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61) "Sausages!"
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A poor man conspires with the village shoemaker to play a trick that will pay for a new pair of shoes.
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When Catwoman and Harley quarrel about who is the best burglar, they decide to settle it with a bet: who can steal the fabled Marble of Atlantis from the Gotham City Antiquities Gallery; but Catwoman cheats (in fact she already has the pearl), and Harley has to move fast to outwit her rival and win their bet.
64) A bet's a bet
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New England's most successful divorce attorney applies a love 'em and leave 'em approach to his dating life, and when he meets a woman just as successful and driven as he is, the two enter into a series of entertaining wagers where the winner gets to decide the fate of the loser.
65) One bright Penny
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An old man bets each of his children that they can't fill the barn for a penny.
66) Choco-Louie
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Louie's older brother bets his new skateboard that Louie can't go an entire week without eating any chocolate.
67) The wager
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Having lost everything in a tidal wave in 1169 Sicily, nineteen-year-old Don Giovanni makes a simple-sounding wager with a stranger he recognizes as the devil but, while desperate enough to surrender his pride and good looks for three years, he is not willing to give up his soul.
69) Hacking Harvard
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When three brilliant nerds--Max Kim, Eric Roth, and Isaac "The Professor" Schwarzbaum--bet $20,000 that they can get anyone into Harvard, they take on the Ivy League in their quest for popularity, money, and the love of a beauty queen valedictorian.
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When a young novelist spends a night at Baldpate Manor to win a bet that he can turn out a bestselling thriller in 24 hours, he gets more than he wagers on. The grizzly Grisbane clan arrives to celebrate the 40th anniversary of a ghoulish family secret. And their dinner party has murder on the menu! Lightning. Thunder. Torrential rain. Clattering shutters. Creaking doors. A locked attic. A sinister secret. Murder! All the ingredients of the classic...
73) Mr. art critic
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M.J. Clayton is a high profile Chicago art critic who is known for his heartless commentaries. He retreats to his Mackinac Island cottage to clear his head after receiving a scolding from his boss. There he runs into a recent victim of one of his particularly nasty reviews and makes a drunken proclamation. This is followed by an impossible wager which he then finds himself entered into the town's art festival competition. M.J. is about to discover...
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"Maddie Post is privileged, sheltered, and polite, and does not belong in Blake, Maine. But thanks to a high-stakes bet, she's waiting tables at a riverfront diner catering to boat-builders and living in Janet Gilbertson's $200-a-month guest room. And Janet's dark and stormy son, Hank, back in Maine after 10 years as an active duty Army diver, isn't without his troubles, either. Their flirty friendship has many passionate ups and downs, but when Maddie...
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"In the last opulent days of the eighteenth century, a friendly wager turns into a heated feud that spans decades...and a love affair like none other" --
"London, 1792. The Duke of Blackbern and the Marquess of Norgrave are boyhood friends who will still compete at anything. Racing, drinking, gambling, even seduction--until Lady Imogen Sunter crosses their path. Achingly beautiful, and innocent, she has no understanding of the jaded gentlemen who...
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"Will Ares, a successful divorce lawyer, finds himself working alongside Gigi Averelle, a wedding planner, when their respective clients--movie producer Evans Beatty and Hollywood starlet Carrie Cartwright--plan to marry. As Beatty's ex-wives come out of the woodwork to cause mayhem, Gigi and Will make a bet--Gigi agrees to go on a date with Will if Evans and Carrie really do go through with the wedding. Should they break up, however, Will must reveal,...
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Tajemniczy, angielski dzentelmen Fileas Fogg przyjmuje niecodzienny zaklad, ze zdola w 80 dni objechac kule ziemska. Wraz z dwójka przyjaciól - obiezyswiatem i wiernym lokajem Passepartout i piekna ksiezniczka Aouda rozpoczynaja szalencza, pelna przygód podróz dookola swiata i brawurowy wyscig z czasem. Podrózników tropi niezlomny inspektor Fox, uwazajacy Fogga za zlodzieja, który okradl jeden z londynskich banków. Czy wygraja ten wyscig i......