{"id":2297767,"date":"2026-02-24T17:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2297767"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:11:06","slug":"wheel-of-fortune-contestant-loses-69000-after-fatal-flaw-in-letter-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wheel-of-fortune-contestant-loses-69000-after-fatal-flaw-in-letter-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wheel of Fortune\u2019 Contestant Loses $69,000 After \u2018Fatal Flaw\u2019 in Letter Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Don\u2019t go in order! 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 lost out on taking home a lot of money after she chose the first four letters of the alphabet for her Bonus Round puzzle. She could have won $69,000. Fans pointed out there was a \u201cfatal flaw\u201d in her letter choice. Kendra Lenth, from Iowa City, Iowa, played against Austin Barnhart, from Elkhorn, Nebraska, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6014235\/\">Mary Banks<\/a>, from Chicago, Illinois, on February 23. Lenth is a sport driver who drinks beer with her neighbors in her driveway. Lenth solved the first toss-up, while Barnhart, a husband with four boys who loves camping, solved the second. Lenth tried to solve the first puzzle,&#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>Don\u2019t go in order! A Wheel of Fortune contestant lost out on taking home a lot of money after she chose the first four letters of the alphabet for her Bonus Round puzzle. She could have won $69,000. Fans pointed out there was a \u201cfatal flaw\u201d in her letter choice. Kendra Lenth, from Iowa City, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2297768,"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-2297767","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-Loses-69000-After-\u2018Fatal-Flaw-in.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297767","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=2297767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297769,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297767\/revisions\/2297769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2297768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}