‘Wheel of Fortune’ Contestant Offers X-Rated Guess: “Right in the Butt?” »

A “Wheel of Fortune” contestant shot to Internet fame Thursday night thanks to his absurd, X-rated answer to a brain teaser that sent audiences and viewers into hysteria.

In the opening segment of the game show, participants were asked to solve the sentence puzzle as quickly as possible as the letters appeared on the board.

Parts of the four-word phrase “_ _ _ _ _N T_E _ _ _T!” » were on the board when a competitor, Tavaris, chimed in with confidence to solve the puzzle.

“Right in the ass?” Tavares blurted out to the shock of his comrades and the crowd, who burst out laughing.

“What?” gasped a player.

“No,” replied longtime host Pat Sajak, managing to keep his cool.

While the crowd was still laughing, contestant Blake came up with the correct and innocent answer: “It’s the best!” »

Clips of the gaffe immediately went viral on social media

“Sir, this is an elegant sight,” Philip Lewis tweeted.

“Wheel of Fortune is now NSFW,” another user wrote.

Another called the absurd response “one of the greatest assumptions of all time.”

“Tavaris will never be able to experience this. So many jokes. Forever,” one viewer wrote.

Many have pointed out that “right” has five letters, not four.

“I can’t imagine you’ll get very far on the wheel of fortune if you don’t know how to spell ‘correct,'” one user joked.

“Yes, we saw the Wheel of Fortune music video, you can stop sending it to us,” Merriam-Webster’s X account posted.

The gaffe comes just weeks before Sajak retires as host of the game show, a position he held for 43 years.

His final episode will air June 7 and he will be replaced by Ryan Seacrest in the fall.