Internet & Gaming
You can permanently keep only three games you've ever played. Everything else gets deleted forever. What three are you keeping?
Bonus: Which one would you be most upset about losing?
Someone gives you $100 and says you HAVE to waste it. You cannot save or invest any of it.
What thing are you buying?
Bonus: What if they said you can only spend it on other people?
What's a completely normal thing that instantly annoys you for no good reason?
Would you rather fight:
1 horse-sized chicken
or
50 chicken-sized horses?
Bonus: You can pick someone to help you, who would it be?
You suddenly have Friday completely free. No school, appointments, homework, chores, or obligations.
What's your ideal day from waking up until going to sleep?
Bonus: You find out Monday you have free as well. Do you plan something big for the 4-day weekend or plan something small?
A game you want normally costs $70. You see a website selling a digital key for $19.99. Before buying it, what are at least three things you should research?(Independent Research + Financial self-control)
Legitimacy of website / platform/region compatibility/ refund policy / whether key could be revoked / reviews
Target: Financial self-control/saving
You have $180 saved toward a $500 goal.
Something you've wanted goes on sale:
Regular price: $120
Sale price: $75
Sale ends tonight.
Is buying it a good financial decision?
Bonus: What if the thing you were saving up for suddenly became unavailable?
Targets: Healthy vs. harmful friendships + expressing thoughts/feelings
Your friend constantly sends you TikToks/reels/memes and expects you to respond.
One day they say:
“Why do you always ignore everything I send you? I guess you don't care.”
Is this automatically a harmful friendship?
Answer: No.
Question: What would you need to know before deciding?
Would you rather have:
Unlimited free DoorDash, but every order takes exactly 2 hours
OR
Everything arrives in 10 minutes, but you always pay full price + delivery + tip?
Bonus: Free doordash, but only from one place, which place?
Target: Daily routine management
It's 6:00 PM.
You need to:
Build your schedule.
There isn't one correct answer.
Bonus: You find out your homework will take you 90 minutes.
What's worse?
A) Your internet cuts out when you're about to win
B) Your controller dies during a boss fight
C) Someone spoils the ending of a game you've been playing for 40 hours
D) Your friend says “one more game” and disappears immediately after
Bonus. Defend your answer
One restaurant/fast-food place gives you free food for life, but it's the ONLY restaurant you're allowed to eat at ever again.
What's your pick?
And no cheating with “Costco because they sell everything.”
Bonus: Not for life but just for a day, and you can bring one person, who would it be?
Would you rather:
A) Your entire school sees your YouTube search history
or
B) Your entire school sees every song you've listened to in the last year?
You cannot say neither.
Bonus: You have to play one song to the entire school, which song would you chose?
Targets: Accepting suggestions + expressing thoughts
Never have homework again or never have to wake up early again?
Bonus: Try to convince others to pick your answer.
You can remove ONE minor inconvenience from existence forever.
Examples: ads, traffic, passwords, waiting for food, slow internet, spam calls, laundry, tangled chargers.
What's gone?
Bonus: Beach or movies?
You've lost six matches in a row. You think:
"I'm actually trash at this game. I should just uninstall."
Is the thought:
A) Helpful and accurate
B) Negative self-talk
C) Positive self-talk
D) Neutral
(positive vs negative self talk + positive statements)
B
Bonus: Replace it without making the new statement fake-positive.
Targets: Financial self-control + independent research
Your favorite artist announces merch.
Hoodie: $75
Shipping: $12
Tax: approximately $7
You currently have: $110
You also agreed with yourself that you wouldn't let your savings fall below $50.
Can you afford it according to your own rule?
Answer: $75 + $12 + $7 = $94.
$110 − $94 = $16.
So no, not without breaking the $50 savings rule.
Follow-up: Find two alternatives that would let you eventually get the hoodie without abandoning the savings goal.
Targets: Healthy vs. harmful friendships + accepting suggestions
You and your friend always game together.
Lately, they decide:
You suggest something different and they usually say:
“Nah, that's boring.”
Question: Is this enough to end the friendship?
Best answer: Not necessarily.
Follow-up: What would you try FIRST?
Do you accept? Reject? Negotiate?
You get $10 million, but once per day at a completely random time, you teleport exactly 10 feet to the left.
Taking the money?
Explain.
Bonus: What if you can pick the random time? When would you do it?
Targets: Daily routine management + accepting suggestions
Your current plan:
Get home → game until 9 → homework → shower → eat → sleep whenever.
Someone suggests:
“Why don't you do homework immediately when you get home?”
Do you have to accept that suggestion?
No.
Bonus: Give one appropriate way to reject it, then suggest a compromise that might actually work for you.
You get $5 million, but every time you enter a room, the same song plays loudly for 15 seconds. What song are you choosing?
Bonus: Would you still take the deal if you couldn't chose the song?
500 — GOAL
Targets: Financial self-control + daily routine/long-term planning
You're earning $16/hour for 15 hours per week.
You want something costing $600.
You decide to save 20% of your gross pay each week.
Approximately how many weeks will it take?
Math:
$16 × 15 = $240/week
20% = $48/week
$600 ÷ $48 = 12.5 weeks
Answer: approximately 13 weeks.
Then ask:
Would YOU actually use the 20% plan, or would you structure it differently?
Targets: Expressing thoughts/feelings + healthy/harmful friendships
A close friend makes a joke about you in a group chat. Everyone laughs.
You laugh too, but you're actually embarrassed.
Later they ask:
“You know I was just messing with you, right?”
What could you say?
Hard mode: You cannot use the words mad, angry, upset, or sad.
Bonus: What shouldn't you say?
You can know the exact answer to ONE mystery:
A) Whether aliens exist
B) What happens after death
C) How the universe ends
D) Whether intelligent life exists somewhere else
E) The truth behind any historical mystery you choose
Which one?
Bonus: What was a mystery when you were younger that isn't a mystery now?
Targets: Daily routine management + positive self-talk + expressing thoughts/feelings
You planned a productive Saturday.
You wake up at noon instead of 9 AM.
Which reaction is most useful?
A) “I already ruined the day.”
B) “Whatever, I'll start tomorrow.”
C) “My plan changed. I still have the rest of today.”
D) “I'm so lazy.”
Answer: C
Harder question: Why might A lead to more avoidance even though waking up late really did interfere with the original plan?