| February 5, 1998 |
| IUFB #1: Drum Set ($992) Peter: $950* Robert: $600 Tara: $820 Riki: $700 PG #1: Switcheroo for a Ford Ranger XL. But wait... that's not all Peter can win, there's more! A men's shaver, a photo screen, a 4-piece canister set, and a shower radio. The missing digits are 1, 3, 5, 8, and 9. Peter places them like so: $12,690 TRUCK $35 SHAVER $80 PHOTO SCREEN $50 CANISTER SET $17 SHOWER RADIO And Peter has 3 prizes right, and opts not to make any changes. What is one of the prizes Peter has won? $50 CANISTER SET He's won the canister set... what's another prize he has won? $17 SHOWER RADIO He's won the shower radio... what's the last prize he has won? $12,690 TRUCK Yes! He's won the truck! Which is the only one of the prizes Peter really wanted, we find out. WIN! |
| IUFB #2: 2 Cellular Phones ($1060) Elva: $300 Robert: $375 Tara: $295 Riki: $376* PG #2: Freeze Frame for a bed. The numbers go, clockwise from the top, at the start of the game, 83, 12, 87, 10, 92, 27, 48, 77, 83... The very attractive Riki freezes the frame at $2748 and is RIGHT! WIN! |
| IUFB #3: Picnic Table ($519) Armond: $500* Elva: $675 Robert: $825 Tara: $725 PG #3: One Right Price for a bar set and a grandmother clock. The one right price today is $2195. Armond says the grandmother clock is $2195, and is RIGHT! The bar set was $2696. WIN! |
| Showcase Showdown #1: Riki: .85 WINNER! Armond: .55+.20=.75 Peter: .80+.65=1.45 OVER! |
| IUFB #4: Star Wars Toys ($598) Claudia: $850 Elva: $1000 Robert: $800 Tara: $920 bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk! Claudia: $700 Elva: $565* Robert: $450 Tara: $600 PG #4: Fortune Hunter for $5000, a sideboard, 5-piece luggage, a screen, and serving pieces. Clue #1: "Eliminate, I say, eliminate the prize that is the least expensive." Elva says the luggage is the least expensive. Clue #2: "Eliminate the prize that has a price that starts with 8." Elva says the serving pieces starts with 8. Clue #3: "Eliminate the prize that costs more than $1400." Elva says the sideboard costs over $1400. The screen is all that's left... does its box hold the $5000? ...no. The $5000 was with the sideboard. Sideboard: $1005 Luggage: $805 Screen: $1400+ (price not shown) Serving Pieces: $588 LOSS |
| IUFB #5: Bumper Pool Table ($800) Patricia: $850 Robert: $750* Tara: $650 Claudia: $675 PG #5: Dice Game for a Mercury Tracer GS. The first number in the price is 1. Robert rolls 6 for the second digit, which is wrong. Robert says lower. Robert rolls 4 for the third digit, which is wrong. Robert says lower. Robert rolls 5 for the fourth digit, which is wrong. Robert says lower. Robert rolls 6 for the fifth digit, which is wrong. Robert says lower. We know the second and fifth digits are right, which they are. $13,__5 Is the third digit lower than 4? $13,2_5 Yes! Now, if the fourth digit is lower than 5, Robert's a winner... only thing that can go wrong is for it to be a 6. Is it?! $13,235 Nope, it's 3, and Robert wins the car! WIN! |
| IUFB #6: Dishwasher ($949) Roxanne: $795* Tara: $950 Claudia: $650 Patricia: $1 PG #6: Penny Ante for a seating and table group worth $3057. Products today are Centrum Silver and a 4 pack of Caress. The Centrum Silver is either $10.99, $8.00, $11.50, or $9.49. Roxanne picks $9.49 and is RIGHT. 3 pennies left. The Caress is either $1.79, $2.99, $4.00, or $3.35. Roxanne picks $4.00 and is WRONG. 2 pennies left. Roxanne picks $3.35 and is RIGHT! 2 pennies left, and a winner by a contestant #9 more dull than contestant #9 of January 26 or January 27. WIN! |
| Showcase Showdown #2: Elva: .25+.70=.95 SPINOFF Roxanne: .85+.60=1.45 Robert: .50+.45=.95 SPINOFF Elva spinoff: .45 WINNER! Robert spinoff: .15 |
| Showcases: Riki is the top winner! Elva is the runner up! Showcase #1: No theme. Pasta maker, dining room, and a trip to Rome. Riki passes to Elva, and Elva bids $15,000. Showcase #2: Made for the Water: Underwater camera, scuba gear, catamaran, pair of waterbikes. Riki bids $13,000. Riki bid $13,000 on her showcase, actual retail price $17,598, difference of $4598. Elva bid $15,000 on her showcase, actual retail price $12,071, she is OVER. Riki wins her showcase! |
| Riki: $21,406 Robert: $14,035 Peter: $13,749 Armond: $5410 Roxanne: $4006 Elva: $598 WINNINGS: $59,204 |
| COMMENTS *Pretty good show. Switcheroo was won, Elva, Armond, and Peter were fun contestants, and Riki, though not too exciting, was very, very pretty... that counts for something, right? *Bob used "lollygagging" today, in telling Peter to hurry up with him at the turntable. *Peter had hoped he'd get 5 minutes to play Switcheroo... boy, that's an awfully generous amount of time. Even Shirley in Make Your Move in Season 27 only took about 4 and a half minutes! *Riki said she wanted to freeze the frame at $1287 originally, but Bob said she couldn't, that it'd have to be $1283. Bob was wrong, of course, but I do wonder if it affected her decision to stop at $2748 at all... *Heh, Armond knew he didn't want to bid first on the picnic table... though he won on that attempt anyway. *Boy, Bob sure gets upset with Fortune Hunter contestants lifting the lid wrong... though not as bad as January 22, he was complaining when she lifted the whole box too early (when Bob goes 1, 2, 3... what would...)... the contestants are nervous enough on stage, Bob. If you want them to lift the lid correctly, make it simple... it's NOT the time to tease them! *You could tell there would be no money in the box just by how easily Elva lifted the box... no way little her could've lifted it so quickly if it were filled with $1 bills (this was before the empty boxes were weighted). *For that matter, Bob, when Elva said she wanted you to lift the lid, you should've just done that... would've saved a lot of trouble on the poor girl! Don't argue when someone asks you to lift it for them, please! *Bob said Dice Game wasn't originally going to be played today, but someone in the audience said they loved the Dice Game, so they brought it out anyway. Course we know they'd have played Dice Game regardless. *The Made for the Water showcase used the TPiR '94 car cue, yet no car was offered... hmm... *This episode was originally preempted during Penny Ante the first time it aired... during the summer reruns, the showcase results got preempted, meaning I needed to watch 2 tapes to get all the information on the episode! *Last week, we had 2 fun contestant #9s, Janna and Tammy... Roxanne, while a contestant #9, was pretty dull, though. Just wait until February 16 for a great #9.... |