{"id":1977779,"date":"2025-08-24T20:24:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1977779"},"modified":"2025-08-24T20:24:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:24:42","slug":"wheel-of-fortune-contestant-misses-68000-win-after-not-knowing-what-word-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wheel-of-fortune-contestant-misses-68000-win-after-not-knowing-what-word-means\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wheel of Fortune\u2019 Contestant Misses $68,000 Win After Not Knowing What Word Means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/wheel-of-fortune\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Wheel of Fortune;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Wheel of Fortune<\/a> contestant lost out on a $68,000 win because she didn\u2019t know what a word meant. The puzzle also left fans confused as they asked, \u201cWho says that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Amy Johnston, from Schertz, Texas, played against Misha Graves, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Jon Reinink, from Indianapolis, Indiana. Their episode reaired on August 20 during the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/category\/game-shows\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:game show;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">game show<\/a>\u2018s summer reruns, having first been broadcast on Wednesday, May 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By the end of the game, Johnston had a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1193528\/wheel-of-fortune-elvis-faxing-ryan-seacrest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:total of $28,539 and a trip to Lake Tahoe;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">total of $28,539 and a trip to Lake Tahoe<\/a>. With the most money out of all three contestants, she advanced to the Bonus Round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Johnston brought her parents and middle daughter, Kayla, with her to the bonus round, which she chose \u201cWhat Are You Doing?\u201d After being given \u201cR,S,T,L,N, and E,\u201d she chose \u201cG,C,M, and O\u201d to round out her puzzle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It then looked like \u201c_ _ _ _ NG\u00a0 _T\u00a0 O_ER NO_.\u201d As the clock counted down, Johnston, an opening act for an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/elvis-presley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Elvis;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Elvis<\/a> impersonator, couldn\u2019t figure out the first word. She guessed everything she could think of and ended by saying, \u201cI got nothing.\u201d It was revealed to be \u201cFaxing it over now.\u201d She lost out on an additional $40,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cOf course. I don\u2019t even know what faxing means,\u201d Johnston said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fans reacted to the puzzle in the YouTube comments, as they also didn\u2019t know what it meant. \u201cWho even says that? My 90-year-old grandma,\u201d one wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWhen was the last time anyone FAXED anything?\u201d asked another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201c<span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\">Pretty sure until now, a lot of people forgot that at one point, things could be faxed over. This puzzle seemed a little cruel,\u201d said a YouTuber user.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWho says that anymore?\u201d asked a fan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cNo one would have guessed that,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSeriously? Faxing? Who\u2019s going to guess that?\u201d commented another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis one was ridiculous,\u201d a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/WheelOfFortune\/comments\/1kscfue\/tonights_bonus_puzzle_are_they_kidding\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Reddit;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Reddit<\/a> user said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cFaxing is such an old school word,\u201d wrote another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Wheel of Fortune, Season 43, September 8, check local listings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the latest entertainment news on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TV Insider;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TV Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wheel of Fortune contestant lost out on a $68,000 win because she didn\u2019t know what a word meant. The puzzle also left fans confused as they asked, \u201cWho says that?\u201d Amy Johnston, from Schertz, Texas, played against Misha Graves, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Jon Reinink, from Indianapolis, Indiana. Their episode reaired on August 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1977780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[353772,353774,315602,306903,353773,353775,22428,39864],"class_list":["post-1977779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-amy-johnston","tag-jon-reinink","tag-minneapolis","tag-minnesota","tag-misha-graves","tag-schertz","tag-texas","tag-wheel-of-fortune"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/\u2018Wheel-of-Fortune-Contestant-Misses-68000-Win-After-Not-Knowing.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}