This one was interesting and a lot to talk about. Also surprising we were able to do it live so fast.
The main thing is, this was another challenge where I thought the other players except for Nagito played really poorly. When they saw me or Nagito bidding everything on horse 7 and not getting off it, they eventually joined in. This is a terrible move because if horse 7 is the winner, they already lost. So there is no way they'll win the challenge by copying us. Yet they ALL did that. What they should have done, is bid on other horses because if it wasn't horse 7 after all they had a chance at winning.

The crazy thing is, I learned everyone was voting horse 7 at the end because of me, and none of them knew for certain it was the winning horse. And the crazier thing was I DIDN'T KNOW EITHER. The cryptogram I did said it would beat horse 8 which beat horse 3, but that definitely didn't guarantee it was 1st. So, I suspect this challenge would have been a lot more interesting if the other players didn't just follow on horse 7, because the meat of this challenge is playing the odds, and it was ignored.
Like, I think I'm good at challenges, but I'm definitely not OMG CHALLENGE BEAST, but I think a part of the reason I did so well this season, was the competition wasn't that strong honestly. They're super good at other things survivor related, but not many of them were that strong at challenges.

If we want to get to nitpicks, I think we perhaps needed a little longer than 3 minutes per round, because I only had time to do 1 cryptogram, and Mikan did like 2 apparently, and no one else got anything. But if you made the time much longer, then it becomes whoever solves cryptograms faster which isn't the meat of the challenge. So idk, this was a challenge that could have gone terribly but it didn't and ended up being fun like most of the others!