'Wheel of Fortune' contestant gets it so, so wrong that, honestly, it's kind of admirable

So wrong. So very wrong.
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Tyler Schmall
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There are incorrect game show answers, and then, there are game show answers so unsettlingly wrong, they're actually inspiring.

Tuesday night's Wheel of Fortune? Definitely an example of the latter.

In the episode, contestants were asked to solve a puzzle with the category "living thing." The clues got as far as "_O_EYS_CK_E B_S_" before a contestant rang in with a truly, incredibly, wonderfully wrong answer.

Contestant: "Popsicle Bike."

Pat Sajak: "...No."

What is it? A bike made of popsicles perhaps? Or is it a bike-shaped popsicle? Does anybody know? A quick Google search unfortunately yields nothing tangible. Are we left with no answers?

There are a couple of assumptions to be made here:

1. Popsicle Bikes are real, and

2. Popsicle Bikes are living. What a horrifying idea.

This incident's incredibly similar to an event that also went down on Wheel of Fortune only a couple of weeks ago, when a contestant brutally messed up an answer in a way never before seen.

Ouch.

And yet, bravura: This is the true magic of game shows. It's unfiltered and unscripted. People just being people. And getting life's answers so, so wrong in the most human (and literal) way possible.

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Tyler Schmall is a humor writer based in NYC and a friend of yours. You can follow him on Twitter @tylerschmall where he has been known to post "tweets."

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