A Wheel of Fortune contestant lost out on taking home a car in the Bonus Round. But the mom-of-two wouldn’t even have been on the show if her daughter hadn’t tricked her in the first place.

Jennifer Jaehnig, from Wilton, Connecticut, played against Joy Gompah, from Buffalo, New York, and Steve Hawthorne, from Mahwah, New Jersey, on Wednesday, December 10. Jaehnig revealed that her daughter tricked her into thinking she was filming a school project, but was really asking her questions for a Wheel of Fortune audition tape.

“What was your reaction then?” host Ryan Seacrest asked.

“Oh my gosh. I can’t believe you did this. I’ve loved Wheel for forever, but I never expected anything to come of it,” she said. “And here we are, she got me.”

“It’s a prank gone well for the first time

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