Another day, another head-scratching fail on “Wheel of Fortune.”
On Tuesday’s episode, the three contestants earned no feathers in their caps as they struggled to solve an apparently not-so-common phrase. In fact, it took all three competitors eight turns and 10 attempts to solve the five-word puzzle “Another feather in your cap.”
The breakdown started when the contestants came thisclose by filling in the letters to reach: “Another feather _n yo_r _a_.” And contestant Laura Machado offered a promising guess with “Another feather in your hat.”
But then she followed with bizarro misses like “Another feather in your lap” and “Another feather in your map.”
Up next, Christopher Coleman suggested a wrong letter and landed on a Bankrupt space on his turns. And Thomas Lipscomb landed on Bankrupt and Lose a Turn with his first two spins — but then managed to guess the letter C and finally, finally solved the puzzle that had stumped them all for two-plus minutes.
“Wheel of Fortune” soon became a trending topic on social media, as commenters let the feathers fly.
“God help us all,” wrote actor Josh Gad.
Writer Tara Dublin added, “We live in the stupidest times.”
Watch the whole sad affair above.