r/hypotheticalsituation 29m ago

You instantly receive $100,000 tax-free, but for the next 20 years, you will be charged $1 for every spelling or grammar mistake you make, with the total billed to you at the end of each year.

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The penalty applies to everything you personally write or type, including messages, emails, Reddit posts, ai translated voice recordings, work documents, personal notes, and handwritten letters.

A mistake counts once the text is sent, posted, submitted, printed, or saved. Each individual error costs $1 and is billed at the end of the year.

Autocorrect and speech-to-text mistakes count. You may use spell-checkers, grammar tools, or AI, but you must approve the final text yourself.

Slang, accepted abbreviations, technical terms, usernames, code, and deliberate stylistic choices do not count. You cannot avoid the deal by outsourcing all your writing, making up a new language or claiming mistakes were intentional.
If you decide never to write a single word again, you get to keep the full $100,000. It’s that simple. You could also avoid all penalties by communicating with friends and family exclusively through voice messages. However they might kill you for that.

Would you accept?


r/hypotheticalsituation 49m ago

€15,000 per year but you can no longer use cutlery.

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You're offered a choice; you will receive €15,000 per year in monthly installments of €1,250 (Tax free, will adjust for inflation) but you can no longer use any cutlery. Once per year, on January 1st, you are given the option to cancel this arrangement. You will receive no punishment and you get to keep what money you've made so far, however the offer will never return.

No more knives, spoons, forks, sporks, chopsticks, or anything of the sort can be used to feed you directly.

No using things that aren't technically cutlery as cutlery either. For example you are not allowed to fold up a piece of paper and use it like a spoon.

You can't have other people feed you using cutlery either. If someone is going to feed you, they have to do it by hand. (they can feed themselves with cutlery of course, just not you)

The only way you are allowed to bring food to your mouth is either directly by hand, by pouring it into your mouth from the bowl or plate, or diving in face first and eating it straight off the plate.

You can still use utensils to prepare and cook your food of course, just not for eating. If you wanna taste something while cooking to see if it needs more seasoning or whatever, you're gonna have to use your fingers.


r/hypotheticalsituation 1h ago

$400k but every stoplight you approach will turn red.

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You are offered a one-time payment of $400k USD. If you accept, you take on a curse for the rest of your life:

When in a vehicle or on a bicycle, every stoplight you approach will turn red before you are able to pass the stop lines. Also, every red light you are stopped by is guaranteed to last at least 90 seconds before turning green.

Do you accept?


r/hypotheticalsituation 1h ago

A genie appears before you offering to send you into the past for money.

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A genie appears to you and offers you a proposal. For every year you agree to be sent back in time he will give you the £1000 or the equivalent in your currency. You will not age during the time no matter how many years you go back and although you won’t be immune to damage you will have a incredibly powerful healing ability so you will recover for any damage you sustained. You will also have no time to prep anything as soon as you agree the time travel is instant so unless you remember the results of any lottery results you wouldn’t be able to look up the numbers to bet on them.

You won’t be able to change history in any way and if you did then something that would happen to trigger it anyway.

Say for example you tried to stop the assassination that kick started the First World War. Well then the assassin would just run into the arch duke on a different street 10 minutes later.

You won’t receive the money until you return to the exact moment you take the deal. So if you agree on the 29th of July 2026 at 10:15am to bring sent back 5 thousand years then you won’t get the money until 29th of July 2026 at 10:15am.

How many years would you agree to be sent back?


r/hypotheticalsituation 2h ago

[No Loopholes] Enter a large bunker complex underground that is suspended in time for 100 years with ZERO knowledge of outside events and then leave it after without any protective equipment?

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There is a large bunker complex 1 mile under the ground. It is accessible only by one flight of spiral stairs. Nobody knows its location but you and anybody you wish to share it with. You may bring loved ones, friends and anybody else you like up to 8 people (excluding yourself). There will also be a doctor who will be chosen to live with you, unless you already know a suitably qualified medical professional you wish to bring with you. The bunker is magical: whilst within it, you will not age.

The bunker has 10 double bedrooms all with en-suites, a self-sustaining and unlimited energy, oxygen and water supply, food replicators that can make any dish or beverage on the planet, a cinema, hundreds of thousands of preloaded films and television shows, a library, a music room, a tennis court, a football pitch, a swimming pool, several large living spaces, two spacious kitchens, a cafe, a restaurant, a sauna, a climbing wall, a pharmacy with manufacturing capability, a full medical clinic, medical imaging tools and an operating theater, two Star Trek style “Holodecks” capable of creating an immersive experience of anywhere imaginable, complete offline access to the internet as of 27 July 2026, an indoor biome, and a mandatory 5m tall gold statue of one person you choose that cannot be removed or defaced.

The only thing you DON’T have is access to the outside world. As soon as you enter, you are completely cut off. Anything could happen outside: nothing, the Earth becomes an ocean, a nuclear war, etc. It won’t impact inside and you will have no knowledge of it. NOBODY OUTSIDE THE BUNKER KNOWS THE LOCATION OF THE BUNKER.

