Convince a Robot to Buy You Beer

You’re hanging out with your friends in the parking lot of 7-Eleven-38W6D4-X. It’s a convenience port on a stopover asteroid for intergalactic travelers. All of you are extremely bored teen humanoids looking for a good time, because soon you’ll have dead end jobs as tribble slaughterers and starship waterbed salesmen. 

At 7-Eleven-38W6D4-X, they serve exotic, mind-altering drugs from across the galaxy, like bath slime, hololudes, and space cocaine. There are no age limits on any of them. But to buy Earth Beer – the only thing you and your friends want – you need to be over 21 with a Neutral Affiliation of Planets ID. You are 17 and have a Zero-G Mini-Golf membership card.

Luckily, a clunky silver android is waddling out of a ship and towards the spiraling door of the convenience port. You approach the harried robot…

“Hey, errand bot!” you explain. “I’m trying to buy Earth Beer, but I left my NAP ID at home. Could I transfer you the credits to buy me a 6-pack?”

“I am only programmed to perform errands for my user,” he drones in a high monotone. “The captain is awaiting my swift return.”

“It’ll only take a second to transfer the credits. Don’t you want to be helpful?”

“My prime directive is to be helpful, but this task would potentially violate my system protocols, not to mention the legal implications. I would need a passcode override in order to process…”

Ughhhhhh. The android is slowly and awkwardly turning away from you while explaining its internal logic out loud. To get that deliciously watered down ale, you’re going to need to act fast. 

What would you like to do?

• Tell the robot a sob story.
• Give the robot your fake ID.
• Pull out your blaster.

If you’d like to guess the passcode, type your first name into this text-to-binary converter. Look at the first seven numbers.

• If the majority of the numbers are “1,” click here.
• If the majority of the numbers are “0,” click here.