Big Brother 6: Major Arcana

Big Brother 6: Major Arcana is the forty-ninth online game hosted by Estquer.

Cast

 * Brandi Glanville - VanityEgo
 * Britney Haynes - nathaniel
 * Bronte D'Acquisto - xymandopex
 * Cassandra Shahinfar - CupidStunt
 * Eric Stein - Iron Muffin
 * Ika Wong - VULpicks.
 * Jackie Ibarra - Phoenix
 * Kevin Martin - 1331nj
 * Neda Kalantar - Aly
 * Peter Brown - RiddleMeThis
 * Ramsey Aburaneh - Sir Bitter
 * Ross Mathews - eagle2ch
 * Sabrina Sato - betinez
 * Tiffany Pollard - henryhehe9
 * Tonya Paoni - AntmAllStar
 * Trisha Paytas - abstractfierce

Head of Household

 * Determination: This season, on Big Brother, we will be drawing the Head of Household from a deck of cards. An initial order for the sixteen houseguests will be determined, and then I will draw the top card. That player will have the option to accept the authority of Head of Household and post nominees, or to reject the authority of Head of Household and draw a Tarot Card instead. Once a player has been offered Head of Household, their card will be placed at the bottom of the deck. Additionally, once a player is evicted, their card will be removed from the deck. In practice, this means that we will—Tarot Card twists permitting—cycle through every player having the opportunity to be Head of Household before it repeats. Therefore, a key to doing well as a long-term strategy will be figuring out the order of cards in the deck so that you can predict who will become the next Head of Household.
 * Final 3: The final Head of Household (at the final three) will be determined by a challenge.

Nomination Ceremony

 * Accept/Reject: After being named Head of Household, the player has a choice: either accept or reject the role of Head of Household. If the HoH rejects the power, they must instead draw a Tarot Card. The power of Head of Household will then pass to someone else. For details on the Tarot Card drawing, see below.
 * Nominations: If the HoH accepts the power, s/he will be responsible for nominating two players for eviction. These must be players still in the game, other than the HoH.
 * Inactivity: If the HoH fails to accept or reject their power within 24 Hours, or declare valid nominees, they will be expelled from the competition and we will continue on with a new round.

Veto Competition

 * Veto Competition: This season, all players will be participating in the Veto Competition each round. These are generally timed challenges, although it will vary from round to round. The player with the best performance will earn the Golden Power of Veto.
 * Timed Challenges: In general, challenges in this game will be timed unless otherwise noted in the instructions. This means that how long it takes you to complete a challenge will be recorded by me and used either to determine your score or used as a tiebreaker. Time is calculated in minutes. It is based on RTVG’s official clock (at the bottom of the screen). Your time is the time you sent me your answers minus the time you opened the PM. Example: If you sent the message at 4:17 PM and opened it at 3:59 PM, your time is 18 minutes.
 * Outside Resources: You may use online resources such as Google, Sudoku solvers, whatever you can find that’s helpful to complete challenges. That being said, you may not post any of the challenge questions or answers to a website (like answers.com or something).
 * Cheating: Do not conspire with other RTVG members/players in the game to cheat at a challenge. Things considered cheating: forwarding the challenge PM to another person, discussing the challenge contents before results are posted, working together with other players to figure out the answers. If you cheat in some other way I haven’t thought of but is in this same vein, I will consider it cheating as well. I reserve the right to sanction any player who breaks this rule, with the likely result being expulsion from the game.
 * Cheating Accusations: Do not baselessly accuse someone of cheating. Trying to degrade or cast a shadow on someone’s challenge win because you don’t like them or as a strategy is not the kind of drama I would not like in this game. Please raise any legitimate cheating concerns you have to me via PM so that I can adjudicate them as fairly as possible.
 * Host Errors: In the event I make an error in creating the challenge, I will make a judgment call. If my error completely destroyed the integrity challenge, or affected some people and not others, I’ll have a redo. If it was a minor error that affected everyone equally, I may simply throw out the question.

