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Woman Eats Chip Potentially Worth $120K

UK woman was unaware of a contest being run by Walkers Crisps

(Newser) - A single mother in the UK may have missed out on a huge cash prize after eating an essentially perfect heart-shaped potato chip. Walkers Crisps (the British version of Lay's) is holding a contest, offering a £100,000 ($120,000) prize to the person who pulls the best...

Mind Taking the Middle Seat? Will a Big Prize Convince You?

Airline Gets Creative in Getting
Travelers to Take Middle Seat

Airline Gets Creative in Getting Travelers to Take Middle Seat

Virgin Australia launches $147K lottery, with prizes each week for those who sit in least desirable spots

(Newser) - Is there ever anyone who actually wants the middle seat during a flight? If there is, we haven't met them, but that may soon change thanks to some coaxing on the matter by Virgin Australia. Per a recent social media poll offered by the airline, a paltry 0.6%...

Epic Mullet Contest Is Upon Us

Aug 18, 2022 5:05 PM CDT

Epic Mullet Contest Is Upon Us

Finalists from 16 states are competing for best 'business in the front, party in the back'

(Newser) - Summer will soon be coming to a close, but that doesn't mean the party's over quite yet—especially for everyone sporting a mullet, a haircut affectionately described as "business in the front, party in the back." That's because the USA Mullet Championships are currently underway,...

Betty White Gets Unusual
Honor in Minnesota

Feb 4, 2022 10:04 AM CST

Betty White Gets Unusual Honor in Minnesota

'Betty Whiteout' snowplow has been named after her in 2nd annual naming contest

(Newser) - Betty White fans came through and donated to animal rights causes in her name after her death on New Year's Eve. Now, a new honor for the late comedian and actress, albeit a more unusual one. MPR News reports that Minnesota's Department of Transportation has held a snowplow-naming...

Can You Stay Away From Tech
for a Day? $2.4K Awaits

Mar 22, 2021 8:45 AM CDT

Can You Stay Away From Tech for a Day? $2.4K Awaits

Reviews.org's 'detox' challenge offers the chance to ditch your phone, TV, other devices for cash prize

(Newser) - Could you go a whole day without checking your smartphone, posting on Instagram, and watching TV? There could be $2,400 in it for you if you think you're up for the task. CNN reports on the 2021 Digital Detox Challenge being held by Reviews.org , which offers a...

Quest for Faster
COVID Test Spurs
$5M Contest

Jul 29, 2020 11:34 AM CDT

Quest for Faster COVID Test Spurs $5M Contest

XPrize is offering big bucks to innovators who can come up with rapid-result virus testing

(Newser) - Last week, the Trump administration's point man on COVID-19 testing acknowledged that turnaround times for test results have been too slow , noting that "we are never going to be happy with testing until we get turnaround times within 24 hours." Now, a nonprofit hopes to help expedite...

You Have 13 Seconds to Win This Andrew Lloyd Webber Contest

Andrew Lloyd
Webber Offers
Something to
'Lift the Spirits'

Apr 25, 2020 5:30 AM CDT

Andrew Lloyd Webber Offers Something to 'Lift the Spirits'

Win contest and you could sing for 13 seconds after 'Phantom' performance on Broadway or in London

(Newser) - Andrew Lloyd Webber has launched a virtual competition that could lead to one fan singing on Broadway or the West End when musicals resume playing. The composer has invited singers to make up their own tiny vocal showcase at the end of the song "Think of Me" from The ...

This Is the World's
Best Cheese

Mar 6, 2020 12:43 PM CST

This Is the World's Best Cheese

Gruyere from Switzerland takes top prize at world's biggest cheese, butter, yogurt competition

(Newser) - A Gruyere from Switzerland has been named the world's best cheese, chosen from a record number of entrants from 26 nations in the World Championship Cheese Contest in Wisconsin. The cheese from Bern, Switzerland, made its maker, Michael Spycher of Mountain Dairy Fritzenhaus, a two-time winner. Spycher also won...

Rock's Baffling Inscription
May Finally Be Deciphered

Feb 25, 2020 12:18 PM CST

Rock's Baffling Inscription May Finally Be Deciphered

2 translations point to a man's death off French coast in the 1700s

(Newser) - A mysterious 230-year-old message inscribed on a rock at the base of a seaside cliff in northwestern France has been deciphered, at least enough to convey a tragic death. The town of Plougastel-Daoulas in Brittany, which offered about $2,200 to anyone who could translate the 20-line message written in...

3 Dozen 'Lost' Corvettes
Are Up for Grabs

3 Dozen 'Lost' Corvettes Are Up for Grabs

Sweepstakes will offer model for every production year from 1953 to 1989, for $3 a ticket

(Newser) - In 1989, Long Island carpenter Dennis Amodeo won 36 Corvettes (one from each production year stretching back to 1953) in a VH1 contest—and what a long, strange trip it's been for the cars since. Now, after years of gathering dust in various New York City parking garages, the...

