2.5 HOURS of EVERY Megaword on Wheel of Fortune!

[@MonkyPocks01]

Megaword debuted on my 10th bday. I always watched Wheel with my great grandparent’s and they made so much noise during this episode. I remember so much about this night. Thank you for triggering so many memories!! ❤❤

[@QueenAlexis556]

These "megaword" episodes make me look forward to going to work in the morning 😁

[@Mr.Face222]

Timestamps (spoilers below): v v v 0:00:00 EXTEMPORIZE 0:04:31 HAPHAZARDLY 0:09:23 PROGNOSTICATE 0:13:08 RESUSCITATION 0:16:18 COMMENDATION 0:19:15 FLAMBOYANTLY 0:23:54 ELASTICIZED 0:28:16 HYPOTHESIS 0:31:40 CHRYSANTHEMUM 0:35:50 LABYRINTH 0:38:46 JUXTAPOSITION 0:42:00 PATERNALISTIC 0:45:24 MELODRAMATIC 0:48:39 VACILLATING 0:52:26 HYPOTHETICAL 0:56:15 BOISTEROUS 0:58:20 CORNUCOPIA 1:01:05 PROLIFERATION 1:03:30 PRISTINELY 1:08:03 COPACETIC 1:12:07 ABRACADABRA 1:17:09 SYNCOPATED 1:19:30 CLAIRVOYANT 1:22:06 EROTICISM 1:25:56 AMBIVALENCE 1:30:05 ENTREPRENEUR 1:32:57 APERITIF 1:37:26 STUPEFIED 1:41:15 CONTORTIONIST 1:43:20 BOMBASTIC 1:47:41 PLAGIARISM 1:51:12 WITTICISM 1:54:26 OXIDIZED 2:00:28 VALEDICTORIAN 2:04:27 SOPHISTICATED 2:07:09 COGNIZANT 2:11:29 GARGANTUAN 2:14:58 REVERBERATION 2:16:32 OVERINDULGES 2:20:17 REJUVENATED 2:23:21 CIRCUMFERENCE 2:26:13 MAGNANIMOUS Please let me know if I missed anything.

[@bauTom]

Very useless comment. Why do that? We watching this… we’ll see the answers eventually.

[@Mr.Face222]

@@bauTom 1. There's a reason why I put "spoilers below". 2. It's also for those who want to watch some moments of a round and they want to find what they're looking for. If you find this comment "useless", why waste your time replying to it instead of simply ignoring it?

[@bauTom]

@@Mr.Face222 someone’s got to make ur education if ur parents so blatantly failed. Maybe ur still not too old to learn, evolve & change. Just coz u can post doesn’t mean u have to. That index of yours was totally useless. Nobody wants to go back to a specific puzzle. You watch this episode from start to finish and u watch it once. Nobody going back to rewatch the moment they played for OXIDIZED. Come on.

[@Mr.Face222]

@@bauTom Just because I don't _have_ to post anything doesn't mean that I'm not going to. You're over here wasting your time replying with unnecessary crap when all you had to do is _simply_ ignore the comment. I'm not going to fight over stupid shit, so I'm going to end this and move on.

[@dustin35713]

@@bauTom Don’t sound like a whiny 7-year old all your life.

[@SarahBPrado]

I love this gameshow..thank you!

[@utubethumbsup]

Wow, the quality of this upload is spectacular (another megaword!)

[@LoyalmoonieProductions]

"Megaword is NOT a new Mighty Morphin Power Ranger!" 😂😂😂😂😂

[@bkachief]

“Switching to Megaword Battle Mode!”

[@LoyalmoonieProductions]

@@bkachief *_"MEGAWORD SEQUENCE HAS BEEN INITIATED!!"_*

[@LoyalmoonieProductions]

​@@bkachief*_"MEGAWORD ACTIVATED!!!"_*

[@jovar.3649]

Well, this is something I didn't know I needed. Thanks!

[@starsfan23]

That makes two of us

[@jacobrichardson1952]

As an old soul Wheel Of Fortune person for 1994, I'd say I like that category Megaword it's quite a combination of the dictionary in each word. This is gold.

[@justinm.1]

I’m raising an eyebrow on some of the megawords, but it’s the best 2.5 hours ever spent watching this chaos 😂

[@hnitsua]

many of these words arent even suitable for like a 19 year old like myself, you? (i forgot that u also always commented on transit vids too bc i seen u there all the time)

[@Gannooch]

2:11:43. Pat: “I am in the mood for a mega word.” Sure, you were Pat. Just like you would be in the mood to throw up. Haha! In real life, Pat and Vanna HATED this category as time wore on.

