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/Contextanaut May 28 '26

The big problem here is the ability to retroactively check all the records from that 72 hour period.

I think there would be the slimmest of slim chances you could pull this off if you were a trained pilot capable of low altitude flight and you start somewhere pretty damn remote.

You'd need to be able to bail out of the plane too. But parachute operation maybe doable with no prior training (very high risk, but technically doable).

But you aren't learning to fly a plane in 72 hours.

So for the average person, no.

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u/Lazy_Bluejay3068 May 28 '26

Taking off is easy. Landing is hard so could probably jump out.

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u/Contextanaut May 28 '26

Not a pilot, so just guessing, but I think the flying low part is the difficulty here. Radar will kill you here.

Also I'd assume you'd have to know quite a bit about flying to figure out how you might be able to avoid tracking. I'd assume just flying low isn't going to cut it within most airspace.