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I think a good idea for an alarm would be one where you have to solve some kind of puzzle to shut it off. They could have something like simon and you have to get a specified number of sequences right to get the alarm to stop.

For the first year I lived in Taiwan, I stayed at a "business hotel" that had a wakeup call service. This was an automated part of the phone system that would ring you up, but you couldn't just hang up or it would call back in 15 minutes. You had to talk to it and that would cancel the callback. So, naturally, I took to cursing it when it would call. One morning the phone rang, so I cursed it as usual, hung up, and 2 minutes later got the wakeup call.