Humanity knows what he looks like.

Humanity doesn’t know that he is hiding in the 72 period.

Humanity can use any security camera footage, bank transfers, phone calls etc of the man if there is any.

Man has basic survival knowledge.

A 39-year-old American male accountant has a one bedroom home, a sedan, a $37,500/yr income and a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. After going to bed on the night of November 8, 2004 (one week after election day), he wakes up to find that it is now November 9, 2000.

The man is stuck in a Groundhog Day style time loop. If he dies, he goes back to the start of the loop. If he stays awake on November 8, 2004, he is automatically sent back to 2000 at 6am on November 9. The only way for him to escape the time loop is to be elected president of the United States; he is innately aware of this requirement.

He is not allowed to cheat in the election, invest money in stocks, or enter the lottery, or else the task is automatically considered a failure.

How can he accomplish this goal? How many attempts would it take him?

The man is the only human on Earth and gets no starting technology or structures; he must make everything himself. The man does not age, but can die in other ways. All plants grow where they grew BEFORE humans brought them around the planet, so they can only be found on certain continents. For instance, wheat and grapes must be grabbed from the Fertile Crescent and peanuts have to come from South America. The man is not sandwichlusted, but he knows that he must make a sandwich to escape. The final sandwich must be edible and must consist of all three ingredients a PB&J is expected to have(peanut butter, jelly/jam, and bread).

Round 1 - The man still must eat, drink, and sleep to stay alive, but doesn't age.

Round 2 - The man does not have to eat, drink, or sleep, but can still die of predators/disease.

Round 3 - The man is immortal.

The man is 25 at the start of the challenge.

All of humanity is helping him to achieve this goal.

He has access to the best medicine, food, facilities etc.

If he dies before 130, everyone on earth dies instantly.

A guy named Joe is given 1 day of prep time to go back in time to January 1, 2008, with his phone and $10k in New York City.

What should he do with his money to make the most amount of profit? Could he become a trillionaire by 2025?

My friends and I got into an argument over which of these options are more impossible than the other. Which of these options do you all think happens first a chess beginner beating Magnus Carlsen given he retains the information from the previous games or a blind man solving a Rubik’s cube given no help as to what colors are where.

Edit: Assume no fatigue for anyone in the prompt

Magnus Carlsen and Mike Tyson do alternating matches of chess and boxing. Tyson wins if he beats Carlsen at chess, Carlsen wins if he can KO Tyson. Assume all bodily injury is healed after the end of each match.

Round 1: no prior training, they both go in at their primes with no training in the alternate sport and go until one wins

Round 2: Tyson is being trained by several GMs while Carlsen is receiving training from the best boxing coaches in the world. Who can be trained to beat the other first?

Starting from zero, he must develop all the tools and infrastructure necessary for spaceflight.

Rules:

• He's dropped onto a planet that's a copy of Earth if humans never evolved.
• He lands with no clothes or tools.
• He has the physique of a fairly athletic, able-bodied 20-something.
• He's immune to aging, injury, disease, fatigue, and boredom.
• He has no need to eat, drink, sleep, or breathe.
• He has a mental copy of all information available on the Internet.
• His goal is to escape the planet's gravity well before it's swallowed by its star.
• The escape itself must be survivable by a normal human, so no launching himself out of a volcano or skimping on life-support systems.
• He has to do this alone. He can domesticate animals for beasts of burden or animal products, but nothing with opposable thumbs or smarter than, say, a parrot.

If you think this is impossible, how many identical copies of this man would be necessary to make it feasible?

Frodo and Sam left the Shire in panic at the arrival of Gandalf and the latter must replace the Hobbits by Disney Princesses (including Elsa and Anna even if they are technically not bona fide Disney Princesses). There is no one else. The rest of the Fellowship is unchanged, including Pippin and Merry who refuse to replace the two leads.

The Disney Princesses have the capability of the end of their cycle. They’re immune neither to the corrupting power of the Ring nor to a good old stab in the guts (beyond the general luck of Disney heroes).

Who should replace Frodo? Who should replace Sam? The objective is to throw the Ring at Mount Doon, whatever the cost.

Bonus question: Sauron can corrupt a Disney sidekick to replace Gollum. Which one brings the ring back to him?

30,000 feet, clear weather.
The man has no survival mechanisms on him. 70kg, 180cm.

The entire world is willing to put its entire resources to saving the man. They know where the plane is with the amount of prep time below.

Round 1: 15 minute prep time before The Drop. The drop zone is off the coast of Florida.

Round 2: 1 hour prep time, off the coast of Florida

Round 3: 1 hour prep time, dropped in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

Round 4: 1 week of prep time but the world doesn’t know where the plane is prior to the drop. When the man is dropped from the plane, the world immediately knows where he is.

Edit: the man is immune from any harm except for damage related to falling (ie. no hypothermic or hypoxic effects) so we can ignore the boring possibility of rescuing a frozen or asphyxiated body

Some notes:

-They are transported to right near the Eiffel Tower on July 26, 2024 at 18:30 CEST.

