Nerves can get to contestants on Wheel of Fortune, even when confronted with fixing a puzzle that not solely has many of the letters crammed out but additionally ought to be simple. Such was the case with the October 23 episode.
Contestant Izzy Santiago was a proud uncle who spoke about his nephews and nieces throughout his interview earlier. Host Pat Sajak then introduced up his “good reminiscence.” Izzy defined, “My mind takes photos of numbers and letters, and it simply remembers it.” Sajak requested if that photographic reminiscence was useful at school, and Izzy confirmed it was — although additionally famous that it may very well be a curse generally as effectively.
Issues took a flip for Izzy for a puzzle within the class “Enjoyable & Video games.” He landed on the $1 million wedge and already had $2250 that spherical. He was proper when he selected an F, ensuing within the board studying, _RA_I_G _AME_ FROM A HAT. Izzy then elected to unravel, however wrongly guessed “DRAWING GAMES FROM A HAT.” The subsequent contestant, Frankie Theodore, accurately solved the puzzle with out spinning: “DRAWING NAMES FROM A HAT.”
Sajak tried to supply an evidence for Izzy’s miss. “, along with the common nervousness you stand up right here, now right here’s one million {dollars}, and all these items, and what am I doing?” he prompt. Izzy admitted to the nerves he was feeling in that second. “Issues like that occur,” Sajak acknowledged.
On the finish of the common gameplay, Izzy got here in second place, with $13,550 to Frankie’s 15,270 (which included the journey she gained by fixing the aforementioned puzzle). But when he had guessed that puzzle accurately, and the remainder of the sport had performed out because it had, he may have been the one to go to the bonus spherical — maybe with the $1 million envelope in play.
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