Rhea from the second season premiere of Card Sharks is your Contestant of the week because she netted $231K in Money Cards in Game 1.
Honorable Mentions: Ashley also netted $162K in Money Cards in Game 2; Tim from Wednesday’s WOF episode collected $19.9K in R2 (incl. $7K pair of S’s & a $10K MW win), swept all three of the Triple-Tossups, pulled a Caitlin Burke solving w/ just two T’s on board in the FS Round, and knew from RSTLNE after messing with Pat w/ his letter combo that he would be driving to the YEARLY FESTIVAL in a new Ford Explorer XLT worth $44,815 for a final total of $77,115 cash & SUV; Cheryl from Monday’s WOF episode became the first successful EXPRESS rider this season & pulled a Robert Santioli in the third Triple-TU; Colin was the best player of the best episode (albeit not perfect) of Jeopardy! this week (and he wished a Happy Birthday to his sister Caitlin on the show — Aww); Aimee getting the sole correct response on a FJ! clue supposedly set up for a Triple Stumper; The Arana & Schroeder families’ impressive runs on Family Feud this week; Maneet on Guy’s Grocery Games turned down a sure $5K for…. $20K!!
Sorry that I took long to update this. Had a long weekend.