2024 / 3:00 pm

Not that great of a game even though Charlene (where’d that J in R2 come from, girl? -__-) made things interesting by taking that MDW to the BR. Of course, the PP mattered for her to win, so this wasn’t good news…

MDBR: …and I was proven right. I definitely remember this puzzle from S29 and not calling the O’s meant a loss for her, but at least it wasn’t the super big one.

My Rating: 4

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