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Ben Tucker has won over Wheel of Fortune fans for his witty response to host Pat Sajak’s unkind remark after he failed to guess the right answer in the Fun & Games category.
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With several letters on the board, Tucker made several wild guesses in a valiant effort to solve the word puzzle, which spelling out “Taking a quick jog.”
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“Taunt a chuck guy? Chance guy … no, there’s no C. Wacky guy. Taunt a wacky guy,” Tucker guessed for the Fun & Games category.
“Wow, that was so unclose. Yeah, you just didn’t have the letters,” Sajak, 76, jabbed when Tucker’s time was up and the answer was revealed.
“See, I don’t consider jogging fun and games,” said Tucker, who ended up taking home $18,000.
“Oh, well, there you go,” Sajak replied. “That wasn’t bad.”
The official Wheel Instagram page weighed in by sharing a clip of Tucker’s appearance along with the caption, “He has a point.”
Fans of the show weighed in with one person declaring the California resident “deserves the money for that one.”
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Sajak has gone viral for several comments he has made to contestants on the long-running game show, including last March when he mocked a contestant’s introduction story.
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“That may have been the most pointless story ever told. And you told it,” Sajak said after listening to Scott Ingwersen’s tale. “Congratulations to you.”
But Sajak also defended a trio of hapless contestants last February who took eight spins and made 10 tries to solve a seemingly easy five-word puzzle.
With the first two words completed, contestants couldn’t finish the phrase, “Another Feather In Your Cap.”
On Twitter, some called the moment “the worst two minutes in Wheel of Fortune history.”
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Sajak quickly backed the clueless players in a Twitter thread telling critics to “have a little heart.”
“It always pains me when nice people come on our show to play a game and win some money and maybe fulfil a lifelong dream, and are then subject to online ridicule when they make a mistake or something goes awry,” Sajak began on Twitter. “Last night’s ‘Feather in your cap’ puzzle was a case in point. Sitting at home, it seems incredible that they couldn’t solve it, but I knew in real time what was happening.”
Sajak continued, adding that “Feather in your hat” is “how a lot of people say it, which led to more confusion.
“Now imagine you’re on national TV, and you’re suddenly thrown a curve and you begin getting worried about looking stupid, and if the feather isn’t in your hat, where the heck can it be? You start flailing away looking for alternatives rather than synonyms for ‘hat.’”
But with Sajak and his co-host Vanna White only inked through 2024, fans might not be able to pick apart his antics for much longer. After appearing on the show since the early ’80s, the duo have hinted that retirement is on the horizon.
Last year, Sajak told Entertainment Tonight that the end was near.
“We’re certainly closer to the end than the beginning,” said Sajak, who has hosted the show since 1981. “I’d like to leave before people tune in and look at me and say, ‘Ooh, what happened to him?’ I wouldn’t bet on seeing us in, like, 10 years, I would say.”
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