2 weeks Ago By Hannah Furnell
A recent Wheel Of Fortune player won over $70k but said he was just grateful to have gotten a chance to be on the hit ABC game show. Mike Gaethke, a bartender from Milwaukee, Wisconsin , played against Greg Harrington, from Pflugerville, Texas , and Tiara Reed, from Oakland, California , on Wednesday, April 23. The guitarist and father of two daughters won the second toss-up, giving him $2k after Reed, a therapeutic preschool teacher, won the first, adding $1,000 to her bank.
He then solved the first puzzle of the game and gained $14,700 after winning a Disney Princess Experience. Gene Hackman's New Mexico property has scary update as pictures emerge of home Saving Private Ryan dethroned as 'greatest ever war film' by Netflix hit During the second puzzle, Gaethke picked up the Mystery Wedge, which had $10,000 on the back of it. If he solved it, he'd add $10,000 to his bank, plus what he got for solving it, but he didn't succeed, and it went to Reed, who solved it as “Comb, Conditioner, Brush.
” Gaethke luck got better, though, when he racked up a hefty amount for winning the prize puzzle — “Local Delicacies”— and walking away with a trip to Disney Aulani Resort, giving him $29,298. He also solved two out of the three Triple Toss-Ups, with Reed solving one. Harrington, a professional speaker, finally earned some money when he solved the final puzzle — “Not a Moment Too Soon.
” This gave him a final total of $4,500 while Reed was left with $5,000. Gaethke was the night’s big winner with $32,298 in cash and prizes. For the Bonus Round, he picked “What Are You Doing?” He didn’t appear to have any family or friends with him on the game show but mentioned he would take his daughters on the Disney trips.
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Host Ryan Seacrest then showed him the envelope with $40,000 in it, making his total $72,298. “Let’s go!” Gaethke cheered as he turned to the audience with his fists raised over his head. After he hugged Seacrest, he turned to the audience again and threw his hands up, encouraging them to cheer.
“Let’s go! Come on!” “You like to celebrate?” Secrest said. “You should after all of that.” After his impressive win, Gaethke said, “It was crazy, I didn’t expect it to happen, I was just happy going and having the experience and the money was just a bonus.
I was pleased with my performance, I don’t think I embarrassed myself too much.” The father-of-two plans to spend his money on a shopping spree for his daughters and a new guitar, among other things. He said appearing on Wheel of Fortune was “fun” and “wild.
” “You see it on TV, and then see it in person, just looking around, it’s wild,” he added. Gaethke has a love for game shows and previously appeared on The $100,000 Pyramid, according to an interview with CBS 58. “My entire life, I would watch Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune almost nightly.
I’d record them. My old college roommate called me ‘game show,” he told the outlet. “It was always regular people just winning money, you could see yourself in their shoes, and you root for them.
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