“If I wish for three more wishes, you will grant them with no catches.”
Keep doing this, over and over again, trying different strategies. It’s a way to test and validate genie loopholes (as you will be unable to state that if it’s wrong).
Though if the genie was smart, being “wrong” would be qualified to your own internal knowledge, I suppose. E.g. you can’t knowingly lie.
Alternatively, “was” is past tense. Meaning everything you’ve said in the past was correct. But that has no bearing on the future. The wish would undoubtedly fuck up a lot of things in the past from little daily white lies compounding (or even bigger childhood lies that could have drastically altered the world) but wouldn’t have any impact on things going forwards.
A genie would find a way to twist the wish for maximum suffering. And having your 4 year old “watch me, I can fly” lie be true would have some long lasting implications. Likely even leading up to a paradox where you were never even able to make the wish in the first place, because some childhood lie ended up getting you maimed or killed before you ever rubbed the lamp.
I mean, with lotto numbers you could just start trying to count. Once you can say the number, you move on to the next one. Depending on how the wish works, you could even try just sounding things out.
The meaning of life is mmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaasssssssssstuuuuurrrrrrrrrrb-“ Hmm… What would come after the B? “The meaning of life is masturbaaaa-“… Oh. OH.
You can make a random number generator and start reading the numbers, if you can say them, you are right, easy, you don’t even need to think at that point
That doesn’t negate that they haven’t been chosen yet, so there is no correct answer, and you won’t be able to say any number at all for that statement. In fact, it may make you mute until the numbers are chosen as anything you say after that would be incorrect.
You attempt to do this, but you find yourself unable to say you have three wishes, as that would make you wrong.
And you will always be right.
I read this in Baldur’s gate narrator’s voice
“If I wish for three more wishes, you will grant them with no catches.”
Keep doing this, over and over again, trying different strategies. It’s a way to test and validate genie loopholes (as you will be unable to state that if it’s wrong).
Though if the genie was smart, being “wrong” would be qualified to your own internal knowledge, I suppose. E.g. you can’t knowingly lie.
Alternatively, “was” is past tense. Meaning everything you’ve said in the past was correct. But that has no bearing on the future. The wish would undoubtedly fuck up a lot of things in the past from little daily white lies compounding (or even bigger childhood lies that could have drastically altered the world) but wouldn’t have any impact on things going forwards.
A genie would find a way to twist the wish for maximum suffering. And having your 4 year old “watch me, I can fly” lie be true would have some long lasting implications. Likely even leading up to a paradox where you were never even able to make the wish in the first place, because some childhood lie ended up getting you maimed or killed before you ever rubbed the lamp.
honestly, not a bad power.
“next week lottery numbers are _______”
“The best thing I can do with my life right now is ___________”
“next week lottery numbers are… impossible for me to know”
“the best thing I can do with my life right now is … something I wish I knew”
The curse can be stubbornly unhelpful no matter what.
It won’t be easy as you’ll still have to guess the right thing, but you can probably make it work.
I mean, with lotto numbers you could just start trying to count. Once you can say the number, you move on to the next one. Depending on how the wish works, you could even try just sounding things out.
Only have to guess 10 times the number of digits though, quite doable for a lottery win!
Username checks out. I’d expect nothing less from the DC world’s greatest detective.
You can make a random number generator and start reading the numbers, if you can say them, you are right, easy, you don’t even need to think at that point
but whatever I guess will be right.
No, no, no. You’ll be blocked when you try to guess the wrong thing. You still have to try guessing on your won.
still not hard, the first number is [strained noise],[strained noise],[strained noise],[strained noise],4.
FOUR
The lottery numbers haven’t been picked yet, so nothing would be correct until they get picked.
What if i say “next lottery numbers of [company that does it] [game name] will be ___ ___ ___ 7”?
That doesn’t negate that they haven’t been chosen yet, so there is no correct answer, and you won’t be able to say any number at all for that statement. In fact, it may make you mute until the numbers are chosen as anything you say after that would be incorrect.
will be… impossible to know will be… a sequence of numbers between 1 and 69
You could be compelled to say any number of unhelpful things instead of the numbers.