Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. His lifelong goal was simple: spin the wheel, solve a puzzle (maybe buy a vowel or two), and not make a fool of himself. But ...

Chorsie Calbert IV, a 30-year-old Whitehall alum, won nearly $150,000 on Wheel of Fortune. Calbert's victory made him the highest-earning male contestant in a single appearance in the show's history.