Sorry, Railer! I promise not to buy a ticket for that particular Mega Millions, okay?
is “I wish to find each morning a new lamp with a new friendly genie that grant me a wish without restrictions” a loophole or not?
The genie will arrange for every entrant to win.
I once encountered a genie who offered me two wishes. For my first wish, I asked for a perpetual joint of the finest cannabis.
POOF I had that joint. I lit it and took one big hit and I was stoned. And the joint was just as long as when I first lit it.
So of course for my second wish I asked for another.
Of course it is. No extra wishes and no loopholes.
One thing I was thinking but didn’t really make clear in the OP: You will be saying it not writing it. The “he cannot misunderstand” was supposed to protect against things like the 12 inch pianist, which is completely different to a 12 inch penis. He cannot make words mean something that sounds slightly similar or break the language in a way that has no genuine basis, however he can misconstrue AIDS for another word like aides as it’s being said aloud.
100% is three words “one hundred percent”
How would “I wish you and other genies would only do good works for humanity” work? Otherwise, “I’m not playing, you stupid-ass genie”
In the original joke, the genie was hard of hearing. The jackass genie could pretend to mis-hear.
1 trillion dollars appear in a securely wrapped package, about 10 meters above your head.
I sure wish everyone would give me the benefit of the doubt, including construing any ambiguous clauses in my favor, with no desire to badly screw me over…
I’ve read too many of those stories and seen too many of those movies to think even for the briefest split second that I could outsmart a genie who’s actively looking for a way to screw me over.
So no wish. The only winning move is not to play.
What if the genie is religious, and believes that the afterlife is preferable to this life?
And another thing that occurs to me is that even if I manage to formulate a wish that seems to go according to my intentions, I’ll probably spend the rest of my life waiting for the other shoe to drop. So no thanks.
Just wish for one shoe.
(You’ll likely lose a leg)
Another vote for no, not smarter than the devil. No matter what, evil genie will make you regret the wish.
Okay, Plan B it is!
Just say
" ’al-lāhu lā ’ilāha ’il-lā hu / ’al-ḥay-yu l-qay-yūm / Lā ta’khudhuhū sinatun w-walā nawm / Lahū mā fi s-samāwāti wamā fi l-’arḍ / Man dha l-ladhī yashfa‘u ‘indahū ’illā bi’idhnih / Ya‘lamu mā bayna ’aydīhim wamā khalfahum / Walā yuḥītūna bishy’i m-min ‘ilmihī ’il-lā bimā shā’ / Wasi‘a kursiy-yuhu s-samāwāti wal’arḍ / Walā ya’ūduhū ḥifẓuhumā / Wahuwa l-‘aliy-yu l-‘aẓīm. "
Problem solved!
“I wish for everything written here to be true.” (shows paper with long and detailed list of requirements)
Hey, it’s not wishing for more wishes.
All the ice cream in the world.
And maybe a spoon.
oh wait - damn - that’s two wishes.
There’s no ice cream in the world. It’s not mined, it’s manufactured and placed in containers.
A trillion dollars, all bound up in crates, falls on top of you.