So I did the napkin math, if you pick two random pills and two random pills, there’s a 19.05% chance to get something objectively bad, a 28.57% chance of getting something useless, and a 52.38% chance of getting something objectively good for a total 80.95% chance to get something not bad. Assuming infinite loops are banned and you don’t have a genuine interest in a given pill, 4 random pills is the best call.
There’s also a 2.27% chance of getting 2 random pills on each of those 4 tries.
Thank you for doing what I was too lazy to do.
I agree that 4 random pills is the best choice, also it is not specified that you must consume them (so if you get something bad you just dump or sell it).
I’ll take two shoeboxes filled with gold. With a size of 35x25x13cm it’ll be 11,375cm³ which can contain 219.77kg of gold worth €15,519,086. That’s €31,038,172 for two shoeboxes. I think I’ll be able to make a good early retirement on that.
Man you should check out how much rhodium is worth…
Edit: and Polonium-209
How would you sell it ?
Holy shit $49 billy a gram for polonium 209 (from the first source I found).
I figured the easy one would be some rare hue of diamond but gdamn
Printer ink has to be worth a million times that.
I’ll just hop on down to the Cash for Rhodium store and offload that then I guess.
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Teleporting Dr. Pepper can, so I can off tyrants, right wing nuts and dictators every 14.5h by summoning them inside their heads.
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Not getting cancer sounds cool too
If you can control any Milliliter of water, you can easily shred up people’s brains.
That’s close quarters. I can do more damage from far away with Dr. Peppers.
Why close quarters? It gives no range, you could be watching live TV while assassinating people accross the world sitting on your couch drinking a dr pepper.
I guess my point is I can think of other useful things to do by controlling a milliliter of water than dr. Pepper teleportation. Plus you have to wait a half day to kill again, I can theoretically kill one after another.
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- Kill anyone (orange traitor)
- tastes good
groundhog day. I want to spend as much time with my kids as I can and I need a break from work.
If you had the “summon a dr. pepper every 14.5 hours anywhere” you could send those dr. peppers to Palestine to help fight the famine.
but honestly, there are other parts of the world that have famine too. You could stay busy your whole life sending dr. peppers.
or if you can manage to travel to those famine-stricken places, you could take the 9000+ calorie cheese and feed people
That’s lame. Put them inside your enemies skulls.
The 3 million dollar one and immunity to cancer.
You now have the equivalent of just barely over $3.14 and incredibly harsh personalities no longer impact you.
Teleport to closest beach at any time and control body temperature, i mean, if i teleport to closest beach in winter or cold weather what am i gonna do?
Leaving the beach when you’re done would be the problem.
Escape your enemies
I’m taking the collapse civilisation, twice
You caused a civilization underflow. The world is now almost maximally civilized.
Saving earth here
Immune to Cancer and Grapes.
The grapes are basically free income if I can just plant them half-assed and they always turn out. There is even the implication that they don’t need fertilizer or other associated costs.
Just shit silver - more profit than grapes.
I don’t think silver with the consistency of shit will make very good silverware or jewelry. The prompt says the “texture” is the same so maybe there is room for interpretation, there. You can also get 16M for a shoebox of pure gold but that’s a one time deal.
Okay - I did the math. I’m pretty regular and I poop twice a day. Morning poop and afterwork poop. average human poop is about 8 ounces. A pound a day of poop. An ounce of silver is $32 - so call it $500 worth of silver poop a day. Roughly a salary of 180,000 a year. - for pooping.
So the 16m gold is worth about 90 years of silver poop - so I’d need to live to 130 years old and have the same poops as I do today as I do at 130 to reach shoebox gold.
The shoebox doubled is the king option
Also - my shit would officially not stink. So that’s a thing to consider. It’s not like 180k is a bad salary
TBH with the correct setup and a lot of leniency on “planting grapes” I could have 16M USD from 1067 acres of grape in a single season, but it would take time to earn the required 4,716,140~ish USD for the purchase of the acres (not accounting for inflation).
Cheap land in the desert, and if they always grow well… Could have your own grape themed garden of eden.
I love the optimization but realistically that might draw some unwanted attention, lol.
Also worlds fucked tbf
Your average shoebox is 35X23.5X13.5 cm, or 11103.75 cubic centimeters. The density of gold is 19.3 g/cm^3. You can fit 11103.75X19.3 = 214302 grams of gold in a shoebox. One gram of gold right now is $77.78 US. That’s 214302X77.78 = over 16.5 million US. There are things significantly more valuable (but not more fungible) than gold, too. The Pi million pill is completely moot. Or just take both, I guess.
No, get the gold and the pill that doubles something you own. The pi million is completely moot.
