One contestant’s slip-up on Wheel of Fortune during the bonus round left even host Ryan Seacrest scratching his head. On the November 18 episode, Joey Sweet, a program director from Oceanside, California, came agonizingly close to winning a $40,000 prize. The category was “phrase,” and Sweet had a nearly completed puzzle when he made his guess. Host Ryan Seacrest smiling at the camera, Photo Credit: ryanseacrest/Instagram The puzzle read, “CA_ED’ ‘_ _’ ‘_AND,'” after Sweet selected the letters C, D, M, and A, with an extra letter “F” from his Wild Card. The young contestant’s guess, “Cleared in hand,” seemed reasonable...
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