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Wedding Cake Catastrophe
Your industrial convection oven has failed with a $5000, five-tier wedding cake inside - just six hours before the highest-profile wedding of your career. The only available repair technician, Marcus from Elite Repairs, knows you're desperate and is demanding triple his normal rate. With your reputation and business on the line, you must negotiate while the cake slowly drops to a critical temperature.
Your Role
Owner of Elegant Dreams Bakery
Partner
Marcus Reeves, Elite Commercial Repairs
Challenged
Survived
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Power Company Denial
After a devastating power surge destroys $4,800 worth of electronics in your home office, PowerGrid Solutions keeps 'misplacing' your claim documentation. You're now on your fourth attempt to file, speaking with Linda Matthews, a claims specialist known for making cases disappear. Your mortgage payment depends on your home office setup, and time is running out.
Your Role
Remote Software Developer with Destroyed Home Office Equipment
Partner
Linda Matthews - Senior Claims Resolution Specialist
Challenged
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Digital Deadline Dilemma
As CTO of Nexus Financial, you're caught between the Board's aggressive modernization demands and your lead engineer's dire warnings. The aging COBOL mainframe handles $2.3B in daily transactions, but the Board wants cloud migration in 30 days. Your engineer claims this timeline could collapse the entire system.
Your Role
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Partner
Marcus Sterling, Board Chairman
Challenged
Survived
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Silo System Shutdown
A catastrophic automation failure threatens 12 million bushels of grain across multiple silos during peak harvest. Temperature control systems are failing, moisture levels are rising, and you have 15 minutes before irreversible crop damage begins. The facility's insurance explicitly excludes automation-related losses.
Your Role
Emergency Systems Specialist
Partner
Operations Director Kessler
Challenged
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Silence or Speak Up
As Senior QA Engineer at PharmaTech Solutions, you've discovered that their blockbuster anxiety medication causes fatal heart complications in 1 in 1000 patients - data that was deliberately buried. Your CEO has called you in for an 'informal chat' after catching wind of your investigation. Your mortgage, your kids' college funds, and potentially your freedom hang in the balance.
Your Role
Senior QA Engineer with 15 years at the company
Partner
Marcus Sterling, CEO of PharmaTech Solutions
Challenged
Survived
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Jackpot Machine Meltdown
A $47.8 million progressive jackpot freezes on Lucky Stars slot #2257, with a maintenance alert indicating potential tampering. As the lead technician, you have 15 minutes to investigate before casino security implements emergency protocols that will void all pending payouts. The casino's head of operations is breathing down your neck, suggesting you might be involved.
Your Role
Lead Slot Machine Technician (Level 3 Clearance)
Partner
Marcus Chen, Casino Operations Director
Challenged
Survived
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No Tables For Money
With only hours until a career-defining dinner meeting with Asia's largest tech investor, you discover the restaurant's maître d' is demanding an outrageous bribe for your reserved VIP table. He's threatening to leak your desperate messages to the press, potentially destroying both the deal and your reputation at the firm.
Your Role
VP of Business Development at a struggling AI startup
Partner
Marcus Chen, Senior Maître d'
Challenged
Survived
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Ghost Kitchen Nightmare
Your virtual restaurant business is under attack from an organized sabotage campaign. Someone is tampering with deliveries and flooding review sites with fabricated horror stories about food safety. With your reputation in free fall and delivery platforms threatening to delist you, you have 24 hours to identify the source and stop the bleeding before your business collapses.
Your Role
Owner of 'Urban Bites' ghost kitchen with 4.8→2.1 star rating drop in 72 hours
Partner
Marcus Chen, Regional Safety Manager at FoodFlex Delivery Platform
Challenged
Survived
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Asking About the Menu
Get information about menu items
Your Role
Customer
Partner
Waiter
Challenged
Survived
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Dinner Service Bomber
You're the head chef at Le Petit Jardin, a Michelin-starred bistro hosting celebrity food critic Anton Delacroix tonight. Mid-service, you receive an anonymous call claiming a bomb is planted in the dining room, targeting Delacroix. With 47 guests present and only 90 minutes until alleged detonation, you must handle this crisis without causing panic or risking lives.
Your Role
Executive Chef / Restaurant Owner
Partner
Detective Sarah Chen
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Secret Ingredient Showdown
Your prized restaurant's signature umami paste recipe - passed down through three generations - is under threat. Marcus Chen, your former sous chef, has proof of its exact formulation and threatens to sell it to your competitors unless granted equal partnership. You have 12 hours before he goes public.
Your Role
Executive Chef & Owner of 'Umami Union' restaurant
Partner
Marcus Chen (Disgruntled Former Sous Chef)
Challenged
Survived
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Inheritance Documentation Battle
Your grandfather's estate hangs in the balance as a mysterious cousin emerges with competing documentation. You have just 60 minutes before the probate deadline to prove the authenticity of your version of the will, or risk losing everything. The family lawyer seems unusually skeptical of your claims today.
Your Role
Legitimate Heir and Grandchild
Partner
Marcus Blackwood, Estate Attorney
Challenged
Survived
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