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She drew 27 blanks but had zero doubts.
In what “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak dubbed the “the most amazing solve we’ve ever had,” New York fashion editor Caitlin Burke correctly cracked a puzzle with only a single letter L showing.
Actually, Burke believed “-‘– — – —- ——- —– —-” was “I’ve got a good feeling about this,” even before putting the L on the board, “but I was worried the producers would be mad at me if I made the game end so quickly.”
Raised in New Jersey and now living in Manhattan, Burke, 26, was well prepared for her game-show triumph.
As a Brownie, she beat all the other girls at Hangman, her mother, Robin, told The Post. And by age 9, she wiped the floor with her whole family when they watched her favorite game show.
“She would always get it right away. She just had a knack for figuring words out,” her mother said.
Appearing on the show has long been “No. 1 on my bucket list,” Burke said. “Now that it’s crossed off, I still need to fly in a helicopter and meet Eminem.”
Burke wasn’t perfect throughout her “Wheel of Fortune” stint — which taped in September and aired Friday. Although she flubbed the solution to “Volunteer firefighter,” Burke still cleaned up — more than $53,000 in prize money and a trip to the Caribbean.
“I am going to pay off my student loans, buy a Chanel bag and start my own business,” she said.
Her greatest source of anxiety going into the show was what to wear, she said.
“I went shopping every single day before the show — I spent over a thousand dollars in outfits,” she said. “But I ended up wearing something I already had — a purple shirt and skirt. I had to return everything I bought so I could pay the rent.”
Burke said that it was the apostrophe in the word “I’ve” that clued her in to the answer.
“I saw that it was a small word, so ‘I’ve.’ And I thought maybe ‘Got a feeling about,’ so I’ve got a hunch.”
“Oh, in that case it was easy,” Sajak laughed.
It may have also helped that the Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling,” is the ring tone for when her boyfriend calls.
“That’s the song that was always playing when we first got together,” she said.
Additional reporting by Ada Calhoun