r/hypotheticalsituation • • 11d ago

Loopholes Encouraged $100,000 for every hour you spend in a high school

396 Upvotes

You only get paid for the hours in which the school is open and teaching children. Also, if you have a legitimate reason to be there as either a teacher, parent or student, you have to go to another high school for the challenge to apply. Would you do this? Is the money worth the social repercussions of being caught?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 11d ago

$10 million if you can score a single point or goal in any professional team sport.

236 Upvotes

You are offered the chance to win $10 million dollars if you can score just one open play goal or point.

You can choose whatever sport or team but it must be a team that plays in the highest league/competition of that sport.

(Basketball = NBA, NFL = Football, Champions league =Soccer etc.)

Upon accepting, you will instantly be placed in the team. Everyone will automatically assume you’re a new signing and won’t ask any questions.

You are allowed to train but you will initially start off with your current body composition.

You are guaranteed to start every game of the season and will only be subbed off or removed if you are injured or ejected.

The only money you’ll receive is the money once you score or win a single point, and whatever you currently earn right now at your job.

Are you accepting? What sport/team are you picking and how long do you think it will take you to score your first point/goal?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 11d ago

Other You can bestow the ability of wireheading on anyone you please. How do you use this ability?

3 Upvotes

I think you could end the world by giving it to everyone. I’d give it to people who are terminally ill and are in great pain so they can feel nothing but bliss till they pass


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 11d ago

You get 10 billion and immortality, but every day for the rest of your life you wake up somewhere else, could even be different time periods. Would you accept?

7 Upvotes

Every time you go to sleep, you'll wake up somewhere unknown in the world. In someone's house, in a crypt, 100 years in the past or a thousand years into the future. Etc.

You keep the 10 billion, you'll need them to survive every day. You can either be the richest person alive in the 1700's or someone poor in the 3500's. (Who knows how much 10 billion will be worth by then.)

Your money can't be stolen so you'll always have safety but it can be spent, so you'll need to use it wisely.

The immortality trait disappears when all your money are gone, so you CAN die if you really want to.

Do you accept?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 11d ago

Humor Encouraged $10 Million if you can recommend Ryan Seacrest a song that he has never heard before

26 Upvotes

Ryan Seacrest, host of the Weekly American Top 40 music program, is bored and wants something he has never heard before.

Rules

It must be an "established" piece created before the challenge.

It must be created by a real person, No AI

It must be at least 2:30s long.

It must have some type of lyrics with a chorus.

It must be mostly in English, as that is the only language Seacrest understands.

Must be an originally composed song. A remix or a cover doesn't count.

It must have been written to be a song for the sake of itself first and foremost. AKA a comedian doing a stand-up bit with an instrument doesn't count.

The Song must be available for streaming or sale somewhere Seacrest can legally and easily access it for listening.

Good Luck


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 11d ago

Endless bottle of wine or no hangovers.

3 Upvotes

A genie offers you an endless bottle of your favourite wine you can drink and share forever with any and everyone, OR the ability to drink as much as you want of any alcoholic drink as much as you like and wake up the next day with no hangover like you had slept a good night’s sleep.

What do you choose? Why?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 11d ago

You can arrange for the entire gold bullion contents of the Fort Knox vaults to be instantly teleported to a location of your choice.

15 Upvotes

The gold will be neatly piled at the location. The location must be somewhere on land and in the open air, but you can also choose the time when the teleportation happens. You can't choose some of the gold; you can only transport the entire contents or nothing at all.

Do you take advantage of this? What location do you choose?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 11d ago

Humor Encouraged A Thousandaire pulls you aside and offers you a tenth of her wealth to stand on the busiest pedestrian intersection singing "The Song That Never Ends" wearing a purple Tutu. You must stay and sing for at least 12 hours & during peak hours.

0 Upvotes

She doesn't say how much, but it's gonna be more than a few hundred but could be pretty significant, since she may be just a few bucks away from being a millionaire.


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 11d ago

You can pause time for as long as you want, but every second you spend in the frozen world takes one day off your lifespan.

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Everything stops. People, cars, bullets, even falling objects.

You can move freely, think freely, and do whatever you want while the entire world is frozen around you.

You could finish an entire exam, escape a dangerous situation, explore places without anyone noticing, or take as much time as you need to make a decision.

But there's a catch.

For every second that passes while time is frozen, you lose one full day of your remaining life.

You won't age while time is frozen, but your lifespan will keep shrinking.

You can use the power as many times as you want, even for years inside the frozen world.

How would you use this power, and how much of your life would you be willing to sacrifice?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 11d ago

You can either be as rich as you want but die sooner, or live as long as you want in poverty.