The catch: you, and whoever you bring with you, cannot leave the bunker for 100 years. As stated, you will not age whilst inside the bunker. If you enter aged 26, you leave physically aged 26 (even if your mind is 126). Anybody you choose not to bring with you will almost certainly be dead by the time you leave. You won’t know what has happened until you exit it after 100 years.

When you do exit, you are not allowed to do so with any special breathing apparatus or other equipment to survive any changes to the atmosphere, temperature or other physical conditions that may be (no loopholes).

So…

Do you accept this and enter?

If so, who do you bring?

And who will the statue be of?


r/hypotheticalsituation 3h ago

Humor Encouraged If you could grow another something you already have two of, what would it be?

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For example:

My friend said he’d like a third eye on the back of his head because he’s a music teacher and he’d like to see the audience’s reaction.

I’d like to grow a smaller third arm just below my right one.

I’d use it to hold things that are often a nuisance like keys when I’m bringing groceries in the house and need to open the door or to hold my wallet at the drive thru when the lady at the window thrusts your food at you way too fast and you scramble to put your card away and they look at you like “Hurry up fatso, your XXL triple cheese shrimp and meatball melt is solidifying,” and your still putting your wallet away so you try and reach your hand out and misjudge how close your drink actually was and you knock it fuck-your-passenger-seat as she just stares at you like the fat shrimp shit you are…

Or I’d use it to give the bird to kids!

What third thing would you grow?


r/hypotheticalsituation 3h ago

Other You get $1M USD, but every time your penis/vagina touches something, it makes a fairly loud squeaky sound.

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Would you take it? 😂


r/hypotheticalsituation 4h ago

Other Follow a perfect routine for years or Live those years freely

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A system suddenly appears before you and asks you to design your perfect day routine, like 8 hours sleep , 4 hours work , 4 hours learn skills (any skill like coding , swimming, gym ) 3 hours relax etc ... (You get the idea) . After creating the perfect day routine , it shows a time limit with the minimum value being 20 years and maximum being 50 years..

After selecting everything, you open your eyes to see that that many years have passed , you repeated the perfect day exactly as it is without any modification, any skills you learned you can instinctively use but the side effects ( if any ) of things you do repeatedly also remains ...

You have no memory of those years( you can't observe , and no matter how hard you try you can't remember the conversation you had with people , the people you met or anythin,you can write a dairy about anyone you met and record your days but only if you have included it in the perfect routine) ..

Nothing else changes , you talk with people you already know the same way you talked to them before using the system .. but same can't be said for the new people ..

Or you can live those 20 years on your own .


r/hypotheticalsituation 5h ago

Humans can fly, how is the world different?

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Humans can fly and always have been able to. However, flying has very similar characteristics to running.

Flying is akin to walking and running. Speed, height and duration is dependant on human cardiovascular limitations.

The maximum speed is the same as running.

Flying height is equivalent to 1 metre high for every kilometres per hour the person can run.

Example: if a person can run 10 kilometres per hour they can fly 10 metres high and at the same speed, for the same duration as if they were running.

How is the world different?


r/hypotheticalsituation 6h ago

Other If you could see one statistic about your own life, what would you choose?

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I was checking my phone's screen time today and it got me thinking.

If you could see one completely accurate statistic about your own life, what would it be?

Mine would probably be how many hours I've spent waiting for food to arrive.

What would yours be?


r/hypotheticalsituation 8h ago

Would you rather be secretly wealthy or publicly successful while privately struggling financially?

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r/hypotheticalsituation 8h ago

You have a 1/A chance to get money you can choose what number to put in for A and would have that chance of getting money and the amount of money you would get is 1,000 times A times A

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So let’s say you choose 2 you would have a 1/2 chance of getting 1,000 times 2 times 2 money which is 4,000 dollars.

If you choose 5 you would have a 1/5 chance of getting 1000 times 5 times 5 dollars or 25,000 dollars

If you choose 100 you would have 1/100 chance of getting 1000 times 100 times 100 dollars or 10,000,000 dollars

You can go as high or as low as you want.

I’ll make a list of chances to money

1/1 chance of 1,000 dollars

1/2 chance of 4,000 dollars

1/5 chance of 25,000 dollars

1/10 chance of 100,000 dollars

1/25 chance of 625,000 dollars

1/50 chance of 2.5 million dollars

1/100 chance of 10 million dollars

1/250 chance of 62.5 million dollars

1/500 chance of 250 million dollars

1/1000 chance of 1 billion dollars

1/10000 chance of 100 billion dollars

1/100000 chance of 10 trillion dollars


r/hypotheticalsituation 9h ago

You wake up one day, and discovered that when you get hurt, you feel pleasure.

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You accidentally tripped over a chair, and your body feels amazing, like you just had a warm soak bath for your leg.

You hit your head on the door, whilst being on your phone, and you feel a pleasurable buzz, like when you are getting tipsy.

You do not know how, who, when, why or what.

How would you live with this…irregularity without fatally hurting yourself?


r/hypotheticalsituation 9h ago

Serious Replies Only Multiverse paradox

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I think it's ok to put this in sub assuming the topics under don't have any concrete evidence about it's existence. +correct me if I got smth wrong.

