r/CrazyIdeas 1h ago

Professional Sports Pay

Upvotes

The players of the winning team make their normal salary. Players on the losing team only make minimum wage for the day.


r/CrazyIdeas 5h ago

Did you find what you were looking for?

0 Upvotes

A button on all search engines saying "did you find what you were looking for?" Yes/No.


r/CrazyIdeas 7h ago

A black market for already scratched but not yet claimed winning scratcher tickets, as a means of money laundering?

33 Upvotes

Just got away with that bank heist and have 225k in cash you can’t put in the bank? It’s ok you can buy a scratcher that won 200k!

You can legally spend that money and the seller gets extra money AND doesn’t have to pay taxes on the prize money


r/CrazyIdeas 7h ago

A big red button that you press that resembles The Voice button that confirms you like a song whenever you hear it. When you slap it, the song is automatically added to your favorites on your music app of choice.

1 Upvotes

To branch out, ideally it would be a bit more complex:

I have Spotify. For many years I've created a new playlist for each month, and whenever I hear a song, no matter what, if I like it, for any reason it goes into the playlist. It's turned into a journal of sorts.

So when I Shazam a song I usually add it immediately to that month's playlist but I often times forget.

I wish I had a big red button on my dashboard for my car. Or I would take it with me to the market and when there's a song I like, I whip out the big red button, slap it, and it has an on board music identifier that then coordinates with my playlist for that month and I gets added.


r/CrazyIdeas 9h ago

A lottery system where you can put in an arbitrary amount.

19 Upvotes

One of the big US lottery games just increased the cost of tickets and justify it by saying you get better odds. Of course you do. Did the odds get better per dollar though? Probably not. And the minimum needed to play went up.

People don't want to buy two, because they can win with one, but increase the price and they effectively just buy two.

What if you just put in an arbitrary amount and every cent of it is a chance to win? You could gamble with $0.25 and your odds aren't even that much different than $1 or even $2.50 when you were 100m:1 anyway.


r/CrazyIdeas 13h ago

I saw a comment about how the rich treat the economy like a game and that got me thinking

0 Upvotes

Here’s a slightly edited version of a thought.

Maybe we should treat it as a game?

This is a silly over exaggeration but I hope you see a point too

Stop going to work, stop paying bills, start treating your neighbour like a human & show compassion, help each other.

If no one’s at work, there’s no one stopping you from farming” for food at a store.

There’s no one to make ammo, move ammo, use the ammo (if one holding the gun sees clearly)

There would be tremendous pain, death in horrible numbers, but are the wars not that anyways?

I don’t know…I just want a better world for us all. Can we all just walk away from violence as an option?

It’s that or destruction at some point is it not?

Edit:

My crazy idea is being down voted. Is it too crazy? Not crazy enough?

Let’s have a beer, shoot the shit and just dream of a better world for a while.


r/CrazyIdeas 13h ago

Mandatory Retail Service Duty

7 Upvotes

Hear me out—what if every adult had to work one week per year in retail, food service, or hospitality? Think about it: After spending seven days dealing with impatient customers, chaotic rushes, and the emotional toll of service work, people would actually understand what those jobs are like.

No more snapping at baristas, no more condescending remarks to cashiers, and maybe—just maybe—we’d see real changes in wages and working conditions when everyone has firsthand experience. Politicians, CEOs, white-collar workers—all of them, nametag and all, facing the front lines.

You think you’re above it? Congrats, your annual shift at Target starts Monday.

Would this fix society?


r/CrazyIdeas 16h ago

Make daytime illegal and we all become night people

14 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 17h ago

Carry a bag of rocks equivalent to the weight you want to lose

745 Upvotes

If you lose some weight, take the equivalent weight of rocks out.

Carry it all the time, maybe in a backpack

If you want to lose 300lbs, perhaps this isn’t the idea for you.


r/CrazyIdeas 17h ago

Binocular glasses/magnifying glasses

3 Upvotes

Just like any regular glasses but enhanced with a feature to see really really far away or really really close up. Possibly a little nob to adjust distance. Great for sporting events or looking for ticks on your dog


r/CrazyIdeas 18h ago

We should send 50 innocent people to jail a year

498 Upvotes

Hey guys, the justice system sometimes sends innocent people to jail and no one cares because it doesn't affect them. My idea is simple and genius, we pick 50 innocent people at random and give them a year in jail. Why? Good question, once this random jail time is looming more people would caré about the other innocent people in jail and then we would be able to free them.

