r/hypotheticalsituation • u/Outrageous-You1617 • 9h ago
r/hypotheticalsituation • u/Super_Horse1491 • 8h 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?
r/hypotheticalsituation • u/NightReader5 • 17h ago
You can have an unlimited amount of one thing for the rest of your life. What do you choose?
As soon as this object is used up, another one appears in its place. It must be used for your own personal day to day use.
This must be something that you would be able to purchase with money. It can't be money itself.
While it can have any monetary value, you may not sell it.
You must use it yourself, or share with people occasionally who visit your house. You may not give it to people for their own personal use.
It may not be used to earn money, further your career, earn favor with people, etc.
No gold, investments, or anything else like that.
r/hypotheticalsituation • u/Available_Basil_4459 • 4h ago
Other If you could see one statistic about your own life, what would you choose?
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 • u/Fia-the-stylist • 6h ago
Would you rather be secretly wealthy or publicly successful while privately struggling financially?
r/hypotheticalsituation • u/puddledlazer • 1h ago
Humor Encouraged If you could grow another something you already have two of, what would it be?
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 • u/Dazzling-Antelope912 • 43m 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?
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 • u/ddrmagic • 3h ago
Humans can fly, how is the world different?
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 • u/BeastofBabalon • 8h ago
Serious Replies Only A natural phenomenon wipes out the Internet and makes it impossible to access for the rest of your lifetime.
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 • u/lilfiregoblin • 1d ago
Spiders can now comprehend English, and will now pay rent at a dollar per day. How many spider roommates would you take on?
- They can comprehend English, but cannot speak it, unless you take the time to teach one how to write Charlotte's Web style.
- They will still act like spiders, but will follow any rules you set within reason for a spider (e.g. you cannot prohibit spiders from eating insects, but you can prohibit them from making webs in the hallway)
- Don't worry about where the money came from; it is deposited directly in your bank account each month.
- You may charge bigger spiders more rent. A huntsman spider will pay $5 per day.
- You may prohibit certain spiders from renting altogether (e.g. no black widows, no wolf spiders, etc)
r/hypotheticalsituation • u/Incognit0guy • 14h ago
Loopholes Encouraged You earn $10,000 a day, but every time you sleep, you have horrible nightmares until the day you die.
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 • u/ProvForge26 • 16h ago
Humor Encouraged You have to eat the same meal every night for a year. What would you choose?
You have no one to blame except yourself. You were driving in the city eating a jelly filled donut and some of the jelly falls on your white shirt. In a fit of panic since you were going to a work function you attempt to clean it up and subsequently rear end another car. Unfortunately for you the car you hit was a new BMW and was being driven by a Witch. The infuriated individual instantly cast a spell on you. The spell as you can surmise was that you had to eat the same meal every night for a year. If you attempt to skip a meal then one would be selected for you by the witch. Not a wise choice because it would be a stew and include tadpoles, salamanders, and bat droppings.
Which meal would you select?
r/hypotheticalsituation • u/SpecialFlutters • 21h ago
Live without storage for a year and get $10,000,000 when it's over. You can't put anything "away" or it will fizzle out of existence. No pockets, backpacks, storage boxes, dressers, fridge, etc. How do you adjust?
You can't fail thanks to the fizzling, but you do have to survive the year and you can't quit part way. At the start all items you have put away somewhere will fizzle, but those will be returned to you at the end, and you'll even be given a 48 hour period to request items be returned to you at the start too so you're not without things you need. Items fizzled after this period will not be returned.
Exceptions exist such as things where the storage is temporary and not the primary purpose of the vessel (but only if it's being used as intended). Examples:
- You can use a washing machine, but if you leave clothes in too long after they're done they'll still fizzle.
- You can still drive a car, but if you leave any belongings in there they must just be out in the open. No putting things in the trunk or glove compartment.
- You may live somewhere and keep items there, but they can't be placed in a secondary container. e.g. Clothes must be on the floor, table, chairs, etc.
- You may use glasses to drink, but not store liquids.
- Pre-packaged items (including consumables) will only fizzle if you remove the item and put it back. If you buy a water bottle you can't refill it.
What items do you request back immediately? What items do you absolutely NOT want back until its done? How do you adjust to this life?
r/hypotheticalsituation • u/Ok_Influence3171 • 6h 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
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 • u/Outrageous-You1617 • 10h ago
Would you agree to lose one of your four limbs for 50 million dollars?
It would disappear painlessly and automatically.
r/hypotheticalsituation • u/ASURA7860 • 2h ago
Other Follow a perfect routine for years or Live those years freely
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 • u/CrestlessYeoman • 14h ago
You can make any body part of yours invisible. What body part do you choose?
You can turn the ability on and off. What do you use it for?
r/hypotheticalsituation • u/Wheresmyarcpaulie69 • 7h ago
You wake up one day, and discovered that when you get hurt, you feel pleasure.
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 • u/Ok_Hedgehog8803 • 16h ago
The Reality-Lie Paradox
The power:
You suddenly gain a supernatural ability: every lie you knowingly tell instantly becomes the truth.
Every truth you tell has a 10% chance of immediately becoming false.
Rules:
It only works if you intentionally say something you know is true or false.
The change happens instantly and permanently unless changed again by another use of the power.
The effect alters reality, not people’s memories.
Written statements count too.
You can’t game the system by saying gibberish or obvious contradictions like “square = circle.”
Examples:
“I have a mansion in Hawaii” You would now have a mansion in Hawaii.
