POLL: Most heartbreaking losses?

[Long live Jeopardy]

Here's a heartbreaking bonus round loss from Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? (starts at the 23:25 mark):

[TLEberle]

Oof, couple of costly errors, though I think that demonstrates how merciless that end game was when compared to others of the era.

For the life of me I don’t remember anything about the episode other than a boy trying to make the final identification and he managed to separate the spinning light from the rest of the pedestal.

[TLEberle]

A more recent heartbreaking loss came in the current Elizabeth Banks version of Press Your Luck in 2021 where a contestant won $0 in the main game and $0 in the bonus round:

Glutton for punishment that I am I want to see how the tiebreaker spin-off was carried out.

[Otm Shank]

If I remember correctly, the other 2 contestants in the front game whammied out, so it was technically a solo $0 win.

[jlgarfield]

- Another close loss. Starts @ 21:28.

[wdm1219inpenna]

It may have been mentioned, but I seem to recall once on Wheel a woman had like $60,000 in her bank, the puzzle was THE THRILL OF VICTORY AND THE AGONY OF DEFEAT, and she either called a wrong letter or hit a Bankrupt or something, and the next player solved it for like a piddly $200.

Many heartbreaking losses on Grocery Game where players went over by 1 lousy cent too!  UGH.

[Kevin Prather]

It may have been mentioned, but I seem to recall once on Wheel a woman had like $60,000 in her bank, the puzzle was THE THRILL OF VICTORY AND THE AGONY OF DEFEAT, and she either called a wrong letter or hit a Bankrupt or something, and the next player solved it for like a piddly $200.

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[Long live Jeopardy]

Here's another Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? heartbreaker:

[Long live Jeopardy]

Here's a heartbreaking bonus round loss from Supermarket Sweep (starts at the 26:15 mark):

[Loogaroo]

On the UK side of things, a contestant on UK's version of Deal or No Deal got to the end with just the 1p and £250,000 boxes remaining. She was an older lady who got on the show and wanted to win enough money to buy a particular model of Bentley that had sentimental value to her, and only the £250K would have given her enough money to be able to buy it. The banker offered her £88,000, she said No Deal... and the subject of this thread is "Most heartbreaking losses" so you can fill in the rest.

[Kevin Prather]

As far as UK DoND goes, my vote goes to Trevor. He knocked out the £250k one box before the final offer, after never getting an offer over £10,000. He ended up with 1p.