Emil de Leon, the Wheel of Fortune contestant responsible for the most improbable final puzzle solve in history, appeared on Ellen yesterday to explain himself. I say “explain himself” instead of “tell everyone how he came up with ‘New Baby Buggy’ despite only having the N and E on the board” because I have chosen to operate under the presumption that he is a wizard, and it’s going to take a very strong case to convince me otherwise. Let’s see what he’s got.
It’s all in the first letters: R-S-T-L-N-E. They showed up, the N and the E. It’s pretty obvious the first word was new. Then worked on baby. It just sounds right, right? “New baby?” The hard part was “buggy.” I worked with that B again, and, yeah, so…
Nope. Still think he’s a wizard. In fact, to illustrate how improbable a solve “New Baby Buggy” was, let’s put five minutes on the clock and see how many things I would have come up with before I got to that, without taking into account the letters that were already off the board, because there’s no way I would have been able make that distinction on the clock under the hot lights.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand go:
- New Judo Moves
- New York Ninja
- New York Times
- Neg Sexy Babes
- New Army Boots
- New Taco Truck
- New LEGO Movie
- New Evil Robot
- New Huge Laser
- New Dido Songs
- NES Game Zelda
- New Pope Party
- New Blue Jeans
- New Baby Bunny
- New Nazi Dance
- New Beer Koozy
- New Meat Pizza
- New Frog Queen
- Net Wifi Thief
- New Bank Heist
- New Girl Sucks (NOTE: I do not think this, but it would be hilarious if Wheel started using its final puzzle to take mean shots at sitcoms.)
- Ned Lost Maude
- New Crap Stick
- New F*ck Buddy
- New Cool Dunks
- New Pink Tiger
- New Lice Combs
- New Fred Claus
- New Duck Suits
- New Punk Pants
- New Jump Ropes
- New Funk Class
- New Ohio Rebel
- New Jazz Clubs
- New Fart Kazoo
Feel free to use any of those as names for your band or craft beer.
