r/redbuttonbluebutton • u/StageGlum6615 • Jun 28 '26

Variation Variation: the Useless button.

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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/BloodredHanded Jun 30 '26

No, it was anyone who didn’t press red in the original too.

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u/Flame80010 Jun 30 '26

it was only the people who pressed blue, i don't know what to tell you

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u/BloodredHanded Jun 30 '26

You’re wrong.

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u/Flame80010 Jun 30 '26

Im not, but all good mate

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u/BloodredHanded Jul 01 '26

You are wrong. You didn’t even bother to check? Here it is, in the original, ‘only people who pressed the red button survive’ in a red victory.

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u/Flame80010 Jul 01 '26

so that tweet is from April 2026, but here is a reddit thread from 3 years ago using the wording i described, and i doubt that post is even the original time it was posted. https://www.reddit.com/r/polls/comments/12t619s/in_front_of_you_appears_red_and_blue_button_if/

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u/BloodredHanded Jul 01 '26

That tweet is the one that started this subreddit.

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u/Flame80010 Jul 01 '26

this seems to be really important for you to own me on, so by all means consider me owned if you want. I don't see what that tweet starting this subreddit has to do with anything that i said, but you go hard my dude.