Would You Rather: Life Upgrades

A pile of small miracles, and you get to keep exactly one of them. Every round takes something good away permanently.

What makes this list work is that the entries are not equally sized and pretending otherwise is where the difficulty comes from. Never getting sick again is a serious change to a life.

Always finding parking is not, and yet in a direct match-up plenty of people take it, because the small reliable thing is easier to imagine using tomorrow. That gap between how much something is worth and how much it feels worth is the entire game here.

It holds thirty-two upgrades wide, none of them supernatural in the comic book sense — these are all improvements to ordinary life rather than powers.

The ones that win late tend to be the time-related ones. Sleeping two hours and feeling rested, never feeling tired, unlimited free time: all of them are really the same wish wearing different clothes, and it is a wish that beats almost everything material on the list.