[@bmaze35640]

You can tell he hated the category from Day 1.

[@Crichtonator1982]

Wow! I've never seen that category , at least I don't remember seeing it 🤷

[@Vidgmchtr]

Pat’s shouting of “MEGAWOOOORD” has me laughing each time, it’s just incredibly obvious how much he hated this category.

[@Wolfman12395]

1:25:09 I think she clearly didn't want to solve that puzzle on purpose if you ask me.

[@anthonyguarino4242]

Yeah, because the puzzle is not kid-friendly.

[@jasonarnold8448]

Yes, you're right. In fact, if you see her lips closely right after she calls the A, she said "I know what it is." But she was too embarrassed to solve it. What were they thinking using a word like that for a puzzle on WOF, a family-friendly game show? I would've said absolutely not for that word.

[@anthonyguarino4242]

@@jasonarnold8448 I wouldn’t solve that either. If I did, I would not say anything to complete the sentence because there were kids watching the show at home and especially in the audience! What were the staffs thinking to put that obscure word as the puzzle?! I’m glad it never happened again after this inappropriate puzzle in front of the kids at home and in the audience! I watched wheel when I was little and thank goodness I didn’t watch that episode because of the puzzle so I wouldn’t have any idea what the puzzle was!

[@biruss]

@@anthonyguarino4242 I would. "Eroticism is of the utmost impropriety for the family hour!"

[@anthonyguarino4242]

@@biruss that would be a good sentence to make sure that the kids don’t understand what the sentence means by that and you tell them that they don’t wanna know and inform them that you’ll tell them when they get older.

[@cam-qg3it]

When Wheel of Fortune turns into a spelling bee.

[@Gannooch]

Pat: “Megaword is gonna be great.” What an unintentionally funny statement since we know what we know now about this category and how Pat and Vanna hated this category.

[@a_thief_in_the_night]

The only category you would have to rely on Q, X, Z, and J to have a shot 😂😂😂

[@CCrawford522]

I remember this when I was a kid. I actually liked it!

[@Survivor1547]

Nice one Pat a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Reference.🤣

[@VectraQS]

The legendary OXIDIZED round is at 1:54:27

[@anthonyguarino4242]

And 21 turns were lost in this round! So exhausting! That’s why megaword is retired and never come back, Thank god!

[@mitchellhodack657]

21 turns?!

[@anthonyguarino4242]

@@mitchellhodack657 yes, counting the contestants landing on bankrupt and 18 incorrect letters were called without repeats.

[@Bluetailvappy]

You know you are in for a fun time when X, Z, and D are the only consonants in the puzzle.

[@anthonyguarino4242]

@@Bluetailvappy yep! That’s why Pat hated that category Megaword so they got rid of that category for GOOD on April 30, 1995 so good riddance to Megaword!

[@anthonyguarino4242]

38:16 the puzzle was used on the wheel of fortune day-by-day calendar on February 1996.

[@pushpalata2945]

Congrats Jeremy well played

[@vanzzini]

When ideas sound good on paper. Wheel of fortune edition.

[@ClamperDrew]

I like how Pat says "megaword". It's like it's his dastardly supervillain name.

[@Elavator66]

It is. To him.

[@jasonarnold8448]

All together, there were 42 Megaword rounds in season 12, and perhaps were Pat Sajak's 42 least favorite rounds in his 90's career. I liked the category, but I personally would have not ever tried this as a category if I was the producer back then. Even some of these contestants back in 94-95 may have never heard of some of those words before, and puzzles like PRISTINELY, BOMBASTIC and OXIDIZED were examples of showing how this category turned out. Oxidized? OXIDIZED?!?! As a WOF wheel-spinning puzzle, seriously?! You're just asking for a lengthy round with that! And it sure was, nearly 6 minutes, possibly the longest-lasting single round in WOF history! "That was a mega-headache" Pat Sajak must've been saying after that round!

[@johnjames1398]

Fortune500 foreclosed almost it costed you. Thank you beer sir lordgod

[@starsfan23]

As I'm watching this, I'm getting the impression that as the season went on. Pat was getting more and more exasperated with the category.

[@Angie2343]

@coldsnap5742 I'm friends with Trent as I too have Aspergers.

[@hadla]

Omg all these years I thought the tan part was a border around each block! Now I see it’s the background 😆 back when vanna had to turn them around! I miss those. Always loved the shiny green ones!

[@BigManTransitEnthusiast]

I guess when Harry took over in the mid-12th season, he must’ve been felt like towards Merv: “To Hell With this category, I got better plans than having contestants put words into sentences that wasted too much time for taping!”

