A stranger offers you an amazing deal, a shortcut, and a once-in-a-lifetime prize, all before lunch. What you do next is the whole test. Book smarts get you through school. This is the other kind.
Seven scenarios follow, each with one genuinely smart move, two decent attempts, and one choice your wallet will remember forever. No trick wording, no trivia. Just the sidewalk, doing what the sidewalk does. Score high and earn the title. Score low and consider it cheap tuition.
1/7
An email says you won a prize, but there's a small release fee. Move?
2/7
At the ATM, a helpful stranger stands very close, offering advice. You…
3/7
A cab with no meter says 'don't worry, cheap price.' Best play?
4/7
Someone bumps into you hard in a crowd, apologizes twice, and hurries off.
5/7
A used phone online costs a quarter of its value. Seller wants gift cards.
6/7
New city, late night, phone at two percent, and you're lost.
7/7
A landlord wants today's deposit wired to hold an apartment you haven't seen.
