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‘Wheel of Fortune’ contestant suffers ‘brutal failure’ in bizarre bonus round

A “Wheel of Fortune” The contestant is getting a lot of attention for the bonus round she participated in during her episode.

On Friday, a woman named Phoebe Huynh won the game, earning the chance to enter the bonus round and win an additional prize. His unconventional guesses, as well as his banter with the host Ryan Seacrestgot viewers talking.

During the game, she won $19,200 and after winning, she chose the “Food and Drink” category for the bonus puzzle. Seacrest asked her to select an envelope with her prize if she won the final round as well. Then she selected her letters. She chose D, P, H and O as well as the usual R, S, T, L, N and E from the series.

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A photo of "Wheel of Fortune" bonus round

A contestant named Phoebe caused a stir on a recent episode of “Wheel of Fortune.” (Wheel of Fortune/ABC)

When White finished revealing the letters, he was left with “__ND__D _R__T.”

“OK, think about it,” Seacrest told him. “You’ve had a great evening so far. Probe it. You have ten seconds to solve it. Good luck, Phoebe.”

She seemed perplexed as she looked at the painting, guessing, “Sun-dried grapes? Sun-dried birds? Sun-dried birds…oh…cats? No?”

A photo of Ryan Seacrest and "Wheel of Fortune" competitor

Ryan Seacrest told Phoebe that the correct answer to her bonus riddle was “candied fruit.” (Wheel of Fortune/ABC)

After the buzzer went off, letting her know she was out of time, Seacrest said, “It’s not a sun-dried bird. It’s a candied fruit,” revealing the correct answer. .

“Well, I don’t eat candied fruit,” she complained good-naturedly.

Seacrest raised his hands laughing and asked, “Do you eat sun-dried birds?”

A photo of Ryan Seacrest on "Wheel of Fortune"

Host Ryan Seacrest seemed amused by his exchange with contestant Phoebe. (Wheel of Fortune/ABC)

“No! I am vegetarian!”, she replied.

Seacrest laughed again at her reaction, then opened the prize envelope to show that if she had answered the riddle correctly, she would have won an additional $75,000.

The audience laughed throughout the interaction and on social media, fans were just as amused.

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“Truly the craziest bonus round I’ve seen live,” one person wrote on Reddit’s “Wheel of Fortune” page, along with a crying emoji. “‘I don’t eat candied fruit!’ was the icing on the cake.

Vanna White and Ryan Seacrest point to the illuminated Santa Monica Ferris Wheel as "Wheel of Fortune" wheel

Ryan Seacrest began hosting “Wheel of Fortune” this fall, working with Vanna White. (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for CBS Media Ventures/Sony Pictures Television)

On X, formerly Twitter, someone commented: “Sun-dried cats? How many times has someone guessed sun-dried birds and cats in the food and drink category? What is going on here?

“This lady really guessed ‘bird in the sun’ on Wheel Of Fortune,” another post read.

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The conversation continued on the “Wheel of Fortune” YouTube pagewith one viewer calling the tour a “brutal failure”.

“One of the worst solutions,” one person commented, with another writing: “HOW COULD SHE NOT GET IT?!”

Side-by-side photos of Ryan Seacrest and Pat Sajak

Ryan Seacrest took over for longtime host Pat Sajak. (Getty Images)

A harsher comment read: “Cats dried in the sun? I needed a good laugh. How did she win? Either she was very lucky or she was against some not very bright people.”

It was also pointed out that ‘sun dried’ would not fit into the number of boxes presented and that it had already received an S, so there is no way the word would be part of the puzzle.

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“This is what happens when you’re on stage. Everything that would normally click disappears on you,” one fan pointed out.