{"id":2324911,"date":"2026-03-12T15:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2324911"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:46:07","slug":"wheel-of-fortune-fans-complain-puzzles-are-getting-weirder-after-car-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wheel-of-fortune-fans-complain-puzzles-are-getting-weirder-after-car-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wheel of Fortune\u2019 Fans Complain Puzzles Are \u2018Getting Weirder\u2019 After Car Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Yurt kidding me! <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0072584\/\">Wheel of Fortune<\/a> fans claim the puzzles are \u201cgetting weirder\u201d after a contestant lost out on taking home a car. The backlash came after an unusual word was used in the Bonus Round puzzle. John Phillips, from Watervilet, Michigan, solved the first toss-up. He is a man who lives on a farm and cooks maple syrup with his family, but made time to be on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0072584\/\">Wheel of Fortune<\/a> because it is not maple season. He played against Mariah Littauer, from Plano, Texas, and Jeminesse Hudson, from Wanette, Oklahoma, on March 11. Hudson, a cross-stitcher who loves the color yellow, solved the second toss-up. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm12856460\/\">Phillips<\/a> solved \u201cJust A Stone&#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>Yurt kidding me! Wheel of Fortune fans claim the puzzles are \u201cgetting weirder\u201d after a contestant lost out on taking home a car. The backlash came after an unusual word was used in the Bonus Round puzzle. John Phillips, from Watervilet, Michigan, solved the first toss-up. He is a man who lives on a farm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2324912,"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":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2324911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","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\/03\/\u2018Wheel-of-Fortune-Fans-Complain-Puzzles-Are-\u2018Getting-Weirder-After.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324911","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=2324911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324913,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324911\/revisions\/2324913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2324912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}