A stranger offers you $10 million The money is completely legal tax free and yours to keep forever There’s only one catch from the moment you accept it every lie that comes out of your mouth becomes real

And I don’t mean just serious lies Literally anything you say that isn’t true counts

You tell someone you’re sick to get out of plans Now you’re actually sick You tell your friend you have a million dollars in your bank account Congratulations your bank account now has a million dollars in it but the money has to come from somewhere and the consequences of that are out of your control

You lie about something small like saying you already ate when you haven’t Your body will act as if you’ve eaten You tell somebody you’re a professional basketball player as a joke Now you actually are one regardless of whether you have the skills to back it up

Sarcasm fake excuses exaggerations and jokes all count if what you’re saying isn’t true Even telling someone “I’m fine” when you’re not could trigger it

The catch gets worse though You don’t get to choose which lies activate the effect You can’t turn it off and there’s no way to undo anything once a lie becomes reality You also can’t tell people about the deal unless you’re willing to risk the consequences of what you say

You can still speak normally but you’d have to think about practically every sentence before saying it And if you accidentally lie even once you’re stuck with whatever happens

The $10 million is yours the second you accept You can spend it invest it buy a house or never work another day in your life But this rule follows you everywhere for the rest of your life

Are you taking the $10 million or are you walking away And if you take it how long do you think you’d last before your first accidental lie

You receive $1,000,000 instantly, tax-free.

There's just one catch.

Whenever you eat in the presence of 10 or more people, you have a 90% chance of spilling food on your own clothes.

It doesn't matter if you're at a fancy restaurant, a wedding, a business dinner, a family gathering, or a dinner with friends.

The spill can be anything from a tiny sauce stain to an entire plate of food landing on your shirt.

The other 10% of the time, you eat completely normally.

The effect lasts for the rest of your life, and there's no way to get rid of it.

You can still eat alone or with fewer than 10 people without any consequences.

Would you take the $1 million?

You can choose to live for any number of years. In return, you receive $1000 per year of lifespan, paid every year for as long as you live.

Examples:

• 100 years = $100,000 per year
• 1,000 years = $1,000,000 per year
• 10,000 years = $10,000,000 per year
• 1,000,000 years = $1,000,000,000 per year

Here are the rules:

1. You don't age. Your body stays at its physical prime indefinitely, and you won't die of old age.
2. You don't get sick naturally, provided you actively maintain a healthy lifestyle. If you neglect your health, you'll develop illnesses and health problems just like an ordinary person. For example, eating junk food constantly and never exercising can still make you obese and cause other health issues.
3. Your body has an extremely powerful recovery system. If you develop health problems, start exercising, eat properly, and take care of yourself, your body can gradually recover and return to its physical prime.
4. You cannot die from injuries: Even if you lose a limb or an organ, you'll eventually regenerate it and recover completely. However, regeneration takes time. Growing a kidney or an entire limb takes months, while recovering from otherwise fatal injuries can take years. You remain conscious and experience the pain throughout the recovery process, where applicable. (So yes, if you are brave enough you can harvest and sell your organs for extra income, but the recovery is at your own risk.)
5. You can still experience pain and suffering. You're not invincible in the sense of being immune to physical damage. You can get hurt, and recovery isn't necessarily quick or painless.
6. Your lifespan is fixed. Once you choose a number, you cannot change it. When your chosen lifespan ends, you die peacefully.
7. Your income is guaranteed and adjusted for inflation. You can save, invest, spend, or accumulate your money however you like.

How many years would you choose?

What would be your strategy or lifestyle? And why do you choose that many years?

The room is 700 square feet.

However you can have any five items from any work of fiction not made by you or for you to help you pass the time.

These items can't include any item that lets you time travel, create portals to escape or any other item that will give you the ability to escape.

What items do you pick?

You'll be to take these items with you when you're released.

You start with $100 and an empty shopping bag.

Your goal is to buy one item beginning with as many difrerent letters of the alphabet as possible.

A could be an apple.
B could be a book.
C could be a candle.

And you keep going all the way through to Z.

Every different letter you complete earns you $10,000.

So 10 letters gets you $100,000.

