Wheel of Fortune viewers have a brand new favourite contestant after the lovable Geoffrey Smith appeared on Monday’s (January 13) episode and proved to be a superb puzzle-solver.
Smith, from Saint Cloud, Florida, advised host Ryan Seacrest how he grew up in Kingston, Jamaica, and used to look at Wheel of Fortune on his neighbors’ black and white TV since his household was so poor they by no means had a colour TV. He additionally mentioned he was amazed to see Vanna White “in residing colours.”
On Monday’s episode, Smith confronted off towards Kaitlyn O’Keeffe, a highschool social research instructor from Deer Park, New York, and Sonja Hughes, a magnificence pageant obsessive from Oklahoma Metropolis, Oklahoma.
Smith proved to be a pressure from the beginning, instantly capitalizing on a mistake made by Hughes (the place she left the ‘S’ off of her reply) and nailing the primary puzzle of the episode. He went on to land the puzzles in Spherical 1 and the Thriller Spherical, giving him a robust early complete of $7,500.
From there, Smith took full management of the sport, answering all three puzzles within the Triple Toss-Up spherical and the ultimate puzzle within the Pace-Up spherical. This gave him an episode-winning complete of $26,000, in comparison with Hughes’ $7,300 and O’Keeffe’s $1,000 goose-egg.
Heading into the Bonus Spherical, the tall Smith towered over Seacrest as he chosen the usually tough “Phrase” class. Smith took a second to review the board earlier than choosing his further letters, “C, F, M, and I.” This gave him a four-word puzzle that learn: “_ _ S T / _ L _ R T / I T / _ _ T.”
“Take your time, it’s a phrase, you’ve obtained ten seconds,” Seacrest mentioned, maybe realizing Smith had a troublesome board in entrance of him.
Nonetheless, as quickly because the ten-second timer began, Smith confidently answered, “Simply Blurt It Out.”
“Yeah! Wait a minute… come on!” mentioned a shocked Seacrest earlier than opening the prize envelope and revealing Smith added an additional $40,000 to his complete winnings.
White came visiting to congratulate Smith, who danced and celebrated his victory. In the meantime, Seacrest added, “You had been wanting down at me like, ‘I don’t want you to speak anymore, Ryan, I simply wanna blurt it out.”
“I obtained it will definitely,” Smith responded.
Followers beloved Smith and his unbelievable Bonus Spherical puzzle clear up, with one X person writing, “Geoffrey is the very best #wheeloffortune participant of all time. Holy smokes.”
Geoffrey is the very best #wheeloffortune participant of all time. Holy smokes
— CFMuir (@CFMuirWrites) January 14, 2025
One other agreed, saying, “#Geoffrey on tonight’s @WheelofFortune could also be my favourite contestant ever!!!! Love him!!!”
One Wheel of Fortune Reddit person described Smith as a “legend,” whereas one other agreed, writing, “The Jamaican man on right here tonight is a legend.”
“With the letters he selected, I assumed he wouldn’t have gotten it, however Geoffrey has proved me unsuitable! Nicely performed Geoffrey, properly performed!” added a YouTube commenter.
“Wow that’s excellent!! Nice clear up by Geoffrey!!!” mentioned one other.
“Approach to go, Geoffrey! It was a troublesome one, however you bought it proper in any case!” wrote one fan.
Nonetheless, many others didn’t get to see final evening’s episode as a result of it was preempted for NFL post-playoffs. Actually, Smith himself may need missed his personal episode as a result of, as one Reddit person identified, “He’s from St. Cloud, FL which is within the Orlando space. WOF didn’t air on WFTV channel 9 due to the NFL pregame however they are going to air his episode on Saturday at 12:30 PM.”
One other Reddit person defined, “ABC is airing an NFL Wild Card recreation tonight at 8 ET, with pregame at 7:30 PM, which implies WOF will be unable to air in lots of cities the place it airs on ABC. Additionally, since most stations favor Jeopardy! over Wheel of Fortune, some cities the place WOF usually airs at 7:00 will likely be changing it with Jeopardy! for tonight solely.”
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