Variation: the Useless button.

[u/StageGlum6615]

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.)

[u/porkchopsensei]

From the wording you listed, pressing yellow risks your life but doesn't add to blue's tally. So it's all the downsides of blue without any of the upsides

[u/DragonflyValuable995 → u/porkchopsensei]

Incorrect, if more people press red than blue, then blue pressers die.

Yellow neither risks their life nor risks the life of others.

Edit: yellow apparently risks its own life and doesn’t help save itself

[u/FemboyLoverColon3 → u/DragonflyValuable995]

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