How much is enough?

Would you rather win a guaranteed £100,000,
 or have a fifty fifty chance of winning
a million pounds on the spin of a coin?

This week's dilemma is a test of greed, and offers a choice between taking a gamble, or playing it safe.  Here's the scenario...

You're waiting for the bus one day when an eccentric billionaire approaches you and offers you £100,000.  He opens his briefcase containing the cash, so you can see the offer is genuine.

However, he then offers you a gamble...  You can either take the £100,000 there and then, and the money will be yours to keep, or you can risk it all on the spin of a coin for the chance of even more cash.  If you guess heads or tails correctly, the eccentric billionaire will instead give you a million pounds!  However, if you guess wrong then you lose everything and walk away with nothing.  Not even your bus fare home!

So that's the dilemma.  What would you do?  Would you take the £100,000, or would you risk it all on the spin of a coin for the chance of a million pounds?

Greed Money

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...or Santa's elves got no payrise this year?

Santa faces a tough decision this year.

To set the scene for this 'Would You Rather?' dilemma, imagine you're an elf working at Santa's Toy Factory at the North Pole, and sadly it turns out that even Santa isn't immune from the current economic climate.  As a result, Santa's accountants have told him that this year he has to make some cutbacks.

Santa therefore faces some tough decisions, because the budegetary cuts mean there's no money in the pot to give his elves a payrise this year.  However, one option available to Santa would be to give each kid less toys this Christmas and use the savings to finance the Elves' Pay Award.

Christmas Money Santa Santa Claus Santa's Elves Would You Rather

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How strong is your stomach?

Mmm!  Lovely!

A few weeks ago, a lady at work went on holiday for a week and forgot to empty her cup of coffee before she left.  As you can see in the photo, when she got back to work a week later, she discovered that her coffee had started to go mouldy.  In fact it was so mouldy that there were big lumps of fungus floating in the coffee.

Our boss likes to keep the working day interesting, so when we discovered the mouldy coffee, he quickly offered £50 to anyone who would drink it.  There were no takers at £50, so he then increased his offer to £100, but even at that price we all still declined the chance to earn some cash in return for drinking a mug of mouldy coffee.

But what would you do?  Would you drink the cup of mouldy coffee for £100?  Or how about for £1000?  Or would you still refuse to drink it even for £1000?  Vote below on whether a financial incentive could tempt you into drinking the cup of mouldy coffee shown in the photo.

Money Mouldy Coffee Would You Rather

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...would you use your power for financial gain or for romantic benefits?

Love or money?

This 'Would You Rather?' dilemma is loosely based on the movie 'About Time' where the main character can go back in time and repeat certain days of his life.  In the movie he chooses to use his time travel powers to help his love life, but at one point he considers using his time travelling ability for financial benefits.

But what would you use your power for?   Would you go back in time and place guaranteed winning bets on sporting events, or would you use your time travelling power to help your love life by replaying events and using your future knowledge to impress the object of your affections?

Love Money Would You Rather

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