GRECO!8 Week 2: 1/5 to 1/9

[Wayoshi]

This playing will presumably cover 1241-45L in production order, but there are no guarantees.

At this point, you are on your own as far as what "ghost" episodes might show up or not. I've done my best to keep track, and we'll have week(s) cancelled where I know at least one is coming, but we had two unknown ones show up this week and it's not going to get any better. This is the game now if we are to continue it, so lean fully into it if you wish.

The CHECKMARK is the PATTERN for this playing.

Good luck!

[Wayoshi]

Belated spoiler that will count (Youtube TV thumbnail): Grocery

This situation is another one that is making the fairness of the game even harder. We are fully in a trial period here and I acknowledge we might not get through this season / this will be the last one. Stay tuned.

[Wayoshi]

The "guess the ghost" (or, get tipped off by a spoiler / putting together some context clues from last week) era has officially begun. First GRECO was on the line, and since Rat was last, that leaves Flerb/FJB a bit behind.

Again, I'm not sure how far this era will really get, but let's' see where it goes.

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6: 1 Right Price, Bargain Game, Bonkers, Money Game, Punch a Bunch, That's Too Much!
5: Balance Game, Flip Flop, Grocery Game, Hi Lo, One Away, One Wrøng Price, Pick-a-Number, Switch?, Time I$ Møney, To The Penny, Vend-O-Price
4: Dice Game, Rat Race, Shell Game, Take Two, Temptation
3: 1/2 Off, Bonus Game, Do the Math, Freeze Frame, Most Expen$ive
2: Cover Up, Master Key, Pathfinder, Squeeze Play, Switcheroo
1: 10 Chances, Check-Out, Cliff Hangers, Coming or Going, Grand Game, Hole in One, Let 'em Roll, Line em Up, Lucky $even, Make Your Move, Pass the Buck, Plinko, Pocket ¢hange, Stack the Deck

[Wayoshi]

Rough one today... really feels like we know the ghost and do amazing or just don't have a clue, because they don't have a clue. Back to back no cash and more Gas? 1-prizer turntable spam? Where are Money & Shell Game?

[Wayoshi]

There's the 1145L ghost as I just realize I got the dates wrong for this week...

[Wayoshi]

Truly a fascinating lineup in context. We have SP/cars due, but the ghosts forced Rat & Key in this week. We've had 3 SP/car weeks before, maybe even 4 if I look back, but instead we put in the extremely rare non-car Shell playing, which was very due itself. Very interesting stuff.

Kev completed two more GRECOs today and got the 1+P rotation right with Move on 3 weeks. But if we get another due game lineup like today, this can still be a close finish.

[Wayoshi]

This was a fun finish, as H-L & Freeze do end up skipping (more Side, yay...), but Punch did not despite a ghost for it coming next week (we just found this out via Paramount Express spoilers earlier this week - so no GRECO next week, sadly). We also had A# repeat and Dice skips, nothing too egregious there either. And hey, Math managed to get a week off.

Kev needed one of H-L or Freeze to become uncatchable, both would have been a fantastic card. It came down the super spot, where we got two 90s today. That's a prime inner diagonal spot where I like to put a rare game I think is showing, in this case I knew Tempt was going to show, while Kev ended up going safer with Money (Flerb lost 5 points, unfortunately). That made all the difference as I manage to make the comeback.

Of course, our scores were only so good because of effectively foreshadowed spoilers, while not technically being them, in two ghosts. That's the crux of the problem as I have to shut the game down another week, then the last week of January as well, and also on the first week of March... and so on. We'll see where it goes...

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6: 1 Right Price, Bargain Game, Bonkers, Money Game, Punch a Bunch, That's Too Much!
5: Balance Game, Flip Flop, Grocery Game, Hi Lo, One Away, One Wrøng Price, Pick-a-Number, Switch?, Time I$ Møney, To The Penny, Vend-O-Price
4: Dice Game, Rat Race, Shell Game, Take Two, Temptation
3: 1/2 Off, Bonus Game, Do the Math, Freeze Frame, Most Expen$ive
2: Cover Up, Master Key, Pathfinder, Squeeze Play, Switcheroo
1: 10 Chances, Check-Out, Cliff Hangers, Coming or Going, Grand Game, Hole in One, Let 'em Roll, Line em Up, Lucky $even, Make Your Move, Pass the Buck, Plinko, Pocket ¢hange, Stack the Deck
0: Any Number, Gas Money, Range Game, Side By Side