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.

Tue 5-27-25: On Wheel of Fortune: $25,940
On Jeopardy: $799

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
_ _ R _ _ N _
F R _ _ 🟪 _ _ _ E

Chris chose the letters F, D, C and A. He got one F out of that. That wasn’t worth much of
_ N _ T _ _ N _,
except to maybe tell Chris what the middle word was. Or maybe not. His guess for the first word was ‘burping’ and I don’t even want to know what he might have guessed for the rest of it. What we do know is he didn’t win a new Toyota.

BONUS PUZZLE SOLUTION: show

Mon 5-26-25: On Wheel of Fortune: $64,650
On Jeopardy: $32,001

PHRASE: _ A _ R 🟪 E N _ _ _ _

Jocelyn chose the letters P, D, M and A. She only got an A. She solved it so quickly that I’m not
_ A R T _ _ _ L _ R L _
sure she even needed that A. Jocelyn had the skills to figure out the last word and come up with a common phrase. As a result, she was $40K richer.

BONUS PUZZLE SOLUTION: show

For more practice, Solve today’s Phrasle
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