Vivian Tran was just some letters away from profitable $1 million on Wheel of Fortune, however nerves acquired between her and the large jackpot.
Tran, a competitor on the sport present’s Sept. 16 episode, had secured a spot within the Bonus Spherical after touchdown on the “One Million” wedge through the ultimate spherical of normal gameplay.
The Bonus Spherical requested her to resolve the class “What Are You Doing?” Along with the default letters given to all gamers (R, S, T, L, N, E), Tran chosen C, H, M, I and P.
“My coronary heart is racing, it is a first for me,” host Ryan Seacrest, who took over for Pat Sajak following his retirement, mentioned of the tense second. “You’re enjoying for $1 million.”
Co-host Vanna White revealed the letters Tran had requested for, leaving “_ _ _ E R I N G S _ M E HELP” as the ultimate puzzle immediate.
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Earlier than she started to guess, Tran mentioned she was “nervous.”
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“Questioning some assist? Answering some assist? Discovering some assist? Trying round for some assist? Boundary for assist?” she mentioned within the 10-second guessing window, her thought course of on show.
Sadly, she by no means acquired to the right reply of “Providing Some Assist” and folded over when Seacrest opened the envelope to disclose she misplaced out on the $1-million prize.
“You have been so near that million {dollars}. You nearly had it,” Seacrest sympathized. “Are you all proper?”
“I’m OK,” she reassured him whereas within the throes of processing the second.
She did, nonetheless, stroll away with a great chunk of change — $27,300 — and a visit to Europe.
“It turned out nice,” she advised Wheel of Fortune‘s social correspondent Maggie Sajak after the present. “A bit of bit painful, however I’m grateful for the chance.”
“(Seacrest) sort of introduced me right into a nook and he’s like, ‘Vivian, I don’t know if you wish to see this,’” Vivian recalled of the second she misplaced. “I knew the final two phrases however the first one, I simply couldn’t get the syllables. It was 10 seconds, so by the point I acquired to the eighth second, I missed it.”
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