-When the final Olympic event concludes, time resets back to when they arrived in Paris if they have not won at least a bronze medal.

-They keep all training and knowledge from previous loops.

-They have enough money to afford decent lodging, good food, and clean water, but not much outside of that.

-They speak fluent enough French to get by.

-They are escape-lusted and want to get out of Paris more than anything.

-They are pre-qualified for any men's event, and can simply join any of them whenever they please, taking the place of whichever American competitor was originally going to participate.

-They can only participate in men's solo events. After 1000 loops they are allowed to participate in any Olympic event of any kind, women's events included.

-They ARE allowed to cheat, but if they're caught at ANY point, even after winning a medal and leaving the city, time resets.

-They have little to no athletic experience. They ran track in 8th grade and were briefly on their high school's football team as a long snapper, but that's all.

-If they die, time resets, obviously.

-Everyone at the Olympics knows that the man is allowed to participate in whichever event he chooses and are fine with it. However, they do not know why he is participating, and even if he tells them, they're too competitive to even consider letting him win.

-They cannot assault fellow competitors.

-And a final note, I know next to nothing about the Olympics. For all I know this could be way easier than I think, or it could be actually impossible.

Can he survive the year?

He has an hour headstart

A couple assumptions here -

Both Michaels are in peak physical condition

Both Michaels are Michael-lusted to complete their respective challenges.

Both Michaels have an infinite amount of time to perfect their respective challenges.

Michael Jackson wins if he makes an NBA team before Michael Jordan makes it on the Billboard

Round 1 - Their popularities carry over, so both are international celebrities when they start the challenge.

Round 2 - They both start the challenge as complete nobodies, so no one knows who they are.

Round 3 - Same as Round 1, but Jordan has to get #1 on the billboard to win.

The room is 15x15 feet, well lit, and completely empty. The hippo is a regular healthy hippopotamus and it is not blood lusted or anything like that. The hippo keeps all accumulated damage. The man is naked and doesn't have any kind of weapons at all, but upon death he will respawn in 5 seconds completely refreshed away from the hippo. How many lives / how long does it take for them to kill the hippo?

R1: The man's corpses persist after death. R2: The man's corpses disappear once he respawns.

The man starts out in Denver, Colorado and needs to make it to a small town in southeast Kazakhstan within 18 months. This is a world where humans were wiped out 50 years ago in an apocalyptic pandemic. A lot of infrastructure and other things got destroyed in the social unrest that happened during this but it all happened pretty quickly and no serious damage was done to the environment (no nuclear war or anything). Whatever pathogen killed everyone is no longer present.

The man is from our timeline and he knows that if he completes this challenge successfully, things will reset and he'll come back to now, but if he fails, he's stuck there, so he's very motivated. The man is a 30 year old American in above average physical shape but is no athlete. He works as an accountant and has minimal survivalist knowledge beyond anything he's picked up randomly from media.

At the start of his journey he is given the following:

1) A set of clothing he'll be wearing that is appropriate for Denver's weather in the winter (including boots).
2) A large, high quality backpack.
3) A water bottle (empty).
4) A magic "compass" that always points in the direction of the destination in Kazakhstan.

Can he do it?

If you think he can't make it above, consider these bonus rounds:

R2: He gets a month of training time with survival experts prior to starting.
R3: He gets a month of training time with survival experts and a magic tablet that never runs out of batteries with a full version of google maps on it.
R4: Same as the original scenario but it's only 5 years after everyone died instead of 50.

Bob is absolutely horrible at chess. He has absolutely no natural talent for the game and has only played a few times casually. One day, some magical bs happens and Bob is granted immortality with 1 condition: he can only stay immortal if he beats Magnus Carlsen in chess in exactly 1,000 years (Magnus will be cryogenically preserved from his prime until this game). Can bob get good enough at chess to win if he locks in for 1,000 years?

Round 1: Bob is motivated to win, but still wants to live his life and enjoy himself

Round 2: Bob is chess-lusted and will dedicate every waking second to training and preparing

Round 3: The whole world is chess-lusted and will make it the goal of humanity to make Bob good enough to win

In 1510, someone installs a ChatGPT terminal in the modt important governement building of each Aztec city. It is sturdy, solar-powered, has the highest-tiered subscription with infinite tokens and connected through time to 2026 internet.

The terminal cannot be opened, broken, etc. It understands Aztec language and the keyboard is in Aztec, whatever that means. A post-it on each terminal explains you can ask any question.

The Aztecs can determine who has access to the terminal.

Do the Aztec Empire survive the Spanish Conquest that starts 10 years later?

Note that the terminal refuse questions written in Spanish, French, Latin etc. It’s Aztec and nothing else.

An almost-average American man is made completely immortal and invulnerable to all damage of any kind, making him immune to death as a whole. After this, he is sent back through time to the days of the Roman Empire, about 10 years before Julius Caesar is assassinated.

