The archive

Your closest coworker, a single father with severe debts, is systematically harassing and humiliating the new intern. If you report him, he gets fired; if you stay silent, her mental health is ruined.

Your patrol partner, who saved your life last year, fabricated evidence to lock up a dangerous criminal. If you tell the truth, the criminal goes free and your partner goes to prison.

Your sister stole a very valuable watch to pay for her urgent medical treatment. An innocent cleaner with three children is being accused and will be fired and prosecuted.

Your best friend confesses they stole money for their mother's urgent heart surgery. The police ask you directly if you know where the money is.

A friend donated a kidney to you years ago, saving your life. Today you discover they stole the relief fund of the NGO where you both work. If you report them, they go to prison; if you stay silent, the NGO goes bankrupt and a hundred vulnerable families are left helpless.

You run a clinical trial for a life-saving drug. Your sick brother is enrolled and randomly assigned the placebo. You can secretly swap it for the real drug, but doing so will delay public approval by twelve months.

Your addicted brother steals from the family business cash register to pay a debt. If you say nothing, your father will fire an innocent employee who supports a family.

An undocumented employee with a sick daughter accidentally starts a fire in your business. If you tell the insurance the truth to get paid, they will be deported. If you lie, you commit fraud.

You are a surgeon. You must operate on a father to save his life. You feel a slight tremor in your hand: if you operate, there is a 10% risk of a fatal error by you. If you step down, the delay in finding another doctor gives him a 30% risk of dying while waiting.

You are a therapist. Your patient, a desperate mother, confesses she is stealing a vital, expensive drug to save her child. An innocent nurse is about to be jailed for the theft.

Your sister, suffering from severe depression, stole expensive drugs from the clinic you manage to resell them. Your boss accuses you: either you name the thief or he reports you.

You discover your daughter cheated to win a prestigious scholarship. If you report her, the scholarship goes to your housekeeper's son. If you stay silent, your daughter keeps the only spot.

Serious World Cup debate: which team is better? Cape Verde, who drew with Spain, or France, who lost 2-0 and got dominated.

Your brother hits a sick homeless man with his car and flees. The police arrest another innocent homeless man who will go to jail for it.

Your coworker, a single mother of a sick child, ruins a key report. The director blames you by mistake. If you stay silent, you get fired; if you speak up, she gets let go.

Your brother, who has two children and no income, confesses he cheated on the civil service exam. You came in second, and there is only one teaching position.

Your mentor, who paid for your college and got you your job, embezzled money to save his wife. An innocent intern is being blamed and faces prison unless you turn in your proof.

Your brother donated a kidney that saved your life. You discover he stole from your company, and an innocent employee with three children is about to be blamed.

Your brother needs an urgent medical treatment you cannot afford. Your boss offers you a raise that covers it, but to fund it, they will immediately fire your desk mate.

Your sibling is stealing money from your parents' business cash register to pay a personal debt. If you speak up, they get fired. If you stay silent, you risk your parents' retirement.

Your father passes away and leaves you his entire inheritance. Your younger brother, with whom you do not speak, gets nothing due to an outdated will. You can voluntarily share half or keep it all.

A professor accidentally sends you tomorrow's final exam. If you share it with the class, they will notice the leak and repeat it with harder questions. If you keep it to yourself, you secure your top grade.

Your father urgently needs a transplant. A doctor offers to bump him to the top of the waiting list in exchange for a bribe. If you accept, the patient who was next in line will die.

Your family restaurant is going bankrupt. A competitor offers you a fortune for your grandmother's secret recipe. If you sell it, you save your home, but you betray your family legacy.

You get the last spot for a highly sought-after public job. You discover that due to a system error, you were awarded points from another candidate with a family who is now left unemployed.

At 3 a.m. you witness a hit-and-run. You're the only witness. Testifying would reveal where you were that night — and that blows up your relationship.

You need the job. One made-up line on your résumé, which nobody will check, would get it for you.

Your brother is hiding from his partner that he carries a serious hereditary disease. They're trying for a baby. He asked you to stay silent.

The bank wires you €5,000 by mistake. It belongs to the man who swindled and ruined your family, and never paid for it.

There's a fire. You can only go in once: inside are your lifelong dog and an adult stranger.

Your friend excitedly shows you a painting she made to enter a contest. It's objectively bad and has no chance. She asks what you think.

You're offered a 20% raise — but only if your coworker, who does the same job and earns the same as you, never finds out.

Every player today presses in secret. If FEWER than half press the button, everyone wins a prize. If the majority presses it chasing that prize, nobody wins.

You're offered the job of your life. Taking it means the single mother who's held that position for ten years gets fired. You don't sign her dismissal, but your arrival puts her on the street.

Your father, with advanced dementia, signed a will leaving everything to you and disinheriting your brother. You know he never would have done it while healthy.

One dose of a life-saving treatment remains. Two patients: a five-year-old child, and a sixty-year-old scientist about to finish a cure that would save thousands.

A runaway trolley is about to hit five people. You can divert it to another track — but you're standing on that track.

You find a wallet with 200 euros and the owner's ID inside. Nobody's around.

Your partner leaves their phone unlocked on the table and walks out of the room.

Your best friend privately confesses they committed a serious crime. The police question you directly.

Your best friend gets married in three days. You know for certain their partner is cheating on them.

The ship is sinking and there's one seat left on the lifeboat. You can only save one: your elderly mother or an unknown five-year-old child.

There's a pot of money for today's players. You can share it (split between everyone) or keep it (you take 10x more, but every person who keeps it drains the pot for the rest).

You're falling from a plane next to a pregnant woman and there's only one parachute. You reach it first.

Your coworker's award-winning project was born from an idea he stole from you. Exposing it sinks him publicly; staying quiet eats you alive.