For Erin Bueckers, her experience on “Jeopardy!” was not at all what she dreamed it would be.
Booker, a stay-at-home mom, competed on a recent episode of the popular game show and finished with a final score of -$7,200, the second-lowest score in “Jeopardy!” history.
Booker told Fox News Digital that he had a “lot of fun” filming the episode, but described it as “almost an out-of-body experience.”
“When I’m watching, I get hints, but I can’t remember what category it is,” she explained. “I tell myself not to look funny because it’s live. … The way we record it, it’s almost like a live show. We try to keep it really tight.”
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“It was like an out-of-body experience,” Erin Booker said of appearing on “Jeopardy!” (ABC/Jeopardy)
She continued, “So instead of making weird faces or doing anything weird, I just keep thinking about it in my head, and then the answers start to appear right in front of me… it’s all so blurry and I can’t explain it.”
“This is all happening,” she said, “and it’s all happening at once and there’s a lot of noise in your head and it’s almost an out-of-body experience.”
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She suggested that playing along to “Jeopardy!” at home and actually filming an episode are very different, but said she’d “love to do it again.”
The contestant told Fox News Digital that people who want to appear on “Jeopardy!” “dream of doing great, or at least not doing miserably. And in your mind, you keep saying, ‘I hope I can at least make it to Final Jeopardy,’ or you tell people, ‘I want to make it to Final Jeopardy.'”
Booker competed against graduate student and “Survivor” alumnus Drew Basil and lighting designer Graham Hicks.
Due to his low score, Booker did not qualify for Final Jeopardy, which was ultimately won by Basil.
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During the competition, she said, “I was driven by [her] The “nuts” were buzzers used by contestants to answer questions.
“There [were] “There were a lot of times where I’d think, ‘OK, I can do this,’ and then someone else hit the buzzer first and it turned out I couldn’t do it. I didn’t anticipate how painful that part would be. I was like, ‘Oh no, but I know this,’ but then the other person would get the points in their score and their score would go up.”
Erin Bueckers missed out on Final Jeopardy due to a negative score. (ABC/Jeopardy)
Booker isn’t the first game show contestant to struggle with answers or buzzers.
In May, “Wheel of Fortune” contestant Tavaris Williams spoke to Fox News Digital about a viral moment on the show.
“I tried to get an edge over the other contestants by hitting the buzzer first and letting my brain catch up,” Williams said.
As host Vanna White stood in front of the puzzle board, the letters of the phrase were revealed and read, “____ I_ T_E B__T!”
An episode of “Wheel of Fortune” went viral after a contestant gave an obscene answer. (ABC)
Williams immediately rang the doorbell and confidently declared, “It’s right in the middle of my ass.”
His answer caused a moment of silence from the audience, followed by laughter, followed by contestant Tyra asking “What?”, to which host Pat Sajak replied with a resounding “No,” leading to a look of shock on Williams’ face.
The correct answer was “This is the best!”
“Such common sense [thoughts like]”Well, ‘right’ wasn’t the right word.” [or] “‘This is a family show.’ That doesn’t even cross your mind when there are 50 monitors overhead, super bright lights, 100 stagehands, producers and sound guys,” he said.
Williams added, “I was standing next to Pat and I had to say something. I couldn’t just get drunk and not say something. And the rest is history.”
Pat Sajak recently retired from hosting “Wheel of Fortune” after more than 40 years in the role. (Getty Images)
After Puzzle, Williams said she took a break from filming, which Sajak, She, whom he called “amazing,” did her best to support him.
“So he immediately tried to cheer me up and get me going, but then we went on a break. And during the break, Pat was so sweet, so supportive, and said, ‘Oh, you’re famous. Let’s figure out how to edit that tastefully. I don’t know how, but we’ll figure it out.’ He was so kind and made me feel amazing throughout the process. He’s such a great guy,” he said.
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Williams also said White was “amazing” and praised the producers working behind the scenes, though she acknowledged her response may have made their day a bit awkward.
“They’re consummate professionals. I exchanged a few looks and they had that ‘They’re going to make us work today’ look. But they were great. They were polite. They’ve been through everything before. They probably didn’t expect this. But they allowed me to go on with the show and I hope you all enjoyed it,” he said.
Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Stanton contributed to this report.
