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"Hey hey, reader! Welcome to the All The Tropes Ultimate Competition line! Answer the following question to win an Egregious prize: a five-week holiday on beautiful Sugar Bowl Beach! Your question: is this article about: 1. * Competitions that consist of nothing but an insultingly easy question, often designed to loophole around lottery laws by making them nominal "tests of skill", or tempt gullible people into entering? 2. * Princesses? 3. * Custard? Call now on our premium rate example line! Phone early, phone often! And win, win, WIN!" Examples of Excuse Question include:

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  • "Hey hey, reader! Welcome to the All The Tropes Ultimate Competition line! Answer the following question to win an Egregious prize: a five-week holiday on beautiful Sugar Bowl Beach! Your question: is this article about: 1. * Competitions that consist of nothing but an insultingly easy question, often designed to loophole around lottery laws by making them nominal "tests of skill", or tempt gullible people into entering? 2. * Princesses? 3. * Custard? Call now on our premium rate example line! Phone early, phone often! And win, win, WIN!" Examples of Excuse Question include:
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  • "Hey hey, reader! Welcome to the All The Tropes Ultimate Competition line! Answer the following question to win an Egregious prize: a five-week holiday on beautiful Sugar Bowl Beach! Your question: is this article about: 1. * Competitions that consist of nothing but an insultingly easy question, often designed to loophole around lottery laws by making them nominal "tests of skill", or tempt gullible people into entering? 2. * Princesses? 3. * Custard? Call now on our premium rate example line! Phone early, phone often! And win, win, WIN!" The question may be in a call-in competition, which usually means the phone call is going to cost you money; require you to text-message your answer, at normal Texting rates, of course; or on a form you need to mail in -- then the question means that the contest is not a "lottery" by legal definition, and therefore not subject to the regulations concerning lotteries, and you provide your address and/or phone number which can be added to mailing lists for sale. When used on the radio, the point of the competition is usually thinly concealed advertising for a local business rather than a true competition. In North America this kind of "competition" is usually primarily used to collect personal information which can later be sold to spammers and other advertisers at a premium. Examples of Excuse Question include:
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