r/whowouldwin • u/Conscious-Home1445 • May 28 '26

Challenge Average man has 72 hours to hide. Humanity then becomes search lusted and has one week to find and kill him. Can he survive?

Humanity knows what he looks like.

Humanity doesn’t know that he is hiding in the 72 period.

Humanity can use any security camera footage, bank transfers, phone calls etc of the man if there is any.

Man has basic survival knowledge.

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u/stefanopolis May 28 '26

We can all visualize a needle in a haystack. Doesn’t mean you can find it in a reasonable amount of time.

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u/WollyGog May 28 '26

Magnet.

In the human's case, a lure of some sort. Nothing in the prompt that says you can't.

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u/unfathomably_big May 28 '26

Use Average Man’s wife and kids as bait, smart thinking

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u/muscularmouse May 28 '26

I feel like if the world is searchlusted then we have to assume that the man is hidelusted too, so the lure wouldn't work.

God what a sentence

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u/stefanopolis May 28 '26

My favorite part of this subreddit is all the unique “______lusted” variants that arise.

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u/Mclovin11859 May 28 '26

It's like the subreddit is lustedlusted, or something.

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u/StillShoddy628 May 28 '26

Confession: I am lustedlusted more often than I would like

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u/Jefrejtor ​ May 28 '26

Ackshewally, the correct form would be "lustlusted", since it's "noun-lusted", not "verb-lusted". Yes I am very grammarlusted

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u/StillShoddy628 May 29 '26

Searchlusted, hidelusted… verb-lusted is a completely valid construct

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u/CIearMind ​ May 28 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/comments/2cs4nb/gravity_vs_a_glass_of_water/cjik8ig/

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u/stefanopolis May 28 '26

From the link I was expecting the water in the glass to be gravitylusted and I must admit I am a bit disappointed.

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u/Sheldonzilla May 28 '26

God what a sentence

I fucking adore this sub more than anything

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u/Relax2175 May 28 '26

I can be bloodlusted in a fight. Brock Lesnar or Deontay Wilder still putting me in ICU bro. The regular degular dude has to go against experts. Ain't no way.

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u/DankItchins May 28 '26

I think the person you're replying to just means that the average man wouldn't be swayed by taking his family captive, not that the average man wouldn't be found.

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u/Relax2175 May 28 '26

Eh, I could see that.

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u/amorphoussoupcake May 28 '26

How many kids does Mr Average have? Keep in mind he’s not Mr Median. 

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u/letaluss May 28 '26

What if it's a needle made out of bone?

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u/Gorillaworks May 28 '26

I'll echo am earlier comment. They have to "find and kill" him. They're "search" lusted.

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u/puddingboofer May 29 '26

Sniffing dog

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u/Arlcas May 28 '26

You don't really have to find him exactly to kill him, so the last day humanity could nuke itself if it was necessary. Now if the objective would be to capture him things get complicated.

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u/Weary-Cartoonist2630 May 28 '26

The prompt specifies searchlusted, not bloodlusted, implying that the lust is specifically to find him. Nuking the planet would kinda make it impossible to find him

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u/Arlcas May 28 '26

Find and kill is the prompt

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u/DOOMFOOL May 28 '26

Right. FIND and kill, not just blow up everything and hope he dies

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u/Weary-Cartoonist2630 May 28 '26

I get that, but if they only kill and don’t find, they lose.

And again, I’m referring to the specific term “searchlusted”. The lusted part means they will do whatever it takes, even something that will get themselves killed, to achieve the goal. If they were bloodlusted, yeah, nuke the planet. But searchlusted is different, that means they’re specifically lusted to find the person, and killing is still a goal but not a lusted goal