Grab the "2 random pills" and the "duplicate anything you own once" pill. Duplicate the "2 random pills" pill with the duplicate pill and eat both "2 random pills" pill and have 4 absolutely random abilities.
“2 random pills” and shoebox pill. Take the shoebox pill, get a shoebox filled with the 2 random pills (since you got one they became “real”). Grab a big handful of pills and swallow.
Others (in case you don’t want to collapse civilization or piss gasoline):
Shoebox + any question = practically unlimited questions. Plus the first one should be something like “how can I achieve maximum happiness (in an easy way where current me would be comfortable with the results)?” and you can ask variations to get a clearer answer since you have practically unlimited ones. Only drawback is if “single-use” really means the duplicates don’t do anything.
Shoebox + groundhog day = probably get to live >10000 years (unless “single-use” prevents that)
Shoebox + pi money = practically unlimited money, no “single use” issue
So what would shoebox + collapse civilization look like? Meteor storm of world ending asteroids? Collapse all civilizations for the next 10000 years? Start destroying alien civilizations?
what happens if I glue pills to the box, are they one item now? and if they are sewn together? if if the box is shredded and reglued, do I gets shreds, shreds + glue or intact box? what If I recycle a new box from the fibers of the original and add the pills in it, can I duplicate the pills now?
I think they're only duplicating the new shoebox pill.
The initial shoebox is filled with all the pills from list, including a new shoebox pill and a new duplicate pill.
In fact the duplication pill is reduant so long as you always use the new shoebox pill to get another box of pills.
The duplication pill is still good to make backup shoebox pills. You don't want to rely on the one and accidently use it on something else, breaking the infinite loop.
I'll take the shoebox(full of perfect diamonds, thanks xkcd!) and just for fun, the almost 10k calories of cheese for added wealth, opulence, and because I really love cheese. Some cheeses are worth hundreds of dollars a pound.
High-quality diamonds are expensive, but it's hard to get a handle on their exact price because the entire industry was built on a scam the gemstone market is complicated.
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.
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).
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
From a quick Google search, I saw a guy managed to fit 7,400 dollar bills into a shoebox. $10,000 bills are no longer printed but still valid, legal currency. Assuming that's the max. That's $74,000,000. You could dupe the box and net $148 mil.
However, thinking bigger. Go with a shoebox full of perfect diamonds. The value could conceivably be in the billions.
Immune to venom and urinate gasoline. When I tell my doctor it burns when I pee, I want to mean it. Also, I figure something like that would send spiderman after me.
I'll take the strawberry flavored one because I like strawberry. Then I'll get the shoebox, and completely fill it with the pill that gives you $3,414,592.65. Then I'd throw a bunch of them in a blender and make a little smoothie that will make me a billionaire. There's probably enough pills to do that a couple of times.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If the shoebox one just magically removes stuff instead of needing real work or duplicating stuff then you could skip a lot of surgery, or just need with someone by asking for the bones in their hand or something
but you definitely wouldn't leave an evidence trail.
Yes, officer. It's the second victim that died from a Dr. Pepper can randomly falling on their head today. As the two other ones yesterday and the two the day before yesterday...
I thought exactly the same about controlling a millilitre of water. You could straight up behead people on sight and leave basically no trace at all - just a suspiciously clean cut
My glitch: summon a Dr. Pepper can into Trump’s brain, then into Biden’s brain after 14.5 hrs, then Netanyahu’s, then Putin’s, then the evil Sudanese dudes’, then Xi Jinping’s, and so on and so forth.
"Change your skin color instantly any time" and "teleport to the closest beach at any time". I'll use them to rob banks. Before robbing the bank I'll change my skin color, and once I get the money I'll escape by teleporting to the beach - while changing my skin color at the same time (not to my original skin color though - that one I'll only use once I'm completely safe)
Eh, I don't like sweets. Besides, I'd rather not do it on my own. I'd only prefer it if there was another pill to leave some sort of last "fuck you" to the humanity.
Change skin color - wow, a great help in a heist or to make magic shows
Control all TVs in fast food places - you can literally roll unbannable propaganda for everyone to see!
Teleport to closest beach at any time - again, absolute save in heist; also, you'd be an amazing courier for some saltwater port!
Turds are silver - that's a loooot of silver
Summon a Dr.Pepper every 14,5 hours anywhere - just summon it into someone's head or into some mechanism and enjoy the show
Immune to cancer - now you're the leading patient for research against cancer! You are the key to ending it once and for all!
Shoebox with anything that can fit into it - fill to the brim with the most valuable resources in existence! Help humanity and earn some cash!
Control a single milliliter of water - you'll be a God of precise technology. Also, you can probably misplace a bit of important fluid in the body to kill a person.
Get the answer to any question once - that could be anything! The meaning of life, the universal physical theory, the way to build a just and wonderful world...you name it.
Can you choose where Dr. Pepper bottle is summoned? If yes, you could just summon one in the throats of Putin, Trump, and anyone else who is a threat to global peace.
Under normal circumstances, the black random pill would be completely up my alley, but not today.
With the shoebox pill, depending on shoebox size, I would give myself 5,000 $100USD bills ($500,000 total). Never said a thing about not getting money in the process, just that it has to exist.
Also, the bottom right corner 5 months experience pill. Definitely 5 months experience in charisma based manipulation (in both text and vocal form if possible) so I could get slightly ahead of others in life. Gotta work smarter, not harder sometimes.
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?