public static class Counter
{
	boolean stopTimer = false ;

    Timer timer; // creating new timer

	// constructor intitializes amount of seconds
    public void Counter()
	{
        timer = new Timer();
        timer.schedule(new countdown(), 5*1000);
		int choice = keyboard.nextInt();
			if(choice == 1)
			{
				timer.cancel();
				playGame();
			}

	}

    class countdown extends TimerTask
	{
		@Override
        public void run()
		{
			if(!stopTimer)
			{
            System.out.format("Returning to main menu%n");

			stopTimer = true;

			}

        }

	}




}