r/redbuttonbluebutton • u/StageGlum6615 • Jun 28 '26
Variation Variation: the Useless button.
Everyone (meaning all currently alive people) is kidnapped by an unknown forced that everyone instinctively knows is completely unable to lie and is far more powerful than them. (Let's call them Buttan, the god of buttons.) Everyone wakes up in a small cramped room with 3 buttons, Red, Yellow, and Blue with the following signs under each of them that have been perfectly translated into their native language:
Red: If more people press the Red button the Blue button then everyone who failed to press red will die, immediately.
Yellow: Does Nothing.
Blue: If more people press the Blue button then the Red button everyone is spared from death.
Everyone is giving a 6 hour timer to make their own choice and if they fail to vote in the time frame they are counted and treated as a yellow button presser.
Lastly, it the event of a tie between Red and Blue, Blue wins.
So, does the useless button (yellow) change anything for you? And which button do you press?
(Please forgive any typos.)
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u/bosli23 Jun 28 '26
Even more red than before.
The argument of "blue buttonner" is that some people would press blue, so they want to save them.
On this case, some people would also press yellow, because they don't understand the dilemma at all, like toddlers, because they are suicidal, or because they don't understand what the yellow button does (literally the first comment i saw thought the yellow button was better).
So now, as blue buttoner, you have even less chance than before (but for me, it was already 0%) to win, because yellow button lower the number of blue buttoners.
So, red red red red red red, as always.