‘Wheel of Fortune’ contestant loses trip to Hawaii on massive mistake

“U” gained’t be in paradise.

A “Wheel of Fortune” contestant misplaced out on a visit to Hawaii after failing to unravel a seemingly easy puzzle in Thursday’s episode of the favored sport present.

Contestant Antoinette Myers began off the episode’s “Prize Puzzle” robust guessing 4 “T’s” for $600 every within the “Tune Title” class earlier than occurring a scorching streak and guessing 9 right letters which included the acquisition of three vowels.

In the course of the streak, Myers had additionally raked in three giant prize wedges of $3,500, $1 million, and the XL wedge which acted as the big wedge variety of $3,500 and introduced her whole puzzle winnings to $13,600.

Myers was in a position to get the primary three phrases and a part of the final phrase to have the board present “TWO TICKETS TO _ _ R_ _ ISE,” earlier than the Englewood native made the deadly mistake of guessing the incorrect vowel.

“I’d like to purchase a vowel, ‘U,’” Myers asks as Vanna White reacts to the crushing fail whereas the buzzer sounded off.

Myers reacted with a playful however disappointing “ahh” as her fellow contestants tried to carry of their laughs to her misfortune.

Contestant Erica Johnsen adopted Myers and he or she was in a position to simply guess the right phrase, “TWO TICKETS TO PARADISE.”

As Johnsen claimed victory on the puzzle, she was awarded with two tickets of her personal to paradise, or on this case Maui, the place she gained a visit to the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa plus $5,000 in money, a mixed whole of $13,200.

Myers didn’t preserve any of the cash she collected throughout her scorching streak, nor did she get to maintain the million wedge due to her failure.

“Antoinette you don’t management that million {dollars} wedge since you didn’t clear up the puzzle,” host Pat Sajak tells Myers, “however the excellent news is you’ve that XL, in case you do make it to the bonus spherical, that’s an additional 40 grand to you and perhaps 40 for somebody at house. I all the time search for excellent news, there’s all the time a pony in there someplace.”

To make issues worse for Myers, she ended up dropping to Johnsen by solely $4,000, and lacking out on the possibility to play within the $100,000 bonus spherical the place Johnsen performed, guessed the right phrase of “AN OBVIOUS QUESTION” and gained herself a Mercedes Benz SUV.

“These contestants on @WheelofFortune can’t be actual,” one viewer mentioned on Twitter.

“A “U”? A freaking “U”?” one other added.