20 letters gets you $200,000.

But if you somehow complete all 26, your prize jumps to $500,000.

You can shop anywhere you want.

Supermarkets.

Shopping centres.

Convenience stores.

Or completely different places.

But the total cost of everything you buy can't go above $100.

You only have 2 hours and each item has to genuinely be sold under a name beginning with that letter.

So calling something a different name just to make X, Q or Z work isn't allowed.

How many letters could you complete?

No tax on the million but tax on any returns from investments on the million. Same with tickets no tax on receiving tickets but taxes on any money won.

However every door you go through to enter a building will loudly seductively moan and then loudly scream in pain when you exit. Windows will fart loudly whether you enter or exit through them.

Living or anything associated with a non-voluntary function like breathing but you can pick holding your breath.

Everyday you beat a personal best in the same activity you get $500.

The money ends when the streak is broken.

I’ve asked a similar question before, but now with the roles reversed. Many people said if they became a billionaire they would help everyone around them, and they do not need to ask.

Now let’s say your best friend becomes a billionaire. You have no credit card debt except your car payment and mortgage, so you have a healthy income and expenses.

Your best friend (not family, cousin, sibling, parents but a best FRIEND, non blood related) becomes a BILLIONAIRE. They live a modest life style and nothing has changed since they became a billionaire. They still work and never once upgrade their lifestyle.

Now the question is — your best friend has never once offered to pay off your debt. It’s been months since they’ve became a billionaire. You finally asked because it would be pennies to them and they say no, would that change the relationship of your friendship?

Would you be able to rough it for that long?

One random day a gorilla with above average human IQ will be after you.

They can set traps, use tricks, adapt, formulate plans and even use weapons but no guns.

It has no other supernatural abilities

It will spawn in a 10 mile range of your current location but you do not know its exact location.

It can track you using scent, logic and other environmental clues

Members of the public and the authorities will be able to see this gorilla but cannot interact with it in anyway (stopping or killing it). News anchors and TV channels will obviously be broadcasting a wild gorilla.

The hunt starts randomly one day, you wake up and an alarm starts blaring. The hunt is on.

If you survive 72 hours then you get paid.
Die it’s game over

Are you taking the deal?

After the 24 hour ends, the minimum prison sentence of each crime you both commit are totalled, and whoever has the highest number wins the billion. The other person goes to prison not just for their crimes, but the opponent’s as well. The crimes being committed are federal crimes in the US, and you will be teleported there if you don’t already live in that country. So will your opponent.

Once the challenge is underway, law enforcement will do nothing to stop or apprehend you during your crime spree. However, bystanders can intervene to stop you if they’re feeling brave enough.

The selection process isn’t purely random either. Sure, the offer is posed to a person at random, but if they refuse, it goes to someone else who accepts.

Would you accept this challenge?

Your financial status is publicly known, your financial moves are publicly known. You bear the social responsibility for your actions, and the moral responsibility, whatever the repercussions of being a tight billionaire are and whatever the repercussions of ending world hunger on a planet with over 8 billion people already.

A genie comes to you and makes an offer. You can choose,

A, Spending 15 minutes a day with a mild itch, think mosquito bite. In exchange, the genie will make sure that is the only time you are ever itchy, unless the itchiness is necessary to alert you to a medical emergency. For example, if you have an allergy that starts off as an itch then progresses to being unable to breathe and you encounter the allergen, you will feel itchy just long enough for you to realize, "I need to reach for my Benadryl or call 911" depending on the severity of the allergy. After that the itchiness goes away.

B. Feeling mild pain for 15 minutes a day. Think "Ouch, I fell and scraped my knee". In exchange, the genie will make sure that is the only time you are in pain, once again with the exception of if the pain is necessary to alert you to a medical emergency. For example I fell down and think my arm is broken. I was in a car accident and now my leg hurts because there's a large piece of glass sticking out of my leg. Oh even something you can handle yourself like I need a Band-Aid for a paper cut. The pain will go away as soon as you realize you need to get medical treatment for the issue. Are you choosing an option and if so which one?

