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Choose between two cars, flats or schools with a scoring table

Two good options and you keep changing your mind. Get a weighted scoring table of what matters to you, with the deal-breakers checked first.

Updated 17 Oct 2026

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The prompt · ChatGPT

Help me choose between a few options with a scoring table.

What I'm choosing: [e.g. a used car, a flat to rent, a secondary school]
The options: [name each one]
What I know about each: [e.g. price, distance, condition, what I liked or didn't]
Who else gets a say: [e.g. my partner, my 11-year-old]
Deadline to decide: [e.g. the offer runs out Friday]

Before you start, ask me up to 3 short questions if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers. Focus them on what matters most and what would rule an option out.

Then:
1. Deal-breakers first: knock out any option that fails one.
2. A table of 5 to 7 things that matter, each with a weight from 1 to 3, a score from 1 to 5 for each option, and the totals.
3. Where the scores are close, say so plainly, and what would tip it.
4. Questions I still need answered before deciding (for the seller, landlord or school).
5. A one-line gut check: which one would I be disappointed not to get?

Use only what I've told you, mark any score you've guessed, and leave blanks for prices or facts I haven't given. UK English.

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The prompt · Gemini

Help me choose between a few options with a scoring table.

What I'm choosing: [e.g. a used car, a flat to rent, a secondary school]
The options: [name each one]
What I know about each: [e.g. price, distance, condition, what I liked or didn't]
Who else gets a say: [e.g. my partner, my 11-year-old]
Deadline to decide: [e.g. the offer runs out Friday]

Before you start, ask me up to 3 short questions if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers. Focus them on what matters most and what would rule an option out.

Then:
1. Deal-breakers first: knock out any option that fails one.
2. A table of 5 to 7 things that matter, each with a weight from 1 to 3, a score from 1 to 5 for each option, and the totals.
3. Where the scores are close, say so plainly, and what would tip it.
4. Questions I still need answered before deciding (for the seller, landlord or school).
5. A one-line gut check: which one would I be disappointed not to get?

Use only what I've told you, mark any score you've guessed, and leave blanks for prices or facts I haven't given. UK English.

Keep the scoring table as a table so I can use Export to Sheets.

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A short example

Fill the blanks, then paste. e.g. a used car, a flat to rent, a secondary school: a short note you already have. name each one: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.

1

You type the options and everything you know about each one.

2

The assistant asks what matters most to you and what would rule an option out.

3

You get a weighted scoring table, the deal-breakers checked and the questions still worth asking.

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Two good options and you keep changing your mind. Get a weighted scoring table of what matters to you, with the deal-breakers checked first.

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