n
make it again to the bottom
A six-letter word.
The clue is, they ride the rapids.
Yeah, man!
Yeah, man!
It's the crossword game you've played all your life,
but never quite like this.
Scrabble!
And here's your host, Chuck Willery.
Yeah, man!
Alright, thank you, everybody.
Thank you, Charlie Tuna.
Hello, and welcome to Scrabble.
It's a television version of everyone's favorite movie.
It's a TV-favorite game.
The home-view word was sent in by Michael Vanover
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We have a T-shirt for you, Michael.
Today, the jackpot in our bonus stands at $9,000.
The winner's gonna get a chance to add to the end of the show,
and Charlie has our first two players.
She's our champion.
He's a student.
From North Hollywood, California,
Lisa Stevenson.
And originally from Tarlac, the Philippines,
Tony Cavaloo.
Alright, nice to see you both.
Hi, Lisa.
Hi.
You look like somebody, uh, opening the show there
looked like somebody nailed you with a cattle prod
or something.
He's got a jump when the camera went on you.
I didn't know what happened to you.
Did you lose your footing?
I'm just so darn excited to be here.
Good night, I said to myself.
I've got to get up on that stage and win some money.
$3,000 you had the last time you were here.
You're doing real well.
Nice to have you back.
Thanks, Chuck.
Hi, Tony.
Hi, Chuck.
Tell me about yourself.
Well, I live in Long Beach,
where I go to school at Cal State Long Beach.
I'm a television film student,
and I'm also into writing,
and I have to say hi to my sister Michelle,
or else she'll body slam me.
You don't want that to happen.
You're the challenger, as a matter of fact.
You're gonna go first.
We're gonna play Scrabble
till somebody gets three words right.
That player goes on to our Scrabble sprint.
They'll have a chance at that bonus worth $9,000.
Take a look at the board as we set up for our first game.
We're building on the letter U, nine letters in the word.
The clue is some birdies, some brides.
Oh!
Oh!
Well, it looks kind of like birdies
if you're dyslexic like I am.
Some brides hand it to their husbands on a silver platter.
Now, when you think you can pull the word at your buzzer,
don't forget the bing and blue bonus squares,
because they're worth money, Tony.
Some birdies or brides
hand it to their husbands on a silver platter.
Okay, let me take tile six and tile seven.
Have an M or a B?
Place the B, please.
Some brides hand it to their husbands on a silver platter.
And the M.
Hmm, still don't know it.
Let me take tile three and tile four.
R and an H.
Place the H, please.
Nope, stopper, yes, good.
Pardon me, where am I today?
I'm not here for some reason, I don't know why.
$500 if you can tell me what this is.
Some brides hand it to their husbands
on a silver platter, Tony.
I wish I knew it.
I wish I could even just keep up with the letters.
Place the R, please.
Okay, all right, who did it?
Put your hand up, see there,
sitting right on the front row, he gave it away.
Now we have to pass it for Tony.
Or Warrie.
Go to the next one, please, in the audience,
please don't give it away, please, very quiet,
very important, building on the letter A in hamburger, Tony.
Seven letters, the clue is bosom buddies.
Oh, this is really reaching, bosom buddies.
Bosom buddies, okay, let me take tile two and tile seven.
F and an S.
Place the F, please.
Bosom buddies.
Place the F.
Let me take two more tiles.
Five.
How you doing, Lisa?
And the eight.
L and an S.
Place the L, please.
Ooh, I know it.
Oh, the S is a stopper.
Falsy.
Yes, singular plural is not a touch.
Falsy.
You see, Tony, I guess in order to be buddies
and bosom buddies, you have to have more than one there, so.
Yeah, I kind of lack inside myself when I...
Okay, Lisa, let's attack this thing head on.
Building on the letter I in falsies,
eight letters and the word the clue is
sometimes they need their shoulders worked on.
Give you $1,000 and you can tell me what it is right now.
Think real hard.
Sometimes they need their shoulders worked on.
Highways.
You got it.
Whoa!
Well, that was worth waiting on, wasn't it?
One, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, $1,000.
Thank you.
Very nicely done.
All right, Tony, building on the letter A in highways,
six letters and the word the clue is
some people have bought them a lemon there.
Some people have bought a lemon there.
Some people bought a lemon there.
Okay, let me take tile five and tile three.
U and an E.
Place E, please.
Some people have bought a lemon there.
And the U?
No, stop it. Over to you, Lisa.
Okay, I have a pretty fair idea what it is, Chuck.
Wish me luck.
This is an eight, tile eight and tile seven.
Don't give this one away.
Good luck, Lisa.
Place the T, please.
Chuck, I think that S is a stopper.
Market.
Yes, yes.
She's tough, Tony.
I gotta get back in this.
Well, you can't give her a break, I'll tell you that.
Is that the bell?
No, that's not the bell.
Yes, it is the bell.
I'm groping for every way out of this I can find.
Building on the letter T in market,
eight letters and the word the clue is
people do it as a matter of course.
