Recurring Competitions

Throughout the series, several competitions have appeared in more than one season, sometimes even in every season to date.

## Big Brother Cheesecake Survey

Prior to the start of each season, every houseguest is asked to rank a list of 20 appetizer options from the Cheesecake Factory. The results of this survey serves as the basis for three Head of Household competitions throughout the season.

Usually, the first competition is a series of True or False questions that the houseguests need to answer and then the host would randomly select the order of the questions and reveal the correct answers, with the players who answered incorrectly being eliminated. The second competition usually involves the average rankings of each appetizer option and the houseguests must guess whether an option is Higher or Lower than another one. For the third competition, houseguest must guess the average score of each appetizer and the player furthest from the actual score on each round is either eliminated or gets a strike (3 strikes and they're out). Nevertheless, other variations and/or combinations with other competitions have occured.

Winners:

## Virus

The inaugural Head of Household competition of the series, Virus is based on Big Brother: Over the Top. One houseguests is determined to start by "infecting" another player with a virus that prevents them from becoming HoH. The infected player must then choose another player to be infected, eliminating them from the competition as well. This process continues until the last houseguest standing becomes the Head of Household.

One variation to this competition works in reverse with a vaccine. Everyone starts infected with a virus and those vaccinated are safe until the last person remaining with the virus is eliminated and chooses a player to start the next chain of vaccinations.

Winners:

 2 | Week 2
 3 | Week 3
 4 | Week 4
 5 | Week 5
 8 | Week 6

## Yankee Swap

A classic Big Brother U.S. competition, Yankee Swap has been featured as a Power of Veto competition in every season of the series. The houseguests play a series of elimination rounds, with the last place each round being eliminated. Once eliminated, the player chooses a prize, containing a reward or a punishment. Included in the prizes is the Golden Power of Veto. After the second elimination, each eliminated player can choose to keep their prize or trade it with one of the previously drawn prizes, with the winner of the last round having the choice between all of the prizes.

Among the prizes, a piece of cheesecake, and the Utilities and Railroads for the Monopoly PoV competition are usually included.

Unlike Big Brother U.S., players choose a prize at random, rather than a fixed prize for each placement.

Prizes and placements:

(The Power of Veto winner was the person who utlimatelly ended up with it after the final trade, regardless of their placement in the competition)

1. Season 7 featured seven players in each PoV competition.

## Game-Show-based Competitions

Several of the recurring competitions are based on popular game shows.

### Deal or No Deal

With some variations, the Deal or No Deal competition has always been used as a Power of Veto competition, and ocasionally as the first part of the final Head of Household. Players must choose one of 26 suitcases containing different amounts of money ranging from a penny to a million dollars. Each round, they must eliminate a number of suitcases and, depending on their amounts and the amounts remaining to be chosen, the banker will make an offer. The player can choose to accept the offer or to keep playing. Whatever amount of money they end up with is their score. The houseguest with the highest score, wins.

Winners:

 2 | Week 3
 3 | Week 8
 4 | Week 6
 5 | Week 6
 6 | Week 6
 7 | Week 6
 8 | Week 6

### Jeopardy

Stylized as Jeoparty, this competition is based on the popular "answers and questions" show Jeopardy. Players are presented with several categories and several hidden prompts with different values for each cateogry. A player must choose a value to reveal an answer. The first one to buzz may give the answer to the prompt, in the form of a question. The player with the highest score at the end, wins. This competition has usually been featured as the final 4 Head of Household competition.
Winners:

 3 | Week 11
 4 | Week 11
 5 1 | Weeks 3-7

1. In season 5, Jeoparty was used for the first 5 duels at Redemple Temple, so it produced more than one winner in the same season.

## Winner's Choice

Starting in season 2, the winner of the previous season comes into the house of the current season for the Winner's Choice competition. It is their task to choose that week's Head of Household. The reigning champion can only talk to houseguests in the main group chat and whoever tries to contact the winner privately is disqualified from the competition. The previous winner can determine the conditions of eligibility or may even create a challenge for the players to complete. Players must publically try to convince the previous winner by giving them reasons on why they should become the new Head of Household. After 24 hours in the house, the previous winner chooses one of the players to be the new Head of Household.

Winners:

 3 | Week 9
 4 | Week 9
 5 1 | Week 1
 6 | Week 9
 7 | Week 8
 8 | Week 7

1. Since season 4's winner, Brazil, was a player in season 5, she was ineligible to become HoH that round. She was tasked to choose the first HoH of the season from a pool of candidates drawn at random.

2. Even though season 7's winner, Michael, chose Penny as the new HoH, Dustin played a Collossal Advantage that gave him the chance to steal it. While Dustin was week 7's HoH, Penny is credited with the win.

## Chess

One of the competitions to have been featured in every season. Players are placed in a 8-by-8 grid, just like a chess board. Player must move about in the fashion of a certain chess piece, one square at a time. Once a player has landed on a square, it becomes blocked and when a player has nowhere to move, they're eliminated from the competition. The last player standing, wins. This competition has always been used as a Power of Veto competition, except in season 3, where it served as a Head of Household competition.

Winners:

## Endurance Competitions

Twice each season, houseguests must compete in an endurance Head of Household competition, one of them usually serving as the Double Eviction week's HoH. In endurance competitions, players usually are required to periodically post something on the group chat, following specific instructions from the host. These competitions last hours on end, going into the night. Those player who really want (or desperately need) to win, will stay up all night in order to ensure their safety.

Winners:

## Monopoly

The Monopoly Power of Veto competition is a staple of Big Brother Cheesecake. Played at the final 6, the competition lasts three days, where the host plays a pre-determined amount of rounds of Monopoly to see which houseguest comes on top. This is a competition that starts early in the game, as players earn Monopoly color sets throughout the game by winning Head of Household competitions, with the Utilities and the Railroads being prizes in the Yankee Swap Power of Veto competition. When players who have earned color sets are eliminated, they must bequeath their sets to a player remaining in the game.

Unlike every other season, players in All-Stars had to buy their color sets with the All-Star dollars they had earned throughout the season.

Color sets:

(The winners of the veto are marked in **bold**)

## OTEV

Based on the classic Big Brother US competition. Each round, players are asked a question related to the past events of the game. They must answer privately to the host. The last person to answer, or the one(s) who answer incorrectly, are eliminated each round. Last person standing, wins.

Winners:

 2 | Week 11
 3 | Week 9
 4 | Week 9
 5 | Week 10
 6 | Week 9
 7 | Week 9
 8 | Week 9

## Staircase

The default competition for the final 4 Power of Veto competition. It is based on Big Brother US 10's "Stairway to Veto." The final four is presented with a list of 32 facts and a "staircase" with the names of the 16 players of the season, one in each step. Houseguests must figure out which two facts correspond to each step of the staircase. Players have a determined amount of guesses before the deadline, with their best score being locked in. The player with the highest score at the end of the competition, wins. This is arguably the hardest competition of Big Brother Cheesecake, since many of the facts apply to more than one houseguest, but there is only one correct answer for the whole puzzle.

Winners: