/r/CrazyIdeas

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Is your idea too crazy to work? So crazy it might work? Perfect.

Create super hobos? Elaborate. Invisible spiders? Why not? There are no wrong ideas!

Rules
  1. Don't be a dick

  2. Submit original, interesting ideas. Leave sense, rationality, possibility, and ethics to boring people.

  3. Posts must be proposals for new, crazy ideas. Puns, jokes, and wordplay are only allowed as incidental components of more-complete concepts.

  4. No complaining or soapboxing. Offer an (insane) alternative instead.

  5. No posts referencing or relating to politics or political figures.

  6. No done-to-death ideas. If you can find a version of your idea by searching /r/CrazyIdeas, then you aren't being creative enough.

  7. Tag NSFW posts.

NOTE:

Awesome ideas are just as welcome here.

Don't comment saying "This belongs in /r/AwesomeIdeas!"

/r/CrazyIdeas

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A potential show based off of Clue (Board game).

Does anyone remember that there was a game show based off of Clue in the UK in the 90s?

Basically, they would watch a clip about the events that led up to the murder, then they would ask the cast questions, who would answer in character.

This concept really needs to be brought back!

I'm imagining a scenario similar to another show, Whodunnit, that was released in 2013.

Picture this: 5-6 "contestants" (One of them is secretly an actor) arrive at Tudor Mansion for a reason that differs based on the episode (which is scripted. The contestants would obviously know why they're here. This is to create a more believable story).

They then meet the cast of the board game (who were already there when the contestants arrived), which would likely just be the core 6, but I think it'd be interesting if it changed every episode, using characters from different corners of the franchise to keep the show interesting.

The contestants would engage in polite conversation with the suspects, deepening the story and giving the contestants info about each suspect, while also drawing suspicion on each suspect and making the viewer question who the culprit will be, but also the victim.

After some time passes, they eventually discover the body of one of the contestants (the actor I mentioned earlier), and then it's time to investigate!

The contestants investigate the whole house, looking for evidence and questioning the suspects. The suspects investigate with them, but the killer is able to lead them astray.

This wouldn't be a cooperative game, so the contestants would have to find a way to control the flow of information to throw their opponents off and trick them into misinterpreting evidence.

After that, the contestants and the suspects gather in a room and give their answer for who, what, and where.

If one of the contestants gets it right, they win. If no one gets it right, the game continues, with a weapon, location, and suspect being eliminated (with a suspect being killed, usually in a fashion more brutal, ridiculous and horror movie-esque than the first victim's so it won't have to be investigated).

The game continues as long as needed (or as long as the runtime will allow) until someone gets it right.

I think this idea has some merit, I want to know if anyone has any suggestions that could improve this idea.

0 Comments
2025/01/11
19:12 UTC

0

Like criterion closet picks with a celebrity, do the same thing with porno closet picks with a porn star picking out their favorite porno.

0 Comments
2025/01/11
17:02 UTC

14

Scratch n’ sniff cookbooks

You would be able to smell the finished recipe

1 Comment
2025/01/11
15:03 UTC

2

Design a whole town with lots of hidden passages, staircases, perches, nooks, and artsy businesses. There is a speakeasy where you have to know the special knock. Some doors only open when you saw a puzzle.

Businesses thrive because it becomes a tourist attraction and everyone knows the “secrets”. But only the residents know the tough ones.

1 Comment
2025/01/11
14:39 UTC

15

Use motors to spin airplane tires up to the speed of the plane before touching down to reduce wear on the tires

25 Comments
2025/01/11
14:36 UTC

2

Mirrors that can take screenshots.

Have you ever looked yourself at the mirror without thinking you look horrendous and you just WISH you had this image as a digital image saved on your phone? With the digital mirror, you could do just that.

2 Comments
2025/01/11
12:18 UTC

1

Organ Donation Kickbacks...

Okay y'all... so this is crazy ideas for a reason.

What if, not in your Mayberry neck of the woods but in like big cities... you know how there are dirty cops?

What if there are dirty EMTs going around not saving people because they get kickbacks from every organ that can be harvested from their patients each shift?

This world is so messed up I feel like rich people have got to be already doing this in some capacity and we just find the idea too horrifying to even come to terms with much less to admit it could be happening under our noses.

11 Comments
2025/01/11
09:49 UTC

8

A site like reddit

But only intelligent people are allowed to post.

13 Comments
2025/01/11
02:06 UTC

3

Avoid lung cancer by skipping smoking; start with nicotine patches.

1 Comment
2025/01/11
01:42 UTC

2

A critical blog, criticizing critics.

It could ward off critics who are just critical to be critical critics.

Imagine absolutely going off on a small business but a critic of you, the critic, points out that your critique is actually full of grammatical errors that you thought no one would realize. Your status of a critic has been tarnished forever.

1 Comment
2025/01/11
01:24 UTC

13

If a post/comment has a certain number of upvotes, it can't be removed by moderators.

3 Comments
2025/01/11
00:31 UTC

1

Can weather be used to resolve weather related issues?

For example, does California allow rain catchment systems? Can they harvest rain water to combat wildfires? Or, can neighboring states that get rain, send water California’s way? Can snow from the east coast be transported to the west, to supplement any water shortages? I know we can’t control the weather, but why not use it?

Crazy thoughts, I know, but just seeing the devastation happening in SoCal is making my brain whirl.

4 Comments
2025/01/10
23:58 UTC

1

Injectable Glow-In-The-Dark dyes for scars/stretch marks

Inject them into the specified areas and then they glow in the dark

1 Comment
2025/01/10
22:41 UTC

1

Reboot Groundhog Day as a multi-season TV series.

5 Comments
2025/01/10
22:23 UTC

5

Computer mice should have haptic feedback

4 Comments
2025/01/10
22:15 UTC

2

Imagine when youre on a hold call for like customer service and they start playing Linkin park.

1 Comment
2025/01/10
21:52 UTC

0

The next 4 years will have the best art coming out of the states.

19 Comments
2025/01/10
21:50 UTC

12

Prescription medication cereal

before someone comes for my neck, this is CrazyIdeas not GoodIdeas thank you

You know what would be a nice novelty? Medication cereal.

Pharmaceutical companies could make medication variants in the form of dozens or hundreds of capsules that all contain a tiny portion of the dose. I take gabapentin so for example, 300, 600 or even 1,200 crunchy little grains of rice krispy sized pills each containing 1mg, 0.5mg or 0.25mg of active ingredient per krispy. Obvs the version of the medication would have to be one that is suitable to be chewed.

The cereal box could have multiple sealed little foil bags, and many in a box, each bag containing a dose, so you know exactly how much cereal to eat. The cereal could be flavoured in many different ways like strawberry, banana, chocolate, pistachio, etc etc

Imagine eating your ADHD meds as cereal. Your beta blockers could be made into a cereal bar. Oxycodone coco pops.

Ofc the cereal boxes or cereal bars would have to be sealed away and locked up in the home so people it's not for don't eat it. Shit idk maybe it would be useful for kids or dementia patients who refuse their meds, or for psychiatric patients who think pills are going to poison them.

2 Comments
2025/01/10
21:45 UTC

18

Give the extra day in a leap year a special name besides "Monday," "Tuesday," etc.

6 Comments
2025/01/10
20:30 UTC

142

Why can’t college books on medicine and healthcare be free and open source?

75 Comments
2025/01/10
20:15 UTC

67

Social media sites should be forced to have a dislike button for posts

I feel the lack of ability in social media to actively indicate a dislike for opinions and posts has allowed people who would be banished to the dark corners where they belong, to flourish.

Zuck once said something along the lines of.. if you don't like something you should discuss it, i.e. use comments, when asked about Facebook not having a dislike button. I know the real answer is engagement and money, but why do I have to defend my opinion when those liking content don't. If someone creates a post saying battering badgers is fun, why is the onus on me to defend why that's bad? It's exhausting. Not everyone wants to get in an argument online but also the likes/reactions are the most prominent indicator of feedback on the post. Comments are not.

If you like it, I should be able to dislike it. If you love it, I should be able to hate it. Otherwise aren't we railroading opinions (or at least the representation of opinions)

I get that it can be abused by collectives but I genuinely think the inability to knock back posts with an opposing reaction has had a monumental societal impact where any opinion expressed is seen as always valid to at least a minor degree.

39 Comments
2025/01/10
19:34 UTC

1

Generate electricity from California wildfires.

4 Comments
2025/01/10
19:26 UTC

1

An "un-zoo".

An open park with hiking paths, equipped with cameras everywhere, feeding image recognition software, which then populates signs scattered throughout with the name of animals that are currently in an area.

1 Comment
2025/01/10
18:54 UTC

3

Popping Candy Anal Beads

3 Comments
2025/01/10
17:58 UTC

14

What if we take the California wildfire and just push it somewhere else?

23 Comments
2025/01/10
16:37 UTC

34

Make a fire retardant tent for homes like the ones they use when they fumigate homes.

29 Comments
2025/01/10
15:43 UTC

7 Comments
2025/01/10
14:56 UTC

9

The reason it takes time to fall asleep

The reason it takes time to fall asleep is because your mind can't come up with or find a good enough dream to show you. You go to sleep when your subconscious finally decides what to watch.

It's like not being able to eat your food before choosing what to watch on youtube, netflix etc.

If you think you slept without having a dream, it's either because you have bad memory or it was a traumatic dream that your mind decide to erase from your memory when you woke up.

4 Comments
2025/01/10
13:19 UTC

3

A gym designed exclusively for skinny people attempting to gain muscle mass

1 Comment
2025/01/10
08:49 UTC

321

Make it illegal for pdf file page numbers to not match the page numbers of the actual document

Sick of this shit.

30 Comments
2025/01/10
07:51 UTC

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