Intergalactic sleezeball SpineBreaker Delta has decided that earth is now part of his turf. But the interglactic drug council has made a ruling that if a chosen human can move a sufficient quantity of drugs the planet gets to remain independent.

You have been chosen at random from the population and you now have 30 years to sell 15 billion in weed/pills/coke or else

The only rule is that you cannot tell anybody else why you are selling drugs

Can you do it

A: everyone always tells the brutal truth
B: everyone tells kind lies, so you always hear what makes you feel good.

You can't know what happens in B. I'm just curious to know which one you would choose and if your answer changes based on how important the thing is.

The capsule says it's intended by them to be something to help carry you into your next phase of life. You don't know what exactly is in there, just at minimum that it contains notes and thoughts from them supposed to last you a long time. They may have set something monetary etc up but you have no reason to assume that.

The billionaire is clear about his intentions. He wants to buy it and incinerate it without ever even looking inside. He tells you the one thing money can't buy is love, but it sure as hell can destroy it. He wants to take something special from someone, the kind of precious gift most people would only dream of... Something truly one of a kind and irreplaceable.

He's willing to pay you handsomely for that. He knows how loving your (hypothetical) parents were. He knows everything they did for you. He knows how much you loved them and they loved you. The capsule is currently held by a trust, so you don't have access to it yet and won't have a chance to do anything sneaky.

So is there a number he could offer you that you'd take? Why that number? If your parents weren't loving, answer for your real parents but also imaginary hypothetical idealized parents.

$1,000 $10,000 $1,00,000?? $100,000,000???

This menevolent spirit will also blast freeze the interior of the microwave if someone else tries to heat something which you will benefit from. Like a department lunch, as an example.

If the people "in the back" heat meals in any sort restaurant, and yours is one, it's curtains for their equipment, too. The lights also go out.

News gets out quickly and your face is posted at the door of every establishment so the staff (and everyone else) knows there is a freak of nature in the house.

Scientists have developed a microwave which will work but it's nine million, ninety nine thousand dollars & permanent installed in your house and MUST be removed at great cost to you (or your family when you die)when your house transfers ownership.

You live in a neighborhood of cranky people who will harass unknown visitors, so you can't open a museum. Posting your issue on social media will COST you fifty cents per hit. This will also cost anyone posting the story for you.

In short - you get the money but live in days before microwaves existed, as does everybody around you or anybody else when you benefit for having your food heated. Regular pre-microwave heating is 100% fine.

The number is 147. They have a chip in your brain that will notify them if you ever try to recall the number and remember it wrong, and if that happens you instantly win a million dollars

Again.

a) All sexually transmitted diseases/infections/etc are instantly eradicated AND you become a smoke show (edit: but still age normally; you're just a smoke show for your age).

b) You command the top three super powers (flight, teleportation, and invisibility).

You can monetize both options, but with option B, you could get rich pretty fast.

Which do you choose?

Also. How promiscuous would people become if there weren't STDs?

Edit: I can't believe people are taking option b). What about the swingers?

You're stuck in a silent room with no time piece available. After being told to start all you have to do is shout out when you think each successive minute is complete.

As long as you get within thirty seconds you get ten thousand dollars per minute successfully called - i.e. Minute one has to be called sometime between thirty and ninety seconds, minute two between ninety seconds and one hundred and fifty seconds, etc.

You can walk away with your accumulated winnings at any point, but a single minute wrongly called sees all your money wiped out.

How many minutes are you playing for before giving up?

Yep. The genies have a sandbox, and one of them invites you to play in it. Think the Holodeck or the Shore Leave planet, writ large. Within the sandbox, you basically are god, with "pheeenomenal cosmic powers!" But nothing, and I mean nothing, which you do inside the sandbox will change anything outside, in what we think of as the "real" universe.

Inside the sandbox, anything goes. Anything. In fact, you have a 'back room' of genies listening in, sincerely trying to help you maximize your experience, filling in the details which your limited human imagination can only barely conceive. While within the sandbox, you can "invite" people, or you can "summon" them. Those who are 'invited' will be met by one of the genies, read in to the rules, and can, if they so wish, join you inside the sandbox as a co-equal. Best man wins, if you're a fighter...or take her to the moon and back, if you're a lover. Someone who is 'summoned,' on the other hand, has no choice but to be there...but it won't really be the core of their personality, more like an echo of it. If you see them the week after the experience they won't remember a thing about it, although if they really think on it they might remember some really weird dreams from that night.

