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A mysterious supernatural stranger appears in front of you and offers you one of two boons. You can only choose one. Which are you choosing?

1. One time perfect teeth and gums reset. You will be able to once in your lifetime, do a complete reset of your teeth and gums to a perfect full set of natural, healthy, straight teeth and gums. If you already have a great set of teeth and gums, you can keep this in your pocket for later in life. After you do a reset, you will still need to take care of your teeth to maintain them.

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2. Zero Sum Gain $100 USD or equivalent in country you are physically in per day. Once per day, upon awakening, $100 in physical currency (bills and/or coins) will appear under your pillow. This is not new money. The source of this $100 will be the closest money that is not yours and that is outside the home or unit you are sleeping in. For example, if you are sleeping inside your own home, whatever monies that are around closest to the outside of your home and not yours will be teleported to under your pillow. So if your physically closest next door neighbor has money in his/her home lying around or in their wallet, $100 of it will be teleported to underneath your pillow each day. If you are sleeping in a hotel room, then the money will come from the closest money outside your hotel room. If you are sleeping as a guest in someone else’s home, the money will come from outside that home. This power will not turn off for the remainder of your life.

A mysterious supernatural stranger appears in front of you and offers you one of two boons. You can only choose one. Which would you rather?

1. 100% accurate lie detector technology will be released to the world. It will be made available to everyone and will be cheap. A home lie detector machine will be the size of a small blood pressure machine and retail for under $20. You get no recognition or monetary reward for this.

Edit: Some confusion on the lie detector machine. It will be a wearable or connectable one. The subject must wear or be connected to the lie detector machine so they will obviously be aware they are being monitored and can choose to not answer if they don’t want to. It is not some hidden remote detector that can just pick up lies from anyone within its “range”.

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2. Taco Bell Purple Card. You will be given this with your name on it entitling you to free food at Taco Bell.

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Disgruntled LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer reaches out to you. He offers you a one year guaranteed minimum salary $1.35 million contract. He wants to stick it to the league and make a mockery of it by making you play real minutes in NBA games. To do this though, you must quit whatever job you’re doing with no guarantee you will get re-hired back after the NBA season is over.

Do you accept this deal and start packing for LA?

You enter a public bathroom because you have to go number two. There is only one toilet. The toilet is unflushed with previous person(s) feces and urine in it. But you also notice a currency bill half submerged, half floating in the toilet. What is the lowest value amount of currency bill that would make you fish it out for yourself? Or is there no amount?

No rules fight in an Octagon. UFC fighter or Orangutan. Who wins?

1. Uninformed ignorant sports fan of a Championship Sports team. You don’t really know all the rules, but you think the game is exciting and fun.

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2. Highly knowledgeable sports fan of a perennial loser sports team. You know as much about the game and rules as a lot of the game commentators on tv or radio. You fancy yourself a better judge of talent in the sport than many pros. You call into sports radio talk shows to complain about your team.

Genie appears in front of you and presents to you two boons of which you can only choose one. Which would you rather?

1. Become 18 (today, not the actual year you were 18), your IQ becomes somewhere below average. Your physical appearance and body will be same as yours at your 18 year old version. You will be given a lump sum starting payment of $10 million and will be given a trust fund that allows you to live carefree in luxury for the rest of your life. Trust fund will provide you with equivalent of $5 million a year with annual increases to adjust for inflation for the rest of your life.

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2. Become 18 (today, not the actual year you were 18), your IQ becomes above average to high. Not a genius, but very smart. Your physical appearance and body will be same as yours at your 18 year old version. You are enrolled as a freshman at a U.S. top 25 or equivalent university. You are on full scholarship with living and meals expenses covered for four years. After that, you are on your own. You have to make your life whatever success you can on your own.

Edit: The being below average IQ part does not mean mentally handicapped. Imagine you are part of a 500 student graduating class in high school. And every student based on their ability was given the same opportunity and time to study. This below average IQ would put you at a class ranking of anywhere between 300 and 450 out of 500 students. Imagine the students that were in your high school ranked between the 40th to 10th percentile. That’s where you would be in for option 1. So not smart, but not mentally handicapped either. And the vice versa for option 2. You’d have been anywhere between the 60th to 90th percentile of your high school graduating class.

A bowl of live housefly maggots is presented in front of you. There are 10,000 live maggots wriggling in this bowl. A mysterious supernatural stranger offers you $5,000 per maggot that you eat. You must eat the maggot and successfully digest eaten maggot. Any vomited maggot will not be paid out.

You only have room temperature milk and water to help you swallow them down. No utensils or seasoning or cooking is allowed. They must be eaten raw and live as they come into your mouth by your own hand or you just slurping them up from the bowl.

Do you accept this challenge and how many will you attempt to eat?

