EPISODE #8299: 
COLLETTE SPIN, SOLVE & SEE THE WORLD
$1K Toss-Up: ON MY PLAYLIST
W O _ L D / _ _ _ I C
Mat or one of these Thursday panelists from left to right could be listening to WORLD MUSIC if they win a Collette trip tonight…
Mat Smith: married man w/ two kids who has been playing poker for years, read books about it, and played in tournaments (he also played the WoF slots before and his wife is much better at those than he is); he’s an Army vet who served during Operation Restore Hope in Mogadishu, Somalia from L.A.
Sara Liberman: former gymnast (she’s played all throughout high school) and current second grade teacher who teaches gymnastics to children (pre-K to high school) at summer camp; she’s also a fan of Bon Jovi and is married to Corey w/ two kids from Livingston, NJ
Tori Clark: fan of the show “Family Matters” who has a better half named Steven and a son soon to be five years old (she has another boy on the way, because she’s pregnant); she’s also a fan of art and has a 3D wheel on a nail of her left hand from Hampton, VA
$2K Toss-Up: PEOPLE
T O _ R _ _ T _
A N _ / L O C _ _ S
Tori solves TOURISTS AND LOCALS for control.
FEATURED COLLETTE TRIP: Spain & Portugal worth $10,798
Round 1: PET LIFE
Tori: $600 T, $500 H, two E’s, S for sorry
Mat: $1K N pair, one A, $1,950 L trio (just short of COLLETTE), $700 G, solve…
L _ _ _ _ N G / T H E
_ _ _ L / _ L E A N
Two C’s left behind, but he solves LICKING THE BOWL CLEAN for $3,400.
Mystery Round: SAME NAME
Mat: $10,500 T trio, one E, one H for COLLETTE wedge, M for mistake
Sara: $500 R, bad O buy
Tori: L for lost turn
Mat: one I…
_ R _ _ / &
T H E
_ I T T
…but he then PAINFULLY BANKRUPTs near $3,500 to flush away $21,298 cash & trip — MAJOR OUCH. 😣 Sara then makes an unnecessary house minimum solve of BRAD & “THE PITT” (the latter is an HBO Max show).
Mat: $4,400/Sara: $1K/Tori: $2K
PP/Express Round: LANDMARKS
Sara: one T on EXPRESS (she mistakenly looked at Mat’s arrow) and GOES ABOARD
Next Picks: 3 E’s…S…2 N’s…3 M’s…O…unnecessary U purchase…A…I (NMV)…L…CRITICAL CRASH w/ R (there goes $6,750 — MERIEVAL or MEDIERAL, lady?! -___-)
Tori: LaT
Mat: SPINGLE for $500 D, solve…
M E D I E _ A L
M O N U M E N T S
The 5 Benjamins is his and he’ll see MEDIEVAL MONUMENTS on his tour of CROATIA worth $12,198.
Mat: $17,098 cash & Croatia/Sara: $1K/Tori: $2K
Triple Toss-Up: WORDPLAY
1.
S _ U _ F L E _ O A R D
”Shuffle” will be the key word here, and Tori doubles her two grand w/ SHUFFLEBOARD.
2.
S H _ _ F _ _
T _ _ / _ _ _ D S
Mat’s able to SHUFFLE THE CARDS.
3.
_ _ _ _ / I _
_ _ E / _ _ _ _ _ _ E
Mat wasn’t LOST IN THE SHUFFLE, because he got that one quickly.
Speed-Up: WHAT TIME IS IT?
Mat makes it a $1,650 Final Spin.
Mat: T
Sara: S
Tori: R
Mat: H
Sara: M
M _ / _ _ _ _ S T
H _ _ R
I can’t exactly say this is MY FINEST HOUR covering this episode, but Sara solves for $3,300.
| PENALTY BOX | DUDS | LaTs | BANKRUPTS | DQs |
| Round 1 | S (Tori) | |||
| Round 2 | M (Mat), O (Sara), L (Tori) | Mat — YIKES😬 | ||
| Round 3 | R (Sara) | Tori | Sara — UGH -__- | |
| Round 4 | NONE |
FINAL SCORES
Mat: $21,098 cash & Croatia/Sara: $4,300/Tori: $4K
GT: an underwhelming $29,398
SEASON-WORST BANKRUPT TRASH: a staggering $28,048 cash & tour
Mat, who survived that catastrophe in R2, will pick from…
- THINGS
- PLACE
- WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?
He goes for WAYW?.
$100K Bonus Round
After we see Mat’s wife Shemaine and mother, he lands on the S of SPIN. Take away the first word, and you get a previously used puzzle from S38 that was miraculously solved for a Ford Edge…
_ _ N T _ _ E
_ E _ N / _ _ _ _ E T
CHMA gives him a chance…
_ _ N T A _ E
_ E A N / _ A C _ E T
After saying his wife loves this article of clothing, he makes the solve, and inside the pockets of this VINTAGE JEAN JACKET are $40K plus a tour of Iceland worth $10,898 (the value of this tour wasn’t announced, though), giving him a final total of $71,996 cash & trips.
Vanna’s “reading” the best book right now (she’s actually listening, and someone is reading it to her). We’ll hear what it is tomorrow night.
MY RATING: 5
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