sleep or time delay for C++ Program - c++

Question

So I'm writing this spinoff game of Paperboy as a class project. If I wanted to I could say I'm finished and turn it in but I want it to have a professional touch to it. My game consists of different modes: easy and hard. However I have not implemented the hard mode yet.
Anyway, here is my code
void easyMode() {
string playerName;
int numNewspapers, numDelivered = 0, numMissed = 0, score = 0;
cout << "Enter Your Player Name: ";
cin >> playerName;
cout << "\nEnter How Many Newspapers That Need To Be Delivered: ";
cin >> numNewspapers;
cout << "\n\nYou have " << numNewspapers << " newspapers to deliver!\n\n";
cout << "Time To Deliver !!\n\n";
cout << "*===================================*\n\n";
//cout << string(50, '\n');
while (numDelivered < numNewspapers) {
int outcome = RandomNumberEasy();
cout << "*===================================*\n\n";
cout << "Delivering Newspaper...\n\n";
// Game Sequence
//*===================================*
// Delivered Successfully
//*===================================*
if (outcome <= 3 || outcome > 7) {
cout << "You Successfully Delivered The Newspaper.\n\n";
numDelivered++;
score = score + 15;
cout << "Your score is " << score << " points!\n\n";
}
// Delivery Failed
//*===================================*
else {
cout << "The Neighbor's Dog Chased You. Delivered Paper Didn't Quite Land On Step\n\n";
numDelivered++;
numMissed++;
score = score + 5;
cout << "Your score is " << score << " points!\n";
}
cout << "\n";
sleep(1);
}
// END GAME
//*===================================*
if (numDelivered == numNewspapers) {
int SuccDeliver = numDelivered - numMissed;
cout << "*===================================*\n\n";
cout << "Congratulations, " << playerName << "!\n\n";
cout << "Your Final Score Is: " << score;
cout << "\n\nYou missed " << numMissed << " Newspapers And Delivered " << SuccDeliver << " Newspapers\n\n";
}
}
As you can see I do have the sleep function in there, but when I run my program, it waits a long time and the outputs every iteration all at once. I want it to wait in between each iteration but I can't seem to get it to work.
Any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

The problem seems to be that the output buffer is not being flushed. A way to do it is to use cout << endl instead of cout << "\n". Mainly, this part:
cout << "\n";
sleep(1);
Should be like this:
cout << endl;
sleep(1);
And that should fix it!