'It always pains me when nice people come on our show to play a game and win some money and maybe fulfill a lifelong dream, and are then subject to online ridicule when they make a mistake or something goes awry,' Sajak tweeted.
After the episode's contestants struggled to correctly guess the last word of the popular phrase “another feather in your cap,” some viewers took to Twitter to poke fun at the moment.the botched round the “worst 2 minutes in the history of Wheel of Fortune.”
"The first attempted solve was “Feather in your hat” which, by the way, is how a lot of people say it. So all three players thought it was a good solve, and were stunned when I said it was wrong," he continued. "But mocking them online and calling them names? These are good people in a bad situation under a kind of stress that you can’t begin to appreciate from the comfort of your couch," he wrote.
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