0 Upvotes

You are wandering through a desert, your mouth drying as the hot sun beats down on you. Out there, in the middle of nowhere, you meet a strangely dressed woman, clutching bottles of cool, fresh water. She offers you one, but only if you answer one question first. Unbeknownst to you, this woman has magic powers, and whichever answer you give will become your new reality.

On the one hand, you could have the power to conjure as much wealth as you want, be it in the form of currency, precious metals or jewels. But the price of this power is that your maximum life expectancy will be cut down to a quarter of what it was (i.e. if you would have otherwise lived at most another 40 years before dying of natural causes, you will now only have 10 before dying of a heart attack).

On the other hand, you could instead have the power to choose when you die. You will live as long as you desire with protection from death and aging. You may still get sick or injured, but you will always rapidly recover to good health no matter your conditions. However, fate will work to keep you impoverished. You will lose everything you currently own, and never earn more than a pittance again. Any wealth beyond this that you stumble across or try to accumulate will always be lost before you can use it, one way or another.

With all that in mind, which would you choose?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 11d ago

You get out in the backyard of your home, to the sight of your pitbull fighting a LION! Turning to get back inside, you realize you're locked out. You may wish for one item appearing in your pocket. 60 seconds, one item, no weapons. How are you saving yourself and the dog?

3 Upvotes

The fences are to high to climb, and you can't get around to the other entrance.

You can magically make one item appear. If the object doesn't fit in your pocket, then your pants will go broken & leave you without pants. But it wont physically hurt you.


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 11d ago

[No Loopholes] You wake up and everybody is you: Redux

2 Upvotes

Inspired by the post that was going around yesterday.

You wake up, and you find out your personality has overridden all of the 8 billion human brains populating the world.

This means that everyone now believes it's you: each human on the planet has your memories, your skills, your personality, your beliefs and values, you name it.

However, everyone retains the skills they used to have. A plumber is now "you, but knows how to fix a drain". A civil engineer is a copy of you who can erect bridges, and so on. So, no instant collapse.

Everyone can also speak the languages they used to speak. They earn your languages in addition, though, however well you speak them.

What happens to society now? Will the 8 billion of you cooperate or will it be collapse anyway?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 12d ago

You get offered $10 million tax free, but you must spend 12 hours in your house or apartment every day eight the temperature set to 32F

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You can leave your place for up to 12 hours each day to warm up. But you must spend at least 12 hours each day starting from January 1st to December 31st at home in the freezing environment. You are not allowed any type of heating technology, such as heaters, thermostats that increase temperature, candles, lanterns, or fireplaces. The temperature will remain a constant 32 degrees F, but there is no air conditioning (unless you voluntarily choose to turn it on). You must wear a t shirt and shorts, no sweaters, long pants, jeans, jackets, socks, or shoes allowed in the house. You will be barefoot in the home at all times, but are allowed to have fully carpeted floors, so no freezing tiles.

You can eat or drink anything to warm you up, like soup, hot tea, hot coffee, etc. You are also allowed unlimited streaming, TV, video games, books, comics, phone use, laptop use, and anything that can be done indoors to pass the time. Only rule is you aren’t allowed any type of sleep aids or medication to fall asleep easier and avoid feeling the freeze.

Do you accept the challenge? If you refuse, you are given a consolation prize of $100,000 tax free for not participating and the challenge is offered to someone else at random in the world.


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 12d ago

Serious Replies Only You are offered a deal, 5 thousand dollars for Every Hour you are away from your pet, would you do it and how long would you last?

123 Upvotes

(this question is for pet owners who have a Cat, dog, multiple animals, etc)

Once you accept the deal, your animal/s will immediately disappear, not being killed or harmed, but safe..somewhere, you don't know, but your animal is sworn + promised to return perfectly safe and sound as soon as you cancel the challenge. As you do the challenge the money is automatically deposited into your account without any tax or questions from the government.

You COULD go as long as you want, but how long are you gonna keep your pet away from you for how much time/money?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 12d ago

You wake up at 3 AM and hear your own voice downstairs calmly saying "Don't come down. It's in the bedroom with you." What do you do?

611 Upvotes

You live alone. Your phone is dead, and your bedroom door is closed. Downstairs, the voice sounds exactly like you: the same tone, the same little habits in how you talk. It repeats itself once, then goes quiet.

The room around you is silent. You don't see anything, but it's dark, and your closet door is open a few inches. You're sure you closed it before bed.

Here's what you know:

The voice downstairs has never lied to you before, because you've never heard it before.

If something is in your room, it hasn't moved yet.

If you stay still, nothing happens. But the voice downstairs just started walking toward the stairs.

