Thank you for taking some time out to help me with this @mixoftix and @HeRetik. I get where i am going wrong and would go back and try finding solutions. Wouldn't give up on it though

Edit
Neat examples, especially #3 makes me curious.
Could you elaborate on that? How would changing the nonce format help prevent selfish mining?
As long as the format remains the only thing that matters is the amount of computational power (PoW) or the amount of coins (PoS) you have. But once you change the format it would become very hard for you to change the requirements to mine more.