{"id":20140,"date":"2026-06-17T19:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20140"},"modified":"2026-06-17T19:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:08:25","slug":"wheel-of-fortune-participant-misses-massive-1-million-jackpot-following-heartbreaking-final-puzzle-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20140","title":{"rendered":"Wheel of Fortune Participant Misses Massive $1 Million Jackpot Following Heartbreaking Final Puzzle Blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"242\">During a special <em data-start=\"17\" data-end=\"35\">Wheel of Fortune<\/em> \u201cBragging Rights\u201d episode, friends Sam Oh, Peter Jung, and Daniel Park competed in a fun but intense battle. Sam dominated the game and reached the Bonus Round, where he faced the phrase <strong data-start=\"223\" data-end=\"242\">\u201cOut of Whack.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"244\" data-end=\"564\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Under pressure, Sam guessed only \u201cOut of,\u201d missing the final word and losing $40,000\u2014and a possible $1 million prize. Despite the heartbreaking miss, he remained the night\u2019s winner, proving that success on <em data-start=\"450\" data-end=\"468\">Wheel of Fortune<\/em> takes not just knowledge, but calm nerves under pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>During a special Wheel of Fortune \u201cBragging Rights\u201d episode, friends Sam Oh, Peter Jung, and Daniel Park competed in a fun but intense battle. Sam <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20140\" title=\"Wheel of Fortune Participant Misses Massive $1 Million Jackpot Following Heartbreaking Final Puzzle Blunder\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20142,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20140\/revisions\/20142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}