{"id":28267,"date":"2025-01-18T06:31:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T06:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usapress.info\/?p=28267"},"modified":"2025-01-18T06:31:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T06:31:51","slug":"fans-outraged-after-wheel-of-fortune-refuses-to-give-prize-to-woman-who-answered-correctly-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usapress.info\/?p=28267","title":{"rendered":"Fans Outraged After \u2018Wheel Of Fortune\u2019 Refuses To Give Prize To Woman Who Answered Correctly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please take note that this story was first published in January 2024 and is being republished.<\/p>\n<p>Enraged fans of \u201cWheel of Fortune\u201d are protesting, believing that Megan, a contestant, was wrongfully denied $40,000 for a potentially correct response.<\/p>\n<p>Megan, a married choir director at a high school in California, had to solve a bonus problem consisting of two words that fell under the \u201cLiving Thing\u201d category.<\/p>\n<p>The incomplete phrase \u201c_ N\u2019R _ _ _\u201d was revealed when Megan was led to the puzzle board by host Pat Sajak while the wheel was spinning.<\/p>\n<p>By carefully choosing which letters to use, Megan changed the board to read \u201cP_N_\u2019 RC _ D.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cognizinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/wheel2-1024x589.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the final ten seconds, Megan blurted out her guess, something like \u201cPink Orchid\u201d or perhaps similar to \u201cSomething Orchid.\u201d Megan vocally expressed her annoyance at the correct response, \u201cPink Orchid,\u201d as soon as the timer chimed and the correct letters illuminated the display.<\/p>\n<p>Sajak, sensing she might be right, pulled out the prize estimate card and showed Megan a healthy $40,000, far more than the $14,007 she ended up received.<\/p>\n<p>Watching from their living rooms, viewers were unable to accept the result and vented their frustration to Wheel of Fortune on Megan\u2019s answer, which they felt was unfairly incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>One viewer complained, \u201cThe woman got screwed on the #WheelOfFortune bonus puzzle tonight; she totally said \u2018PINK ORCHID\u2019 right at the start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI inquired of the judges right away after she stated that! I lip read and use subtitles because I am deaf in one ear and partially hearing in the other. She called me \u201cPink Orchid.\u201d Without a doubt!,\u201d countered another admirer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cognizinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MjA0NTAzODcwNTYxMzk2NjA5.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m exploding! She understood; pink orchid, she said! \u201cWTF?\u201d yelled a third individual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please take note that this story was first published in January 2024 and is being republished. 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