Season 17 Ultimate Adventures Week January 17, 2000

WHEEL OF FORTUNE: Part 5

The Story of Round 4:

This will be hard to believe but I swear it is true. During the in studio break before Round 4 me and the other 2 contestants had to turn with our backs to the puzzle board. Not because they show the actual puzzle but because they didn’t want us to see the blank spaces.

Finally someone says okay turn around and when we do we see that the category is “PEOPLE” and we see these spaces: _ _ – _ _ _ _ _ _ _ on the puzzle board… make sense? We see 2 lit up spaces, a hyphen and then 7 more lit up spaces but NO ACTUAL LETTERS. Just then the stage manager comes out and yells “Stop, stop stop! Change the puzzle because the contestants have seen the spaces!” C.C. turns to me and she is CLUELESS!! That’s right the worst player of the day has no idea what is happening. I tell her… “They have to change the puzzle because they’re afraid we might be able to figure it out just by seeing the blanks spaces.” C.C. says, “Oooooh.” but I’m still not sure she understands. Then I say, “This stinks because I think I know what that puzzle is. I think it’s “co-workers.” So, we turn around as they put a new puzzle up, Sajak comes out and we start round 4. Sajack spins the wheel and then says the category is “PEOPLE” the puzzle comes up and it’s the SAME FUCKING PUZZLE. In my head I’m thinking no way!!! They didn’t change it!!! Great when it’s my turn I’ve got this solved!!!! BUT there’s one thing standing in my way… Yep… C.C. gets to pick her letter first and what does she pick… R!!!!!!!!!!!! Sure she does because I just told her what the puzzle was and she knows there are 2 R’s in the word CO-WORKERS!!!!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!! When you watch you will see the look on her face for a split second because she knows she just stole the puzzle from me!!!! Sajak can’t believe it either and of course C.C. has no answer as to why she knew the puzzle.

So you are now probably asking yourself… Pat, why didn’t you say anything!!! Well to be honest I thought since we were all wearing microphones!!!!! Our entire conversation would have been heard by someone in the control booth!!! I really thought that as we walked off stage someone was going to come up to us and say that we had to do the whole round over again BUT it NEVER happened and C.C. walks away with my cash!!!

Epilogue: To this day my wife hates this story!!!