How Did These ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Contestants Miss This Obvious Answer?!

Have you ever watched Wheel of Fortune and thought to yourself, “Oh, I could easily be on this show”? Have you seen someone miss an obvious answer and just thought, “Wouldn’t be me”? WELL, there’s a new two-minute clip from an episode of the iconic game show that will definitely have you screaming at your screen like this is a sporting event.

There are frustrating times on Wheel of Fortune when we, as the audience, clearly know the answer but the contestants don’t know what it is, but this was really on a whole different level—mainly because the attempted answers make absolutely no sense. Wheel of Fortune loves to have a phrase category where the solution to the puzzle is typically a rather common phrase. This puzzle fit that description, but the contestants were just people who apparently have never heard it in their lives.

The answer was clearly “another feather in your cap,” and when the first contestant tried to solve it with “hat” instead, clearly with the right phrase in mind, you’d have thought that she’d get it the next time around. But uh … that was not the case. In fact, it took her three turns, and she still didn’t get it, and it obviously wasn’t “gap” or whatever was up in the air there for a second.

Truly nothing has been more frustrating than watching a group of people just clearly missing that the word “cap” exists because putting a feather in your lap—one of the painful ensuing guesses—is … a choice. Why would you have a pile of feathers in your lap? Now I just want to know what the logic behind that guess is.

What’s funny is that one contestant never had a chance to even guess until the very end, and then he was the one who eventually got it right. So, I have to believe that he knew the entire time and just didn’t have the chance to say it when we were hearing “map,” “lap,” and “gap” instead of the actual answer.

Twitter lost it

What’s fun about things like this is that it normally comes with everyone online screaming about it and all having the same reaction. Because, okay, even if you thought “hat” at first, you had to at least know what the second option would be, right?!

The thing is: This was just pure nonsense, not because the two contestants who had a chance to guess didn’t know the answer, but because they couldn’t figure it out after “hat” and “lap” didn’t work. It just feels like … an obvious choice? And even if they weren’t sure, after hat, why wouldn’t cap be your thought?! I just want to have a sit-down conversation with the two contestants who guessed and talk with them—maybe ask the guy who eventually got it right if he knew what it was the entire time.

Will everyone on this episode never forget the phrase now? Probably, but boy oh boy was that a frustrating two minutes of television.

(image: HBO)