A Wheel of Fortune contestant on Friday’s (February 7) episode left the sport with a brand new favourite band and over $30,000 in money, however she missed out on the huge $100,000 grand prize in an “unattainable” Bonus Spherical.
The contestant in query was Nekeia Borders, a US Navy veteran and retail retailer supervisor from Dallas, Texas, who confronted off towards Britney Spears superfan Patrick Thomassie from Chicago, Illinois, and mom-of-two Abby Gerlemann from Hermann, Missouri.
Regardless of nailing the primary puzzle of the episode for $2,000, Borders struggled to extend her winnings within the first few rounds. By the top of the Specific Spherical, Borders was trailing her two opponents, nonetheless solely having $2,000 in comparison with Thomassie’s $15,298 and Gerlemann’s $21,350.
Although she landed one of many puzzles within the Triple Tossup spherical, it appeared extremely unlikely for Borders to meet up with only one puzzle remaining. Nevertheless, within the Pace-Up spherical, Thomassie spun massive, making each consonant value $6,000.
Borders took benefit, discovering 5 letters on the board and fixing the “Track Lyrics” puzzle by answering “Welcome To The Jungle,” the phrases to the Weapons N’ Roses basic. This gave her a complete of $34,000, leading to an enormous comeback victory and sending her by means of to the Bonus Spherical.
“Properly, with that final remedy I believe you’ve acquired a brand new favourite band,” host Ryan Seacrest quipped.
“Yeah, completely, Weapons N’ Roses, you understand it,” Borders joked. “I gotta memorize the track now.”
Borders, who entered the Bonus Spherical with a Wild Card wedge, that means she may choose 5 further letters, picked the dreaded “Phrase” class and the letters “D, M, P, I, and C.”
This left her with a four-word puzzle that learn: “L _ _ _ / _ _ C _ / _ I T _ / _ _ N D N E S S.”
Sadly for Borders, she couldn’t work out the reply, “LOOKING BACK WITH FONDNESS.”
Seacrest then opened the prize envelope to disclose Borders misplaced out on a whopping $100,000 (plus a visit to India), making her the sixth contestant to overlook out on the $100K this season. Borders threw her head again and pretended to have a tantrum earlier than saying, “It’s okay.”
Many followers felt for Borders, saying the Bonus Spherical puzzle was “unattainable.”
“KILLER puzzle. Unfortunate to get that one. No method anybody is fixing that,” wrote one YouTube commenter.
“Yea that was unattainable. You needed to name the fitting letters to have any likelihood,” stated one other.
“That was very troublesome puzzle, however she nonetheless took residence a bulk of money! Congratulations,” one other added.
One other wrote, “NO! IMPOSSIBLE! WORST FRIDAY EVER TO WRAP UP THIS WEEK! HOW PAINFUL IS THIS?!”
“I had completely no clue. I used to be pondering “with kindness,” however the Ok and I weren’t there so I used to be drawing a clean,” stated one fan.
“Actually that puzzle was VERY onerous. PHRASE had a very good profitable streak in Bonus Land not too long ago till this one. It’s too dangerous she landed on the large one,” added one other.
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