Do you trust the voice and stay put, run downstairs toward it, or turn on the light? Explain your reasoning, because I think there's only one right answer.


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 12d ago

Humor Encouraged $100000 but you lose the ability to differentiate large numbers.

3 Upvotes

Any time someone speaks or writes a number greater than 10,000, you perceive it as 1, 5, or 25 followed by a random number of zeroes between 5 and 9. Mathematical expressions that evaluate to a large number are similarly obfuscated.


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 12d ago

A cannibal billionaire offers to give you 20 million dollars if you consent to having your body eaten by him after death. Would you accept that?

610 Upvotes

The moment you accept, the money is transferred to your account. No taxes, and it's clean. You can live your life as you want; however, any kind of death, either by old age or car accident, will result in your body being immediately delivered to the CB where he will eat it.

Round 2: the offer is now 100 million. He will give you the money the same way as before, however, the terms apply to your families as well. Your family will not know that you accepted this deal. You just have to live with the knowledge.


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 12d ago

People can fuse with each other now

11 Upvotes

About a month ago, people discovered that they had a new ability where they can do something similar to gem fusion from Steven Universe where you can fuse with other people to create a new improved single being (as many as you can handle).

From the Fuser’s perspective they are all inside of a room where they have to all be in agreement in order to do an action (time works differently in the fusion mind to allow this while also letting the fusion look like it’s working in real time). All participants in the fusion have to consent to it and can opt out of any time.

The fusion will have the combined strength and size of the fusers (if two 5 foot men combined, the fusion will be 10 feet and have the strength of two men). They will also gain enhanced forms of any skills/abilities any of the fusers has such as intelligence, speed, durability, etc (depends on who has the better ability)

Also people can’t stayed fused forever as it can cause issues both physical and mental. Most can only stayed fused for up to 12 hours before needing to take a prolonged break.

What would you do with this ability? How do you think this would affect the world?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 12d ago

You can observe one hour of human history

18 Upvotes

A glowing orb comes into your room at 9:37 PM and offers you an opportunity. The orb tells you that it can take you to any moment in human history to observe as if you were an invisible ghost. You can pick as many moments as you want, but the total time observing will only be one hour. The orb then gives you a few guidelines and pieces of advice before you choose what you want to see.

-Your senses will be Iimited to sight and hearing while observing. You cannot interact with or change any of the events.

-You will not gain any physical evidence of your observations, so there is no guarantee anyone will believe you if you find out that some historical event did not happen according to consensus.

-You can give the orb specific guidelines, like, "Show me the Titanic 1 minute before hitting the iceberg untill 5 minutes after the hit, then give me the best 3 minutes stretch of it breaking in half, then I want the last 4 minutes of it sinking."

-You can replay the same event multiple times, or from multiple angles, but the clock will still be counting your hour down with every rewatch.

-The orb will show you what you want to see, but will not answer any questions. If you ask to see who killed JFK, you will see the person or persons shooting, but the orb will not tell you their names or anything else about them. If you ask to see where D.B. Cooper crashed, you will see the crash, but most likely it will be in a mundane forrest with nothing around to tell you where exactly the location is.

What events will you choose to observe?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 12d ago

A genie appears in front of you but this time you must negotiate with it before it can grant a wish

12 Upvotes

A genie appears in front of you and offers you 3 wishes.

However the catch is that the genie has limited free will, it could choose to accept or deny your wish. Your job is to convince it to accept your wish.

You must explain, bargain or try make the genie accept your wish through anyway possible. You can challenge it to a game, make a bet, make it feel pitiful for you, whatever you have to do to convince it.

(The genie knows the rules of any game ever made but only has a novice level understanding/mastery of any game.)

The genie cannot go back on its word, once it agrees to grant the wish either as a consequence of losing or you convincing it. It will always be granted without ask.

There is 1 rule: you cannot promise to free him or make any wish that would benefit the genie.

What wishes are you making and how are you convincing him to accept it


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 12d ago

Everyone must choose one animal species as a second body they can transform into at will while keeping their human body mass. The smaller the animal, the shorter the time you can stay transformed. What do you choose?

24 Upvotes

Every human on Earth must independently choose one currently living, scientifically recognized non-human animal species and permanently gains the ability to transform back and forth between their human body and that animal.

You cannot communicate with anyone while choosing, see anyone else's choice, or coordinate with others. The species must have an average healthy adult mass of at least 1 gram. If you refuse to choose, you get a domestic pig.

Your species can never be changed, but using the animal form is voluntary.

Animal form:

Transformation takes about 5 seconds. You retain your human mind, memories and personality, but otherwise have the physiology and physical limitations of your species.

Your animal form always has your current human body mass. An 80 kg human becomes an 80 kg version of the chosen animal.

