Actually, three people have won the biggest money offered by the biggest wheel on TV.

The first winner came just a month after the prize was introduced in September 2008. Two others have won since.

The first was the-24-year-old floral designer and newlywed Michelle Loewenstein from Santa Monica, California. In an interview after the episode taped, weeks before it aired, she called it an "incredible wedding present," and said, "my biggest problem is going to be keeping the secret." She won it with the puzzle "leaky faucet," if anyone's keeping track.

The $1-million space on the wheel was introduced by host Pat Sajak in 2008, handily eclipsing the previous top prize of $100,000, which was introduced in 2001. In that time, 16 winners took home the big jackpot. So far it looks as if the frequency will be lower for the million.

The second $1-million prize wasn't handed out until 2013, when it went to another Californian, Autumn Erhard from the Orange County city of Laguna Niguel. Erhard was 30 years old at the time and won it May 30, during the show's 30th-anniversary season -- a little detail for any numerology geeks (or conspiracy theorists) out there.

The third winner was Sarah Manchester, who is not from California (she's from Silver Spring, Maryland). The math teacher and mother of two won the prize in 2014, and won it pretty easily, too. By the time the usual letters, and her own four choices, were displayed, there were only three letters missing from her puzzle, "loud laughter."

Indeed, the hardest part is getting to that point. In order to compete for the $1-million prize in the bonus round at the end of the show, a contestant has to land on the $1-million spot on the wheel, keep it by getting a letter right on their turn, solve that puzzle, win the episode without ever going bankrupt, land on the $1-million spot again on the smaller wheel in the bonus round, and solve the bonus puzzle.

Those odds are not great, which is why we've only seen three winners in the nearly 1,300 episodes that have aired since the spot was introduced.

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