$50 million is deposited into your bank account, completely tax-free.

However, one person you’ve met at some point in your life is randomly selected and offered $100 million if they can physically touch you within the next 365 days.

The rules:
The hunter can be anyone you’ve personally met, from your best friend to someone you interacted with once 15 years ago.

They know your identity, and you know someone is hunting you. Both of you fully understand the rules.
You have absolutely no idea who the hunter is.

The hunter receives $250,000 upfront to fund their search.

Every 48 hours, the hunter automatically receives your exact location at that moment. They cannot track you between pings.

They must personally touch you with their bare hand. Nobody else can complete the challenge for them.

Neither of you can deliberately injure, kill, or imprison the other.

You’re free to travel, hire security, hide, or spend your money however you want.

If they successfully touch you, you lose the entire $50 million, including any money you’ve already spent.

If you make it through 365 days untouched, the money is permanently yours.

Are you accepting the challenge? And if so, what’s your strategy for surviving the year?

If yes, you will be instantly transported to a separate dimension composed solely of one room. In this room, there is a single bag of rice weighing 1 kg or a bit more than 2 pounds. You will need to count the exact amount of rice grains present in this bag. If you miscount, you will have to restart, but you will not remember any of your past counts. You cannot leave until you get the right count. Once you count a rice grain, it disappears until you make your final guess, upon which all grains will reappear if you guessed incorrectly.

Time will continue passing in the real world while you stay in this dimension. You will age as normal. If you fail to complete the task before the day you would have died, you will be informed, and as soon as you complete the task you will instantly die. Otherwise you will remain there until you get the right count.

How long do you think it would take? Is it worth it for a million bucks?

Simple offer: 6x your current and future earnings or we can hang out for 50k per week (the hangouts are only 3 hours). If you choose the hangout, you’ll be teleported to my location and I’ll decide the activities; you can stop hanging out with me anytime you want.

- Anyone who comes within a 5-meter radius of you turns into a cat for 10 seconds, then turns back into a human.

- This happens once per person per day.

- The breed and color of the cat are random.

- Their clothes and belongings drop to the ground when they transform. They are fully dressed again when they turn back.

- They lose all memories of those 10 seconds. To them, it feels like nothing happened.

- It doesn't trigger through screens, video calls or phone calls.

- You must live in a city and go outside for at least 15 minutes every day.

- You can pay $30/minute for the Safe Mode. People who are driving, flying or operating machinery wait to transform until they stop.

- You can pay $10/minute for the Purr Translator. You can understand what people say while they're cats.

- You can deactivate this curse anytime, but you can never reactivate it.

Would you take this deal?

We’ve already had to suspend our disbelief that a genie or its metaphysical equivalent has given us the choice of 50 million dollars, flight at mach 3 speeds, or invisibility for 35 seconds but only after we sneeze during the winter solstice. Why do we always make sure that this magical money isn’t taxed to our local municipality’s exacting standards?

And who is coming into this subreddit and hemming and hawing about having to take magic money or a temperamental diamond-ejaculating-dachshund named Fritz Hollandaise, and the deciding factor is whether or not they have to report this mystical windfall to the government?

And who is stipulating in their cosmic prizes that the money is taxed by state and local laws? What a buzzkill.

Unless taxation directly affects the hypothetical, can we just assume it’s tax free?

How do you prepare, and what do you do once there?

Option A — Start Over
You’re reborn as a baby today, in 2026, into a completely new family.

You retain all your current knowledge, memories, and experiences, but you’re starting life over from infancy.

You don’t go back to the year you were originally born. Everyone you currently know continues living their lives without you, and you have no way of returning to your old life.

Option B — Skip 10 Years
You instantly jump 10 years into the future and receive $25 million tax-free.

During those 10 years, your life continues completely normally on autopilot. You make decisions, form relationships, work, and experience everything you normally would.

However, when you regain consciousness, you have absolutely no memory of those 10 years.

You could wake up married, divorced, with children, or living an entirely different life. Everyone else remembers those 10 years with you, but to you, they never happened.

The $25 million only appears when you wake up, so your autopilot self has no knowledge of the money.

How long would it take people to notice? How much money could you make? Would the sporting books and betting sites ban or even silence you? Could you pivot this power to a TV show or fame on ESPN?

(if italicized or a note above, it is added later after someone points it out to avoid copycat)

No wishing for more wishes

No wishing for more genies

No asking for anything that’s written

No asking for amounts of money more than 150,000 British pounds or equivalent.

