And you’ve just been sold to a radio station.
Dang it, I edited the wrong thing out!
The turkey’s a little dry! Oh, this cursed thing. What demon from the depths of hell created thee.
Personally, I think the volume and weight of a trillion dollars would be inherent to the wish.
This.
@Velocity clearly has never played D&D
There’s also the issue of where the cash came from. If police across the country are investigating the sudden disappearance of a trillion dollars from every bank vault in the US, and you’re sitting there with a trillion dollars in cash on your front lawn, even the dimmest cop in the world would be looking to have a few words with you.
Even if they buy the “A genie did it!” defense, at a minimum they’ll confiscate the cash, and there’s a decent chance they’ll toss in a “receiving stolen goods” charge as well, if for no reason than to discourage the next person making an ill-advised wish.
There would be some pissed off countries too as the majority of physical US currency (looking it up about 60% of 1.5 trillion total) is outside the U.S.
OK. So the evil Genie vaccine grants you a super immune system. So effective that it extends beyond your body and antibodies attack other people that are even in the same room with you.
I guess if you won a fish (“sole”) that would count as misunderstanding by the Genie and not be permitted…Well, I guess you’re just in for a lifetime of misfortune and hijinks with power outages, flooded quik-e-marts, and 7-11s burning to the ground right in front of you…
That is exactly the kind of thing that IS permitted. Just no “12 inch pianist” nonsense and no interpreting a sentence in a way that has absolutely no sense. Any vaguely arguable interpretation of someone’s words is acceptable.
Oh, in that case he wins a fish. Or an actual swimming pool. (manifested 10 feet above his head, just kidding.)
Some people feel there’s a moral issue.
Analysis: Killing prisoners for transplants: Forced organ harvesting in China – Brighter World.
Hardly the genie’s fault if you leave the delivery location of the trillion dollars unspecified.
“Sole vs sole” is the kind of misunderstanding that can happen if you ignore the whole wish, but I specified, “for the largest prize pool for which that ticket is valid”. If you can show me a lottery that has a fish as the largest prize, I’ll be sure to avoid that one.
Now, if I just said, “The sole winning ticket”, you could parse that as “the sole-winning ticket”, and I’d end up with a fish. But by specifying the prize pool, I think I should be safe. You’d have to work a lot harder to purposefully misunderstand “for the largest prize pool for which that ticket is valid”.
The ticket is the sole legally valid winning ticket because it turns out to be the only valid ticket anyone bought at all, for that draw. Sure there was still a rollover prize and you technically won it, but this event is so very unusual and suspicious that you are investigated for fraud, endlessly. The prize payout is suspended until the investigations conclude, but the investigations cannot conclude because nobody knows why only one ticket - your ticket - was sold for that draw.
See? Now that’s a legitimate twist I didn’t anticipate!
Now, I just wait until I see media stories about how “millions of people” are buying tickets for this draw. That’s why I specified it must be a ticket that I buy for myself. No twist of someone else buying a ticket for a $10 raffle and then giving it to me as a gift. I control the timing.
Does the media report on that sort of thing?
Didn’t see it but yours doesn’t specify a starting date and does specify “clause”. Before the genie grants the wish, he is still free to interpret it against you. After granting the wish - whenever he does that - he will need to start interpreting in your favor. But, before that, he can delay the granting and he can decide that “clause” should be literally defined as - for example - a particular subsection complete sentence. Each sub-part of the sentence must be favorable to you but the totality of the whole does not need to.
But yes, mine is too long and - plausibly - also has some holes still.
“I wish for you, Genie, to, at the end of this statement to have never existed, without harm to any other thing in the Universe.”
Every society has a story that lays out quite clearly that “Wish” = “Boobytrap.”
Thinking about it, is there a clause in the lottery rules that prohibits using a genie to win? I could just cop to it, and then insist that the ticket is still valid. I’m sure they’d amend the rules right after that, but I’d get the money.
And in Canada, there’s even a legal precedent I could cite.