{"id":9721,"date":"2026-05-17T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=9721"},"modified":"2026-05-17T22:56:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:56:01","slug":"wheel-of-fortune-sparks-outrage-over-controversial-final-round-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=9721","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wheel of Fortune\u2019 Sparks Outrage Over Controversial Final Round Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another night, another controversy on \u201cWheel of Fortune.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Viewers were left shaking their heads after the February 14 episode, calling out the bonus round puzzle as unfair\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and some even questioned whether it was a real phrase at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The drama unfolded when Conner Kemmsies, a commercial pilot from Lakeside,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>California, made it to the final round. His impressive gameplay earlier in the show<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>had earned him $19,080 in cash and prizes\u2014including a six-day whale-watching cruise to Baja,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>California, courtesy of National Geographic\u2013Lindblad Expeditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/widgets.adskeeper.com\/?utm_source=widget_adskeeper&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=add&amp;utm_content=1939652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/widgets.adskeeper.com\/?utm_source=widget_adskeeper&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=add&amp;utm_content=1939652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trendnews24.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/signal-2025-12-13-024752efefefve.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1132\" style=\"width:20px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another night, another controversy on \u201cWheel of Fortune.\u201d Viewers were left shaking their heads after the February 14 episode, calling out the bonus round puzzle as unfair\u2014&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9722,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions\/9722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}