Tony?
People do it as a matter of course.
Let me take tile three.
Hope tile seven's lucky.
Good luck, Tony.
I need it.
The N, please.
First position in the word,
people do it as a matter of course.
I have to take the I.
No guess.
Two more, eight.
A.
And the nine.
Or a P.
Place the P, please.
No, let's stop her.
Lisa?
Okay, one tile to 10 for me, please.
People do it as a matter of course with two A's.
Place an A, please.
$500, people do it as a matter of course.
Navigate.
Oh, yeah, you just lost $500.
Oh, my God.
You lost $500.
What?
Yeah.
The other A, one in the thousand.
Can I lock the door?
Yes.
You had two A's.
It went in the thousand.
Oh, one, two, three, four, five.
Not too bad.
Not too bad.
Thank you.
Tony?
Well, you started off with a lot,
but things kind of went down quick.
You got an assortment of games for him to play?
Is that what it is?
That's right, Tony.
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Tony, thanks for coming on the game.
Thank you very much.
And Lisa is our champ.
Boy, you did well, I'm telling you.
The highways was probably one of the best.
That was real good.
That was very well...
The ether.
Very well...
The ether?
Leave me alone.
That's where my inspiration comes from
as a Scrabble player.
What's that?
The ether.
Boy, what do you mean?
Well, they're just like waves going around
and I sometimes pick them up.
Is this a holdover from the 60s,
Bonnie and Chance and Lisa?
Yeah.
Where...
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That truck will arrive.
Lisa Stevenson has $5,000.
And she's going to establish a time.
The winner of the next crossword
is gonna come up here and try to beat that time.
Mind you, hit your plunger.
That's what stops the clock.
And no stopper is any of these words.
All the letters are good.
Ether.
It's like an anesthetic, isn't it?
You probably think so, listening to me talk.
No, it's just that...
Oh, that's okay, Lisa.
Thanks, Chuck. Thank you.
Just get these things as fast as you can.
Okay?
Here we go.
First word has five letters.
It's cut crystal.
It's cut crystal.
Okay.
Ready?
Mm-hmm.
Go.
R...
M...
S...
It's cut crystal.
Prism.
Yes.
The second word has seven letters.
He's a timekeeper.
Ready?
Ready.
Go.
M...
U...
M...
He's a timekeeper.
D...
Drummer.
Yes.
Third word, eight letters.
They're often hair-raising.
They're often hair-raising.
Ready?
Ready.
Go.
L...
K...
S...
They're often hair-raising.
I...
Calix.
Yes, very nicely done.
Whoo!
Last word has nine letters.
You can see people spinning their wheels there.
You can see people spinning their wheels there.
Ready?
Yeah.
Go.
B...
R...
N...
You can see people spinning their wheels there.
T...
W...
O...
Snowdrift.
Yes, 29.8.
That's very well done.
No, I think that's a good time.
I think it's a good time.
I'm not sure that any of those...
The only thing that could help you
is the different choice of letters
in order to put in that first letter
because it came up a couple of times.
But 29.8 looks good to me.
We'll be back to see if it holds up right after this.
Stay with us.
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That's next week.
And now we have two new players.
Charlie?
She's a flight attendant.
He's a bicyclist.
Originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana,
Cynthia Zickrath,
and originally from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
John West.
All right, nice to have you both here.
How are you, Cynthia?
Good, Chuck.
Tell me about yourself.
Well, I'm a flight attendant for a major airline.
I just moved here from Boston, Massachusetts.
I'd like to say hi to Mom,
and I start school full-time in the fall
to finish my degree in fashion design.
Oh, that's great. Well, it's nice to have you here, Cynthia.
Nice to be here.
How much can you make, John, riding a bicycle?
Well, you can make a lot of sore muscles.
Oh, is that it?
Bicycle riding doesn't sound like an occupation to me,
but anyway, tell me about yourself.
It's an avocation.
I fell in love with bicycling
and decided to join some friends of mine
down in South America,
and we bicycled across the continent.
Did you, really?
Through the Andes, across the Mata Grosso,
into the jungles, and all the way across.
Oh, that sounds like a lot of fun.
A lot of hard work, too.
Nice to have you here, John.
You won the toss, or did you?
Yes.
You did win the toss. Let's go to the board.
Building on the letter A, nine letters in the word.
The clue is...
you can find a lot of cute young chicks there.
Hmm.
Find a lot of cute young chicks there.
Let's try number one...
and number three.
U and an M.
U and an M.
This is gonna take forever at this pace, John.
Try the M, please.
That's a stopper, Cynthia.
Okay, I'll take tile number 11.
U and an R.
Place that R, please.
You can find a lot of cute young chicks there.
Place the U, please.
I still don't know. I have to take a couple tiles.
I'll take lucky number two and the four.
I want a W.
Place that W, please.
Stopper. Okay, John.
It's all yours. Only one stopper left.
Okay, I'll try number nine.
I want a B.
The B, please.
Uh, and the O.
