TPiR Recap - 10/23/2014

[Roadgeek Adam]

Episode #6854K
Aired – 10/23/2014; Taped – 8/5/2014
Models: Gwendolyn Osborne-Smith, Rachel Reynolds
Microphone Handoff: Rachel
First Four Contestant Seating: Mixed

First IUFB: Smartphone (8GB memory, camera + calling plan); ARP: $1,740 (Gwendolyn)

JAMIE	REGINALD	DIANA	MATTHEW
1500	1800	1100	1801

The winner is...
JAMIE

Jamie is playing Most Expen$ive for:

1. Designer Shoes (Jimmy Choo: leather pumps, patent leather pumps) (Rachel).
2. Television (64in plasma HDTV with 1080P display) (Gwendolyn).
3. Kayak (Oru: 12ft lightweight kayak + paddleboard and backpack) (George).

Guess: 1.

1	2	3
$3295	$2200	$1595

WIN

Second IUFB: Designer Necklace (Helen Ficalora charm necklace with 4 14ct yellow gold hearts); ARP: $1,315 (Rachel)

MIRANDA	REGINALD	DIANA	MATTHEW
1000	1600	1250	1601

The winner is...
DIANA

Diana is playing Grand Game for a chance to win up to $10,000!

The target price is...

$4.25

Diana starts out at $1.00:

$1.00

The items are:

• C&H Cane Sugar
• Whole Wheat Bread Mix
• Plus White Whitening System
• Annie's Vinegrette Dressing
• Degree Deodorant
• VO5 Extra Body Shampoo

Pick 1: Bread Mix

$4.99

$1.00

WIPEOUT (ARPs: $2.49; $8.80; $3.79; $3.49; $1.19)

Third IUFB: Elliptical Trainer (Inspire Fitness: Incumbent elliptical); ARP: $1,795 (Gwendolyn)

MIRANDA	REGINALD	ELLA	MATTHEW
1500	1100	1200	1800

The winner is...
MIRANDA

Miranda is playing Pocket Change for a 2014 Jeep Compass Sport (FWD, 2L engine, 5-speed MT, tire pressure monitor, paint/fabric sealer) (Rachel).

Number pool:

0

1

2

3

6

9

Guess	9
Car ARP	2
Car Price	25¢

3

2

50¢

6

2

75¢

1

2

$1.00

0

2 0

$1.00

6

2 0

$1.25

9

2 0

$1.50

3

2 0

$1.75

1

2 0 1

$1.75

9

2 0 1

$2.00

3

2 0 1

$2.25

6

2 0 1 6

$2.25

9

2 0 1 6 9

$2.25

Change Card	10¢	10¢	5¢	25¢
Change Total	.35	.45	.50	.75	LOSS

SCSD #1

Contestant	Winnings	Spin 1	Spin 2	TOTAL	RESULT
Diana	$1,316	95	STAY	.95	*SHOWCASE*
Miranda	$1,795	80	90	1.70	OVER
Jamie	$8,830	90	100	1.90	OVER

Fourth IUFB: Designer Luggage (TPRC: His and Her 6 upright suitcases); ARP: $700 (Rachel)

ANGELA	REGINALD	ELLA	MATTHEW
900	825	800	1

The winner is...
MATTHEW

Matthew is playing SIDE BY SIDE for a trip to Belize (RT Coach to Ambergris Caye, Belize for a 6n stay in a gardenview suite at Xanadu Island Resort + zipline adventure and guided tubing adventure) (Gwendolyn).

The ARP is either $5375 or $7553.

	BY
SIDE	53	SIDE
	75

He picks...

	BY
SIDE		SIDE
	75	53
53	75	Sorry

Fifth IUFB: Car Speaker Package (11-piece speaker package with Bluetooth, reciver, amp, subwoofer, speakers, subscription, etc); ARP: $1,689 (Gwendolyn)

ANGELA	REGINALD	ELLA	STEVEN
1500	1400	1501	1199

The winner is...
ELLA

Ella is playing Card Game for a 2014 Toyota Yaris (1.5L engine, 4-speed AT, carpeted floor mats, cargo net, LoJack Plus, first-aid kit) (Rachel).

The starting price is

$15,000

. The target range is

$1,000

Ella draws a

K♦

.

$16,000

Ella draws a

J♣

.

$17,000

Ella stops at

$17,000

ARP is

$17,875

For a difference of

$875

WIN

I am very unsurprised Reginald is still here. For a while, I thought Matthew might be joining him. But, Matthew escaped and Reginald has not thus far. Can Reginald join Matthew or is he headed off to Lake Cicott, Indiana?

Sixth IUFB: Designer Watches (Android: Men's stainless steel watches with travel case); ARP: $1,400 (Overhead)

ANGELA	REGINALD	EVELYN	STEVEN
1400	1	1800	1399

CLANGERS! $500!!