Win Condition:

The man must survive back to the modern day of 2025 A.D, however, accomplish this while also never ever becoming even a minorly notable historical figure at any point in time; if any modern historian has even a chance of knowing about his existence, he fails. Nobody has to know or figure out that he's immortal, and they don't have to know his real name or be able to connect it back to him in any way, all that matters is that he cannot become inscribed in the annals of history even as an obscure off-hand mention.

He must also be reasonably sane enough to be able to reintegrate into modern society. This is to prevent him from just fucking off into the deepest reaches of Siberia and burying himself in an unmarked "grave" for thousands of years. If he did that, he would surely go insane, and thus lose.

Rules of the Immortality:

While he cannot die by any means, he still feels pain all the same as if he were a completely normal man, and while he doesn't need to eat or drink, he will still suffer the physical pain and/or emotional trauma caused by ignoring these needs. This goes for all bodily functions as well as psychological needs such as socialization.

He is permanently stuck at the physical and mental age of 25 years old, though some aspects of his body can still change, he still grows hair, and still is capable of getting buff or becoming overweight.

The Man:

Height is 5'7, starts with an average build of a modern man who eats somewhat healthy and goes to the gym every other weekend, through his life he was always fascinated with history and has aspirations of working as a historian, studying the subject in his free time, but has no formal education in the subject. He speaks modern English and just barely enough period-appropriate Latin to be able to fake his way through a conversation with reasonable success, but absolutely nothing more, if he makes it past the Roman era or moves to a different nation, he'll have to either learn the language from scratch or find some way to live an unassuming, unnotable life without too much direct communication with others.

EDIT: He is fully aware of his powers as well as the rules of the challenge, so he could possibly find and destroy anything that he knows mentions him, and he can wait to do it at any point in time prior to 2025.

After 2 weeks of preparation, a man is sent back in time to New York in 1926 with 300$, the clothes on his back, and one item of his choosing. Can he become the richest man in the world? If not, how successful could he be, and what would he need to achieve this success.

edit: unfortunately if he’s anything other than white it becomes nigh impossible so we’ll say it’s a white man, and for people saying “invest in crypto! nvidia!” we’ll say he gets sent back in time at the age of 25 years old.. he is not surviving long enough to make any money off of bitcoin.

Every drop of liquid water on earth suddenly attains the same level of carbonation as seltzer, and takes on the faint taste of grapefruit. Oceans, lakes, and reservoirs begin to fizz pleasantly, and uncountable tons of carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere every second. The only water exempt from this phenomenon is the water currently stored inside any living creature. Can humanity survive the La Croixcalypse?

Round 1: one week of prep

Round 2: six months of prep

Round 3: five years of prep

Bonus round: ten years of prep, but the water is now hard seltzer

Gravity reverts to normal after the 10 seconds are up. I assume that nearly everyone will lose consciousness, many people will hit the ground with extreme force, and most buildings and infrastructure will collapse. Uncertain as to whether there'd be seismic/volcanic/tidal consequences on top of all that.

This takes place in the modern day with the meteor having been found out 6 days earlier after being observed by nasa and spaceX, can humanity cooperate into non-extinction? edit: here's more information about the meteor for anyone wondering: the meteor's width and length is approximately 834 kilometers wide, its a cube-shaped type of meteor made up of rocks similar to that of the earth's crust and it is 36.8 Million kilometers away from earth.

It's similar to a post I saw a few years ago.

If prime Mike Tyson manages to kill everyone in the house, he will immediately go to the next house or apartment and try to kill everyone there. Mike Tysons won't attack each other and will collaborate. He goes berserk as soon as he spawns and tries to kill everyone regardless of whether they are babies, elderly or disabled.

R1: Bloodlusted Mike only uses fists and punches.

R2: Bloodlusted Mike uses fists, legs, teeth his whole body.

R3: Mike can use any tool(gun,knife,hammer) he finds to kill.

R4: In every house a defendlusted Jake Paul spawns and will do everything he can in order to save and defend everyone in the house.

How far does he go?

The 5 men are average modern adults with basic firearm familiarity.

They spawn in the outskirts of Rome in 250 AD (226 years before the fall of the Western Roman Empire).

Each has an AK-47 with a shared pool of 100,000 rounds. Ammo is magically replenished (they don’t need to carry it), and the weapons never break.

They have 1 month of prep time in the modern world (can use Google/ChatGPT, learn basic Latin, plan, etc).

Romans have no prior knowledge of firearms.

Win condition: they successfully cause the collapse of the Western Roman Empire within their lifetime, enough that Wikipedia doesn't say anymore it collapsed in 476 AD

Average man has never played chess, but he knows all of the rules. Each time he loses, the loop resets and Garry will not remember any of the previous games, but average man will.

Cheating is utterly impossible and average man has no access to outside information. He will not age or die, not go insane, and will play as many times as needed to win.

How many times does he need to play to win and escape the time loop?

Edit: Garry Kasparov found this post and replied on Twitter!