So Close, Yet So Far: How a ‘Simple’ Puzzle Cost a Contestant $62,000 on Wheel of Fortune

The Puzzle That Nearly Broke the Internet The puzzle board, after revealing the automatic letters R, S, T, L, N, and E, looked like this: BE_ _E   _OOL   CO_T Moorman selected his own letters — C, B, D, and O — expecting to close the gap. And just like that, the answer almost sprang to