Minute to Win It (2013) Episode Guide and Info

## Team Travsay

Married couple Travis (32) and Lindsay (27) (Belmont, CA) are playing on the show to win money to start their own family and have their own children.

Level 1: Floatacious - One contestant must stack five empty soda cans in a bowl of water on a little plate. The stack must hold for a three-second count.

First Try: Travis (Fail, two lives remaining)

Second Try: Travis (Complete, $1,000)

Level 2: Give It a Whirl - One contestant must use a marble to make it spin inside a wine glass and it has to be carried to a waiting bowl. This has to be repeated three times.

First Try: Lindsay (Complete, $2,000)

Level 3: Play It By Ear - The contestants must arrange soda cans filled with pennies from least to greatest - five cents to forty cents.

(Complete, $3,000)

Level 4: Johnny Applestack - One contestant must stack five apples to each other, and it must hold for a three-second count.

First Try: Lindsay (Complete, $5,000)

Level 5: Tuna Roll - One contestant must roll tuna cans across in a circle to knock down empty soda bottles.

First Try: Lindsay (Complete, $10,000)

Level 6: Speed Eraser - Similar to the game Bouncer, but the contestants must put twelve pencils individually into twelve cups.

(Complete, $15,000)

Level 7: Tortilla Head - One contestant must use a flipper attached to one foot and flip one tortilla on a head bowl attached to their head.

First Try: Travis (Complete, $25,000)

Level 8: Oh Nuts - One contestant must use a ruler to stack eight nut bolts and let the stack stand for a three-second count.

First Try: Travis (Complete, $50,000)

Level 9: Uphill Battle - On a slanted table, one contestant must use a back of a spoon as a flipper to keep three marbles moving. If even one marble falls, the game is done.

First Try: Travis (Time out at :52, one life remaining)

Second Try: Lindsay (Time out at :54, game over)

But this team leaves with a guaranteed $25,000.

## Team Dynamic Duo

Sisters and best friends Trisha (32) and Trina (37) (San Bruno, CA) are playing on the show to win money to start their charity that hits to home. Both of the girls are moms to spectacular children. Trina's second son, Cameron, was born with bipolar and has Tourette's syndrome, so the girls would use the money to donate to the National Tourette's Foundation. They call themselves the Dynamic Duo because this is them talking, "The Double T's with the Double D's."

Level 1: Floatacious - One contestant must stack five empty soda cans in a bowl of water on a little plate. The stack must hold for a three-second count.

First Try: Trisha (Fail, two lives remaining)

Second Try: Trina (Complete, $1,000)

Level 2: Egg Dance - One contestant must carry an egg between two strings and the egg must be transferred to the top of an empty soda bottle to let it stand for a three-second count.

First Try: Trisha (Complete, $2,000)

Level 3: Blow Ball - One contestant must blow all of the red ping pong balls from a tray with only three white ping pong balls to be left.

First Try: Trina (Complete, $3,000)

Level 4: Got Your Back - The contestants must stand shoulder-to-shoulder to knock down three tennis rackets with ping pong balls.

(Complete, $5,000)

Level 5: Walrus - One contestant must transfer marshmallows to a table using tweezers in the mouth. Only three marshmallows has to be stacked for a three-second count.

First Try: Trisha (Complete, $10,000)

Level 6: Speed Eraser - Similar to the game Bouncer, but the contestants must put twelve pencils individually into twelve cups.

(Fail, one life remaining)

(Fail, game over)

But this team leaves with the guaranteed $10,000.

## Team Boom

Couple Ivana Mendez (24) (Millbrae, CA) and Trevor Chavarria (27) (Piedmont, CA) are playing on the show to win money for their big wedding this November. Ivana works at the YMCA in Santa Clara as the PR director, and Trevor works with special education students at Piedmont High School. Ivana had played college soccer, but Trevor...he's not so much into sports. But overall, the couple is a nice competitive team.

Level 1: Office Maximus - One contestant must use a rubber band ball to knock down three standing office paper packages.

First Try: Trevor (Complete, $1,000)

Level 2: Hanky Panky - One contestant must get tissues all out of two boxes, standing between them.

First Try: Ivana (Complete, $2,000)

Level 3: Ready Spaghetti - The contestants must use a uncooked spaghetti clenched into their mouths to hook on a small ring of an empty soda can to make a three-can pyramid. This has to stand for a three-second count.

(Fail, two lives remaining)

(Complete, $3,000)

Level 4: Drop Ball - One contestant must snatch a water bottle with a ping pong ball on top of it, and the ping pong ball must fall inside one individual water jug. They have four tries to do this.

First Try: Ivana (Complete, $5,000)

Level 5: Tuna Roll - One contestant must roll tuna cans across in a circle to knock down empty soda bottles.

First Try: Trevor (Complete, $10,000)

Level 6: Speed Eraser - Similar to the game Bouncer, but the contestants must put twelve pencils individually into twelve cups.

(Fail, one life remaining)

(Complete, $15,000)

Level 7: Chop Stack - One contestant must use chopsticks to stack four pieces of Chapstick onto each other. The stack must hold for a three-second count.

First Try: Trevor (Fail, game over)

But this team leaves with a guaranteed $10,000, enough to have their wedding.

## Team Stiletto

Best friends and coworkers Jennifer (33) and Daniella (33) (Redwood City, CA) are playing on the show to win money to start their own restaurant, enthusiacs-based, where it would want people to fall in love while they eat. These girls both work at a store with fashion designs. The team name means that the ladies wear stilettos to do their work jobs, and it's their little trademark.

Level 1: Hanky Panky - One contestant must get tissues all out of two boxes, standing between them.

First Try: Daniella (Complete, $1,000)

Level 2: Glass Road Trucker - One contestant must arrange seven empty wine bottles in a line and roll one ping pong ball at one end at the top of one bottle.

First Try: Daniella (Complete, $2,000)

Level 3: Hang Over - On a clothesline, one contestant must hang together four hangers to let it hang for a three-second count.

First Try: Jennifer (Complete, $3,000)

Level 4: Magic Carpet Ride - The contestants must sit on towels to roll across in a circle to each cross a red line to finish.

(Complete, $5,000)

Level 5: Bouncer - On a table, the contestants must put ping pong balls individually into twelve cups.

(Fail, two lives remaining)

(Fail, one life remaining)

(Complete, $10,000)

Level 6: Layin' Track - Using staple clips and erasers, one contestant must build these items, forming into a track, and they must roll one marble across to land in a cup.

First Try: Daniella (Fail, game over)

But this team leaves with a guaranteed $10,000.

## Team Spectrum Surfers

**Team Grits**

Sisters Jessica (28) and Traci (34) (New Orleans, LA) are playing on the show to win money for their big trip to France, which they have a family there, and they have never met them.

Level 1: Nose Dive - One contestant must stick petroleum jelly on their noses and put one cotton ball on it. They must use the cotton ball to put it a waiting bowl, and this must be repeated five times each.

First Try: Jessica (Complete, $1,000)

Level 2: Face the Cookie - The contestants must transfer one cookie from their forehead to their mouths.

(Complete, $2,000)

Level 3: Elephant March - With a baseball in a pantyhose, one contestant must wear it on their head to sway side to side in order to knock down eight water bottles.

First Try: Traci (Fail, two lives remaining)

Second Try: Jessica (Fail, one life remaining)

Third Try: Jessica (Complete, $3,000)

Level 4: This Blows - The contestants must blow one balloon to knock down fifteen cups on a table. They have to do this until every cup is knocked down.

(Fail, game over)

But this team leaves with a guaranteed $1,000.