[@mikebode7560]

2:19:40 Always liked this prize cue, has it ever surfaced in the clear?

[@dylanekman]

Wish they would have the puzzle board, wheel and set-up for the Wheel of Fortune video game as a retro-throwback

[@lornemyers]

With Pat retiring, they should kick it old school for a bunch of episodes when his final season starts up.

[@tomasjaramillo4430]

CAR

[@alec888]

​@@lornemyers😊

[@anglophils645]

I'm stuck watching this, and cannot make myself turn it off.

[@StarFighters76]

"Megaword is not a new MMPR" Well that came out of left field lol.

[@danieldorsey6768]

38:23 - Labyrinth Zone is the fourth level in Sonic the Hedgehog. 😃

[@serenitymoon825]

Labyrinth is a movie starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly

[@anthonyguarino4242]

35:12 the puzzle was also used on the daytime episode aired on 9/1/82 which was the speed-up puzzle on R4 and was categorized as Thing.

[@alexcentury2166]

I wonder if they would have accepted "I have to use the word extemporize in a sentence" because that is grammatically correct.

[@5star555555555]

Probably not, since it doesn't demonstrate knowledge of the word (like how that one contestant didn't get credit for PROLIFERATION)

[@JMFabiano]

Interesting...the 1989 theme lived on in the puzzle solve cue when they changed to the 1994 theme.

[@davidhill8565]

I was a high school freshman when this category was introduced. This category is discontinued. The 1997 puzzle board was introduced during my junior year of high school.

[@TheShredtube]

58:30 you can hear audience groans lol. Even they grew tired of the always ubiquitous category

[@manooch]

English is not my native language,and have been about 27 years in America ,but I was surprized myself when after watching about 15 minutes of this video I gussed "haphazardly" word at 6:25 by only seeing "......ard.." and "flamboyantly" at 21:22 by only seeing ".l......ntl." But I didn't know the meaning of them , but they were ringing in my ears.Probably because of watching too much tv. Btw often I guess puzzles in wheel of fortune. Sorry talking about myself

[@3mango]

The only reason they’ll never bring this category back is because no one nowadays understand what big words are. Could you imagine, “I like to solve the puzzle. Duh Da Duh”

[@trevorpanno516]

The players in the OXIDIZED round did a very good job in watching the used letter board.

[@MrWildcat2009]

9:21 “the National Game Show WHAT?!”

[@kienphatong5534]

0:00:00 EXTEMPORIZE 0:04:31 HAPHAZARDLY 0:09:23 PROGNOSTICATE 0:13:08 RESUSCITATION 0:16:18 COMMENDATION 0:19:15 FLAMBOYANTLY 0:23:54 ELASTICIZED 0:28:16 HYPOTHESIS 0:31:40 CHRYSANTHEMUM 0:35:50 LABYRINTH 0:38:46 JUXTAPOSITION 0:42:00 PATERNALISTIC 0:45:24 MELODRAMATIC 0:48:39 VACILLATING 0:52:26 HYPOTHETICAL 0:56:15 BOISTEROUS 0:58:20 CORNUCOPIA 1:01:05 PROLIFERATION 1:03:30 PRISTINELY 1:08:03 COPACETIC 1:12:07 ABRACADABRA 1:17:09 SYNCOPATED 1:19:30 CLAIRVOYANT 1:22:06 EROTICISM 1:25:56 AMBIVALENCE 1:30:05 ENTREPRENEUR 1:32:57 APERITIF 1:37:26 STUPEFIED 1:41:15 CONTORTIONIST 1:43:20 BOMBASTIC 1:47:41 PLAGIARISM 1:51:12 WITTICISM 1:54:26 OXIDIZED 2:00:28 VALEDICTORIAN 2:04:27 SOPHISTICATED 2:07:09 COGNIZANT 2:11:29 GARGANTUAN 2:14:58 REVERBERATION 2:16:32 OVERINDULGES 2:20:17 REJUVENATED 2:23:21 CIRCUMFERENCE 2:26:13 MAGNANIMOUS

[@theedspage]

Megaword was a category until it was oxidized.

[@matthewcasiglio2539]

Megaword lasted as long as a few mini games on the price is right most notably professor price

[@JohnathanWilliamson849]

@@matthewcasiglio2539 It lasted longer than Professor Price actually

[@anglophils645]

I'm sorry, you have used the word "oxidized" incorrectly. Oxidized means oxygen has had an effect on the substance. Rust is the effect of oxidation on iron.

[@jonshecket3010]

I only had to watch the first one to see why everyone hated it.

