# Step 2: click the cookie

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`click_cookie` clicks the big cookie a number of times. After 15 clicks the screenshot shows the counter and the first cookies in the bakery.

**Screenshot**

![Step 2: click the cookie](https://git.tirsystem.com/Tirsvad-Udemy-100-days-of-code/048-the-coockie-factory/raw/branch/main/docs/images/step-2-click-cookie.png)

**Function**

```python
def click_cookie(game: GamePort, times: int = 1) -> None:
    if times < 0:
        raise ValueError(f"times must not be negative, got {times}")
    for _ in range(times):
        game.click_element(BIG_COOKIE_ID)
```

## What we gained

- **A real click, not a script click.** The game ignores synthetic clicks above about 3 per second but accepts about 50 per second from a real click, so `SeleniumGame` always uses `element.click()`.
- **Guard the input.** A negative number of clicks raises `ValueError`, and zero clicks is allowed; both are tested.
- **Retry when the page changes.** The game redraws its page often, so a click that hits a stale element is tried again a few times.

Next: [Step 3: read the count](Step-3-Read-The-Count)