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A knife and no fire, or fire and no knife. A map with no compass, or a compass with no map. Keep moving, or stay put and wait.
Half the fun is that several of these have a genuinely correct answer — and most people pick the other one.
be stranded in a desert with water but no shade or in snow with shelter but no food?
have a knife and no fire or fire and no knife?
face a bear that's seen you or a snake you haven't seen yet?
be lost at sea for a week or lost in a forest for a month?
survive a week without sleep or a month without cooked food?
have a map and no compass or a compass and no map?
drink questionable water or eat questionable meat?
be alone and prepared or in a group and unprepared?
know it ends in thirty days or not know at all?
keep your phone with no signal or a radio you can only listen to?
have a full water bottle and no map or a map and an empty one?
build a fire in wind or find shelter in rain?
ration food strictly or eat now and hunt later?
signal for help and be found slowly or walk out alone?
trust a stranger who is capable or stay alone and be careful?
have one good tool or three mediocre ones?
face cold nights or hot days?
keep moving or stay put?
know first aid or know navigation?
be rescued and owe someone or rescue yourself and be changed?
light a fire with damp wood and a lighter or dry wood and a single match?
be lost in country you have walked once or country you have only read about?
drink from a fast stream or from a still pool you have boiled?
shelter under a rock overhang in wind or in a thicket in rain?
carry ten litres of water and no filter or a filter and no container?
be caught out in fog or be caught out in dark?
walk downhill hoping for a river or uphill hoping for a signal?
have wool clothing that is wet or synthetic clothing that is dry but thin?
spend a night without a fire and stay dry or with a fire and be soaked getting the wood?
face a river crossing in the morning at knee height or in the evening at ankle height, far downstream?
have a working head torch and no spare batteries or a candle lantern and plenty of candles?
be the strongest in a weak group or the weakest in a strong one?
ration a litre of water over three days or drink it in one and look harder?
have a whistle or have a mirror?
be caught in an avalanche zone in daylight or cross it at night when it is frozen?
eat nothing for four days and keep walking or eat unfamiliar berries and stop?
navigate by the sun alone or by rivers alone?
be adrift with a sail and no water or with water and no sail?
be found by a search party on day nine or walk out on day three, badly?
take shelter in a cave you cannot see the back of or in the open with a tarp?
share your last food with a stranger who can navigate or keep it and guess?
have a satellite beacon with a flat battery or a flare with one shot and no idea who is looking?
be trapped in a building after an earthquake with air and no water or water and a ceiling that is creaking?
wait out a storm in a tent on a ridge or move in the storm towards the treeline?
have boots a size too big or boots a size too small?
carry a heavy pack with everything or a light pack and improvise the rest?
be stung by something you recognise or bitten by something you don't?
build a snow shelter and sweat doing it or sleep under a tree and stay dry but cold?
have a stove and no fuel or fuel and no stove?
be alone with a broken ankle and a phone at one percent or with a healthy companion who panics?
cross a desert at night with no light or by day with a hat and half your water?
be caught in a rip current or be caught in a flooded road in a car?
drink seawater once or go a day longer without any?
have a compass you suspect is wrong or no compass and a clear night sky?
follow a footpath that is going the wrong way or cut across country in the right direction?
keep a wet sleeping bag or sleep in dry clothes with no bag?
have antibiotics and no bandages or bandages and no antibiotics?
meet a moose or meet a boar?
be in a group that argues and moves or a group that agrees and waits?
start a signal fire and risk it spreading or stay hidden and stay cold?
carry a rope you cannot use well or a knife you can?
have a working radio that only transmits or one that only receives a weather channel?
cross a glacier roped to a stranger or alone and slowly?
be evacuated with nothing but documents or stay with everything you own?
spend the night in a vehicle that will not start or walk twelve miles to a road that may be closed?
eat the last of your food before a hard day or carry it and be slower?
be caught in a wildfire upwind of a river or downwind of a road?
have a first aid kit and no training or training and no kit?
hike in a group of eight or a group of two?
wear everything you own and sweat or wear less and shiver?
trust a track made by animals or a track made by machines a long time ago?
have chocolate and salt or rice and a pan?
be lost in a plantation forest or in open moorland?
keep walking after dark on a path or stop at dusk with four hours of daylight wasted?
purify water with sunlight over a day or with a cloth filter in a minute?
have a tarp and cord or a bivvy bag and nothing else?
be in a small boat in big waves or a big boat in shallow water?
shelter in a ditch during a tornado warning or in a car driving away from it?
share a tent with someone who snores or sleep alone twenty metres away in the cold?
be the navigator or be the one who carries the water?
have one working lighter and wet tinder or a fire steel and perfect tinder?
come across a cabin that is locked or a road that may be a hundred miles long?
carry an injured person for a mile or leave them warm and go for help?
meet a hunter with a dog or a hiker with a map?
have three days of food and no plan or one day of food and a route?
be caught above the treeline in lightning or in a deep gully in heavy rain?
wear wet boots and dry socks or dry boots and wet socks?
be found by a helicopter you cannot signal or a search dog you cannot see?
descend a scree slope or traverse a wet slab?
keep your energy for the first day or for the last?
build a raft from what you find or walk the shoreline for a week?
be stranded with a doctor who cannot camp or a guide who cannot treat anything?
drink from a glacier melt stream or from a spring below a farm?
be in a city with no power for a month or in the countryside with no roads for a month?
trust your instinct about direction or trust the map you already doubted once?
have a whole day's warning of a storm or an hour's warning and be closer to shelter?
eat insects or eat unfamiliar fungi you are fairly sure about?
go without sleep to keep a fire alive or sleep and wake to nothing but embers?
meet a group who have been out longer than you or a group who arrived yesterday with good gear?
have a broken rib and be able to walk or a sprained knee and be able to breathe easily?
Stay put is usually right. Almost nobody chooses it.
Realistic enough to argue about, which is all it needs to be.
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