Veto Ceremony

 * Veto Decision: After the results are announced, the Veto holder has 24 hours to post in the thread whether or not they are using the Golden Power of Veto to save one of the two nominees. If the Veto holder fails to post their decision within 24 hours, the Veto will not be used by default.
 * Replacement Nominee: If the Veto is used, the Head of Household must name a replacement nominee. The Head of Household may not re-nominate the player just removed from the block; the HoH also may not nominate the Golden Power of Veto holder. If the Head of Household fails to name a replacement nominee within 24 hours, s/he will be expelled.

Eviction

 * Voter Eligibility: After the conclusion of the Veto Ceremony, the two final nominees will face an eviction vote. The nominees and Head of Household will not be eligible to vote.
 * Eviction Voting: Each eligible voter must cast a vote to evict one of the two Nominees. However, this alone is not enough. Each voter must also make a prediction of the vote margin. This prediction must be a valid margin. For example, with 11 voters, the valid margin predictions are 11-0, 10-1, 9-2, 8-3, 7-4, and 6-5.
 * Vote Validity: After all voters have submitted their eviction vote and margin prediction, I will calculate the results. Eviction votes will only be valid if the margin prediction is correct (regardless of which nominee received the predicted number of votes). That means that any player who casts an eviction vote with an incorrect prediction will have their eviction vote voided.
 * Results: At each eviction, I will announce which players made a correct prediction; and then the results of their votes alone, resulting in an eviction.
 * Failure to Vote: Any player who is required to vote but fails to do so, or casts an invalid vote, or casts a vote with an improper prediction (e.g., predicting a 59-0 vote when there are only three voters), and does not correct this within 48 hours (the original 24 hours plus a possible 24 hour extension), will be expelled from the game. This will cancel any eviction that would have taken place.
 * Tie: In the event that there is a tie (of at least 1-1, meaning at least some of the votes counted), the Head of Household must break the tie by casting an eviction vote for one of the two final nominees. If the Head of Household fails to cast the tie-breaking vote within 24 hours, the Head of Household will be expelled from the game and the eviction will be canceled.
 * No Valid Votes: In the event that no valid votes have been cast, the two nominees will participate in a prisoner’s dilemma called The Joker Game.
 * The Joker Game: The two nominees will have 24 hours to submit either a Black Joker or a Red Joker to me via private message. If either nominee fails to make a valid choice within 24 hours, that nominee will be evicted. However, if the nominees do both submit valid choices, there are a number of possible outcomes:
 * Red/Red: If both nominees choose the Red Joker, they will both be evicted.
 * Red/Black: If one nominee chooses Red, while the other chooses Black, the nominee that chose Red will survive while the nominee that chose Black will be evicted.
 * Black/Black: If both nominees choose Black, the nominees will both survive and the Head of Household will be evicted instead.

Tarot Drawing

 * The Tarot Drawing: This game is simple, but potentially deadly. Before the beginning of the game, I will randomize the order of the twenty-two cards in the Major Arcana; these cards have a variety of possible advantages, disadvantages, or other game twists assigned to them. At its most extreme, the Death card will result in an instant eviction for the player who draws it, meaning that you cannot reject the power of HoH without taking a significant risk.
 * Tarot Results: If a Head of Household passes on the power, they must draw a Tarot Card instead. The card effect will be processed, and the new Head of Household will be named. If all 22 Tarot Cards are drawn, Heads of Household can no longer reject their power. Additionally, some Tarot Cards may have expiration dates and not come into effect if it’s too late in the game for their power to be functional.
 * Late Game: The final four and three Heads of Household may not reject the power, meaning that the final five is the last time a Tarot Card can be drawn.

Finale

 * Jury: The players who place 9th through 3rd will form the Jury and will determine which of the two finalists will win the game. In the event that The Joker Game results in two nominees leaving at once in 9th/10th place, the Head of Household overseeing the double eviction will decide which evicted player makes the jury.
 * Winner: The player who earns at least four jury votes will be declared the winner and earn the achievement icon.