The winner is...
ANGELA

Reginald is sent to Lake Cicott while Angela, now $500 richer, is playing SECRET X for dinners (Johnny Rockets: $1,200 gift card), movie tickets (Fandango: 2 adult movie tickets 52wk/yr) and gasoline for a year (52wk/yr; ARP: $5,010) (Rachel).

Angela places the free X...

The small prizes (Gwendolyn) are:

1. Sunbeam Breadmaker
2. MicroTouch One Classic Safety Razor

X

?

 

 

?

 

 

?

 

$51

$86

Breadmaker

$51

$86

$86

X

?

 

 

?

 

 

?

 

$20

$43

Razor

$20

$43

$20

X

?

 

 

?

 

 

?

 

The secret X is revealed...

X

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

WIPEOUT

SCSD #2

Contestant	Winnings	Spin 1	Spin 2	TOTAL	RESULT
Matthew	$700	60	STAY	.60
Angela	$1,900	100	–	1.00	*$1,000*
Ella	$19,564	30	55	.85

Bonus...

Contestant	Winnings	Spin	Result
Angela	$2,900	10	*SHOWCASE*

THE FABULOUS SHOWCASES

Angela has the honors...

SC1 - [Name]

REALLY CHEESY SHOWCASE

• Dining Room (Ashley: server, dining table, 6 chairs + Le Chatelain aristinal cheese for a year courtesy of Clubs Galore.com) (Rachel)
• Trip to Switzerland (Coach to Geneva, SW for a 9-day Swiss tour courtesy of Insight Vacations + premium accommodations, 7 breakfasts, 2 dinners, fly coach to LA from Zurich) (Rachel)
• 2014 Volkswagen Jetta S (2L engine, 6-speed AT, FWD) (Gwendolyn)

Bid: $29,250

SC2 - Angela

OUT OF THIS WORLD

• Laptop (17.3in LED backlit display with 16GB memory, 1TB HD, quad-core processor, printer, Bluetooth Speakers) (Gwendolyn)
• Trip to Seattle (RT Coach to Seattle, WA for a 6n stay in a premier studio suite at the Sorrento Hotel + daily breakfast, Space Needle trip) (Gwendolyn)
• Trip to Norway (RT Coach to Bergen, NW for a 6n stay in a junior suite at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Bergen + daily breakfast, rental car to see Aurland Lookout) (Rachel)

Bid: $19,500

Diana

$29,250

CAR

$33,999

$4,749

CAR

Angela

$19,500

TRIPS

$20,670

$1,170

TRIPS

*WIN*
$23,570

Results: 2 out of 6
Winnings: $55,775
Biggest Winner: Angela

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[PriceBusterXL]

THE BAD NEWS:

Pocket Change: That setup was not made to be won......Although, it was just very unfortunate for Miranda.

Side By Side: Since when did Belize became so damn cheap?! Tough break for Matthew.

Grand Game: Good-for-nothing bread mix.........

Secret X: Good-for-nothing bread maker. Quite a pattern here (Mostly, a coincidence)................I think it's pretty safe to say that making bread is pretty expensive. At least Angela got a G-bar and won her SC.

THE GOOD NEWS:

ME: Good job by Jamie picking the Jimmy Choo shoes!

Card Game: The quickest and easiest setup so far from the newly revamped game, thanks solely to the Yaris............Thanks to Ella, she averted a car game washout!

THE BOTTOM LINE:

2/6 wins (despite two wipeouts today), but considering the skunked show from Tuesday and the DOB from yesterday, this was a fairly decent reprieve..........But better than the last two shows. Also, what are the odds of two contestants who wiped out on their games both advancing to the Showcases?

[htmlcc92]

Secret X: Good-for-nothing bread maker. Quite a pattern here (Mostly, a coincidence)................I think it's pretty safe to say that making bread is pretty expensive. At least Angela got a G-bar and won her SC.

That's actually pretty cheap for a good bread maker. I like to bake, and most decent bread makers I see are at least $150. I got a really good one in good condition at a yard sale for $5. That was a great bargain!

I always get nervous when the contestant picks the $1,000 range card in Card Game, since, of course, it's such a small range and they cannot go over. But good for her at stopping where she did!

[TinoStar11]

That was as good as a playing in Card Game I've seen in quite some time. She went with her gut , picked few cards , and won even after picking the $1000 card range.

[PriceBusterXL]

That's actually pretty cheap for a good bread maker. I like to bake, and most decent bread makers I see are at least $150. I got a really good one in good condition at a yard sale for $5. That was a great bargain!

I like to bake as well, and bread is one thing I hadn't tried yet so I'm not too sure about getting the right maker. But you got one at a yard sale for $5?! Wow.........

[Bobby McBride]

I breathed a big sigh of relief after Card Game- I wasn't 100% sure that Ella needed to stop after just two cards. I thought after the way PC went today (I understandably had a bad feeling about how the first half of that game was going to go), we were going to have a Car Game Shutout this wk.

Not totally sure what happened in Grand & SX today.

