Mystery Wedge flips and results by episode, Season 43
The second wheel round is the Mystery Round. Two wedges on the wheel (the Mystery Wedges) show a face value of $1,000 but with an enticing question mark graphic. A contestant who lands one a Mystery Wedge calls a consonant as they would for any other dollar-value wedge. If in the puzzle, they receive $1,000 per instance of that consonant, which they can take and move on with the game as normal, or can decline in favor of flipping over the Mystery Wedge. The reverse side of one Mystery Wedge is $10,000; the reverse of the other is a BANKRUPT.
In Season 43 (2025-2026), contestants flipped the Mystery Wedge in 60 episodes (just under one-third of all episodes in the season, or about 1.5 per week). Their flips revealed BANKRUPTs 35 times (58%), versus 25 times (42%) for the $10,000 prize. A generally unlucky set of results, to be sure, but normal enough for the equivalent of a coin flip.
(Probability theory has a lot to say about coin flips. The chance of getting 35+ heads out of 60 coin flips is 12%, according to our good friend, the binomial distribution. Not a high probability, but perfectly reasonable.)
The longest streak of consecutive days (based on airdate) with a Mystery Wedge flip was three, which happened twice this season: once in September (two BRs and one $10k) and again in March (two $10k and one BR). The longest streak of consecutive $10k reveals (again, by airdate) topped out at three, which happened two different times this season, but during a particularly rough stretch to start 2026, five straight BRs were revealed across an eight-episode stretch.
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