{"id":12922,"date":"2026-09-04T19:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/?p=12922"},"modified":"2026-09-04T19:46:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:46:33","slug":"wheel-of-fortune-player-stuns-internet-after-solving-this-tough-74000-puzzle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/?p=12922","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wheel of Fortune\u2019 Player Stuns Internet After Solving This Tough $74,000 Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chad Hedrick walked into the <em>Wheel of Fortune<\/em> Bonus Round already having an impressive night. The Kentucky television reporter had battled through the main game and finished with $19,400, earning his chance to play for one final mystery prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hedrick selected <strong>\u201cAround the House\u201d<\/strong> as his category. After the standard letters R, S, T, L, N and E appeared, he chose B, F, K and A. The board was still intimidating, displaying only enough information to resemble <strong>\u201c_ <em>FF<\/em> BLANKET.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With only seconds to work it out, Hedrick started throwing possibilities at the board. Then he landed on the answer: <strong>\u201cPuffy Blanket.\u201d<\/strong> Host Ryan Seacrest immediately confirmed that he had solved it, leaving Hedrick standing almost motionless with his hands on his head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The surprise became even bigger when Seacrest opened the prize envelope. Hedrick had won another <strong>$55,000<\/strong>, bringing his total winnings for the episode to an extraordinary <strong>$74,400<\/strong>. He was so stunned that he playfully pushed Seacrest&#8217;s arm while struggling to believe the amount was real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The puzzle looked nearly impossible when the clock began, yet one quick realization completely changed Hedrick&#8217;s night. After recovering from the shock, he admitted that panic had briefly made it difficult to find the words\u2014only for the right answer to arrive when he needed it most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Hedrick walked into the Wheel of Fortune Bonus Round already having an impressive night. The Kentucky television reporter had battled through the main game and finished&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12923,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions\/12923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}