A UF student won more than $25,000 worth of prizes, including a trip to Singapore, on Tuesday's episode of "The Price is Right."
Kristin Lundy, a UF health education and behavior senior, competed on the show March 10. She won an electric fireplace, room sanitizer, telephone, pizza grill, assortment of sleepwear, bedroom set and the Singapore trip.
"I'm keeping all of it," Lundy said after watching the show, except for the fireplace, she added.
She watched the show at The Swamp Restaurant on Tuesday morning with about 15 friends and teachers.
Lundy's name was the first one called at the beginning of the show, and her friends in the restaurant screamed and clapped when they saw her run down the aisle with her arms waving in the air.
The first 40 minutes of the show were tense, as Lundy kept missing chances to move off "contestants row" and play a pricing game. From there, a contestant can win more prizes and move on to the Showcase Showdown to bid on a collection of prizes, usually including a car or vacation package.
Lundy got her big break when her bid on an electric fireplace was the closest guess without going over the actual retail price.
As she ran up to the stage, she slipped and pitched forward. After regaining her balance, she found out that her next potential prize was a new, silver Dodge Caliber.
Drew Carey, the show's host, explained Lundy's pricing game, which was called the "Bonus Game." She was presented with four prizes and their suggested prices and had to decide if the actual retail price was higher or lower than the suggested price.
One of the prizes had the car as a hidden bonus. Lundy guessed correctly for three out of the four prizes but missed the one linked to the car.
"During the commercial break, (Carey) was like, 'You should've had that,'" Lundy said.
The suspense continued about five minutes later when she tied with another contestant to move into the Showcase Showdown. When Lundy won the tiebreaker on the show, she jumped up and down so vigorously she lost one of her orange hoop earrings.
"Everyone notices my earring's gone," she said as she checked her text messages, which were streaming in nonstop. By the end of the day, she said she'd gotten more than 50 messages.
Lundy's friends screamed as they watched her win the showcase, which included the sleepwear, bedroom set and Singapore trip.
"So many emotions," said Trina Clark, a UF criminology senior and friend of Lundy's. "You can't really explain how excited you were for her."
Lundy said some of the prizes have already arrived at her house, and she'll probably take the Singapore trip as a graduation present to herself.
"I've never been out of the country," she said. "Who goes to Singapore? Me!"