Or just ask what stock is going to raise the hardest and ask when is the best moment to sell if you have 2 questions
You’d need to invest 1mil in a 3000% return stock in order to make 30 mil like the gold option. If you bought fb when it was lowest and sold when it was highest, you’d get 2158% return. There’s stuff like Amazon, coca cola, etc. That had much higher % gain but you’ll need for that company to exist and then wait for it to explode.
If you already have a lot of money to invest, sure, your strategy might be worth. Otherwise, double gold sounds better.
Is it easy to sell gold? I read recently that people are buying gold bars from Costco and struggle to sell them later.
Smaller quantities shouldn’t be too hard to sell. 16.5 million worth would definitely be a bit of a logistical problem. I’m sure a bank would help you out with an amount that large.
The course sand pocket would be pretty great. Unlimited free sand. I could run an empire.
hang it over a silo and let the silo fill itself from gravity, as the sand falls and new sand is created. a lot of prfit for a small operation
3.14 million and the answer to the question of the best stock to invest in for a 5 year return.
or you can get billions by asking for a shoebox with the hardware wallet of a high profile bitcoin whale and still have a second pill.
You wouldn’t even need to take Bitcoin someone has access to.
There’s tons of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that are theoretically unrecoverable because the private keys to the wallets containing them have been lost, or the hard drives they were on were sent to a landfill (and thus began the world’s shittiest treasure hunt).
However, by spending any of that Bitcoin you’d probably make international headlines and end up starting a market panic, because the most likely explanation for gaining access to that Bitcoin is that you found and exploited some vulnerability in the protocol itself.
Or maybe ask for the shoe box to be full of a block of pure gold? Probably easier to sell and should have a value of about $18M.
we can start talking at $ 100M
Wouldn’t you crash the value of bitcoin trying to sell that many of them?
Who would you sell them to?
I’ll take my idea thanks.
Surely it would dip when the news got out but btc is very liquid.
Also, the risk of a wallet leak has always been there, this wouldn’t uncover anything that wasn’t previously known about it.
π million dollars and perfectly nutritious chocolate.
get π million dollars and get +3 on all charm. This would actually help me dramatically.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding the “groundhogs day” power, but couldn’t you spend a year tracking winning lottery numbers, bets, and/or stocks and then “loop” that year and act on that knowledge in the repeat year? Then you would also essentially get +1 year of life and way more than $π million. I would also use the first loop to take medical tests of my health as much as possible since it wouldn’t matter if I went into debt in the first loop.
I guess the downside would be that any progress you’ve made on personal goals would have to be redone. Or maybe you don’t get to decide the starting point of when you would loop back to. Or just my luck, there would be some butterfly-effect shit and I would end up worse off in the repeat loop because my investments would have failed.
I would take the +3 charm and groundhog Day for a year. It would be really awesome to have 3 charm instead of 0, and if I could repeat Tuesday for an entire year then I could learn skills and practice things and read a bunch of books and memorize and establish a plan to purchase a winning lottery ticket, not excessive but maybe like the mega millions I don’t know, and come out of the year into Wednesday with nine figures in my bank account and a clear plan of action.
Oh wait does “groundhogs day for a full year” mean that you complete a year then at the end you start that year over? Or is it that you repeat the same single day 365 times? Because repeating the same single day wouldn’t give someone enough info to invest or win a lottery (they close sales more than a day before drawing winners). I’m not sure I could out-earn $π million in a single day even with 365 attempts and +3 charisma… unless it was some kind of criminal heist, but then it couldn’t be known if I would be caught on a later date.
I don’t know if you’re from the states but if you are purchasing mega millions or Powerball tickets, they stop sales at about 6:45 p.m. Pacific time and then do the drawing sometime after 7:00 of the same day.
I interpreted it as you would repeat the exact same day 365 times, not that you would repeat the exact same year over and over again.
way more than $π million.
I don’t need more than $π million. I just need enough to get some stuff started. I’m not interested in getting rich.
I would also use the first loop to take medical tests of my health as much as possible since it wouldn’t matter if I went into debt in the first loop.
Fair enough, but I really need the charm. I’m autistic and I’m not good at being social. I’d definitely be willing to give up a few years of life for more charm.
It would do both with just one “groundhog year” pill. Live a year with my current wealth and use the experience of that year to plan out how to earn money when it repeats. At the same time I would use that first year to measure my health so that I could take precautions or act on all that accumulated knowledge when the year repeats. There would still be a second pill to choose, and I think I’d choose the +3 charm because I could also really use it.
But I don’t think this would work how I envisioned because I misunderstood the “groundhog” pill. I think it’s supposed to mean that you repeat the same day 365 times, which wouldn’t work for lottery/investing. So then I agree, taking the $π million and +3 charm is probably the best.
