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Wheel of Fortunemanaged to stump contestantsagainwith a seemingly easy puzzle — a moment that sparked frustration amongst its viewers.
In the game show’s latest episode, the riddle in question that contestants stumbled over was “Renting A Pedal Boat.” It took the contenders multiple attempts to correctly solve the puzzle.
The letters on the board were nearly complete, sans the letter “L” in the word “pedal.” Yet as one contestant tried to solve the puzzle, they incorrectly said: “Renting A Paddle Boat.”
After the other contestants tried guessing the remaining letter as “M” and “W,” hostPat Sajakstated that their guesses were wrong. Eventually, on the fifth attempt, a male contender finally correctly solved the riddle.
The moment in question proved to baffle viewers. “Whoever decided to start putting really dumb people on wheel of fortune is a genius,” one persontweetedas anothersaid, “What is with #WheelOfFortune lately?? Again!! ☠️.”
A third userwrote, “Speechless — pedaw boat, pedam boat? paddle pedal? Wtf?”
“The puzzle writers at Wheel of Fortune are beside themselves,“saidanother individual while a fifth personadded, “The people on Wheel of Fortune are dumb as f— I swear to God. It’s PEDAL BOAT. PEDAL!”
Unfortunately, this isn’t the only flub that’s occurred on the popular game show in recent weeks. An episode, which aired on Tuesday, saw a contestantmess up the lyricsto Eurythmics' 1980s hit “Sweet Dreams.”
The contestant pronounced “these,” instead of the correct lyric, “sweet dreams are made of this.”
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Earlier this month, three contestants went viral afterfailing to figure outa simple puzzle for the phrase: “Another Feather In Your Cap.” But Sajak, 75, has since defended the contestantsacross a lengthy Twitter thread.
“It alwayspains mewhen nice people come on our show to play a game and win some money and maybe fulfill a lifelong dream, and are then subject to online ridicule when they make a mistake or something goes awry,” he wrote. “Last night’s ‘Feather in your cap’ puzzlewas a case in point. Sitting at home, it seems incredible that they couldn’t solve it, but I knew in real time what was happening.”
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“Truth is, all I want to do is help to get them through it and convince them that those things happen even to very bright people,” he continued. “Butmocking them onlineand calling them names? These are good people in a bad situation under a kind of stress that you can’t begin to appreciate from the comfort of your couch.”
Added Sajak, “Good-natured laughter is one thing. Heck, they laughed at themselves. But, hey, cut them some slack. Unless you’re there, you have no idea how different it is in the studio.”
source: people.com