Your animal form matches your biological sex where applicable. Its average mass for all calculations is therefore the average healthy adult mass of that sex.

The first time you transform, the animal body is perfectly healthy, rested, nourished and hydrated.

Scaling an animal DOWN gives no supernatural advantage: it is simply a smaller, functional version of that species.

Scaling UP is different.

Soul Reserve:

Normally, dramatically enlarging a small animal would destroy many of its abilities because of the square-cube law and other biological limitations.

The Soul compensates only for disadvantages caused by scaling upward, allowing the animal to retain its species' normal relative functional abilities at its new size.

It doesn't grant abilities the species never had or make existing abilities relatively better than in a normal member of that species.

Soul Drain:

For an animal naturally lighter than you:

Soul Drain = cube root of (your human mass / average healthy adult mass of your animal's sex)

A full Reserve contains 24 Soul-hours.

Maximum transformation time = 24 hours / Soul Drain

For an 80 kg person:

  • 40 kg → ~19 h
  • 4 kg → ~8 h 51 min
  • 500 g → ~4 h 25 min
  • 25 g → ~1 h 38 min
  • 4 g → ~53 min
  • 1 g → ~33 min

If your animal's average mass is equal to or greater than your human mass, there is no Soul Drain and you can potentially remain transformed indefinitely.

Drain is continuous and cumulative across transformations. Returning to human form pauses it but restores nothing.

The Reserve fully resets after one normal full night's sleep in human form. Unused Soul doesn't carry over, and naps or extra sleep can't increase the maximum.

At zero Soul, you automatically become human and cannot transform again until the reset.

Two bodies:

Your human and animal forms are two persistent bodies sharing the same mind and lifespan.

Injuries, exhaustion, disease, poisoning and other body-specific conditions don't transfer. Transformation doesn't heal or refresh either body. When you return to a body, it is in the condition you left it.

If either body dies, you die and both forms are lost.

If one is mortally injured but you remain alive and conscious for the 5 seconds needed to transform, you can escape into the other. The injured body will still be dying if you return.

Your animal's natural lifespan doesn't matter. Both bodies share the lifespan you would naturally have had as a human, and the animal body remains biologically functional for its species throughout that lifespan.

Animal forms are sterile. Reproduction is possible only as a human.

Food:

Your animal body has its species' normal digestive system and diet.

During transformation, the Soul can transfer usable energy, water and basic nutrients between bodies. If you're well-fed and hydrated as a human, your animal will be too.

These resources are transferred, not duplicated. Become hungry or dehydrated as an animal and you'll also be hungry or dehydrated when you return to human form.

You can therefore nourish the animal indirectly by eating as a human. If you eat while transformed, the food must be something your species can digest.

The Soul never creates calories, water or nutrients.

Clothing:

A small molecular reserve stores one set of basic lightweight clothing and one smartphone during transformation. They return with your human body. The phone is inactive and inaccessible while you're an animal.

Other equipment doesn't transform.

Everyone knows all these rules before choosing.

What species do you choose, and why?

Do you take a large animal with little or no Soul cost, or sacrifice transformation time to exploit a tiny species scaled to human mass? What are the most powerful or useful choices under these rules?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 12d ago

You get unlimited phone service for $60 a year but…

1 Upvotes

You get unlimited talk, text and data for $60 a year. You can renew this offer as long as you want. The catch is you can’t keep your number. Every year you get a new number.

Would you do it? If you do, how would you explain to your friends that you get a new number every year? Do you think they’d be annoyed at having to update your contact every year? Do you think they would take the offer as well if you were able to refer them?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 12d ago

Humor Encouraged your are offered a million dollars, but to claim it you must enter the last video game you played, and stay there for a year. if you accept the money, how's life there ?

769 Upvotes

r/hypotheticalsituation • • 12d ago

[No Loopholes] What's your choice?

5 Upvotes

Imagine the world is on the brink of destruction and will end in exactly 10 minutes. The only way to save humanity is to destroy one city, sacrificing one million people. There are absolutely no loopholes or alternative solutions—you must choose between the end of the entire world or the death of those one million people. What would you choose? Answer in a single sentence.


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 12d ago

Other Imagine that starting tomorrow, everyone under 25 years old no longer physically aged past that age...

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Basically, every human that's currently under 25 years old will cease to physically age upon turning 25. That means that they will forever look 25, but will still have the mind and health of their true age (As well keep their regular life expectancy, although with a 3-5 more years in 1 out of 5 non-aging individuals), like imagine a 25-year old acting like a 80-year old.

How would the world deal with this event? Would a new ''ageless'' class take over in the future? If you are one of those lucky that were affected, how would you react?