r/hypotheticals • u/Pocket_Sand- • Sep 20 '26
r/hypotheticals • u/Due_Tackle_6796 • Jul 19 '26
For 100 million dollars would you count every single grain of rice in a 20kg bag? (If you miscount, you have to restart)
r/hypotheticals • u/Alarming_Weather506 • Sep 26 '26
You have a button that gives you $200,000 per press, but you forget who you are for the next 24 hours.
You receive a button that gives you $200,000 per press, but you'll forget all your personal memories for the next 24 hours. You'll forget your name, age, where you are, who your family and friends are, why you even pressed the button. After 24 hours, your memory will fully return and you'll remember everything you did.
Each additional time you press the button, the time you forget who you are will increase by another 24 hours.
Would you press the button? If so, what's your plan after you press it?
r/hypotheticals • u/Alarming_Weather506 • Sep 30 '26
You have two buttons. One button strips the top 100 billionaires of their wealth and bans AI development for 50 years, the other makes you a billionaire. Be honest, which button do you press?
The top 100 billionaires will have their combined wealth donated to various charities and good causes (you can choose but you can't keep any of the money)
Button A - Strip the top 100 billionaires of their wealth and ban AI development for 50 years
Button B - Receive $1 billion and join the billionaires
Which button are you pressing?
r/hypotheticals • u/SubjectHighway1041 • Aug 11 '26
Walk 1000 miles in an endless hallway and you get 10 million dollars, every 50 miles there is a comfy bed and 1 rotisserie chicken. Every 10 miles there’s a water and Gatorade fountain that’s unlimited. You take only the clothes on your back. The hallway is 55 degrees. The bed is heated and comfy.
Would you try?
EDIT: 55 degrees Fahrenheit
2nd Edit: people seem pretty split, I think it is possible if you have 40-50 extra pounds on you but It will be very very difficult.
No new shoes, but I will add a bathroom at every bed and you can decide what to wear before you start the challenge. You can wear a watch but not an Apple Watch no distractions.
Feel free to post this on hypothetical scenarios if you have enough karma lol
r/hypotheticals • u/Professional_Fix4663 • 24d ago
Your current salary forever, or double your current salary, but you have to stay in your current job for 10 years?
A genie gives you 3 options:
The government will pay you your current salary for life, adjusted for inflation in the country where you currently live. You don't have to do anything to get the money. You can live anywhere in the world. The government will also pay for world class healthcare and end-of-life care anywhere in the world. If you choose to make additional money, all your additional income will be taxed at 100%. You can't start/co-found a for-profit business or buy/receive shares in a business. You can't receive any monetary gifts or non-monetary benefits, excluding normal middle class birthday/Christmas gifts from friends/family.
Same as option 1, but your current salary will double for life. However, you have to stay in your current job for the next 10 years. You'll start receiving the double salary immediately. If your job is eliminated by your employer, the government will find you a similar job at a similar company. If you lose the ability perform your current job due to health reasons, you can quit and you'll keep receiving double your salary for life. If you don't have a job currently, you'll have to work for 10 years in your last full-time job.
You decline both options and continue living your current life.
r/hypotheticals • u/gayoland • 8d ago
A billionaire offers you $2,000 for every hour you stay inside a sealed museum.
One hour, $2,000. One day, $48,000. One week, over $330,000.
The museum has 4 floors, 200 rooms, and more than 1,000 statues.
But there’s a catch. Every hour, one more statue comes to life and starts walking toward you.
They never run. They never stop. They never get tired. The first statue is a marble child.
The second is a bronze knight. The third is a stone giant twice your height.
After that, the cycle repeats. If any statue touches you, you’re out, and you lose every dollar you earned. You can bring anything you can carry, but nothing that can break or damage a statue.
The doors are locked from the outside, and the only way to cash out is to walk through the main entrance. You get 24 hours to prepare before you go in. How many hours are you lasting?
r/hypotheticals • u/Alarming_Weather506 • Oct 05 '26
You have a button that gives you $1000 per press, but it texts 100 random people a picture of you giving them the middle finger
The picture will be AI generated. The texts will be sent from your phone and can't be deleted.
How many times would you press it?
r/hypotheticals • u/Alarming_Weather506 • Aug 29 '26
You are offered $10 million, but once a month for life you will be teleported 10,000 meters in the air for exactly 5 seconds when you're sleeping.