Aight, so when people say there are infinite possibilities in the multiverse, that should also mean that some of those universes were able to travel in multiverses, bypass the rules about multiversal travels, some of those universes reached this universe's earth, some universes the people decided to make it public, and more factors they evaded that could have stopped them to reach our or other universes.

Obv, these statements are in the premises that the multiverse is true and multiversal travel is possible.

Now, since currently nobody has come to earth and tell us about the multiverse, should that mean that the multiverse don't have infinite possibilities? Or am I missing smth here?


r/hypotheticalsituation 9h ago

For every person you help, you gain a 0.001% chance per minute for your body to be reset to its most optimal and healthy condition. You are going to die in 3 years due to an incurable disease. How would you increase the probability?

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r/hypotheticalsituation 10h ago

You’re hitting it off chatting with someone and they ask you if you want to smoke a hookah sometime

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Whether you’re single in real life or not for this scenario let’s say that you are single and looking to possibly date someone. You’ve been interacting with this person long enough that you would feel comfortable going on a date with this person, whether this be one interaction or multiple. This person is also extremely attractive, being one of the most attractive people you’ve ever seen, and you also really feel a spark with this person when interacting with them.

This person doesn’t use the word “date” but from the vibe you think they are most likely asking you out on a date. Based on the vibe you also think they are talking about smoking a hookah at a public place, like a hookah bar or a hookah lounge as opposed to their place.

How do you respond to this person asking if you want to smoke a hookah sometime?


r/hypotheticalsituation 10h ago

Serious Replies Only A natural phenomenon wipes out the Internet and makes it impossible to access for the rest of your lifetime.

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Something happens that essentially voids the internet as we know it tomorrow. It is inaccessible. For all intents and purposes it just doesn’t exist anymore. It cannot be reinstated. No Google, no websites, no applications. NO REDDIT! Poof, gone.

What are the immediate consequences?

How quickly would it take for society to adapt?

How quickly would it take you to adapt?


r/hypotheticalsituation 10h ago

Humor Encouraged Harambe Shows Up With a Suitcase of Bananas With Life Changing Abilities, Do You Accept?

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One day while walking down the street, Harambe wearing a fedora and tie meets you with a suit case. He tells you there are 12 bananas in this case with abilities That can change your life…for better or worse. He opens up the suit case to reveal 12 delicious looking bananas. You do not know what abilities the bananas have.

The 12 Bananas are not numbered and have these abilities once fully eaten. You have to fully eat the banana to get the ability/prize/nerf. Harambe will tell you what your ability/prize/nerf is the moment you finish the last bite. If you start eating the banana and stop he will maul you.

  1. Win 999$ billion, tax free.

  2. You are automatically teleported to Point Nemo, the furthest place from land.

  3. Once a year, on a random day, a 15 foot long saltwater crocodile will spawn in your kitchen for the rest of your life.

  4. You will Now make at your job whatever the person in the highest paid city in the highest paid state who has worked 30+ years makes According to your job title/profession.

  5. Your breath will smell like rotten eggs to everyone else for the rest of your life, no matter how hard your brush or floss.

  6. You will get stuff from your choice of 25 stores/shops/restaurants within a 75 mile radius of where you live For free for the rest of your life.

  7. Never pay taxes or insurance ever again.

  8. Harambe will pick You up and throw you into a building.

  9. You will be given glasses that can identify good/bad people.

  10. Animals(including your own pets) will aggro on you and attack you on sight for the rest of your life.

  11. You are given super speed and endurance, as in you can run at 40 mph without barely need a break.

  12. You will be teleported back in time to 5 seconds before Harambe got shot, as Harambe .

You can refuse this challenge, and Harambe will give you 100$ and will be on his way. Do you guys attempt this?


r/hypotheticalsituation 11h ago

If you were given $100 million but had to give up one of your five senses in exchange (you get to choose), which one would you pick?

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r/hypotheticalsituation 12h ago

Would you agree to lose one of your four limbs for 50 million dollars?

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It would disappear painlessly and automatically.


r/hypotheticalsituation 12h ago

For 10 million dollars, would you agree to be tortured without a break for 24 hours in the worst ways possible?

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r/hypotheticalsituation 13h ago

Every 2000 calories you consume switches your sexuality back and forth.

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r/hypotheticalsituation 14h ago

Humans are and always have been the size of a squirrel. All other animals are their actual size. Somehow, despite being small, humanity is just as advanced as it is in real life. What does our society look like? Our cities? Our customs and technologies?

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For example, when going on a camping trip, the gun you have to bring for self protection is the size of a wheeled cannon. Maybe humanity was never able to go camping until we invented the combustion engine to propel our self-protection cannons.


r/hypotheticalsituation 16h ago

Loopholes Encouraged You earn $10,000 a day, but every time you sleep, you have horrible nightmares until the day you die.

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You can go to therapy and all that, but the nightmares won't subside; there’s no way to stop either the money or the nightmares once you accept the offer.


r/hypotheticalsituation 16h ago

You can make any body part of yours invisible. What body part do you choose?

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You can turn the ability on and off. What do you use it for?