You can find a lot of cute young chicks there.
A lot of cute young chicks there.
I don't know. I'll try the 10.
And the five.
And the C.
Uh, the C, please.
And the N.
$500. You can find a lot of cute young chicks there, John.
Incubator. You got it.
Yeah.
We'll start just right.
One, two, three, four, $500.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Okay, Cynthia, building on the letter O, an incubator.
Seven letters in the word. The clue is...
Excuse me.
Some of them play around with their secretaries.
Some of them play around with their secretaries.
Okay, I'll take the nine and the eight.
Boy.
U and an L.
Place the L, please.
And the U.
And that's a stopper, John.
I think I know what it is, but I'm gonna go for that money.
You're kidding. You do?
Number one and number three.
D and an S.
Uh, G, please.
Some of them play around with their secretaries.
And the S.
I'm still gonna go for the money.
Let's try.
Six and four.
R and an E.
Uh, the R, please.
And I'll just get it out of the way.
Golfers.
Golfers play around with their secretaries.
They play.
See, I go for these things.
I went for that whole thing.
Play around. I thought it was play around.
It meant play around with golf, I suppose.
Okay.
Bell means we're out of time.
I'm gonna play the rest with some speed.
Word, hands on your buzzers.
Don't answer till I say go.
We'll put the letters in place one at a time.
Can't give you the last letter.
It's up to you.
And Cynthia, you have no words yet.
John's going for the game.
You gotta get back in here.
Building on the letter R in golfers.
Nine letters in the word.
The clue is they really sound off
when their workplace gets too smoky.
They really sound off when their workplace gets too smoky.
Ready?
Go.
They really sound off when their workplace gets too smoky.
John?
Detector.
You got it. That's it.
Oh, my God.
Cynthia?
Oh, Cynthia.
Well, it went by quick, didn't it?
Yes, it did.
Yeah, it didn't take very long.
You got some nice things for you.
Thanks for playing the game.
I enjoyed having you.
I enjoyed your school next year.
I enjoyed it.
You're welcome.
John, we've got a little money for you.
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six, seven, eight, nine.
$1,000.
$2,000.
We're gonna play Scrabble Sprint right after this.
We'll be back.
Congratulations, John.
Thank you.
Thanks for coming.
Thank you.
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And now back to Scrabble and Chuck Willery.
Thank you, Charlie. Lisa Stevens has $5,000.
Time, 29.8. John West has 2,000.
He's gonna play the same four words.
Remind you to hit your plunger. That's what stops the clock.
And no stoppers in any of these words.
All the letters are good, John. Right.
Good luck. Thank you.
First word, five letters.
It's cut crystal.
It's cut crystal.
Ready? Ready.
Go.
M.
R.
S.
P.
It's cut crystal.
Prism. Yes.
Second word, seven letters.
He's a timekeeper.
He's a timekeeper.
Ready? Ready.
Go.
M.
R.
M.
Timekeeper.
D.
Brummer. Yes.
Third word has eight letters.
They're often hair-raising.
Ready? Ready.
Go.
L.
K.
C. They're often hair-raising.
S.
Cowlick. Yep.
11.7 seconds left for this last word.
It has nine letters.
You can see people spinning their wheels there.
You can see people spinning their wheels there.
Ready? Ready.
Go.
D.
W.
You can see people spinning their wheels there.
F.
R.
F.
N.
You can see people spinning their...
No drift. You got it.
4 tenths of a second left.
4 tenths of a second left.
Oh.
He just gave himself enough time
with the first three to fill in all he needed on that last.
That was a really hard S to be gone.
That was real close.
Alright, 4 tenths of a second.
9.4 to 29.8.
And, Lisa, $5,000.
Thank you, honey.
Thanks. Thanks for playing.
I enjoyed having you.
John West has $3,000 now.
He'll be playing for a bonus of 9,000 right after this.
Congratulations, John.
Thank you.
We'll be back.
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And now, back to Chuck Warrie and today's winner.
Okay, John West has $3,000 going for $9,000.
Two words under ten seconds.
It's that simple, John.
Okay.
Good luck to you.
First word, six letters.
It's spiced up people's lives.
It's spiced up people's lives.
Ready?
Okay.
Go.
R.
Pepper.
Pepper.
Yes.
Eight seconds left.
Seven letters.
Eight seconds left.
Some of them are tumblers.
Some of them are tumblers.
Ready?
Ready.
Go.
G.
L.
Glasses.
You got it.
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You got it.
No problem at all.
Not at all.
$9,000.
You can add that to your $3,000.
$12,000.
That's not too shabby, John.
No, it's not.
Good night.
You can open up a bicycle shop with that.
What are you gonna do with that?
Oh, I don't know.
I've got some plans.
Maybe I will take a bicycle trip.
Oh, yeah, you can now.
You don't have to work or anything.
It's civilized here.
Great.
$12,000.
That means the bonus tomorrow is at $5,000.
And we'll be back to see if someone can win it then.
See you all about two minutes.
Good night.
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Good job.
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