I’ve long been a critic of the Caesars Challenge second bonus, but really the first wasn’t a lot better.
And this also ties into what I felt was the underlying problem with the show from the start: the lame attempt at replicating the shopping round on Sale of the Century. Unless you’ve got a keen eye for random word scrambles, it’s probably gonna take you a few days to get enough letters placed to have your best chance at solving the word. And by that point you’ve probably won somewhere in the upwards of $10,000, at least, in trinkets you know you won’t have use for. And if you take in that you can refuse delivery, the reality is you could still walk with nothing for your effort unless you win the car. (Unless they gave you an option to take your total in cash, which in my opinion they should have done from the beginning.)