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"the largest in the world for a competition of this kind". [46] 39,358 £30,000 Sunday Times Short Story Award: Short story United Kingdom English "The world's richest short story prize" (single short story). [47] 38,081 CA$50,000 Montreal International Poetry Prize: Poetry Canada Any Thought to be the world's richest award for a single-poem. [48]
Sweepstakes parlors, which began to appear in the US around 2005, are establishments that offer chances to win cash prizes as a promotion for a product, usually either a telephone card or Internet access. Sweepstakes casinos use a similar model, offering promotional real money winning opportunities by playing casino-style games online.
The single day record for shows in daytime television was set in 1984 by Michael Larson, who won $110,237 (equivalent to $323,000 in 2023) [3] on Press Your Luck. Larson achieved this record by memorizing the show's board patterns, repeatedly hitting the board's squares that awarded contestants money and an additional spin, which would, in turn, replace the spin he had just used, effectively ...
While the game itself is free, most cash competitions require an entry fee that can only be paid with real money, except for a few competitions that accept in-game gems. Bubble-popping games tend ...
A winning Powerball ticket was sold in Michigan that matched all six numbers from Monday night's drawing, netting $842.4 million, with a cash value of $425.2 million.
Land Rover Kentucky is a CCI5*-L eventing competition. Five stars is the highest level of competition in the sport, the same level of competition as Eventing at the Olympics and the World Equestrian Games. The event is sponsored by Land Rover. Prize money of $400,000 is distributed among the top placings with $110,000 as well as a Rolex watch ...
Jonas Vingegaard will collect his second yellow jersey in Paris and a big winners’ cheque for topping the general classification
Win Ben Stein's Money is an American television game show created by Al Burton and Donnie Brainard that aired first-run episodes from July 28, 1997, to January 31, 2003, on Comedy Central. The show features three contestants who compete to answer general knowledge questions to win the grand prize of $5,000 from the show's host, Ben Stein .