diff --git a/pettingzoo/utils/wrappers/terminate_illegal.py b/pettingzoo/utils/wrappers/terminate_illegal.py
index a49d9a0be..79f95504a 100644
--- a/pettingzoo/utils/wrappers/terminate_illegal.py
+++ b/pettingzoo/utils/wrappers/terminate_illegal.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# pyright reportGeneralTypeIssues=false
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from pettingzoo.utils.env import ActionType, AECEnv, AgentID, ObsType
@@ -20,6 +19,7 @@ def __init__(
         self._illegal_value = illegal_reward
         self._prev_obs = None
         self._prev_info = None
+        self._terminated = False  # terminated by an illegal move
 
     def reset(self, seed: int | None = None, options: dict | None = None) -> None:
         self._terminated = False
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ def step(self, action: ActionType) -> None:
         if self._prev_obs is None:
             self.observe(self.agent_selection)
         if isinstance(self._prev_obs, dict):
-            assert self._prev_obs is not None
             assert (
                 "action_mask" in self._prev_obs
             ), f"`action_mask` not found in dictionary observation: {self._prev_obs}. Action mask must either be in `observation['action_mask']` or `info['action_mask']` to use TerminateIllegalWrapper."
@@ -60,7 +59,7 @@ def step(self, action: ActionType) -> None:
             self.terminations[self.agent_selection]
             or self.truncations[self.agent_selection]
         ):
-            self._was_dead_step(action)  # pyright: ignore[reportGeneralTypeIssues]
+            self.env.unwrapped._was_dead_step(action)
         elif (
             not self.terminations[self.agent_selection]
             and not self.truncations[self.agent_selection]
@@ -70,12 +69,10 @@ def step(self, action: ActionType) -> None:
             self.env.unwrapped._cumulative_rewards[self.agent_selection] = 0
             self.env.unwrapped.terminations = {d: True for d in self.agents}
             self.env.unwrapped.truncations = {d: True for d in self.agents}
-            self._prev_obs = None
-            self._prev_info = None
             self.env.unwrapped.rewards = {d: 0 for d in self.truncations}
             self.env.unwrapped.rewards[current_agent] = float(self._illegal_value)
-            self._accumulate_rewards()
-            self._deads_step_first()
+            self.env.unwrapped._accumulate_rewards()
+            self.env.unwrapped._deads_step_first()
             self._terminated = True
         else:
             super().step(action)
diff --git a/test/wrapper_test.py b/test/wrapper_test.py
index 650fe328b..a03bd81b3 100644
--- a/test/wrapper_test.py
+++ b/test/wrapper_test.py
@@ -3,8 +3,13 @@
 import pytest
 
 from pettingzoo.butterfly import pistonball_v6
-from pettingzoo.classic import texas_holdem_no_limit_v6
-from pettingzoo.utils.wrappers import MultiEpisodeEnv, MultiEpisodeParallelEnv
+from pettingzoo.classic import texas_holdem_no_limit_v6, tictactoe_v3
+from pettingzoo.utils.wrappers import (
+    BaseWrapper,
+    MultiEpisodeEnv,
+    MultiEpisodeParallelEnv,
+    TerminateIllegalWrapper,
+)
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(("num_episodes"), [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6])
@@ -67,3 +72,65 @@ def test_multi_episode_parallel_env_wrapper(num_episodes) -> None:
     assert (
         steps == num_episodes * 125
     ), f"Expected to have 125 steps per episode, got {steps / num_episodes}."
+
+
+def _do_game(env: TerminateIllegalWrapper, seed: int) -> None:
+    """Run a single game with reproducible random moves."""
+    assert isinstance(
+        env, TerminateIllegalWrapper
+    ), "test_terminate_illegal must use TerminateIllegalWrapper"
+    env.reset(seed)
+    for agent in env.agents:
+        # make the random moves reproducible
+        env.action_space(agent).seed(seed)
+
+    for agent in env.agent_iter():
+        _, _, termination, truncation, _ = env.last()
+
+        if termination or truncation:
+            env.step(None)
+        else:
+            action = env.action_space(agent).sample()
+            env.step(action)
+
+
+def test_terminate_illegal() -> None:
+    """Test for a problem with terminate illegal wrapper.
+
+    The problem is that env variables, including agent_selection, are set by
+    calls from TerminateIllegalWrapper to env functions. However, they are
+    called by the wrapper object, not the env so they are set in the wrapper
+    object rather than the base env object. When the code later tries to run,
+    the values get updated in the env code, but the wrapper pulls it's own
+    values that shadow them.
+
+    The test here confirms that is fixed.
+    """
+    # not using env() because we need to ensure that the env is
+    # wrapped by TerminateIllegalWrapper
+    raw_env = tictactoe_v3.raw_env()
+    env = TerminateIllegalWrapper(raw_env, illegal_reward=-1)
+
+    _do_game(env, 42)
+    # bug is triggered by a corrupted state after a game is terminated
+    # due to an illegal move. So we need to run the game twice to
+    # see the effect.
+    _do_game(env, 42)
+
+    # get a list of what all the agent_selection values in the wrapper stack
+    unwrapped = env
+    agent_selections = []
+    while unwrapped != env.unwrapped:
+        # the actual value for this wrapper (or None if no value)
+        agent_selections.append(unwrapped.__dict__.get("agent_selection", None))
+        assert isinstance(unwrapped, BaseWrapper)
+        unwrapped = unwrapped.env
+
+    # last one from the actual env
+    agent_selections.append(unwrapped.__dict__.get("agent_selection", None))
+
+    # remove None from agent_selections
+    agent_selections = [x for x in agent_selections if x is not None]
+
+    # all values must be the same, or else the wrapper and env are mismatched
+    assert len(set(agent_selections)) == 1, "agent_selection mismatch"