The lowest confirmed winning score is $600, sometime in September 1984 (nighttime). On two known daytime episodes (March 30, 1987 and July 21, 1989), the winning contestant had only $1,000.Click to see full answer. Accordingly, has anybody ever won $1000000 on Wheel of Fortune?Yes! Three people. Michelle Lowenstein won in 2008, Autumn Erhard won in 2013, and Sarah Manchester won in 2014.Secondly, do losers on Wheel of Fortune keep the money? On the Internet, I often see people complaining to Jeopardy! that only the winners keep the cash, unlike Wheel of Fortune, where all players keep their money totals from puzzles solved. On Wheel, once you solve a puzzle, that money can’t be wiped out by a Bankrupt. Furthermore, what is the most anyone has ever won on Wheel of Fortune? Maybe “The Lone Ranger” was just a lucky guess, but he was on a roll for the entire show. He won every puzzle in the game and won $91,000 before the bonus round began. His $91,000 win set a new record for Wheel of Fortune as it’s the most that anyone has ever won during the main portion of the show.What percentage of Wheel of Fortune contestants win the bonus round?Although the producers want the players to win some of the time, they have a vested interest in keeping costs down. They are succeeding, too: only 37.76% of contestants solve the bonus round puzzle. The producers have the advantage for two reasons.