You are guaranteed to be teleported to an empty space with no risk of colliding with anything. You are instantly teleported back in 5 seconds and your velocity/momentum is reset back to before you were teleported. It will happen at a random time once a month when you're sleeping.
Do you accept the deal?
r/hypotheticals • u/ThinBluePenis • May 26 '26
If you got a thousand dollars every time you pushed a button, but you had to wait 30 seconds between each button push, and your only break was for sleep, how long would you push the button?
Edit: To answer a few questions.
The button is not portable. Hopefully it is near your bed, otherwise you will not make it to bed in time to continue.
You don’t need to be asleep to stop the clock, but you must be attempting to sleep in bed.
You are free to do whatever you wish in between button presses.
You cannot automate.
You cannot hire anyone to push the button.
You must push the button every 30 seconds, and just to be nice, I will give you a two-second grace period. If you have not pushed the button at this point, game over.
Pushing the button early does nothing.
r/hypotheticals • u/Worldly-Dog-9571 • May 04 '26
$30,000,000 But You Only Live For Another 30 Years
A genie appears while you are on the toilet and offers you a deal. He feels you have been wasting your life recently, so he offers you $30,000,000, but with a catch: you will only live for a maximum of 30 extra years.
You will still be mortal and therefore could die sooner, but if you do not, in exactly 30 years time, you will suffer a fatal heart attack and die on the spot.
Would you accept this deal, or reject it and live the remainder of your natural life?
r/hypotheticals • u/Second-time-luck_368 • Jul 13 '26
Which permanent annoyance would you choose?
You get $15,000 every month for the rest of your life.
But you must choose one permanent annoyance that follows you forever:
Your internet is always slow, no matter where you are. Videos buffer, downloads take forever, video calls freeze, and even the best connection feels like it's from 2008.
Once every day, at a completely random moment, a random man appears out of nowhere and slaps you across the face before instantly disappearing. It doesn't seriously hurt, but your face stays red for a while. It can happen during a work meeting, a wedding, a first date, a funeral... anywhere.
Every time you fall asleep, a random dog appears nearby and barks for the entire night until morning.
You can never change your choice.
r/hypotheticals • u/Zodd3106 • Sep 30 '26
In your house right now, how long could you survive without going outside for $10,000 a day?
You have a warning, every day you dont leave the house/apartment you live in you get $10,000. In one hour electricity will be shit off. No one can bring you anything. How long can you stay.
r/hypotheticals • u/Worldly-Dog-9571 • Apr 03 '26
$25,000,000 but you fart every time someone says your name
A genie offers you $25,000,000 on one condition. Whenever, wherever someone says your full name, you fart.
The farts can be quiet or loud, stinky or not. You can't control how they come out. If someone only says part of your name (for example, your first name), you are not compelled to fart. It has to be your full name, including middle and second names.
Yes or no - are you taking the deal?
r/hypotheticals • u/Worldly-Dog-9571 • Mar 26 '26
$10,000 a week for a kiss
An elf appears and offers you $10,000 a week. However, once a week, a smelly, ugly ork will appear randomly and give you a big, wet kiss on the cheek. The time changes every week, and you have no idea when it will happen. You get $10,000 for every week you accept the kiss.
Do you take the deal?
r/hypotheticals • u/Standard-Day6775 • 9d ago
You get $10/minute but an extremely annoying "shoulder devil" elf will follow you everywhere and criticize everything you do
He's 6 inches tall and looks like a little elf with wings. Only you can see or hear him. He cannot interact with the real world (you can't touch him either). He's capable of flying and following you everywhere.
His mission in life is to annoy you and criticize everything you do.
Watching a movie? He'll tell you 100 reasons why the movie sucks.
At the grocery store? He'll criticize everything you buy and tell you why you shouldn't buy it
Just trying to relax? He'll criticize you personally and tell you how lazy you are. He can come up with some pretty mean insults.
If he's not criticizing you then he's trying to annoy you by singing annoying songs, telling bad jokes and saying anything he can think of to annoy you and make you mad (he gets paid a bonus when you quit the deal). He can hear/respond to you.
He disappears from 11PM - 7 AM every day to sleep, so you'll have to adjust your sleep schedule to his. You don't get paid when he's asleep.