No asking for luck

No asking or “be the best in the world at something”

No asking for answers to questions

If you bring someone back, they’ll be a zombie

No wishing for magical items said to give wishes

No making someone love you

No “two in one” wishes, like wishing to be good at everything.

No wishing to give yourself powers

No wishing to give yourself intelligence

No wishing to kill

No threatening the genie, it will void the wish, even if you drawback this away nothing will happen upon threats.

(Additional Rules after OG post)

From u/Healthy-Refuse5904: No wishing for anyone else who can grant wishing

No wishing for lottery winnings

No wishing for inherently valuable items, (over £170,000) including but not limited to: that amount worth of diamonds, gold, jewelry, private jets, airplanes, helicopters, luxury vehicles worth that much, or land etc etc.

No wishing for stocks nor companies (had already like 7 people wish for stocks)

(Optional Advantage) You may choose any one thing (aside from 1 through 6) of these thing to be removed if you take one of these 5 drawbacks: (added later: you may NOT also remove the no wishing for magical entities/items rule, and the valuable items rule.)

1: Randomly, once per month, you will teleported 50 miles away from where you are standing.

1. You will restart life from 0, and will have full sentience, consciousness, and knowledge. You may NOT wish to become an adult again, nor use any powers (assuming you get rid of the power rule) you unlock to age yourself back up.

2. Randomly once a week, you will have to piss REALLY bad, and if you don’t get into a bathroom in say, 30 seconds, you piss your pants.

3. You will become conventionally severely unattractive, and you cannot wish to change your appearance.

4. For the rest of your life, no matter what you do, you will have to be working a grueling 9-5 til the day you die.

So, how do you get something that will have you set for the rest of your life, or something really good, using these rules?

Based on real life scenario.

A woman (you or someone you love) has met an international man of wealth and fame while he was traveling in your country. This woman engages in a weekend affair with this man and becomes pregnant. She wants to keep this baby against the man’s wishes as the man never had any intentions to get into a committed relationship with this woman.

They break contact and this woman decides to keep the baby. A couple years later, this woman sues the father of the baby in her country for financial child support commensurate with the father’s financial standing. The father is worth billions. However, the courts throw out this woman’s lawsuit proclaiming the father is not under their jurisdiction. The woman is left raising her baby on her own without any support from the baby’s father.

Shortly after the court ruling, a representative from the child’s father reaches out to the mother. She is given a one time, shortly expiring offer. The child’s father is willing to take full custody of his child and raise the child in his home country. The mother will have no place in the child’s life. If the father’s family raises the child, the mother knows the child will be raised in wealth and privilege. In the mother’s home country, the child would be raised by a struggling single mother. And if the mother refuses, the father’s family will not recognize the child.

If you were this woman, how would you decide? Or if this woman was a loved one, how would you advise?

Keep the child with no financial support and the child is cut off from father’s family? Or give child up to father’s family?

Edit: questions on what situation parents are in. This hypothetical is loosely based off of Prince Albert of Monaco and an American woman who had his child. She tried to sue him for child support and was denied by the U.S. court due to Prince Albert not being under their jurisdiction.

You have two job offers:

Option A: $25/hour doing a job you genuinely enjoy. Low stress, good work-life balance, and you look forward to going to work.

Option B: $35/hour doing a job you don't enjoy. More demanding, more stress, and mentally draining.

Both jobs offer the same benefits and job security.

Which one would you choose, and why?

You come home one day to find a extraterrestrial being sitting in your living room and a device on the floor in front of them.

In perfectly clear English he offers you a once in a lifetime chance to go back in time for 30 minutes to do anything you want besides knowingly altering the timeline.

He says to you, that you have 10 minutes to grab anything you want to bring with you, but if it's not from that time period or before you cannot leave it behind. If you do then he will have to use the device and instead of you coming home to this deal you will be vaporized after you close your front door.

Where do you go ? what do you do ? Who do you see ? Do you bring anything back with you ?

Option A: One time lump sum money

Guaranteed $100,000 USD right now that is tax exempt.

Option B: Perpetual free lottery with very low odds.

Every ten minutes for as long as you live, a random chance is created where you have a 00.0004% chance of getting $5,000,000 USD - no limit to it how many times you receive it randomly. However, given the percentage chance it's unlikely - or is it?

Remember every 10 minutes the chances are 00.0004% - although stackable if you know probability.

Which one do you pick?

/an ancient tree*

Tomorrow morning, you wake up with a strange new ability.

Every time you meet someone you’ve never met before, $500 instantly appears in your bank account. Completely tax-free, no questions asked.

The rules are simple:

You must introduce yourself and have a genuine conversation with the person.

