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[–] [email protected] 144 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

Assuming that's about 5x5', and going by the price of the first tungsten cube found on Google, this would be worth about 15 million dollars. Decent prize of you could move 150,000lb.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Hmmm.

So the real game show is getting value out of the prize.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Best I can do is a copy of Battletoads

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

About the same as me winning a giant-ass dinette and patio set for my moderate-sized apartment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Typically people take the cash value on prizes like that. Because not inly do you have to figure out what to do with what you won, you also have to pay taxes on the value of it.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Going with your 5' x 5' x 5' size, that should weigh about 132,624 pounds, or about 66.3 tons. The price, as of 2018, was about $30,000/ton. That works out to be about $2M.

Still a pretty heft prize.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Didn't calculate the price by weight. Just took the number from the 6" cube here and extrapolated from that since it was the easiest math.

https://shop.tungsten.com/tungsten-cube/

The 5' cube is 1000 times the size of the 6" cube and the 6" cube is $15k. The prices don't scale up linearly though. The smaller cubes are better value by weight.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'll make my own cubes! Will a sawsall get through that motherfucker?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Of course! It's "saws all" not "can't saw tungsten"!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Unless there is some clause talking about time to receive or "only the participant", then I would sell this thing at a fraction of the price and frolic into the sunset. Let someone else deal with the logistics, I just made an easy Mil.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

this would be worth about 15 million dollars

But where and to whom?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

It's about letting go...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

In reall units and currencies thats about 68 tonnes (or around 50 VW Golfs) and 13,8 Million Euros (or 1/11000 of the money we lost due to cum-ex).