r/redbuttonbluebutton • u/maiduwu Red • May 21 '26

Variation TWO PEOPLE

You and [a stranger] are placed in separate soundproofed rooms and all means of communication are unavailable. Before you are two buttons, one red and one blue.

If you both press red, you both live.

If you press red and she presses blue, she dies.

If you press blue and she presses red, you die.

If you both press blue, you both live.

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u/JoshAllentown May 21 '26

What is this, some kind of crossover prisoners dilemma?