[Charizard632]

Most Expensive: Easy Win. Also, it's the fifth time this game has been played in Season 43.
Grand Game: Yeah. We thought the bread mix was under $4.25, and this resulted in an unexpected wipeout.
Pocket Change: This is one of its most harsh playings.
Side by Side: Didn't expect the price of the trip to be that low. It's worth only $5,375!
Card Game: Easy Win, especially for a game for a car! Toyota Yarises are usually between $17 and $18 grand.
Secret X: I find this playing to be quite dumb. At least Angela spun a dollar!

Showcase 1: This is the cheesiest showcase I have ever seen, pun intended.
Showcase 2: This is the second cheapest showcase in Season 43. Glad Angela won her showcase with a $19,500 bid when the other contestant didn't overbid.

Overall, this episode was better than the previous 2 in terms of winning. I hope there's going to be more winners in the next episode!

[BRB_TheFireball]

Grand Game was evil.  Seriously, bread mix for $4.99 and shampoo for $1.19?  I contend that those two prices were swapped.

Card Game was amazing.  When was the last time that somebody won with only a $1,000 range?

My showcase bids:
Cheese--$35,707
Norway--$20,707

[Mallory16]

Grand Game was evil.  Seriously, bread mix for $4.99 and shampoo for $1.19?  I contend that those two prices were swapped.

Ooh, but it wasn't just any ol' bread mix, no! It was whole wheat bread mix! And seeing that price just ensures even more that I stay far, far away from whole wheat.  I'll use the cheaper, tastier stuff, thank you.

An $86 bread maker, on the other hand, is much more up my alley. Just have to wonder how good it is at that price. Might seriously have to look up on that one.

[Roadgeek Adam]

Recap posted.

[deepmilk]

Just 2 picks for a win in the card game?  If she'd picked the $5000 card, she wouldn't have needed to draw anything.  What fun is a game you don't have to play?

[therealcu2010]

Hell, even with the $3000 card, you could win by doing Absolutely Nothing.

Which perhaps shows the major problem with Card Game these days. Either the starting bid is too high (I never agreed with the boost to $15,000 in Season 36 to begin with), or the game needs to be played for $20K+ cars exclusively. I realize that they're trying to speed up the game for time purposes, but when the price of the car is so low that you hardly have to do anything, it kinda defeats the purpose of the Card Game.

[moneygamelover]

Most Expensive: Tricky setup and nice win. That Samsung TV was a nice prize although the shoes and the kayak aren't my favorite prizes. The smartphone was a nice contestants row prize.

Grand Game: Setup forced loss. The difficulty of the bread mix aside, I would have lost this game no matter how I played it because that cheap shampoo would have fooled me. Wipeouts are always a bummer.

Pocket Change: A bad segment all around. Tough setup, struggle with the pricing portion, and no luck with the cards either. It's too bad the Jeep Compass wasn't won.

Side by Side: Setup forced loss. Most contestants will probably pick the higher choice for an international trip and we expect Belize to be expensive anyway.

Card Game: Segment of the day. Today's contestant played the game very well and it was great to see the Toyota Yaris won. Plus this was actually setup to be won. About the only reasonable setup of the day. I too would have won. My strategy would have been to stop once I hit or exceeded $17,000 so I would have won today. I was thinking that the Toyota Yaris would be between $17000 and $18000 so I felt a win coming when today's contestant stopped.

Secret X: Wipeouts never are a good way to end a show. Those were some nice/useful prizes as well, especially the gas for a year.

Showcases: The Volkswagen Jetta showcase was the better showcase and it's unfortunate that it wasn't won.

Lineup: Very very good: Grand Game, Pocket Change, Side by Side, and Card Game are all favorites. Most Expensive is an enjoyable game and a nice lead off hitter. The only thing stopping this lineup from earning a great rating is that luck based games and games with letdown potential both make poor closers and Secret X is both of those. I don't like Secret X but this lineup would have gotten a great rating from me by flip flopping the slotting and playing Secret X fourth and Side by Side sixth since Side by Side is a fun closer. Overall a strong lineup.

Overall: A strong lineup and and a great Card Game segment mean this wasn't our worst 2 for 6 show. But some difficult setups and two wipeouts mean it wasn't our best 2 for 6 show either. Just pretty much an average show.

[tallsy]

From my bargain hunting days, I knew that V05 is cheap, but I would have probably wipedout thinking that it was some kind of expensive salad dressing. No idea bread mix was that expensive.

[Richie]

Most Expensive: I got fooled by those shoes.   I picked the TV.   Jaime didn't however. 

Grand Game: Mike, that was a rotten setup.  ROTTEN!!!  I too picked the bread mix along with Diana.  Whoa!!!  I thought the salad dressing was $4.99 since it was organic.

Pocket Change: I cringed at some of Miranda's guesses on the second and third numbers.  On the other hand that price wasn't easy.

Side By Side: Another ROTTEN setup, thanks Mike!!!  Poor Matthew.  I thought alike like he did.  Okay I think they might have used the Belize trip from a very cheap vacation.com source.

Card Game: I thought Ella played well despite a $1,000 margin.

Secret X: No comment.  Tough SPs.