And now things get really fun! When last night's show ended, the houseguests were searching through balls and candy to try and find tickets to exchange for balls to roll down ramps to try and lodge a ball in a hole to win the HOH. Each houseguest could only roll a maximum of three balls at a time. There were three ramps they could use. A long, very narrow straight ramp, a wider ramp with a 90 degree bend in the middle where they had to bounce the ball off an angled deflector to make the bend, and a final ramp with a curving path where you had to really control the speed to make the curve.
Paul came closest to winning early using the curved ramp when a ball went all the way to the hole, but was traveling too fast and rolled over it. Kevin next came close to winning on the narrow/straight ramp, but his ball was also traveling too fast and rolled over the hole. No one else came close. Most of Paul's allies (Christmas. Mark. Elena, and Raven) were collecting tickets and feeding them to Paul so he had the most chances to win. Paul's winning shot rolled just about the same as his near miss shot earlier, but it rattled as it went into the guide bars leading to the hole and that rattling slowed it enough to allow it to drop into the hole giving Paul the win.
Paul's win immediately raised the already high level of tension with Cody and Jessica. BB reminded them over the intercom to stay out of each other's faces and to keep things civil. (A leak that we weren't supposed to hear, but was probably necessary given the mood in the house.) Cody and Jessica retreated to the Have Not room after the comp and sulked. Josh came in to get some of his stuff and was harshly ordered to leave by Cody and Jessica.
Jessica, good sport that she is, took off her microphone and defied BB's orders to put it back on. When Paul got his HOH key and asked "Who wants to see my HOH room?" everyone in the house, but Jessica went upstairs. Jessica went into the DR and apparently talked about leaving the game. She decided to stay for now however and eventually joined the rest.
Paul got a letter from home that may or may not have contained a code telling him who he can trust. Paul then went about the business of instilling distrust in his own alliance by saying he wants to put up Matt and Raven as pawns. This did not go over so well with the group. Mark, oddly enough, was the voice of reason against this move. Paul eventually relented and has now more or less settled on putting up Alex and Josh. He's gotten each of their permission to put them up as pawns and promised each he'd take them down if he wins POV.
Paul is making this a lot harder than it needs to be. Put up Cody and Jessica. Sure, it guarantees they'll both play for the POV, but only one can use it. Take out whoever's left over. It's not that hard. If Cody or Jessica get their name pulled to play for POV and win POV, without either of them on the block they can just leave the nominees as they are and force Paul to lose an ally.
The aftermath of the vote to evict Jillian is still rattling through the house. Cody and Alex were convinced they had the votes for a 6-6 tie and then Cody would break the tie and evict Christmas. They had six people who swore to them that they had their votes, so when Julie announced the vote was 8-4 to evict Jillian they were shocked. (Kevin and Josh lied to them about their votes.) Kevin has cleverly avoided suspicion as one of the rogue votes and Alex and her allies seem to feel it was Ramses and Josh who cast the votes to evict Jillian. This could be bad news for Ramses.
Ramses has to put himself on the block this week or next and most likely he'll do it this week, assuming Cody will be a nominee and the whole house wants Cody gone. But if Cody gets picked to play in the POV and wins it and leaves the noms the same, then the votes could be there to evict Ramses even though he's done nothing wrong.
Cody, Jessica, Jason could all vote to evict Ramses. Josh would seem to be safe with Paul's side since he's worked with them and voted their way. Paul also promised Alex and Josh they'd be safe if they went up as pawns. That could leave Ramses as the unanimous vote to evict this coming week despite him mostly being an innocent bystander in much of the chaos that's gone down.
We'll get the nominations later today and Paul should put up Cody and Jessica, but he won't. He's too afraid one of them would win POV. Fine, let one win it and take out the other one. You can get rid of one no matter what. Instead Paul's focused exclusively on getting out Cody and that whole plan could backfire in a big way on him and leave both Cody and Jessica still in the game.
Later today the house will get tempted again and it's likely that either Mark, Kevin, Alex, or Christmas will win this temptation (currently the most popular houseguests.) If they do then that could help Paul as the winner of this temptation has the ability to remove one of those drawn to play for POV and replace them. If Cody were to have his name pulled, the winner of that temptation could then remove Cody and take his place.
This has not been the best start to a season for Cody and it's likely to get worse with this temptation likely going to an enemy of his. The odds of it going to either Cody or Jessica seem rather remote with them being two of the least popular houseguests right now. Pretty much anyone else in the house winning it will use it to take out either Cody or Jessica if they're picked and we could see that convince them to take Megan's route and just walk away. Unless both Cody and Jessica get picked to play for the POV (highly unlikely) whoever wins today's temptation will likely use it to remove one of them if just one of them is picked tomorrow and they'll be in big trouble.
The BB gods do not favor Cody this season. Megan walking, Paul coming in and getting the power, Kevin and Josh flipping their votes, and now this new power, are all making it nearly impossible for Cody to survive long in the game. He's brought some of this down upon himself, but he's also been a bit cursed in this season of temptation. Right now, it's hard to see Cody surviving this week. If Cody and Jessica were to both walk and force Paul to nominate two replacements, things could get a tad messy for Paul. (Truth be told, I'm not sure I'd blame them for walking either. Things are kind of stacked against them right now.)
Fly!!! Eagles!!! Fly!!!
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