Home Shopping Game - Bonus Round

Bonus Round

The bonus round was played in two parts; for the first part, the champion was shown one more item, followed by the initial letters of a five or six-word phrase pertaining to it; for example, if the item was a home blood pressure monitor, the phrase might read:

B
I
T
T
W

If the champ was able to immediately solve the phrase (in this case, "Blood Is Thicker Than Water"), he/she won $2,000; if not, the next letter of each word was revealed, and the value dropped to $1,000. If the champ was still unable to solve it, more letters were revealed and the value dropped again to $500, and so on until the correct solution was given.

In the second part, the champ was given a word in the phrase (in this case, "thicker") and had 30 seconds to use the letters in that word to make as many new words of 3 or more letters as he/she could. Each acceptable word made within the time limit was multiplied by the value won in the first part (for example, if the champ won $2,000 in the first part and came up with 11 words in the second part, the payoff would be $22,000).

Champions were allowed to remain on the show until they were defeated, or until they won five games (whichever came first), with at least three champions retiring undefeated. A contestant named Nan was an undefeated champion on this show and one with a similar maingame premise, Caesars Challenge.