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Pick the Purple Rock
Despite the Audience's pleas to the contrary, you pick the Purple Rock.
"They've picked the Purple Rock folks!" the game show host says needlessly, "But before we see what they won, let's see what they COULD have won if they had picked the white rock!"
The curtains raise to reveal a speedboat. The announcer describes it, "The FastSplasher 4500 is the first of a new technology speedboat. It can reach surface speeds of 350 knots or at up to a depth of 500 feet 50 knots. It comes equipped with fifteen armor-piercing torpedoes and can travel through time up to one year in either direction. A retail price of one hundred fifty two trillion, six hundred eighty four billion, nine hundred forty six million, twenty seven thousand three hundred fifty one dollars!"
"Oh, bad luck!" he says, "That's the once-in-a-lifetime prize that will only be offered once on the show!"
"I think this show is rigged," you mumble to yourself.
"Now let's see what you won!" the all-too-cheery host says. "You win... INSTANT VAPORIZATION! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
You attempt to cry out, but instead of your voice, the only thing that comes out of you is a cloud of carbon dioxide and water vapor. Mainly because that is what you have boiled away into.
Your next memory is sitting in the middle of a large room. The entire room is white, and seems to be lit from everywhere at once. You cannot make out any distinct walls or corners, but from that innate sense you guess the room is about ten feet by ten feet.