Complex sentence: After the eight questions whatever time they had left the contestant would use to try and find the mystery eight letter word, arranged clockwise, much more difficult with some of the letters missing and without knowing where the word started.
Split into simpler sentences: After the eight questions whatever time they had left the contestant would use to try and find the eight word, arranged clockwise. This was a lot more difficult with some of the letters missing and without knowing where the word started.