[@machoman1016]

I like how 2 of the ladies in the December 16th episode are wearing the same color as their sections (the red and blue ones).

[@matthewcasiglio2539]

1994 was the debut of 3 things on wheel of fortune the megaword category the surprise wedge and the $10,000 wedge sandwiched in between 2 bankrupts the only megawords I know are cognizant cornucopia flatuently and wittiscism

[@jasonarnold8448]

@matthewcasiglio2539 Actually, the Surprise wedge debuted in the 1992-93 season, which was season 10. And I believe the Surprise wedge idea came with the commemorating of the show reaching its 10th season. At least that's what I heard Pat say about it on a clip from that season.

[@matthewcasiglio2539]

​@jasonarnold8448 well I knew it debuted before the wheel's cash 💸 layout was permanent which was 1996 and before Vanna started tapping the game board which was 1997

[@joshuad450]

With a category like this and all the time it took to figure the puzzles out, especially that "OXIDIZED" one, I'm glad it was retired!

[@ThisIsNotAhnJieRen]

I want to see this category in today's generation

[@biruss]

Llewellyn actually wins something on a gameshow! Unlike 1986

[@biruss]

Actually, they neglected to ask her opponent re : free spin

[@JMFabiano]

I just started, and I hope somehow it ends with the game show fan contestant who told Pat how he remembered this category.

[@JMFabiano]

(That would be Trent)

[@anthonyguarino4242]

1:25:17 The puzzle EROTICISM is a dirtiest puzzle on wheel of fortune that is not for kids.

[@ShamrockParticle]

Yeah, that one was a definite surprise.

[@anthonyguarino4242]

@@ShamrockParticle glad they never used that puzzle again! Wheel of fortune is a family-friendly game show, not x-rated game show!

[@ericsanjuan2002]

30:09-30:11 Kaitou Joker BANKRUPT I’m so sorry Ash

[@TheShredtube]

I bet Oxidized irritated Pat because only three consonants appear, two of the consonants being X and Z, which seldom appear, so the contestants called almost every letter to finish the round

[@jasonarnold8448]

Imagine what Pat's reaction must've been when he saw OXIDIZED on the solution card he was given at the start of the round. He must've said in his mind "Oh, great, this one's gonna be fun."

[@jasonhammon3369]

And in truth J was the only consonant not called during the round.

[@jasonarnold8448]

@@jasonhammon3369 And there were more vowels than consonants remaining at the end of that round, possibly the only WOF round in history that that has ever happened!

[@manoochehrkarimi6572]

1:44:59 I am not native English speaker, but when I saw "b.mb..t.." I gussed bombastic, why it took several spinning of the wheel to guess it actually saying I try to "attempt" to solve it

[@trippyboi91]

😂😂😂 it’s just the fact that they chose words with little to no repeating letters for me. And based on the fact that Wheel is 30 mins an ep.. I can’t believe they chose to have a category like this! They damn near forced ppl to solve on some of them.

[@PopRockRevival]

back in 1994 i thought pat was old. now as i reach middle age i see and hear just how young he was.

[@serenitymoon825]

I just love the irritated way he says Megaword 😂😂😂

[@manooch]

At 1:25:24 says use eroticism in a sentence suitable for family hour, he means don't say" if you f somebody you follow eroticism"!

[@giarichards8379]

1:25:25 Something suitable for the family hour *begins answer with sex* 💀😂

[@kreggie891]

2:06:49 when the contest is asked to use “sophisticated” in a sentence, and he says, “If I were high society, I would be sophisticated.” Did Pat Sajack actually respond with, “and we would be glad to have you.”? Did I hear that right? Did he just simultaneously elevate himself to high society and put this man down at the same time?

[@joanvasey7688]

Pat, I will really miss you as I grew up with you on Wheel. However, you deserve some "me" time with family and friends and hope you enjoy it. Love Wanna but was hoping you both would leave together to begin Wheel's new era. Am hoping Maggie, as pretty as she is and as much as I like her, will not become the new Vanna. Too much nepotism on TV and in the entertainment world as is and it's time to move awy from that trend. I also hope the network will update the prize amounts to reflect the 2020s and move the show out of the 50s. It's good for modern shows to reflect the era in which they were created. Evolution creates history. I sometimes watch and really enjoy the older shows. Pat, enjoy the next chapter of "Life After Wheel!"

[@RyneMcKinney]

A gimmick of a bygone time. The crowd was going nuts in the first few

[@GaryCalvert36]

2:23:29 It's funny to even hear Pat call it infamous.