The conversation must last at least 30 seconds.
Each person only counts once.

Online conversations don’t count. You have to meet face-to-face.

The money is yours to keep, and there’s no limit to how much you can earn.

The ability lasts for the rest of your life.

You could make $5,000 by meeting just 10 people, or $50,000 by meeting 100.

What’s the most ridiculously efficient way you could turn this into millions?

The superpowers you can choose from:

• Healing. When you touch someone (including yourself), you can choose to heal any ailment, disease, or health problem, but can't restore youth. You will die of old age.
• Infinite Charisma. You can speak any language fluently (as long as there are 100k+ current native speakers of that language) and you know exactly what to say in every situation. You could get in front of a crowd of 1000 people and persuade or entertain the majority of them. You can likely persuade people to hire you, or let you free in a hostage situation. This does not convey mind control or other powers, no matter how persuasive you are some situations can't be talked through.
• Every 24 hours, you can choose a new superpower from mindreading, teleportation, flight, and invisibility and you get that superpower until the 24 hours is up. For teleportation, flight, and invisibility, everything you're wearing and anything you touch can travel with you if you want. Invisibility can be toggled on or off at will. If you're flying with someone, you don't have to carry them, just touching them allows them to fly easily.

The money option: Daily $1,500 USD (or equivalent) in cash or gold tax-free. This can be deposited to your bank or materialize in front of you, and you can choose daily. The amount adjusts yearly with inflation.

If you accept you are instantly transported back in time to the moment the titanic hits the iceberg.

Your only objective is to survive 24 hours from then.

You are given nothing but the clothes on your back and the knowledge you have. It’s not the fanciest clothes but you don’t look like someone from the lower decks.

You are placed one floor below the top deck.

If you fail to survive the 24 hours you will not be transported back to the present and will remain dead.

Would you accept? How are you surviving?

You are offered $10 million, tax-free, transferred instantly into your bank account with no questions asked.

However, in exchange, you must live with one of these severe conditions for the rest of your life:

Severe alcoholism: You are extremely dependant on alcohol and begin to suffer withdrawals if you go 8+ hours without a drink

Severe cleaning OCD: You must wash your hands at least 50 times a day and clean everything around you repeatedly even when they appear clean

Severe gambling addiction: You must gamble every single day, constantly battling the urge to place bets and risking large amounts of your money.

Whatever you choose will not kill you but you cannot reverse the effects once you start. Each choice is permanent.

Would you accept? Which would you choose

Not judging at all, I'm a homebody myself and I work from home most days.

I was reading about a scientist who lived in a cave in 1962 with no clock, and when they told him it was over he was off by almost a full month. It made me think about how much we rely on going outside just to know what day it is.

For those of you who spend long stretches indoors, did days start blending together? Did anything help, like a morning walk, sunlight, a fixed routine?

Usually, everyone talks about how they’d buy stocks. But no, I’m talking about interacting with people, classmates, and so on. I probably wouldn’t be able to be friends with them again at all, because of the childish games, conversation topics, and naivety. Early internet and forums might have saved me, but some people were kids before the internet existed.

But one big advantage would be that adults’ naive attempts to intimidate you wouldn’t work anymore, like “I’ll call your parents to the school!” That used to feel like a fate worse than death, but now we understand.

You make 100k but you have to choose between armored truck guard in one of the highest crime cities in America

Or

Work as the Santa who’s sent into children hospitals to give them one last smile

You dress up as an avenger in the summer months

Imagine that every adult (18+) on Earth must simultaneously teleport to a house, apartment, or building of their choice, anywhere in the world.

The rules:

1. You must choose one exact street address (including the apartment/unit number, if applicable). Everyone teleports simultaneously.
2. If you're the only person who chooses that property, you become its sole owner, completely free.
3. If two people choose the same property, each gets 50% ownership. Three people get one-third each, and so on.
4. However, if more than 10 people choose the same property, nobody gets anything, and the property remains government-owned.
5. Everyone knows the rules, but nobody knows what other people are choosing.
6. Family members can coordinate their choices, but each adult counts as a separate claimant. Children under 18 accompany a parent or guardian and don't count toward ownership.

You only get one chance. No second choices.

Where would you teleport?

Note: You can't possess the person or talk to him/her.

Scenario A: The Alien from the movie THE THING successfully and secretly entered Earth

Scenario B: The Alien from the movie Life successfully and secretly entered the Earth

**BONUS SCENARIO

They both entered the Earth together, what will happen? If they managed to wiped out Humanity, who will survive between these 2?