Good evening Houseguests! It's time for another Veto Competition!

All four players will compete in this competition called - Chocolate Factory!

In the backyard, each of you has been provided with a stove, and a workstation. You will be using these items to cook and wrap chocolates! The object of the game is to wind up with as many wrapped chocolates as you can by the end of 23 hours. Here are the rules.

Energy: It costs energy to perform any actions. This energy is gained by eating a wrapped chocolate. Eating 1 wrapped chocolate will give you 1 HOUR of energy. If you eat 5 wrapped chocolates, you will have 1 HOUR of DOUBLE energy! This means that all timed actions during that hour will be cut in half! To eat chocolate, you post either *I eat a chocolate* or *I eat 5 chocolates* which will set your 1 hour timer. Use your time wisely!

Cooking: There are 12 actions which must take place in order. Each action has a 2 minute wait time associated. (remember this 2 minutes is halved to 1 minute during double energy). Once you have completed all 12 actions, you will have produced 10 unwrapped chocolates. You may begin wrapping these right away, or put them aside to be wrapped later. The 12 actions are:

*Pour cocoa powder into bowl* - wait 2 minutes
*Add butter* - wait 2 minutes
*stir* - wait 2 minutes
*add water* - wait 2 minutes
*stir* - wait 2 minutes
*heat* - wait 2 minutes
*stir* - wait 2 minutes
*add sugar* - wait 2 minutes
*stir* - wait 2 minutes
*pour* - wait 2 minutes
*cool* - wait 2 minutes
*cut* - wait 2 minutes

Packaging: Once you have these unwrapped chocolates, you must package them to get the wrapped chocolates you need to eat for energy to continue, or points at the end of the game. Each time you wrap chocolates, it takes a certain amount of time. Remember, the times are halved during double energy). These times are listed below:
*wrap 1 chocolate* - takes 2 minutes
*wrap 5 chocolates* - takes 8 minutes
*wrap 25 chocolates* - takes 30 minutes

***Important***
Be careful with your time management. If you find yourself without energy or wrapped chocolates, your game has effectively ended. You may eat chocolate for energy before your hour has elapsed, giving you a brand new fresh hour of actions, but if that hour runs out and you have not completed the wait time for a cooking action, then that entire batch of chocolate goes bad and you must start over. If the hour runs out while you are packaging, then that action is incomplete and you will have to wait the entire wait time if you choose that action again. You may not Cook and Package at the same time.

Everyone starts with 1 wrapped chocolate. Eat it whenever you like, but the competition starts NOW!