Grab the "2 random pills" and the "duplicate anything you own once" pill. Duplicate the "2 random pills" pill with the duplicate pill and eat both "2 random pills" pill and have 4 absolutely random abilities.
I'll take the shoebox(full of perfect diamonds, thanks xkcd!) and just for fun, the almost 10k calories of cheese for added wealth, opulence, and because I really love cheese. Some cheeses are worth hundreds of dollars a pound.
So I did the napkin math, if you pick two random pills and two random pills, there's a 19.05% chance to get something objectively bad, a 28.57% chance of getting something useless, and a 52.38% chance of getting something objectively good for a total 80.95% chance to get something not bad. Assuming infinite loops are banned and you don't have a genuine interest in a given pill, 4 random pills is the best call.
There's also a 2.27% chance of getting 2 random pills on each of those 4 tries.
Your average shoebox is 35X23.5X13.5 cm, or 11103.75 cubic centimeters. The density of gold is 19.3 g/cm^3. You can fit 11103.75X19.3 = 214302 grams of gold in a shoebox. One gram of gold right now is $77.78 US. That's 214302X77.78 = over 16.5 million US. There are things significantly more valuable (but not more fungible) than gold, too. The Pi million pill is completely moot. Or just take both, I guess.
Immune to venom and urinate gasoline. When I tell my doctor it burns when I pee, I want to mean it. Also, I figure something like that would send spiderman after me.
I'll take the strawberry flavored one because I like strawberry. Then I'll get the shoebox, and completely fill it with the pill that gives you $3,414,592.65. Then I'd throw a bunch of them in a blender and make a little smoothie that will make me a billionaire. There's probably enough pills to do that a couple of times.
The grapes are basically free income if I can just plant them half-assed and they always turn out. There is even the implication that they don't need fertilizer or other associated costs.
I'll take two shoeboxes filled with gold. With a size of 35x25x13cm it'll be 11,375cm³ which can contain 219.77kg of gold worth €15,519,086. That's €31,038,172 for two shoeboxes. I think I'll be able to make a good early retirement on that.
If the shoebox one just magically removes stuff instead of needing real work or duplicating stuff then you could skip a lot of surgery, or just need with someone by asking for the bones in their hand or something
My glitch: summon a Dr. Pepper can into Trump’s brain, then into Biden’s brain after 14.5 hrs, then Netanyahu’s, then Putin’s, then the evil Sudanese dudes’, then Xi Jinping’s, and so on and so forth.
Can you choose where Dr. Pepper bottle is summoned? If yes, you could just summon one in the throats of Putin, Trump, and anyone else who is a threat to global peace.
"Change your skin color instantly any time" and "teleport to the closest beach at any time". I'll use them to rob banks. Before robbing the bank I'll change my skin color, and once I get the money I'll escape by teleporting to the beach - while changing my skin color at the same time (not to my original skin color though - that one I'll only use once I'm completely safe)
Under normal circumstances, the black random pill would be completely up my alley, but not today.
With the shoebox pill, depending on shoebox size, I would give myself 5,000 $100USD bills ($500,000 total). Never said a thing about not getting money in the process, just that it has to exist.
Also, the bottom right corner 5 months experience pill. Definitely 5 months experience in charisma based manipulation (in both text and vocal form if possible) so I could get slightly ahead of others in life. Gotta work smarter, not harder sometimes.
Change skin color - wow, a great help in a heist or to make magic shows
Control all TVs in fast food places - you can literally roll unbannable propaganda for everyone to see!
Teleport to closest beach at any time - again, absolute save in heist; also, you'd be an amazing courier for some saltwater port!
Turds are silver - that's a loooot of silver
Summon a Dr.Pepper every 14,5 hours anywhere - just summon it into someone's head or into some mechanism and enjoy the show
Immune to cancer - now you're the leading patient for research against cancer! You are the key to ending it once and for all!
Shoebox with anything that can fit into it - fill to the brim with the most valuable resources in existence! Help humanity and earn some cash!
Control a single milliliter of water - you'll be a God of precise technology. Also, you can probably misplace a bit of important fluid in the body to kill a person.
Get the answer to any question once - that could be anything! The meaning of life, the universal physical theory, the way to build a just and wonderful world...you name it.
Teleport to closest beach at any time and control body temperature, i mean, if i teleport to closest beach in winter or cold weather what am i gonna do?
Pi million dollars OR a shoebox full of gold as someone said that's worth 12 million, then OBVIOUSLY teleport to any beach at any time. Then I'd just buy a beach house and shop for all my groceries/necessities in cheap countries and travel constantly. If I need more money, then I could start some kind of package delivery service, e.g. 1 hour delivery from Tokyo to LA. Imagine how much people would pay for that!
I misread the shoebox and thought at first that it would deliver things to me. It turns out that would only result in about $22k +/- $500 worth of gold.
So I'll take the cash instead, unless the shoebox can magically deliver that volume of 1-inch gold cubes up to once per day on demand. That would overshoot the lump sum of cash in about 143 days.