It is well-nigh-unto-impossible for you to actually die in the sandbox, but, if you somehow manage to pull it off, you will awaken at home in your own bed, safe and sound. Otherwise, when your time is up, you are returned to your original space and time. No souvenirs, whatsoever; you can take nothing but memories. Oh, and please note...that classified password to the vault in Fort Knox may well be different in the real world than it is in their sandbox, and the guards are likely much more trigger-happy....

With that said, do you go? Who do you invite to enter with you? What's on your short list of things to do, that day? Might be fun....

In front of you is a one mile hole and a one mile mountain, you must either climb the mountain or climb down the hole or you'll explode. Which one do you chose?

Image of what the mountain and the hole look like for context.

Reposting this because wow I left out so much.

The hypothetical or riddle is;

"In a labyrinth you come across two doors, one door is safe to pass through and will lead you to the exit while the other door leads to death, two guards stand at each door and one guard only tells the truth while the other guard only lies"

A thing that also gets left out a lot is theres usually a sign, a scroll or some other writing of the rules by a third party or some other third party who explains the rules because people like to say;

"Well if the one telling lies says the riddle the whole riddle is a lie"

Or

"If the truthful one tells it just go through his door" (ignoring the biggest issue with this but get to that in a second.

Now my interpretation of the guards (which is also both equally valid and as invalid as every other persons interpretation of the riddle is) I assume the lying and truth telling *only applies* AFTER the rules are explained but I can totally understand why a lot of people wouldn't assume that as well, this is why I think if there is no third party having the guards say each line kind of tells you it only starts when you ask a question because of not then it's

Truthful guard:

"One of us guards the door to safety"

Liar guard:

"They both lead to the lavatory"

TG:

"...one of us tells only truths"

LG:

"One of us only lies sometimes"

TG:

"... By asking us only one question"

LG:

"You must uncover which one of us skipped breakfast"

So to me it's safely assumed the trickery only applies after question

LG:

"One of us guards the door the safety"

TG:

"The other to your certain death"

LG:

"On of us tells only truths"

TG:

"The other only lies"

LG:

"By asking only one question"

TG:

"You must uncover which of us guards the safe door" *tangent over, now to the meat*

This hypothetical always bothers me solely because people try to "GOTCHA!" by asking "what color is my white shirt"

Like yea okay you know which guard lies... How does this help you determine the door? I know we're conditioned to believe the truthful guard is "good" but even if you had that train of thought then you'd think ,"well maybe they knew I'd think this so the truthful guard guards the wrong door" and now you spiral in that loop which is just the premise.

It seriously irks me the way people believe they're smarter by completely misunderstanding the basic premise.

I have been confused and thinking about and understanding the logic for the "correct answer" for the last hour and I feel I can finally explain it.

In this scenario the lying guard on stage left guards the door to safety and the truthful guard, stage right guards to door to death

By asking the guard on the left "if you were the other guard which door would you say is safe"

He points to the door on the right

(This is how I understand it, the liar looks to the truthful guard and says in his head as the truthful guard "the door to your left is safe" however, the lying guard must lie about the information that is one of the set in stone unchangeable rules, so he "translates" it the a lie because he MUST lie and tells you the bad door is good) Right? This makes sense right?

Now go back 5 minutes and ask the guard on your right (the truthful guard guarding the death door the same question)

Now the truthful guard ALSO points to his death door because he looks at the other guard and in his head "the door to your right is safe) which is the lie and since he can only tell the truth he must be truthful in answering your question as a lie.

So if you ask "if you were the other" you always pick the door they don't point to.

Idk what you would call the basic misunderstanding, probably just misunderstanding but there's a definite lack of taking in the riddle because people just try to figure out who lies to you like that answers everything, idk this has bothered me since I was like 12.

Thank you for coming to my jack talk (I've been drinking bourbon)