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.

Fri 2-27-26: On Wheel of Fortune: $23,000
On Jeopardy: $16,399

PLACE: A 🟪 C _ _ L
_ A N _ _ _ T

Calvin chose the letters C, D, M and A. He got two A’s and one C. The second word was no big mystery so he
_ T T E _ _ T E _
to talk it out on that basis. That failed because some guesses weren’t even places. Ryan likes to pretend the right word will just spill out with a little more time, but a good look at the puzzle would help a lot more. No $50K today.

BONUS PUZZLE SOLUTION: show

Thu 2-26-26: On Wheel of Fortune: $26,400
On Jeopardy: $20,000

PLACE: _ N 🟪 E M _ T _
_ _ R _

Joann chose the letters H, M, C and O. She only got an M in the second word. Even if she had zeroed in on the second word, there wasn’t much of a chance of figuring that last word out. As it was, Joann stalled out on the
_ E _ _ N N _ N _
article, unable to decide if it was “an” or “on”, nevermind that she chose the O as her vowel. O well, the $50K bonus prize would have been nice.

BONUS PUZZLE SOLUTION: show

For more practice, Solve today’s Phrasle
Fri 2-27: The tribe has spoken