‘Wheel of Fortune’ fans complain game show ‘messed it up again’ after contestant is denied prize money

nypost.com:

“Wheel of Fortune” contestant won last night’s game but failed to correctly guess the bonus puzzle.After the episode aired, fans of the game show began rallying around the contestant, insisting that she had actually named the right answer to the puzzle but that host Pat Sajak had failed to recognize it.The contestant, a woman named Tamara, chose “What Are You Doing?” for the category for the final puzzle.

After co-host Vanna White turned over both the letters the show traditionally provides and the ones Tamara chose, she was left with “___N_NG A B___ _L_B.”“Now pay attention what’s up there,” Sajak advised. “There’s a huge letter board.

If you talk it out, you can do this.”She started out with the word “fanning,” but when she couldn’t get anywhere with that, she went silent.

As her ten seconds were almost up, she came up with “book club,” and just before the buzzer rang, she made a guess.The correct answer was “JOINING A BOOK CLUB.” Some viewers believe that’s what she guessed, but others heard “running a book club.” In the clip, it sounds like she began to say something else before offering her guess.“You were right there,” Sajak told her. “Got there a little late, unfortunately.