[@drewseman9389]

This is a supercut of NY Times taking over Wordle

[@roygoodhand1301]

My favorite category, no joke, no troll. WoF at it's base is just a Spelling Bee, and this category was the EPITOME of that! But, you know.... Haters gonna hate!

[@michynature]

Is it the fact that you’re on tv that makes the brain blank out? These were easy from here.

[@mattcrowley8993]

I hated how this puzzle board had the outer lights stop flashing after a month at the time. (Includes when the episodes first aired)

[@Gannooch]

Megaword was a MegaMISS.

[@ShamrockParticle]

It was a dissemination fail.

[@JoseTwitterFan]

A *MegaFLOP!*

[@leticiawashington]

I Love game show's ❤❤❤

[@ericsanjuan2002]

1:23:15-1:23:17 oh man BANKRUPT I’m sorry Aiger Akabane

[@666Brago]

This is one category that should never return to Wheel of Fortune. Seemed like a good idea at the time but it was not very well liked.

[@drewzuhosky6826]

Nancy Jones was dismissed as a producer because of Megaword.

[@GrandGame1440]

@@drewzuhosky6826 Among other reasons.

[@Temperance_Noblige]

It would just show how dumb people are now a days anyway.

[@Ghostrider6A]

As long as Pat is a producer, Megaword will never return.

[@drewzuhosky6826]

@@Ghostrider6A Given how reviled it was, the chances of it ever returning are zero, even with Pat retiring.

[@aviaforrester1481]

Thank you

[@ericsanjuan2002]

33:49-33:51 Inazuma Eleven Go: Chrono Stone BANKRUPT

[@MERWACHOCKAAndrzej-zc7el]

I got one Megaword. Yhyyy.One lovely. 😊

[@Rhythm65536]

4:00 So happy 😊

[@ChiliBurgerYT]

It’s MEEEEGAAAWOOORD!

[@hithere3897]

can anyone do the hard work and list all the puzzle words as a list, so people can see how many of those they know? Im not watching for 2.5 hours. I see i know quite a few of them, but others i had to look up.

[@NakiaBills]

wheell of fortune Pamela white Jack pat say 😁

[@TheoHagigeorges]

1:55:20 N? 1:57:46 A G? 1:58:51 W?

[@clogndude]

I thought the players were supposed to also turn in the free spin trinket if landing on the bankrupt

[@ericsanjuan2002]

1:51:28-1:51:30 Inazuma Eleven Go: Galaxy BANKRUPT I bad luck gotcha again guys I’m sorry

[@ericsanjuan2002]

1:38:09-1:38:11 Inazuma Eleven Ares BANKRUPT

[@Alandoezrailfanningtrains26]

30 years from Yesterday in 1994.

[@DomFalance]

1:30:34 - YOU FOOL!

[@BelindaWoodson]

What is the difference between an employee and Employor ?

[@davidmccoyjr8147]

Audience reaction to no letter on the board:Awww😔

[@ericsanjuan2002]

2:01:59-2:02:01 Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal BANKRUPT oh man gotcha again I’m sorry to stop the traffic ouch!!!

[@ericsanjuan2002]

32:51-32:53 Beyblade Burst Quadstrike BANKRUPT I’m so sorry

[@ericsanjuan2002]

2:01:36-2:01:38 Pokémon sun and Moon BANKRUPT

[@pantherplatform]

Don't adjust your set? What is this? The 1950s?

[@manooch]

1:25:04 How can an American(seems American) person don't guess erotisism after seeing ".roticism". They say sometimes their brains freeze when playing there due to nevousness. Btw just discovered this amusing video

[@jasonarnold8448]

More like, how did they even get away with using that word as a WoF puzzle!

[@ericsanjuan2002]

26:01-26:03 By The Grace of the Gods oh no BANKRUPT goodbye $1,000 dollars cash I’m sorry

[@ericsanjuan2002]

1:15:56-1:15:59 Pokémon Sun and Moon BANKRUPT ohhhh boy the ten thousand dollars cash to stop to you I’m sorry

[@ericsanjuan2002]

1:53:12-1:53:16 Haikyu!! 3rd Season BANKRUPT goodbye $350 dollars cash I’m sorry

[@michaelbass3865]

MEGAWORD!

[@ericsanjuan2002]

2:08:19-2:08:23 Beyblade Burst Surge oh my goodness BANKRUPT I saw a coming close I’m sorry

[@SamtheBravesFan]

I love the idea of a challenging word, but the sentence bonus at the end was just completely superfluous. There's a Megaword right there: superfluous.

[@StLawrencePlace]

MEGAWORD!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ericsanjuan2002]

7:19-7:21 Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc V BANKRUPT you had $1,050 dollars cash I’m sorry