It’s kind of “hard to believe” that this contestant missed this phrase. It’s pretty easy to spell out, to be honest. It looks as if most contestants simply don’t read what’s on the boards and just go with their first guess.
Well, this one somehow thought it was “it’s make-believe.” Interesting choice. We sure he really wanted to believe whatever he saw on that board would simply come true.
Potato What Now?
Nothing sounds more obvious than a self potato- which is what Lolita McAuley thought of during her gameshow moment. Somehow this contestant saw "self" and "po-rt--t" and did not come to the conclusion that it was "self portait". The saddest part about this is that she is a fifth-grade school teacher. Yikes.
Buzzfeed even named this "The Silliest Wheel of Fortune Guess Ever” and her answer even prompted the creation of the website, selfpotato.com, a site that actually belongs to comedian, Emily Blotnick.
We're Coming to What?
With just a few letters on the board missing, Stephen, yet another unfortunate Wheel of Fortune contestant, couldn't muster up that brain strength to reach the word city. He got everything else right. Surf, Here, and Come...apparently the real tough one was C--Y, which he seemed to think was Clay.
Even if he didn't know the lyrics to Jan and Dean's Surf City, it does seem a little illogical to go for clay.
You're On The Wrong Platform
This little perplexing puzzle of a phrase seemed to throw another Wheel of Fortune victim for a loop. For $7, 300, this head-scratcher read the phrase "elevator train platform". Guess they conjured that "o" and "r" straight out of thin air.
Unfortunately, the phrase is "elevator train platform". Seems obvious but, you never know.
That's Optimistic!
Strange choice. This guy must have grown up in a quite a seedy neighborhood if this was the first thing that he saw. On looking at that though, it does seem like the obvious choice.
Sadly for him, the answer, in the end, was actually "A Group of Well Wishers". Bet that might teach him to look at the glass half full then.