{"id":983911,"date":"2022-02-10T03:50:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T03:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/10\/wheel-of-fortune-features-back-to-back-100k-winners\/"},"modified":"2022-02-10T03:50:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T03:50:47","slug":"wheel-of-fortune-features-back-to-back-100k-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/10\/wheel-of-fortune-features-back-to-back-100k-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wheel of Fortune&#8217; features back-to-back $100K winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"slide-image-container\" onclick=\"st_ss_sh1();\">\n<p>1\/2<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: auto;\" width=\"650\" height=\"975\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Wheel-of-Fortune-features-back-to-back-100K-winners.jpg\" title=\"'Wheel of Fortune' features back-to-back $100K winners\" alt=\"'Wheel of Fortune' features back-to-back $100K winners\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pat Sajak hosts the long-running game show &#8220;Wheel of Fortun.&#8221; File Photo by Nina Prommer\/EPA-EFE<\/p>\n<article itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 9 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> <i>Wheel of Fortune <\/i>featured two back-to-back $100,000 winners for the first time in its history this week.<\/p>\n<p>Contestant Mark Baer took home the $100,000 bonus prize Tuesday, just a day after contestant Lisa Kramer did the same on the long-running game show.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>Baer solved the puzzle &#8220;A quick flight&#8221; in the bonus round to win the prize, bringing his earnings to $126,550.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, even after almost 40 years, new things happen around here,&#8221; host Pat Sajak said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sajak said he was &#8220;stunned&#8221; by the back-to-back wins in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaggieSajak\/status\/1491218641991331841\">conversation<\/a> with his daughter, Maggie Sajak, after the show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re heading into our 40th season in the fall and yet still we see things we never saw before on the show,&#8221; Sajak said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maggie, I was stunned. I never thought I&#8217;d see that on the show,&#8221; he added.\n<\/p>\n<p>Baer, a software engineer from Burbank, Calif., said after the show that he plans to invest his winnings into a property he and his wife recently bought in wine country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to start building a ranch and small vineyard in wine country,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a retirement project.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kramer and Baer are the second and third $100,000 grand prize winners of the season. Contestant Ilene Knebel took home the prize in January.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1\/2 Pat Sajak hosts the long-running game show &#8220;Wheel of Fortun.&#8221; File Photo by Nina Prommer\/EPA-EFE Feb. 9 (UPI) &#8212; Wheel of Fortune featured two back-to-back $100,000 winners for the first time in its history this week. Contestant Mark Baer took home the $100,000 bonus prize Tuesday, just a day after contestant Lisa Kramer did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":983912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}