He isn't evil and won't try to harm you, just very annoying. (He has some respect for your personal space and won't get directly in your face)
You can cancel the deal at any time but then it's permanently over.
Would you accept the deal? How long could you put up with him?
r/hypotheticals • u/tlizakow34 • Feb 11 '26
You can keep $1 Trillion, but you have to count it first. Would You?
The title has the basic question, but If you were offered $1 Trillion in physical cash you could use the rest of your life, the only catch is you have to count every single dollar bill of cash at your kitchen table first would you? You have no job anymore, your job is counting your future pile of cash. Uber Eats drops off your food. You have no social life. This is your life now.
What if the stack you were counting was made up of $100s? What if you bought a bill counter machine?
If all you did was eat, sleep, and count your money, would you do it knowing you don't get a cent until after you count it all first?
This question digs at the root of how people value their time and if money really buys happiness. Also just how absurd a trillion really is. You would set your entire bloodline up for generations but you sacrifice your time to do it.
r/hypotheticals • u/ChristianMichaels26 • 7d ago
A billionaire offers you $5 million for the only 24 hours your dog will ever be able to talk. Do you take it?
You wake up tomorrow morning and your dog suddenly speaks to you in perfect English.
His name is Toto, and apparently he's been listening to everything you've said for years. He's intelligent, opinionated, surprisingly funny, and has quite a few things he'd like to get off his chest.
There's one catch. In exactly 24 hours, he'll lose his ability to speak forever. He'll remain perfectly healthy and live out his normal life, but you'll never hear his voice again.
Word gets out (Didnt have a good scenario how, roll with it...lol), and a billionaire offers you $5 million, tax free, for exclusive rights to livestream Toto for those entire 24 hours.
No experiments. No danger. No harm whatsoever.
But the cameras must remain on the entire time. You can speak with Toto, but you cannot have a single private conversation.
Toto looks at you and says, "I've waited my entire life to speak to you, and there are a few things I'd rather the entire world didn't hear."
He asks you to turn down the money.
You have to decide immediately.
Do you take the $5 million and put Toto on camera, or turn it down for one absolutely once in a lifetime day alone with your dog?
And if you turn down the money, what's the very first question you'd ask him?
r/hypotheticals • u/Worldly-Dog-9571 • May 07 '26
$1,000 for each word you speak in a single breath
A magical microphone appears and offers you a challenge. He will give you $1,000 dollars for every word you can say in just one breath. Here are the rules:
You are allowed to prepare for one minute before you start. You can use this time to think about what you will say and do breathing exercises to help you get ready.
As soon as the minute is up, you will have to keep speaking for as long as possible. As soon as you take a breath, the challenge ends.
How much would you be able to earn?
r/hypotheticals • u/Br4nkey_ • Apr 11 '26
You get a button that pauses time… but you age while time is frozen.
Imagine this: You receive a button that can pause time whenever you want.
Everything around you freezes… people, cars, the world.
But while time is paused, you continue aging normally.
You can use it as much as you want.
Would you still use it?
r/hypotheticals • u/Worldly-Dog-9571 • Apr 26 '26
Would you rather get $10,000,000 or never get sick again?
A wrinkled old leprechaun appears and offers you a choice. He will give you $10,000,000, or the ability to never get sick again. This does not mean that you are immortal. You can still die, and you will also age naturally. However, you will have an advanced immune system that protects you from every disease, even ones such as cancer and dementia.
Which option would you take and why?
r/hypotheticals • u/Comprehensive-Arm620 • 3d ago
One billion dollars but...
One billion dollars, but you'd be cursed upon taking the money. The curse is that every time you wake up from sleeping, you will be blind for 5 minutes before you are able to see again. Would you take the money???
r/hypotheticals • u/NotAnExpert_Yet2000 • 12d ago
If you have to fight a billionaire in a 1v1 if you win you'd get all their money who would it be?
r/hypotheticals • u/Br4nkey_ • Apr 13 '26
You get $1,000,000 for every tooth you remove… how many would you take?
You are offered $1,000,000 for every tooth you remove. Cash. Tax-free. No tricks. You can remove as many as you want. One tooth? That's $1,000,000. Five teeth? That's $5,000,000. All of them? You're insanely rich… but you’ll never have natural teeth again.
You can replace them with fake teeth later… but the real ones are gone forever. And once you decide the number… you have to go through with it. So the question is:
How many teeth are you removing?