Genie appears in front of you and presents to you a proposition. He will offer you a one way trip backwards to the time of your choice from 1 week earlier to 1 year earlier from the time of this offer. If accepted, Genie will give you one hour to pack and prepare in case you want to do some research and you can take with you one carry on luggage bag with whatever you want to pack inside.

Once you are sent backwards to the time of your choice (1 week to 1 year earlier), the timeline upon your arrival will split off into a split timeline. Your original timeline continues exactly how it did and you will eventually disappear from that original timeline since you will have accepted Genie’s offer. In this split timeline, you are then free to determine how you live and act in this split timeline. One major thing is you will now need to occupy the same split timeline as your earlier self. You will either need to forge your own new identity from scratch and keep hidden from your earlier self. Or you can approach your self and parlay some sort of identity sharing agreement.

Do you accept Genie’s offer? If yes, what is your plan of action to make the most out of your new life and how will you deal living in the same split timeline as your exact earlier (1 week to 1 year earlier) self?

You are currently married or in a committed relationship when Genie appears in front of you and partner. Genie offers only one of you human shape shifting power. With this power, the wielder can change their physical form into any human they choose for 6 hours at a time with a cool down period of 18 hours from using the shifting power again.

Do you and your partner accept Genie’s offer? And which one of you are going to take this power?

Genie appears in front of you at 7am and presents to you a challenge. A Smart car (that really small car with only two doors they used to sell several years back) materializes in front of your home. This smart car is painted pink and has a tinted windshield, but non-tinted clear rear and side windows. For the purposes of this challenge, it will not run out of gas the entire day of the challenge.

Genie will give you a prize starting at $100,000 if you get into this Smart Car naked with nothing but your driver license, phone (for navigation), a McDonald’s Gift Card loaded with $5,000, and you successfully make a food or drink purchase at a McDonald’s drive-thru. Once you complete the first McDonald’s drive-thru purchase naked, your prize pay out is $100,000 and you can quit there and collect if you’d like.

Or. You can keep going. You can go to another McDonald’s drive-thru to make another purchase and your prize payout will double. For every additional new McDonald’s drive-thru purchase (each additional purchase must be made at a different McDonald’s you haven’t already been at during this challenge) you make while naked in this smart car, the prize will then double. The challenge ends when you quit, at the end of the day, or when you are involuntarily stopped from continuing. Whichever comes first.

Do you accept Genie’s challenge? And how many McDonald’s drive-thru runs do you think you can/will complete?

You just encountered a Genie and asked for riches. Genie bellows in laughter and proclaims it is granted. From here on, every full inhalation you draw from a cigarette (must be lit and smoke is actively inhaled), Genie will give you $20. Genie offers no protections from the negative health effects of smoking. He will just give you $20 per full drag (puff) of a cigarette.

How often will you try and make money off this?

Congratulations! You just won a new national lottery. The advertised amount is $4 million. When you read up on the rules, you find out you can be totally anonymous, but you would only get $1.5 million then. Which would you rather?

1. $1.5 million anonymously. The lottery will keep confidential your identity and pay you out this amount.

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2. $4 million publicly. Your full name and neighborhood you reside in gets published on the lottery website and local news also announces you as the lucky winner. The lottery also reserves the right to use your name and image in future game promotions. No entities or law firms can be used to claim this prize in an attempt to hide your identity.

A Genie appears in front of you and offers you opportunity to receive either $1.5 million or $5 million. You will be placed in a random seat assignment on a packed Southwest airline airplane for a 2
hour flight. You can either choose to be randomly seated in the front half of the plane or the back half. All seats will be filled with an average typical assortment of passengers save for the last row in the back of the plane and your eventual randomly assigned seat. When the plane achieves cruising altitude at the start of this 2 hour flight, you will be randomly seated depending on your choice somewhere in the front half of the plane or somewhere in the back half. At the same time you are seated, the back row of the plane will be filled with 6 angry blood lusted adult Chimpanzees. They will be spooked by their sudden transport into this plane and immediately start attacking the humans. You must survive this flight and at the end of the 2 hour flight, Genie will give you your money.

Which would you rather?

1. $1.5 million to be placed in a random seat in the first half of the plane.

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2. $5 million to be placed in a random seat in the back half of the plane.

Two top human fighters against a wild male alpha chimp in his prime? Fight is to the death. Who dies first? The Chimp or both the humans?

Genie appears in front of you and offers you one of two boons. You can only choose one. Which one you choosing?

1. $250,000 cash in a beat up duffel bag. No catches or strings attached.

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2. Teleportation (99% success). You can teleport yourself along with up to twice your body mass worth of stuff or other people with you to anywhere on Earth. However, there is a 1% failure rate in which you and what you are attempting to teleport will be teleported into the Sun.

You meet someone and you end up dating them and it gets serious. A few months into the relationship, they confess to you they hid from you who their father was. Which would you rather they reveal it was?

1. Their father is Xi Jinping

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2. Their father is Vladimir Putin

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3. Donald Trump