You're in a room with 100 boxes. 99 of them contain $100,000...

[The Don]

You're in a room with 100 boxes. 99 of them contain $100,000. 1 box will kill you. How many would you open, if any? (saw this on reddit and thought i'd post it here...)

I would open at least 5 boxes, probably wouldn't go much further than 10.

[scottish]

None tbh

death for the possibility of 62k isn't worth it lol

[j0rd]

Maybe 2-3, no more than 5 though. I bet if you started it would get addictive and you would want to keep opening more and more

[Kyle]

just one is enough but i always used to fail straight away playing minesweeper so i'd probably die

[Inseriousity.]

knowing my luck I'd probably choose the box that'd kill me straight away so I wouldn't even try it lol

[David]

looking at the odds, at least 10-15.

[Red]

knowing my luck I'd probably choose the box that'd kill me straight away so I wouldn't even try it lol

I am so unlucky too, so I would die first box LMAO

[Kardan]

None. Simply not worth it.

[Samantha]

I'm unsure, a part of me would want to try it but then again another part wouldn't. Although there's more chance of picking one with money in there's also the chance you'd get the one that kills you. Yeah I've played Minesweeper too, that didn't end well :P.

[cocaine]

i'd pick 10. besides if you die on the point you technically don't realise you've lost

[geo]

how does the box kill you, is it like a bomb cus if it is then i'd just throw something at all the boxes.. run n then collect the money ://

tbh i'd open like 10 mayb,

[Stephen]

can someone make a simulator for it

also it makes a difference on whether it would be a painful slow death or instant

[FlyingJesus]

ALL OF THEM LOL

[Cerys]

I'd pick 1 or 2.

And if I die on the first box? I couldn't really care less ;D

[SackRace]

50 i'm usually lucky but if its down to death about 10-15

[Halas]

like 40tbh

[OldLoveSong]

i'd pick like 1-2 hthats all i'd really need

[Chris]

Ooo a few but I dont know if I would be able to resist the temptation of opening more

[-Nick]

ALL OF THEM LOL

that means your are going to die?

[scottish]

that means your are going to die?

how many would you pick if orientalframe?; was in a box?

[dbgtz]

how many would you pick if orientalframe?; was in a box?

Haha it's all kicking off again.

Urrm probably none.

[-Nick]

how many would you pick if @orientalframe? (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=56783); was in a box?

So there's no bomb ? Instead orientalframe? and the rest was money? I would defiantly open all! Just for the money ;)

[scottish]

So there's no bomb ? Instead orientalframe? and the rest was money? I would defiantly open all! Just for the money ;)

what if one contained @orientalframe; and rest contained bomb

[-Nick]

what if one contained @orientalframe; and rest contained bomb

Wouldnt risk it :)

[FlyingJesus]

that means your are going to die?

Wow it's almost as though that was the joke

[Mikey]

None lmaooo. Or maybe one then run away. :)

[Matthew]

urm I'd probably open 2-5

5 max!

[buttons]

none :P

[Sho]

Realistically, I'd open the first box and it would be the one that would kill me. It's not worth it :(

[Mr-Trainor]

I don't think I'd pick any more than 5 at most - not worth it :P.

[BreakfastBacon]

I would build a machine to open the boxes. The machine will die on the killer box but then i get all the money :)

[Munex]

Around 10. If I die, I die. I'd be suicidal anyway if I never opened any boxes.

What if there were 10 boxes, 9 containing death and one containing your mother/loved one. Would you risk your life to potentially save theirs?

[Kardan]

none :P

About the only sane person on here. People obviously don't value their lives if they'd go for a 1/100 chance of dying just for money, and the chance of dying increases each time.

[Teabags]

I think I'd open about 30-40 odd, but I'd probably give some away.
But I'd take a few and open them as and when I ran out of £100,000. So like a bank with withdrawals.

[Kardan]

can someone make a simulator for it

also it makes a difference on whether it would be a painful slow death or instant

Just go to random.org and have the random number generator go from 1 to 100, if it picks 1 you die, and you lower the upper limit as you carry on.

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I think I'd open about 30-40 odd, but I'd probably give some away.
But I'd take a few and open them as and when I ran out of £100,000. So like a bank with withdrawals.

