You wake up feeling dizzy. There's a goat licking your toes. On your nightstand: a plane ticket to Damascus next to a coin showing heads. You can't remember the day, so you pick up your phone. It's Tuesday. You notice a new app: "Endless Snake". It's connected to your bank account. You open it.

Hi and welcome to Endless Snake by Nokia™

Here's how the game works: We have this Excel-file with two columns. The first contains all those countably infinite natural numbers, starting with 1., 2, 3, 4, ... We'll explain the second column later.

We'll start with line 1 and throw two fair and random dice and you'll get a dollar. Next we'll double the number of lines, thus take the next 2 lines, throw the dice and you'll get 2 dollars, then 4 lines and 4 dollars, and so on.

Except if the dice show snake eyes, then we'll take a dollar for each line in that round and start the whole procedure again (so after snake eyes is rolled the game starts over with a 1 line, round 1, as though starting anew) with the next line, then the 2 after that, then 4, 8, and so on until the next snake eyes and we repeat until infinity.

Now about that second column: If you click PASS below, we'll leave it empty, you can't play and we're sad to lose you as a customer. If you click PLAY, our intern will copy & paste PLAY into every line and you'll play!

Fine print: By clicking PLAY you agree to our terms of service. For each occurence of PLAY, you will pay a small fee of 10 cents which will be automatically taken out of your account as soon as the respective lines are up for their dice throw.

Do you click PLAY or PASS?

Argument for PLAY:

• As this is just a repeated version of

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  with precommitment, for each line the probability of snake eyes is just 1/36, so you'll get rich

• It's possible, although with probability 0, that snake eyes will never happen

Argument for PASS: :

• Due to the doubling of the number of lines, you'll lose more on snake eyes than you gained in the combined previous rounds (after the last snake eyes) and that happens infinitely often

• It's possible, although with probability 0, that all dice land snake eyes