Following the first four evictions of Cameron Hardin (BB25), Cody Calafiore (BB16 & BB22), Danielle Reyes (BB3 & BB7) and Josh Martinez (BB19) from “Big Brother Reindeer Games,” just five contestants remained inside Santa’s lodge. The ultimate champion of this Christmas-themed mini-season will take home a cool $100,000. So who made it into the Top 4 during Tuesday’s penultimate hour?

Below, read our minute-by-minute “Big Brother Reindeer Games” Season 1, Episode 5 recap/live blog to find out what happened Tuesday, December 19 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. Then be sure to sound off in the comment section about your favorite houseguests on CBS‘s reality TV show, who annoys you the most and who you think will ultimately join the “Big Brother” winners list. Regular host Julie Chen Moonves is sitting out this show, and she’s replaced by fan-faves Jordan Lloyd, Derek Xiao and Tiffany Mitchell as “Santa’s Elves.”

Here are the five remaining players: Britney Godwin (BB12 & BB14), Frankie Grande (BB16), Nicole Franzel-Arroyo (BB16, BB18 & BB22), Taylor Hale (BB24) and Xavier Prather (BB23).

9:00 p.m. – “Previously on ‘BB Reindeer Games’!” In the fourth episode, Frankie won the Naughty and Nice Challenge and gained the ability to pick his partner in the Jingle Bell Brawl; he chose Taylor. The other pairs were Xavier & Nicole, and Josh & Britney. Frankie & Taylor won the ginormous puzzle challenge and each got to name one person to compete in Santa’s Showdown; he picked Josh and she picked Nicole. Josh and Nicole battled in the Candy Cane Rodeo with Nicole prevailing by a matter of milliseconds. That resulted in Josh being the fifth person ousted from the competition.

9:03 p.m. – As soon as Taylor got some time away from the guys she pulled Nicole and Britney into a room to apologize once again for putting Nicole in the Showdown against Josh. Privately, Nicole accepted the apology because she knows it doesn’t make sense to let Frankie stay in the house and make it to the Reindeer Games against any of the women.

9:05 p.m. – Derek took a day off today to make room for Tiffany Mitchell to take over duties as the Elf Ambassador. Her first task was to host the Naughty and Nice Challenge where the players had to search for the right key among many throughout the house to unlock Santa’s office first. With so much on the line, this time everyone was willing to compete as hard as possible to win this advantage. Their first move was to look at the lock to get an idea of what the shape of the winning key should be. Nicole was the first to try a key and sure enough she found it and won straight away.