Wheel of Fortune’s new period with host Ryan Seacrest is now in full spin, and it didn’t take lengthy for a bonus puzzle to air that followers felt wasn’t the cream of the crop.
Derrick Balfour from Frederick, Maryland emerged victorious on Tuesday, October 1’s episode through the week-long BetMGM Big Winners Tournament. With $13,200 in money and a prize journey to Las Vegas, he went to the bonus spherical, selecting the class “Food and Drink.”
Joining Seacrest heart stage, Derrick was proven the two-word puzzle and he selected “M, D, K, A” as his further letters (a deviation from the extra frequent “C, D, M, A”). Only a “K” and “A” have been added by the enduring Vanna White, who shocked in a brilliant pink robe. The puzzle learn as “‘_AS_E_ ‘ ‘_ _ LK.’
Instantly, Derrick knew it was “Something ‘milk'” but couldn’t get a lot additional than that, rattling off “Cheese milk,” “Geese milk” and different variants. The 10-second timer ran out, and Derrick was unable to resolve it. Seacrest quipped, “Some of the nice milks for protein, these milks.
“But no,” he clarified: “It’s ‘Cashew Milk.'”
Derrick missed out on an extra $40,000 Seacrest assured he was “close” and reminded him he may return on Friday’s finale episode given the format of the match.
However, followers took to social media to cry over spilled milk, branding the puzzle as approach too obscure (in comparison with, say, “Almond Milk”) on X and within the feedback part of the WoF clip on YouTube.
“Wheel of Fortune is gonna do their best to make sure you don’t solve that last puzzle,” one X consumer wrote throughout airtime.
“Who the hell is gonna think cashew, let alone call out a W I’m upset,” wrote one other.
“Who THE F*** is drinking CASHEW MILK?” echoed a 3rd.
“This puzzle?? It stinks. I never drink that milk. This was why I got stumped a bit. thought it was…. yolk? something. jeez c’mon man,” one YouTuber wrote.
“I’ve heard of almond milk but not cashew milk. If he would’ve called a “C” he would’ve obtained it,” wrote one other.
“The puzzles are SUPER STUPID now especially the final ones. Is Maggie Sajak making them up in her head,” roared a 3rd, calling out poor Maggie Sajak (Pat Sajak’s daughter is the WoF social media correspondent, has no say in puzzles).
Meanwhile, followers are warming as much as Seacrest as WoF’s new frontman after seeing Sajak nightly for 4 a long time. He’s held scores regular; raking within the strongest week in 5 years for the Season 42 debut. But apparently, some issues by no means change.
During Sajak’s tenure, particularly in direction of the tip, WoF was rife with bonus puzzles that followers disliked. There was the equally doubtful “Foamy milk” throughout Season 40, and infamously, the puzzle “Taking a Quick Jog.”
In that case, the contestant who missed it went viral by difficult Pat because the puzzle was categorized as “Fun and Games.” “Well, see, I don’t consider jogging fun and games,” he instructed the previous host to his face
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