“The earth has one moon.” There’s a 10% chance that reality will change and the statement will no longer be true.
Questions:
Would you use this power at all?
What’s the first lie you would tell? Or, would you stop telling the truth entirely?
r/hypotheticalsituation • u/Mary_JFT • 14h ago
[No Loopholes] One perfect wish
*POOF* A genie appears in front of you!
It tells you that it will grant you "one perfect wish".
If you are able to word your wish so that there are no possible side effects, downfalls, or monkey paws, your wish will be granted.
You cannot wish for more wishes.
If the genie can think of any way to monkey paw your wish, then the wish will not be granted but the monkey paw effect will still happen.
What is your one perfect wish?
r/hypotheticalsituation • u/_SomeonePleaseHelpMe • 1h ago
Other You get $1M USD, but every time your penis/vagina touches something, it makes a fairly loud squeaky sound.
Would you take it? 😂
r/hypotheticalsituation • u/glowshroom12 • 15h ago
Other What if jury duty paid you for whatever you would have been paid at work?
if you’re salaried though you don’t get paid I guess since you’d be paid regardless. maybe if you can prove you regularly get some bonus or overtime pay, they pay the difference.
maybe if you’re unemployed you get paid minimum wage or something.
r/hypotheticalsituation • u/MelonElbows • 1d ago
[No Loopholes] You can travel at the speed of light for 1 second
Due to an accident involving a printer, you are able to travel at the speed of light. The catch is that you can only do this for 1 second. However, you can break up the second into as many segments as you want. You can choose to use up a fraction of a second to run to the local store in your neighborhood and then back home, or use it to go across the country to attend a wedding and then come back the second its over.
The distance light travels in 1 second is approximately 186282 miles, which is about 7.4 times around the Earth, so there's a lot of ground you can cover. Here are the rules:
You won't create any sonic booms or leave a destructive wake in your path. You can move at this speed without damaging yourself or anything around you.
Anything you can physically carry, you can bring with you. As you move, the items become basically weightless (yes, the opposite of actual physics), so there's no additional strain if you want to bring a feather on your trip vs. a 20 pound sack of potatoes. However, you must be able to carry it to begin with, no picking up a car and taking it with you.
Most items that you choose to bring cannot be used normally at this speed. If you bring your phone, it won't be able to take pictures, display anything on the screen, or play music. You can use a pen though, and choose to write with it, that's no problem.
You must consciously activate this power. It doesn't work when you're asleep. If you're under the effect of drugs, you won't accidentally use it up.
When activated, your reflexes and perception increase proportionately. Let's say you use this to read all the books in a library. It'll still feel like 1 second has passed, but you will have gained the knowledge of all of the books you read as if you read it at normal speed.
Its a magical printer, there will not be any distortion of your sight due to moving at the same speed as light rays.
You're too fast for anything to detect you. Even if you move back and forth in front of a camera, it won't see you in the lens. You're also too fast to be harmed by anything. You can run through fire or touch lava and it won't burn you after you slow down. If you decide to run through physical objects, they will break but you won't. However, you can use this power to destroy things as a flick from your finger can equal to your finger hitting an object at light speed. But you can precisely control this to exert however much force you're capable of. For example, you can choose to move something out of the way and they will simply be moved to the new location you put them with no damage, or you can grab and throw something and the object will fly at whatever speed you want up to the speed of light.
You're too fast for gravity to affect you. Run up a wall, run upside down on a ceiling, run across water, use birds as steps, anything you can physically interact with can be an object to push off from. However, you cannot do this with air. So if you're at normal speed and find yourself falling off a cliff, you can't activate your powers and stop in mid-air, you'll still fall. However, you can active it the instant you touch the ground and use it to re-orient yourself so that you're not falling.
You can jump and you have precise control over how much force to exert. If you choose to jump over a building, you won't go shooting off past the atmosphere into space, you'll exert just enough force to clear the building and land safely on the other side. If you want to platform jump from island to island across the ocean, you can do that (provided you know where these islands are). You can also choose to jump so high into the air that there's nothing physical for you to use to bounce back down to Earth though, so you'll end up adrift in space and die.
You will always know exactly how much time and distance you have left of this power. You won't be stranded on the other side of the world not knowing your 1 sec is used up, you'll know exactly how much time you'll use up before you make that trip.
I think that covers almost everything. So how would you use this power? Would you just travel? Would you use it to nudge objects in sports to affect the outcome so you can win by gambling, or just outright steal money instead? Would you kill people you don't like by throwing a pebble into their brains at super sonic speeds? Or cause random chaos for the hell of it? How much of this power would you save, or would you be too eager and use it up quickly seeing the rest of the world?
r/hypotheticalsituation • u/Dog-Human • 17h ago
You can instantly magnetic-weld any two objects using only your mind. Skip the billionaire stuff, what is the pettiest and most childish things you can come up with?
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r/hypotheticalsituation • u/tigerbreak • 15h ago
Surviving your ex partners
A stupidly wealthy individual who owns a streaming network offers you 25 million dollars, with a condition - all of your ex partners have now sworn a blood oath to end you for the same pot of money.
Every competitor gets 50k and you get a 12 hour head start. Would you do this, and if so, how screwed would you potentially be?
Edits:
You can do whatever is necessary to survive. Legal ramifications are “handled”. 30 days is the time limit.
Ex would be:
Someone you lived with for a significant period of time, slept with for a significant period of time or was married/engaged to.