{"id":2263186,"date":"2026-02-02T17:10:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2263186"},"modified":"2026-02-02T17:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:10:25","slug":"wheel-of-fortune-contestant-wins-99000-after-ryan-seacrest-is-baffled-by-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wheel-of-fortune-contestant-wins-99000-after-ryan-seacrest-is-baffled-by-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wheel of Fortune\u2019 Contestant Wins $99,000 After Ryan Seacrest Is Baffled by Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">A <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0072584\/\">Wheel of Fortune<\/a> contestant was so close to $100,000, even host <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0780435\/\">Ryan Seacrest<\/a> was shocked. The lifelong learner solved the Bonus <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt38942042\/\">Round<\/a> puzzle in just one second after guessing correctly an onion puzzle that left Ryan Seacrest baffled. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm18173787\/\">Vonda Ulfig<\/a>, from Pataskala, Ohio, played against <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm18173788\/\">Arianne Kelly<\/a>, from Oak Lawn, Illinois, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0075754\/\">Drew Berman<\/a>, from Ridgefield, Connecticut, on January 30. Ulfig is a lifelong learner who got her doctorate degree in business administration in 2019. She was also hospitalized in 2017 with Acute Intermittent Porphyria, a rare genetic blood disease. Kelly, a local community theater performer who loves music, solved the first toss-up. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1104682\/\">Berman<\/a>, who rode his bike around the world for an&#8230;<\/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.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wheel of Fortune contestant was so close to $100,000, even host Ryan Seacrest was shocked. The lifelong learner solved the Bonus Round puzzle in just one second after guessing correctly an onion puzzle that left Ryan Seacrest baffled. Vonda Ulfig, from Pataskala, Ohio, played against Arianne Kelly, from Oak Lawn, Illinois, and Drew Berman, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2263187,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2263186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018Wheel-of-Fortune-Contestant-Wins-99000-After-Ryan-Seacrest-Is.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263186","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=2263186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263188,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263186\/revisions\/2263188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2263187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}