“U” won’t be in paradise.
A “Wheel of Fortune” contestant lost out on a visit to Hawaii after failing to resolve a seemingly easy puzzle in Thursday’s episode of the favored game show.
Contestant Antoinette Myers began off the episode’s “Prize Puzzle” strong guessing 4 “T’s” for $600 each within the “Song Title” category before happening a hot streak and guessing nine correct letters which included the acquisition of three vowels.
Throughout the streak, Myers had also raked in three large prize wedges of $3,500, $1 million, and the XL wedge which acted as the big wedge variety of $3,500 and brought her total puzzle winnings to $13,600.
Myers was capable of get the primary three words and a part of the last word to have the board show “TWO TICKETS TO _ _ R_ _ ISE,” before the Englewood native made the fatal mistake of guessing the flawed vowel.
“I’d prefer to buy a vowel, ‘U,’” Myers asks as Vanna White reacts to the crushing fail while the buzzer sounded off.
Myers reacted with a playful but disappointing “ahh” as her fellow contestants attempted to carry of their laughs to her misfortune.
Contestant Erica Johnsen followed Myers and he or she was capable of easily guess the proper phrase, “TWO TICKETS TO PARADISE.”
As Johnsen claimed victory on the puzzle, she was awarded with two tickets of her own to paradise, or on this case Maui, where she won a visit to the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa plus $5,000 in money, a combined total of $13,200.
Myers didn’t keep any of the cash she collected during her hot streak, nor did she get to maintain the million wedge due to her failure.
“Antoinette you don’t control that million dollars wedge since you didn’t solve the puzzle,” host Pat Sajak tells Myers, “but the excellent news is you’ve got that XL, in the event you do make it to the bonus round, that’s an additional 40 grand to you and possibly 40 for somebody at home. I at all times search for excellent news, there’s at all times a pony in there somewhere.”
To make matters worse for Myers, she ended up losing to Johnsen by only $4,000, and missing out on the possibility to play within the $100,000 bonus round where Johnsen played, guessed the proper phrase of “AN OBVIOUS QUESTION” and won herself a Mercedes Benz SUV.
“These contestants on @WheelofFortune can’t be real,” one viewer said on Twitter.
“A “U”? A freaking “U”?” one other added.