Hope for the best; prepare for the worst

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1) STUCK IN QUICKSAND: Somebody help! Throw me a rope! Or a vine!

2) CAR CHASE: We're being followed. Time for a quick 180-degree turn, and step on that gas. Watch for pedestrians.

3) UNDERWATER: The car/boat/plane you were on is sinking. Get out now, or you'll drown.

4) BITTEN: Snakes. And it's poisonous, too. Just your luck.

5) SWORDFIGHT: You must defend your honor, or the honor of the one you love. Time to cross blades!

6) LEAP OF FAITH: Time to jump out of a burning building onto a dumpster, or off a bridge onto a river, or from a moving train or car. Don't fail the landing…

7) INJURED: Your companion is injured. Hope you know how to perform a tracheotomy, treat frostbite or set a leg fracture.

8) BABIES: Not what you thought you'd be doing with your Saturday, but here you are, delivering a baby in the back seat of a taxicab.

9) LOST: Adrift at sea, lost in the desert. How do you survive?

10) RUNAWAY VEHICLE: The plane/train/car/boat you're in is about to crash. Can you stop it?

11) WAR/RIOT: You're in a war zone or in the middle of a riot, and you have to get home.

12) WILDCARD: Go pick another scenario from a Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, and go nuts.