He Was Adopted
From the Streets.
He Just Won
a Big Prize

Jun 22, 2019 5:30 AM CDT

He Was Adopted From the Streets. He Just Won a Big Prize

Scamp the Tramp took home top honors in World's Ugliest Dog Contest in Petaluma, Calif.

(Newser) - Scamp the Tramp's looks have made him a winner—but it wasn't a beauty contest. The snaggle-haired, bug-eyed pooch took the top prize Friday at the 31st annual World's Ugliest Dog contest in Petaluma, Calif., the AP reports. Owner Yvonne Morones of Santa Rosa won an appearance...

Reynolds Wrap PR Stunt
Might Appeal to Rib Lovers

Jun 18, 2019 11:21 AM CDT

Reynolds Wrap PR Stunt Might Appeal to Rib Lovers

Company will pay someone $10K to travel around for 2 weeks sampling spare ribs

(Newser) - If your dream job in this gig economy consists of gnawing meat off the bone for a couple of weeks, you may be just the person Reynolds Wrap is looking for. Per CNN , the aluminum foil and plastic wrap brand is seeking someone to travel across the US for two...

Officials: Help Us Solve
This Strange Inscription

May 11, 2019 10:35 AM CDT

Officials: Help Us Solve This Strange Inscription

It's about 20 lines on an old rock in France

(Newser) - Anyone speak Breton or Basque? It might help in deciphering an old inscription on a rock in France—and local officials are prepared to pay handsomely for it, Fox News reports. The roughly person-sized rock was found on a remote beach in northwest France a few years ago. "ROC...

A Snake Needs
a Name: Your Ex's

Feb 5, 2019 8:40 AM CST

A Snake Needs a Name: Your Ex's

Aussie zoo contest lets you explain why its resident reptile deserves your ex's moniker

(Newser) - The brown snake of Australia is among the most poisonous in the world, which is apparently why a zoo Down Under has decided to let you name one of them after your ex. That is, if you win Wild Life Sydney's Valentine's Day contest, which is giving competitors...

Parents Nab
$11K for Daughter
at Birth, Thanks to KFC

Oct 31, 2018 9:25 AM CDT

Parents Nab $11K for Daughter at Birth, Thanks to KFC

They just had to name her Harland

(Newser) - A 7-week-old infant already has a large chunk of her college tuition covered thanks to impeccable timing and KFC. Finding that Colonel Sanders' first name, Harland, had become too unpopular ( BabyCenter.com puts it at the 5,501 spot for 2018), the company in August issued a simple challenge...

Six Flags Offers Macabre
Challenge, With a $300 Prize

Sep 24, 2018 11:50 AM CDT

Six Flags Offers Macabre Challenge, With a $300 Prize

If you can tough it out in a coffin for 30 hours, your wallet could get a cash infusion

(Newser) - If you've been dying to take a 30-hour nap in a coffin and wouldn't mind getting $300 at the end of your repose, Six Flags St. Louis has just the Halloween-themed happening for you. Per the St. Louis Post-Dispatch , that's how much the theme park is offering...

KFC Offers $11K
for Naming Baby
After Col. Sanders

Aug 31, 2018 8:13 AM CDT

KFC Offers $11K for Naming Baby After Col. Sanders

They're worried about the decline in Harlands

(Newser) - Not many people call their sons "Harland" these days—not even those who are big fans of Col. Harland Sanders' secret blend of 11 herbs and spices—and that's something KFC is trying to change. The company says it plans to mark what would have been its founder'...

Photographer Loses Award
Over Bizarre Allegation

Apr 27, 2018 12:04 PM CDT

Photographer Loses Award Over Bizarre Allegation

Marcio Cabral accused of putting a stuffed anteater into his wildlife image

(Newser) - It's that moment every wildlife photographer hopes for: an image in which the resident fauna wanders perfectly into frame. And that supposedly happened to such great effect for Marcio Cabral in Brazil's Emas National Park that his photo "The Night Raider," which depicts an anteater staring...

Airline Contest: Hole Up
in Iceland, Travel, Get Paid

Apr 24, 2018 10:40 AM CDT

Airline Contest: Hole Up in Iceland, Travel, Get Paid

You'll have to win Wow Air's contest, though, and do quite a bit of content creation

(Newser) - If you have a BFF and no big summer plans, an Icelandic airline is making a tempting offer. Per Business Insider , Wow Air will set up one lucky duo in a fully furnished apartment in downtown Reykjavik, which will serve as home base from June 1 to Aug. 15, with...

Let's Pick Worst Coverage of
'Your Favorite President (Me)'

Nov 27, 2017 10:10 AM CST

Let's Pick Worst Coverage of 'Your Favorite President (Me)'

Trump suggests contest in tweet

(Newser) - President Trump is back in the White House after spending the Thanksgiving holiday at Mar-a-Lago, and he's back on the media attack, on Monday morning suggesting—"seemingly tongue-in-cheek," per Politico —that the media go head-to-head in an unusual contest: "We should have a contest as...