Wheel Woes

Along with about 3,000 others, I went to Tunica in October to try out for Wheel of Fortune. They randomly drew 300-400 names to come on stage. I was one of the first selected! We went on in groups of 5, introduced ourselves, and were given one puzzle to solve. I only got to guess one letter, but apparently that was enough for the producers to invite me and 200 others back today for a final audition!

When I got to Tunica today, they put me in a room with about 100 other people, and we solved puzzles for an hour. They called on one person at random until we all had been called on. I solved my puzzle and won a tote bag! Then we took a written test that had 16 partially solved puzzles on them. We had 5 minutes to solve as many as we could. I got 10 solved, which was more than other people I talked to. They graded our tests and came back in and told about 25 people to stay for further tryouts. But I wasn't one of those people! I was shocked. I am disappointed and wish I knew WHY I didn't get picked (race? age? pregnant?), but did the best I could with the things I could control and had fun in the process. Mayhaps I will tryout again sometime...