So you would risk your life at a 40% chance of dying?
Absolute madness.

[RyRy]

I would pick deal.

[Kardan]

I think people are getting the Maths all wrong, if you decide to go for a 40th box - surely that means only 1/60 boxes would kill you, which is a 0.016% chance at dying. But the fact is, to get to the 40th box you must have had to survive 39 other boxes, so the probabilities add up.

Basically, if you go and pick your Xth box, you have a X% of being dead already.

So some of you might think that if you got down to the final two boxes, it's a 50/50 chance - actually, it's a 99% chance that you will be dead after that box.

[mrwoooooooo]

I think people are getting the Maths all wrong, if you decide to go for a 40th box - surely that means only 1/60 boxes would kill you, which is a 0.016% chance at dying. But the fact is, to get to the 40th box you must have had to survive 39 other boxes, so the probabilities add up.

Basically, if you go and pick your Xth box, you have a X% of being dead already.

So some of you might think that if you got down to the final two boxes, it's a 50/50 chance - actually, it's a 99% chance that you will be dead after that box.
no its still 50/50

and id pick 20

[Teabags]

Just go to random.org and have the random number generator go from 1 to 100, if it picks 1 you die, and you lower the upper limit as you carry on.

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So you would risk your life at a 40% chance of dying?
Absolute madness.
does sound suicidal, but would you rather live until say 40 doing exactly what you want or join the rat race and enjoy your life once your health starts to turn?

It does sound quite juvenile but I imagine it to be something like the Bucket List or Seven Pounds.
Can't say it's the greatest logic ever, but do you really want to live until your 90s?


and I'd like to chose, so if it was a freak accident that was instant.
Stephen!

[Kardan]

no its still 50/50

and id pick 20

The chance of dying on your 99th pick itself is 50% chance of dying.

Being dead after the 99th box is 99% chance.

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does sound suicidal, but would you rather live until say 40 doing exactly what you want or join the rat race and enjoy your life once your health starts to turn?



It does sound quite juvenile but I imagine it to be something like the Bucket List or Seven Pounds.
Can't say it's the greatest logic ever.

You wouldn't live till 40 if you picked the wrong box. You would die, you wouldn't get the money you had won up until that point. It's an instant death scenario, not a 'You can spend your money but your life will be shorter'

[mrwoooooooo]

The chance of dying on your 99th pick itself is 50% chance of dying.

Being dead after the 99th box is 99% chance.

well dur

[Teabags]

The chance of dying on your 99th pick itself is 50% chance of dying.

Being dead after the 99th box is 99% chance.

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You wouldn't live till 40 if you picked the wrong box. You would die, you wouldn't get the money you had won up until that point. It's an instant death scenario, not a 'You can spend your money but your life will be shorter'
Just out of interest, would you say you could put a price upon someone's life ever?
Or would you be more enticed if the odds were even greater and the reward was greater.

[Kardan]

Just out of interest, would you say you could put a price upon someone's life ever?
Or would you be more enticed if the odds were even greater and the reward was greater.

I honestly don't think I would take the gamble. I mean, I don't *need* the money, I'm quite happy with life at the moment, so there's no need to risk it. If I want to gamble for a lot of money, I'll stick to the lottery ;)

[Teabags]

I honestly don't think I would take the gamble. I mean, I don't *need* the money, I'm quite happy with life at the moment, so there's no need to risk it. If I want to gamble for a lot of money, I'll stick to the lottery ;)
That sounds fair enough. Would you get more tempted to try it later on in life? - so when you're not so comfortable. (Not that student life isn't great or anything..)

[Zak]

I'd like to say I'm brave enough to choose just one but I probably wouldn't

[Kardan]

That sounds fair enough. Would you get more tempted to try it later on in life? - so when you're not so comfortable. (Not that student life isn't great or anything..)

Perhaps, but I'm not in that suituation so I wouldn't know until I got to that point :)

[Stephen]

Just go to random.org and have the random number generator go from 1 to 100, if it picks 1 you die, and you lower the upper limit as you carry on.

