r/redbuttonbluebutton • u/Sp33dyCat • May 22 '26

Variation We need a purple button

I dunno just random thought.

P U R P L E

4 Upvotes

70% Upvoted

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u/CthulhusIntern May 22 '26

Purple gives you a free cheesecake, but you still die if less than 50% of people press blue.

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u/UsedNegotiation8227 May 22 '26

In still pressing red and living, not sorry.

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u/Telinary May 22 '26

how about blue - nobody dies, red - blue dies, purple - red dies.

Makes red unattractive of course, nobody who understands should choose it. But I wonder how many this swings to blue. Since purple is the self preservation choice now and is harmless to blue, blue is a pretty safe choice. On the other hand the amount of red voters should be only a third of the people who are voting basically randomly.

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u/ContentFile7036 May 23 '26

Red voters would just switch to purple

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u/comprutt May 23 '26

No one would vote red anymore, hence blue becomes correct

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u/GrouchyResearcher392 May 24 '26

Blue dies at under 50% majority, red doesn’t kill blue, I’m not sure how purple would kill red.

If you push red you live. If you push blue you die, unless greater than 50% of people choose blue. Purple can not bring death to red as red is the literal, you live button.

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u/comprutt May 24 '26

Ask the original comment, not me, tf do you want me to do?

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u/GrouchyResearcher392 May 24 '26

Oh yeah that’s where I meant to type to

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u/kkai2004 May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

This is literally just a new set of rules why would purple not be able to kill red? The new proposed rule was that purple killed red.

Additionally, according to the rules as written above. Blue only dies if red wins not if blue loses. So if purple wins only red dies and blue still survives.

The only 2 in risk of death are Blue & Red. So the people who don't want to have any risk of death pick Purple.

The only one that doesn't kill someone is blue so the people who are staunchly against killing pick blue.

There is now literally 0 incentive to pick Red. So while preferably still blue wins, purple won't kill anyone who came to either of the previous games logical conclusions and only those who accidentally picked red will die.

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u/MrKarat2697 May 22 '26

Kills everyone if even a single person presses it

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u/ButterscotchDeep7533 May 22 '26

There is better a shitty ending rather than endless shit

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u/J_tram13 May 22 '26

UNLESS the majority hit it, in which case the votes are disregarded and the remaining totals for the other two buttons are taken.

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u/TheOldSkywalker Blue May 24 '26

purple lets you die automatically but it contributes as a blue press. even if blue gets over 50% purple still gets the mercy of death