When it comes to game shows, you never know what you will get. The players often go through rigorous auditions to even get selected and are considered the best of the best. Yet when the cameras roll, some people seem to lose all of their skills. Sometimes, the poor Wheel of Fortune players miss a puzzle that people think is a slam dunk and end up turning the game over to an opponent. A contestant named James Mulaney recently appeared on Wheel of Fortune, and it looked like solving the puzzle would be simple. The board said, “_L_ING  ON A MAGIC CARPET.” With two letters left, James guessed ‘B,’ and that was the end for him. A Fellow “Wheel Of Fortune” Contestant Had No Trouble Solving The Puzzle Elsie Pierce was up next following James’ fumble, and solving the puzzle helped her become the Wheel of Fortune champ. She went on to the bonus round and easily solved the final puzzle. After Wheel gave her letters and she chose her own, Elsie ended up with “FLO_N_ER_N_   _ _O_T.” In seconds, Elsie yelled, “Floundering About.” Ryan Seacrest showed Elsie her $40,000, which gave her a grand total of $67,427. Not bad for a day’s work. “I’m so happy,” she said. “And you were fast,” an amazed Ryan complimented. Fans congratulated the Wheel of Fortune contestant for easily solving the challenging puzzle. “Oddly enough, the ‘F’ was the right letter to pick and so was the ‘O’ as vowel, and Elsie did follow the Cardinal Rule on safe letter not to choose on What Are You Doing and very good solve by Elsie winning $40,000, nice job by her,” one wrote. “Way to go, Elise, congrats on your win and your success on the bonus round of ‘Wheel of Fortune.’ You deserve it 40$00,” another fan agreed. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post “Wheel Of Fortune” Player Blanks On Obvious Puzzle & Loses $67K appeared first on InspireMore.

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Books book reviews Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes is a Fun and Truly Creepy Space Horror In the vast emptiness of space, nothing is emptier than an abandoned ship… By Jenny Hamilton | Published on May 1, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share Halley just needs to stay under the radar until her professional troubles blow over. Without government credentials, she can’t turn down a job no matter how shady it sounds—which is how she ends up taking a job on the Elysian Fields. Once vaunted as a holding area for the cryogenically frozen rich and powerful as they awaited a more advanced technology to bring them back to life, the Elysian Fields never fulfilled its promise. In Halley’s youth it was a museum, and now it’s not even that, just a piece of near-forgotten history haunted by the hologram AI versions of its founder’s children. I have to start this review by saying how happy I am that S. A. Barnes is now on her third book of really fun, truly creepy space horror. My space horror bona fides are wobbly in that I still haven’t watched any of the Aliens, so you may have to take it with a grain of salt when I attest that I love space horror and yearn to see more of it. (The only thing more horrifying is deep sea horror, which I am too terrified even to contemplate.) Space horror is always a haunted house story, and I love a haunted house story more than I love hot dinners. In the vast emptiness of space, nothing is emptier than an abandoned ship or planet or space station, and those spaces are exactly where S. A. Barnes thrives. I love it. I will read every single one, forever. No sooner does Halley board the Elysian Fields than she starts seeing things that aren’t quite right. She’s sure at first that she saw something moving—a monster—on one of the lower decks, but her supervisor, Karl, assures her it’s just a glitch in the cameras. And is she noticing real changes to the frozen bodies under her care, or is she losing her mind a lil bit because she never gets more than a couple hours of sleep at a time? The stillness of space provides the perfect canvas for horror, given that there’s nobody else on the ship but Karl (supposedly), and Halley can’t leave. A reader can roll her eyes at characters refusing to leave an obviously haunted house, but for Halley, there’s really no avenue for escape. Barnes allows the true horrors of the Elysian Fields to trickle out gradually, each small reveal building on the last. Cold Eternity leans heavily into the inherent horror of living forever. The Elysian Fields exists because one rich man, Zale Winfield (great name for a rich bastard), couldn’t bear the possibility of mortality. Relentless in his pursuit of a way to circumvent it, he convinced a whole ship full of rich people to gamble on a future technology that might revive them. I personally cannot understand the appeal. I have the depression. It sounds, in this economy, very restful to be dead. But here is a whole ship full of corpses who in life didn’t agree with me, and who had the money to make a desperate final gamble on the possibility of immortality. Buy the Book Cold Eternity S.A. Barnes Buy Book Cold Eternity S.A. Barnes Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget The great insight of this book is that people who want to conquer death are simultaneously the most pitiable and the most dangerous people imaginable. (I say this as someone who has read that NYMag article about the vegan cult murders every day for the last several weeks.) Zale Winfield dedicated his life to pushing beyond the boundaries of mortality, and it’s obvious that such a desire is corrosive to society and corrosive to the people who are pursuing it. We see again and again that the seekers after immortality—Zale Winfield, Karl, even Halley’s parents in their own way—destroy the lives of those around them, and ultimately create the conditions for their own loss of self. At the risk of sounding like Emperor Joseph II, I have to say that Cold Eternity contained just slightly more plot elements than it could carry. Halley’s reason for taking the Elysian Fields job involves a hefty dose of political intrigue, involving a lot of off-screen characters and machinations we have to keep track of. This would have been fine, except that Halley also has a set of overbearing, amoral parents whose search for her keeps intruding into her present day and affecting her decisions. The two pieces of backstory together were just that little bit too much, especially because the parents never really became plot-relevant. I’d have much preferred Barnes to give that space to telling us more about Zale Winfield’s three children. Two of them worked for his company, one did not, and all three died unexpectedly before the Elysian Fields set sail. They’re now preserved as AI holograms aboard the ship, forever giving canned presentations on Zale Winfield and his dreams. Their story becomes important to the horrors unfolding on the ship, and I’d have liked to get a better sense of what they’re about—especially Aleyk, the rebellious youngest son. The entities Halley faces are vast and powerful and endlessly greedy, and she is, relatably, but one woman deprived of resources by the capitalist hellscape in which she lives. She can’t fix the problems in her present any more than she could fix the ones she’s fleeing from her past. All the choices available to her are bad ones. None will make the world good. The understanding she must reach is that truth stands outside of financial worries or political expediency. It exists—and has to exist—and will always exist—on its own merit. As we witness the real-world destruction of so many institutions dedicated to the advancement of truth and knowledge, it’s bracing to be reminded that it’s still worthwhile to stand up and say what’s true.[end-mark] Cold Eternity is published by Nightfire.Read an excerpt. The post <i>Cold Eternity</i> by S.A. Barnes is a Fun and Truly Creepy Space Horror appeared first on Reactor.