Yesterday on the Wheel of Fortune

It’s Wheel of Fortune, America’s Game and we’re posting the Bonus Puzzle with the winner’s final prize amount. By way of comparison, the Jeopardy! payoff is also included with a link to the recap of that game.

These common letters are always turned over in the bonus puzzle before the player chooses letters: R, S, T, L, N, E.

Mon 1-19-26: On Wheel of Fortune: $19,400
On Jeopardy: $30,670

PHRASE: _ 🟪 _ O _ N _
_ 🟪 N E _ 🟪 _ O _

Callie chose the letters P, H, C and O. She only got two O’s. It didn’t look very promising. She didn’t know whether the first word was A or I, for one thing. Her
S _ E _ _ L _ T _ _ N S
weren’t very audible but it sounded like she was going with A. I’m not too sure Callie would have had better luck even if she chose A or I for the vowel. In any case, she didn’t win a $40K bonus prize.

BONUS PUZZLE SOLUTION: show

Fri 1-16-26: On Wheel of Fortune: $25,798
On Jeopardy: $100,000

WHAT ARE YOU DOING? _ _ S T
_ _ _ _ _ N _ 🟪 A R _ _ N _

Romi chose the letters M, F, C and A. She only got an A. That could have turned out very well if she had remembered there would be no more than the one she was looking at. Instead, she wasted
_ R E _ _ _ _ S
seconds trying to put an A in the second word. Romi missed out on an extra $40K and a trip to Morocco.

BONUS PUZZLE SOLUTION: show

For more practice, Solve today’s Phrasle
Mon 1-19: rub some dirt on it