WritingPrompts

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[WP] An alien asks you for a riddle. In a moment of mischief you give them a famous unsolved problem in science. They easily solve it. Curiously you ask them for a riddle yourself. To your surprise they ask you a really easy question.	2903
[WP] Humans are an average species in the space council. Not particularly weak nor strong. However human indecisiveness strikes when the species become the deciding, tie-breaking vote for an incredibly controversial resolution.	174
[WP] In a world where magic is normal, you are an average diviner. One day your divination about a major catastrophe comes true. Now you are caught up in a complicated legal battle about the legal liability of “future-predictors”.	133
[WP] Currencies in a magical world have many magical anti-counterfeiting measures. You manage to figure out how to replicate a currency perfectly, but it reveals some secrets you didn’t expect.	91
[WP] The study of mathematics had long been abandoned by most mages, who considered it worthless. You however, continued to study it, believing it contained the key to magic.	17
[WP] In a magical world, legal cases are simple because no one can lie. However, magical oaths stopped working, but the courts have just realized. The legal system is clogged because of all the applications for retrial and reinvestigations. Chaos ensues as you investigate why oaths stopped working.	12
[WP] You do the very unappreciated job of time traffic control. Helping pilots go through their assigned route, helping navigate through controlled time travel zones, giving information and advice and giving clearances to time travel is all in a day’s work.	11
[WP] You are a scientist who struggles to get research grants. One day, while annoyed you impulsively write an application that only says one sentence, “I will do research”. Your application is accepted by someone and you are asked to achieve results as fast as possible.	10
[SP] No one communicates normally anymore. People always use some sort of secret code.	7
[WP] A normal day is statistically improbable. There are too many things that could happen. However, today is a completely normal day.	7

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