{"id":5114,"date":"2014-03-25T00:18:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T16:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=5114"},"modified":"2014-04-05T19:47:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T11:47:47","slug":"fil-am-nurse-figures-out-perplexing-wheel-puzzle-bags-us45000-in-bonus-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/25\/fil-am-nurse-figures-out-perplexing-wheel-puzzle-bags-us45000-in-bonus-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Fil-Am nurse figures out perplexing Wheel puzzle; bags US$45000 in bonus round"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Screen grab of De Leon’s bonus round puzzle on Wheel of Fortune.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A Filipino-American nursing student from Daly City, California recently bagged\u00a0 <\/span>the $45,000 jackpot after having correctly cracked the bonus round puzzle on American TV game show “Wheel of Fortune” on its March 19, 2014 episode.<\/p>\n

Viewers were left in awe as Emil De Leon correctly guessed the item with only two letter clues to go on:\u00a0 <\/span>N and E.\u00a0 <\/span>The puzzle phrase consisted of three words, with only the first two letters of the first word revealed as clues.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

“This looks tough to me… 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,” TV host Pat Sajak told De Leon, who was visibly nervous in the face of\u00a0 <\/span>the challenge.<\/p>\n

All the sudden \u2013 and to everyone\u2019s amazement – De Leon exclaimed, “new baby buggy!”, the correct answer.<\/p>\n

The audience went wild, as Sajak jokingly frisked the contestant to check if he was concealing anything that aided him with the guess.<\/p>\n

Sajak took to Twitter after the show; his tweets read: \u201c(It was the) most amazing solve in my 30+ years on the show. No kidding,” and “What made last night’s solve amazing was the generic category. Could have been “new anything.” But \u2018baby buggy?!\u2019 Wow!”<\/p>\n

A nursing student at the NCP College of Nursing in San Francisco, De Leon said that he had recently studied a course on pediatrics, and had babies on his mind when he correctly guessed the puzzle.<\/p>\n

De Leon was then invited to appear on the “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” where he explained how he solved the puzzle.<\/p>\n

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Screen grab of Emil De Leon with host Pat Sajak, jokingly frisking the excited contestant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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