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May 5, 2023 | 2:20 p.m
“U” will not be in paradise.
A Wheel of Fortune contestant lost on a trip to Hawaii after failing to solve a seemingly simple puzzle on Thursday’s episode of the popular game show.
Contestant Antoinette Myers began the episode’s “Prize Puzzle” with a hard guess of four “Ts” for $600 each in the Song Title category before having a hot streak, guessing nine correct letters that prompted the purchase of contained three vowels.
During the streak, Myers also had three big prize wedges of $3,500, $1 million and the XL wedge, which acted as the big wedge number of $3,500, bringing their total puzzle winnings to $13,600.
Myers was able to get the first three words and part of the last word for the board to read “TWO TICKETS TO _ _ R_ _ ISE” before the Englewood native made the fatal mistake of guessing the wrong vowel.
“I’d like to buy a vowel, ‘U’,” Myers asks as Vanna White responds to the crushing failure as the buzzer sounds.
Myers responded with a playful but disappointing “Ahh” as her fellow contestants tried to hold in laughter at their unhappiness.
Myers was able to get the first three words and part of the last word for the board to read “TWO TICKETS TO _ _ R_ _ ISE”. ABC Myers’ guess of a “U” resulted in her losing the puzzle and missing out on a trip to Paradise.ABC
Contestant Erica Johnsen followed Myers and she easily guessed the correct phrase “TWO TICKETS TO PARADISE”.
When Johnsen claimed victory in the puzzle, she received two tickets of her own to paradise, or Maui in this case, where she won a trip to the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa and $5,000 in cash, for a total of $13,200.
Myers didn’t keep the money she raised during her hot streak, nor the million dollar wedge from her failure.
Myer’s competitors couldn’t help but laugh at her apparent failure.ABC The correct answer was “TWO TICKETS TO PARADISE” and Erica Johnsen won a trip to Maui by guessing it correctly.ABC
“Antoinette, you don’t control this million-dollar wedge because you didn’t solve the puzzle,” host Pat Sajak tells Myers, “but the good news is that if you make it to the bonus round, you have this XL, is that an extra 40 grand for you and maybe 40 for someone back home. I’m always looking for good news, there’s always a pony in there somewhere.”
To make matters worse for Myers, she lost to Johnsen by just $4,000 and missed a chance to play in the $100,000 bonus round that Johnsen was playing in, guessed the correct phrase of “AN OBVIOUS QUESTION” and won a Mercedes Benz off-road vehicle.
“These contestants on @WheelofFortune can’t be real,” one viewer said on Twitter.
“A “U”? A fucking “U”?” added another.
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