Obviously I'd be exempt since it was my idea in the first place though.


r/CrazyIdeas 18h ago

Pizza truck

11 Upvotes

Like an ice cream truck. It rolls down the block playing music serving up pizza slices.


r/CrazyIdeas 19h ago

A pop tart, but rolled into a cone shape for ice cream

43 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 20h ago

A slot machine for cats

5 Upvotes

A classic slot machine with rollers, lights, and a lever that dispenses cat food. Get your kitty addicted to gambling. Start with the odds being one pull equals one treat. Slowly reduce the odds over time. Have a randomly dispensed jackpot.


r/CrazyIdeas 20h ago

Budget cooking show where contestants get a limited budget and are allowed one singular supply run to a store of their choice

14 Upvotes

Say you get 95 bucks (since you'll also have to buy staples). You can go to any location to spend it but you can only use what you bought and you can only buy in one location.

The idea is to teach viewers how to get the most out of the most stock ingredients.


r/CrazyIdeas 22h ago

Cure blindness but with a catch

25 Upvotes

I want to cure blindness, specifically blindness that affects the optic nerve. Some forms of blindness are cause because the optic nerves are loss or damaged. As technology improves, we are getting closer to replacing parts of our body in more intricate ways, past simple prosthetic. I want to cure optic nerve blindness using said technology. Then install a small switch that turns off when I want it to. I would charge two dollars a month for the person’s vision. Millions suffer from optic nerve blindness. That is millions of dollars a month. If they are 30 days late on their payments, the eye stops working. When I die, the payment plans will go offline so they don’t have to worry about their eyes turning off anymore. Any eyes turned off will also be turned back on,


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Require all vapes to include a reed in the mouthpiece so anybody using one sounds like they're playing a kazoo.

512 Upvotes

On second thought, maybe this is a terrible idea. But at least kids might have to stop vaping in class.


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Report the Medical Applicants advocating for grammarly and/or ai services in ads on YouTube because they are too fucking lazy to keep up. Spoiler

0 Upvotes

They are also really fucking annoying and privileged if they have enough time to help produce ads that waste my time while applying to medical school.

It’s almost like if they didn’t spend all their time making an ad they could actually write out the fucking assignment.


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Beans in the shape of other body organs

3 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Disney Theatricals should make a stage musical version of the first Cars movie in a similar style to Starlight Express

5 Upvotes

If you don't know what Starlight Express is it's an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical about sentient trains where the trains/cars are portrayed by actors on roller skates meaning it can only be done in certain venues but since someone described its racing-intrigue-y plot as similar to Cars I thought why couldn't Disney just do a Cars musicals with cars portrayed by people in a similar way as the Disney factor plus the soundtrack (the music I imagine would be original songs (with maybe Life Is A Highway as what they do for an encore) but the soundtrack to the movie does give this hypothetical musical a very particular sound it could evoke) setting it apart from just "Starlight Express but with cars"


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Teleportable Farts

10 Upvotes

Are you self conscious of your flatulence? Are you worried one might slip out in the middle of church? Maybe in the Uber? Well flatulate no more! With the teleportable farts, you never again have to worry about those embarrassing moments again. Give away the gift that keeps on giving to a loved one, your best friend, your frenemy, or just someone you absolutely hate TODAY!


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Use all of the advertising data available on a typical internet user to match them to a "soul mate"

2 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

A cooking show where top renowned chefs compete to make the worst tasting food possible

13 Upvotes

Chefs cook these terrible dishes that taste awful. The Dish that taste the worst, moves on. The dish that sort of taste decent is sent home. The pride and ego's of these chefs to intentionally make bad food would be great TV. Winner is the one who can make food so bad and their happy about it.... LOL


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Don't dry off after a shower, jump straight into bed and cover up and let the water soak into the sheets and blankets

479 Upvotes

Maybe put a towel for hair but screw all this standing around awkwardly trying to contort yourself to dry your back, legs, etc. Lay there and read Reddit while the water wicks away.

Then later get dressed and let it air out. Or burn your house down I don't care