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Pat Sajak was left visibly stunned on Wednesday’s episode of Wheel of Fortune after a contestant guessed the final puzzle with only two letters visible.
During the bonus round, Emil De Leon was given the category “Thing.” Out of the three-word, 12-letter phrase, only two letters were revealed — the first two, which were N and E — after being spotted the requisite R, S, T, L, N, E series and choosing H, M, D and O as his additional letters.
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“This looks tough to me,” Sajak told him, laughing. “It’s a thing. You’re a very good puzzle solver, but I don’t know. You have 10 seconds. Keep talking. Maybe the right thing will pop out. Good luck.”
De Leon then guesses it on his first try: “New Baby Buggy.” He then jumps around, elated, while Sajak is visibly shocked and then jokingly pats De Leon down. It also appeared that the person at the controls was a bit taken by surprise as it took a moment for the letters to be revealed on the game board after De Leon had guessed correctly.
By solving the final puzzle, De Leon won an additional $45,000, bringing his total prize to $63,099.
“I’m rather stunned,” Sajak said. He also tweeted about it Thursday:
What made last night’s solve amazing was the generic category. Could have been “new anything.” But “baby buggy?!” Wow!
— Pat Sajak (@patsajak) March 20, 2014
De Leon later told TMZ that he got lucky because he’d been thinking about babies while taping the show.
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