A contestant on Friday’s (November 8) episode of Wheel of Fortune left viewers in shock after giving one of many “craziest” guesses to a Bonus Spherical puzzle within the present’s historical past.
The contestant in query was Phoebe Huynh from Portland, Oregon, who instructed host Ryan Seacrest that she got here to the USA when she was eight years previous and realized English by watching Wheel. She was up in opposition to Lisa Spruill from Yorktown, Virginia, and Jayden Johnson from Maple Grove, Minnesota.
Huynh bought off to an awesome begin, pulling forward of her opponents with $17,200 after the primary spherical. Whereas Spruill and Johnson closed the hole just a little in later rounds, it wasn’t sufficient to catch Huynh, who ended up successful the episode with $19,200.
Nonetheless, the Bonus Spherical is the place issues fell aside for Huynh. After introducing her mother, dad, and sister within the viewers, she chosen the “Meals and Drink” class together with the extra letters “D, P, H, and O.”
This gave her a two-word puzzle that learn: “_ _ N D _ E D / _ R _ _ T.”
Huynh instantly went off monitor, guessing “Solar Dried Grape.” Her guesses solely bought wilder from there, as she answered, “Solar Dried Chicken” after which “Cats?”
“It’s not a sun-dried chook,” Seacrest quipped. “It’s a Candied Fruit.”
“I don’t eat candied fruit!” Huynh responded.
“Nicely, do you eat sun-dried birds?” Seacrest retorted.
“No! I’m vegetarian!” Huynh replied.
Seacrest then revealed Huynh had misplaced out on an additional $75,000, making her the second contestant that week to lose $75K.
Followers took to social media to react to Huynh’s unimaginable Bonus Spherical loss, with one Reddit person writing, “Actually the craziest bonus spherical i’ve watched dwell “i don’t eat candied fruit!” was the cherry on prime .”
“Not sundried birds,” stated one X commenter.
“Sundried cats? Has anybody ever had sundried cat earlier than?” wrote one other.
One other added, “How shocked would he have been if she’d stated, “Sure, I eat candied birds!”
“The “no I’m vegetarian” was hilarious,” stated one other.
“Did it ever happen to her that SUNDRIED wouldn’t match? Plus S was already a part of the preliminary letters? Apparently not,” commented one viewer.
One other wrote, “Sundried cats? Wanted an excellent snort.”
“One of many worst solves,” stated one other.
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