13 Sins
The phone begins to ring. You look around the diner, expecting the ringing to cease as the phone is answered by someone nearby. The ringing continues. You pull the phone out of your pocket. Not your phone. You don’t own a Nokia. You press the green button. The ringing stops.
“Hello! Thank you for answering! I was beginning to fear you wouldn’t! But, you did, and that is all that matters… Well not all. Today is quite possibly the luckiest day of your life! You have been selected to compete for our highest cash prize ever! 6.7 MILLION dollars! Doesn’t that sound fantastic!? All you have to do is tie your left shoe!”
The voice is surprisingly cheery, almost like a game show host trying way too hard to keep his job. The inflections in the man’s voice was rather alluring.
“Who is this?” you ask. You’ve heard of these sort of calls. They lure you in with a too good to be true offer, and next thing you know, you owe them thousands of dollars. Fraud. Or it could be a friend just teasing your rather misfortunate current situation.
“Tsk tsk! To play, just tie your left shoe!”
“Who is this!?!” “If you’ll just tie your shoe, $1000 dollars will be deposited into your bank account. That will pay for that computer you knew you couldn’t afford, silly!”
“What!? My shoe is tied..” You look down, noticing a clearly untied left shoe. The line clicks. Disconnected. Your attention bounces from the shoe, to the phone, to the people surrounding you. Surely one of your friends must be teasing.
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So what do you do? Do you tie the shoe, or leave the phone and forget this mess altogether? If you tie the shoe, then congratulations, you are now a contestant in The Game. The rules are simple:
1. 13 Challenges yielding increasingly greater rewards will be given to you over the phone, over the next 36 hours
2. Complete a Challenge, and the reward amount will be deposited into your bank account.
3. Fail to complete a Challenge, and The Game is over, all winnings will be lost.
4. Telling anyone that you are playing The Game is strictly forbidden, resulting in all winnings to be lost.
5. Complete all 13 Challenges, and you win.
The phone begins to ring. You look around the diner, expecting the ringing to cease as the phone is answered by someone nearby. The ringing continues. You pull the phone out of your pocket. Not your phone. You don’t own a Nokia. You press the green button. The ringing stops.
“Hello! Thank you for answering! I was beginning to fear you wouldn’t! But, you did, and that is all that matters… Well not all. Today is quite possibly the luckiest day of your life! You have been selected to compete for our highest cash prize ever! 6.7 MILLION dollars! Doesn’t that sound fantastic!? All you have to do is tie your left shoe!”
The voice is surprisingly cheery, almost like a game show host trying way too hard to keep his job. The inflections in the man’s voice was rather alluring.
“Who is this?” you ask. You’ve heard of these sort of calls. They lure you in with a too good to be true offer, and next thing you know, you owe them thousands of dollars. Fraud. Or it could be a friend just teasing your rather misfortunate current situation.
“Tsk tsk! To play, just tie your left shoe!”
“Who is this!?!” “If you’ll just tie your shoe, $1000 dollars will be deposited into your bank account. That will pay for that computer you knew you couldn’t afford, silly!”
“What!? My shoe is tied..” You look down, noticing a clearly untied left shoe. The line clicks. Disconnected. Your attention bounces from the shoe, to the phone, to the people surrounding you. Surely one of your friends must be teasing.
*******************************************************************************
So what do you do? Do you tie the shoe, or leave the phone and forget this mess altogether? If you tie the shoe, then congratulations, you are now a contestant in The Game. The rules are simple:
1. 13 Challenges yielding increasingly greater rewards will be given to you over the phone, over the next 36 hours
2. Complete a Challenge, and the reward amount will be deposited into your bank account.
3. Fail to complete a Challenge, and The Game is over, all winnings will be lost.
4. Telling anyone that you are playing The Game is strictly forbidden, resulting in all winnings to be lost.
5. Complete all 13 Challenges, and you win.
