{"id":360,"date":"2026-05-30T19:24:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/?p=360"},"modified":"2026-05-30T19:27:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:27:31","slug":"wheel-of-fortune-sparks-outrage-over-controversial-final-round-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wheel of Fortune\u2019 Sparks Outrage Over Controversial Final Round Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another episode of <em>Wheel of Fortune<\/em> has sparked debate among viewers after a contestant lost a bonus round puzzle that many fans considered unfair.<\/p>\n<p>During the February 14 episode, commercial pilot Conner Kemmsies from California advanced to the bonus round after winning $19,080 in cash and prizes, including a whale-watching cruise to Baja California.<\/p>\n<p>The final puzzle was in the &#8220;Phrase&#8221; category. After the standard letters and Conner&#8217;s chosen letters were revealed, the board showed:<\/p>\n<p>_ D _ D M _ _ _ M E _ _ R _<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Conner&amp;apos;s Bonus Round! | S42 | Wheel of Fortune\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3S2ZOP6TMyg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Conner quickly solved the first part, &#8220;I DID MY,&#8221; but ran out of time before completing the answer: <strong>&#8220;I DID MY HOMEWORK.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the buzzer sounded, Conner laughed and joked, &#8220;I don&#8217;t do homework anymore. I&#8217;m not in school now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The puzzle immediately sparked reactions online. Many viewers argued that &#8220;I did my homework&#8221; is simply a sentence, not a commonly recognized phrase.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not a phrase, that&#8217;s a sentence,&#8221; one fan wrote, while others called the puzzle unusually difficult for the category.<\/p>\n<p>Others disagreed, saying the answer was straightforward once the first two words were solved.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy didn&#8217;t stop there. Some fans also complained that the bonus wheel once again landed on the show&#8217;s minimum $40,000 prize, leading to renewed claims that the wheel lands on the same amount too often.<\/p>\n<p>While some viewers believe both the puzzle and prize outcome were perfectly fair, others felt the contestant was put at a disadvantage.<\/p>\n<p>The episode has added to ongoing discussions among fans about puzzle quality and bonus round prizes, proving that even after decades on the air, <em>Wheel of Fortune<\/em> can still get viewers talking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another episode of Wheel of Fortune has sparked debate among viewers after a contestant lost a bonus round puzzle that many fans considered unfair. During the February 14 episode, commercial&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}