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So you would risk your life at a 40% chance of dying?
Absolute madness.


got 53 boxes then I died

i guess that $5m can go to the funeral costs

[Kardan]

got 53 boxes then I died

i guess that $5m can go to the funeral costs

You died. You don't get the money. Otherwise the whole problem is kind of pointless, and you'd get tons of old people/terminally ill people just doing it to get money for their families.

[Stephen]

but the money is in the boxes

who made you in charge of who gets the money, *****?

[FlyingJesus]

I'm kinda safe with whatever happens since I'm not even mortal

[Kardan]

but the money is in the boxes

who made you in charge of who gets the money, *****?

The point is, you go into a room, you decide if you want to play, you pick a box - you either live or die, and you decided if you want to repeat the process. If you die, that's it. The game gets reset for the next player. It's an all or nothing scenario, at least, that's how I understood it. It's to see how much people are willing to risk their lives for some cash.

[CrazyLemurs]

Alrighty, doing some maths on the subject:
Once you've opened Box 21, you've had a 25% chance to die
Once you've opened Box 39, you've had a 50% chance to die
Once you've opened Box 52, you've had a 75% chance to die
At least, with the calculations I was doing, these figures should be accurate, doing 1/100 + 1/99 + 1/98 etc.
~~~
After trying the above idea, I hit 1 on exactly my 50th box. Spooky 1/2 coincidence xD?


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[Kardan]

Alrighty, doing some maths on the subject:
Once you've opened Box 21, you've had a 25% chance to die
Once you've opened Box 39, you've had a 50% chance to die
Once you've opened Box 52, you've had a 75% chance to die
At least, with the calculations I was doing, these figures should be accurate, doing 1/100 + 1/99 + 1/98 etc.
~~~
After trying the above idea, I hit 1 on exactly my 50th box. Spooky 1/2 coincidence xD?


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This is wrong. If you carry on, you'll see that you will be guaranteed to die before you even reach box 100.

The correct Maths is:

(1/100)+((1/99)*(99/100))+((1/98)*(98/99)*(99/100))+... etc.

[CrazyLemurs]

Oh, I tried multiplying the death chances first and it didnt work, but I'll have a look with those stas


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[shiver]

I would open a few tbh. What a fab idea.

[Gina]

none :O im supposed to live till im 200 so i cnt tke the risk y'no

[Succubus]

I think I'd be too scared to open even one. So none :P

[Gina]

omg wait i changed my mind, ima get someone to open all the boxes for me, so one of them kills them and then i run off with the rest of the boxes
sounds gd to me

[Hollie]

probs like 5 thinking about it but if i was actually doing it maybe like 2 idk

[Jurv]

probs two or something lol money is fab

[Martin]

hmm, not many haha, maybe one or two :P still an amazing amount of money, greed gets you nowhere haha

[GommeInc]

Pick up each box and see which one doesn't weigh the same as the others. Whichever one weighs differently will be put to one side and the rest opened until that disappointing moment where you realise just at the last second that the box that kills you weighs the same as the others and the one put to one side had the wrong amount of money in and you curse HR and logistics for killing you with your final breath.

The end.

[God]

I would get someone else to open them up for me. Once they blow up I go and take the money the collected and the rest from the oother boxes :D

[IceNineKills]

If we're not allowed to examine the boxes first then I would still open loads. Get rich or die trying I suppose.

[LiquidLuck.]

knowing my luck I'd probably choose the box that'd kill me straight away so I wouldn't even try it lol

LOL exactly. xD

[Swearwolf]

i'd open 99 lol

[Aiden]

3 because I could live of that... :)

[Strega]

id probably just open one
100,000 would be good enough to get a new car and for school so ya
actually 2
the other 100,000 would be spent on jeffrey campbells

[AlexHenry]

I would open two but greed would take over, if I hadn't died yet probably....

[Kardan]

3 because I could live of that... :)

Not if you died.

[Aiden]

Not if you died.

After life durr??? It'd burn with me.

[Glen Coco]

Just go to random.org and have the random number generator go from 1 to 100, if it picks 1 you die, and you lower the upper limit as you carry on.

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So you would risk your life at a 40% chance of dying?
Absolute madness.


i did the random.org one and got 42 boxes before i died, wooo!

[Bails]

If we're not allowed to examine the boxes first then I would still open loads. Get rich or die trying I suppose.

This.