Backyard

[joepetz999]

yes. Everyone stop. Christian won the veto.

[doolgirl]

Good job Christian! I was playing on for the fun of it...that korean calendar tripped me up, but once i figured that out it was smooth sailing, but you still beat me by a good five minutes

[harmonyking1185]

Thanks Amanda! Didn't you win this comp last season? Fun to see you here

Answers for anyone curious (Don't look if you still want to play along for fun )
1.veto (as given)
2.fifteen
3.virginia
4.inkstand
5.333
6.trajan
7.nothing
8.lucille (although I tested it and the password to Dereks sphere nine was actually Luci)

I didn't finish Derek's puzzle so idk what nine was. Nice job all of you, that was not an easy comp to win at all!

[Brett]

HOH #9: Slippery Buckets

Hello, I am P.T. Barnum, the founder of the Barnum & Bailey circus who once famously said that "there's a sucker born every minute". This week, the five of you have been invited to Barnum's Big Brother Circus! For this competition, each of you will have your own thread where you will be racing against the rest of the house to be the first to fill up your 'bucket'. In order to start the challenge, you must create a new thread in your Diary Room titled ‘Name HOH #9’ and make this your first post:

HOH: 0/150

Veto Advantage: 0/60

Veto Disadvantage: 0/60

On my go, you will begin ‘filling’ one of these three buckets. There is no limit to how often you may post, but you must change the number every time you post. So if I started off deciding I was going to go for HOH, I would make my next post:

HOH: 1/150

Veto Advantage: 0/60

Veto Disadvantage: 0/60

The first HouseGuest to fill up his HOH bucket all the way (150 posts) will become this week’s HOH and the competition will stop.

However, as you may have figured out by now, there are two other prizes to compete for if you so choose:

-An advantage in this week’s Veto competition (requires 60 posts)

-The ability to assign a disadvantage to someone else in this week's Veto competition - it can be assigned to the person who wins the Veto advantage and it would cancel that advantage out (requires 60 points)

Each of these two prizes can only be won once. As soon as someone wins HOH, the competition will stop, regardless of whether or not the other two prizes have been won, but I will let you all know as soon as someone has won each prize. Send me a PM as soon as you have posted enough to win a prize so I can check it over and confirm.

Jake, as outgoing Head of Household, you are ineligible to participate in this competition. Do not start posting until I give you the go-ahead at 7:10.

[Brett]

You may begin posting now.

[Brett]

The Veto disadvantage has been won. Only HOH and the Veto advantage are still up for grabs.

[Brett]

The competition is over. Christian is the new Head of Household. Bryson won the Veto disadvantage and gave it to Jake. Nobody won the Veto advantage.

[Fratomon]

Congratulations, Christian. Impressive to win HOH two out of three weeks.

[jonerjukes]

Good Job Christian!

[harmonyking1185]

Thanks Jake. It honestly means a lot to hear that from you

[harmonyking1185]

Thanks Joner

[Brett]

POV #9: Hit, Hit, Hit!

Hello, HouseGuests, and welcome to your ninth Power of Veto competition. On the wall in front of me, there is a big picture of each of you with 20 balloons placed on them. Every hour, each of you will have the opportunity to take a dart and pop one of somebody else's balloons. At 7pm Eastern on Sunday night, the HouseGuest with the most balloons remaining will win the Power of Veto. (To make this work online, you will just subtract one point from the HouseGuest of your choice's total below.) You can subtract from the same HouseGuest in consecutive hours - if you want, you can subtract from one HouseGuest every single time. You may post once every hour. For this game's purposes, an hour goes from :00 to :59, so you can post once at 9:59 and again at 10:00, for example. Also, state who you are subtracting from in each of your posts. Jake, due to receiving a disadvantage in this competition, you will start with 3 fewer balloons than everyone else.

Bryson - 20

Jake - 17

Christian - 20

Gabe - 20

Joner - 20

[Fratomon]

Bryson - 20

Jake - 17

Christian - 20

Gabe - 19 (-)

Joner - 20

What an unfortunate last competition for me. Very disappointed.

[harmonyking1185]

Bryson - 20

Jake - 16 (-)

Christian - 20

Gabe - 19

Joner - 20

I made it pretty clear you're my target so I'd rather you didn't win veto.

[Fratomon]

Bryson - 20

Jake - 16

Christian - 19 (-)

Gabe - 19

Joner - 20