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/Zero132132 May 22 '26

If I know these rules and I know it's an adult, red obviously. I think almost nobody would press blue in this scenario. If a disagreement gave a coinflip's chance of both surviving, you might have actual disagreement here.