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* In one of British author Pamela Oldfield's ''Melanie Brown'' stories for young children, Melanie is put in charge of the "guess the number of sweets in the jar" stall at her school fete, but accidentally blurts out the correct answer when a boy from her class gives an answer which is obviously wrong.
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* ''Literature/TheSixBullerbyChildren'': Lasse, Bosse and Lisa organize a Christmas contest for everybody in Bullerby. Whoever guesses right the number of peas in a jar wins their prize which is a huge piece of gingerbread.
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* ''Literature/TheSixBullerbyChildren'': Lasse, Bosse and Lisa organize a Christmas contest for everybody in Bullerby. Whoever guesses right the number of peas in a jar wins their prize which is a huge piece of gingerbread.
* ''Literature/{{Fudge}}'': The first book, ''Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing'' begins with Peter winning a turtle (which he names Dribble) at his friend Jimmy Fargo's birthday party for guessing that there were 348 jellybeans in Mrs. Fargo's jar. Although there were actually 423 jellybeans, Peter still won because his guess was the closest.
* The central premise of Creator/TrumanCapote's short story "Jug of Silver", where a drugstore puts up the titular jar and everyone in town wants to win it.
* The central premise of Creator/TrumanCapote's short story "Jug of Silver", where a drugstore puts up the titular jar and everyone in town wants to win it.
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* The central premise of Creator/TrumanCapote's short story "Jug of Silver", where a drugstore puts up the titular jar and everyone in town wants to win it.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': In "The Unnaturals", Ben as Gray Matter is launched into a jar of jellybeans, after stopping a pair of criminals on a truck. The beans are for a contest to win an [=MP3=] player, which Grey Matter is easily able to win.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': In the episode "The Unnaturals", Ben as Gray Matter is launched into a jar of jellybeans, after stopping a pair of criminals on a truck. The beans are for a contest to win an [=MP3=] player, which Grey Matter is easily able to win.
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* In the 1996 ABC Family movie ''Christmas Every Day'', one of the ways Billy Jackson takes advantage of the GroundhogDayLoop is stealing one jellybean from the jar so his bully doesn't win the contest.
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* In the 1996 ABC Family movie ''Christmas Every Day'', one of the ways Billy Jackson takes advantage of the GroundhogDayLoop is stealing one jellybean from the jar so his bully doesn't win the contest.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "We Call It Maze", it's not a contest, but one of the many puzzles in the titular maze made by a computer. The jar was placed next to a door, that would open when the correct number of jellybeans was inputted. While Phineas and Baljeet were debating which units of measure to use to calculate the correct number, Buford gets impatient and opts to [[CuttingTheKnot eat all the jellybeans and enter "0"]]. It worked, though Baljeet called him out for cheating.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "We "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbWeCallItMaze We Call It Maze", Maze]]", it's not a contest, but one of the many puzzles in the titular maze made by a computer. The jar was placed next to a door, that would open when the correct number of jellybeans was inputted. While Phineas and Baljeet were debating which units of measure to use to calculate the correct number, Buford gets impatient and opts to [[CuttingTheKnot eat all the jellybeans and enter "0"]]. It worked, though Baljeet called him out for cheating.
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* ''VideoGame/MarioParty2'': There is a minigame called "Roll Call" where the player has to count out the correct amount of species present in a forest area. Each variant of the minigame features a caveat to keep in mind: If it's Bob-ombs, the characters have to deduct the current number when one explodes; if it's Boos, they have to account for the ones that vanish and reappear; if it's Toads, they have to avoid mistaking the similar-looking static mushrooms for Toads. The original version has to have the exact amount guessed to win, coming short or going over results in a draw; remakes of the minigame (which appear in ''VideoGame/MarioPartyTheTop100'' and ''VideoGame/MarioPartySuperstars'') alter the rule slightly to guess close to the exact amount to win.
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** ''VideoGame/MarioParty2'': There is a minigame called "Roll Call" where the player has to count out the correct amount of species present in a forest area. Each variant of the minigame features a caveat to keep in mind: If it's Bob-ombs, the characters have to deduct the current number when one explodes; if it's Boos, they have to account for the ones that vanish and reappear; if it's Toads, they have to avoid mistaking the similar-looking static mushrooms for Toads. The original version has to have the exact amount guessed to win, coming short or going over results in a draw; remakes of the minigame (which appear in ''VideoGame/MarioPartyTheTop100'' and ''VideoGame/MarioPartySuperstars'') alter the rule slightly to guess close to the exact amount towin.win.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioParty'': The minigame Senseless Census places each player in a train car full of Toads, and each player can move around separately to count how many Toads are in the car. Many of the Toads are seated at the various booths in the car doing different things, but they will also leave their seats to walk around the car. Players press the buttons on their Joy-Con to count either up or down, and once time runs out, the player who picked the number closest to the correct answer is the winner.
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty2'': There is a minigame called "Roll Call" where the player has to count out the correct amount of species present in a forest area. Each variant of the minigame features a caveat to keep in mind: If it's Bob-ombs, the characters have to deduct the current number when one explodes; if it's Boos, they have to account for the ones that vanish and reappear; if it's Toads, they have to avoid mistaking the similar-looking static mushrooms for Toads. The original version has to have the exact amount guessed to win, coming short or going over results in a draw; remakes of the minigame (which appear in ''VideoGame/MarioPartyTheTop100'' and ''VideoGame/MarioPartySuperstars'') alter the rule slightly to guess close to the exact amount to
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioParty'': The minigame Senseless Census places each player in a train car full of Toads, and each player can move around separately to count how many Toads are in the car. Many of the Toads are seated at the various booths in the car doing different things, but they will also leave their seats to walk around the car. Players press the buttons on their Joy-Con to count either up or down, and once time runs out, the player who picked the number closest to the correct answer is the winner.
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* In one episode of ''Series/TheMiddle'', Patricia Heck gives an idea to her boss to pull one of these contests, only that the beans fill the interior of a car and the car is the prize. It ends up [[GoneHorriblyWrong going horribly wrong]]: after being so long under the sun, all of the beans melt together into a gigantic block of candy, making the vehicle utterly impossible to give away, let alone sell. Also, she forgot to write down how many jelly beans she put in the car anyway.
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* In one episode of ''Series/TheMiddle'', Patricia Frankie Heck gives an idea to her boss to pull one of these contests, only that the beans fill the interior of a car and the car is the prize. It ends up [[GoneHorriblyWrong going horribly wrong]]: after being so long under the sun, all of the beans melt together into a gigantic block of candy, making the vehicle utterly impossible to give away, let alone sell. Also, she forgot to write down how many jelly beans she put in the car anyway.
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* ''VideoGame/MarioParty2'': There is a minigame called "Roll Call" where the player has to count out the correct amount of species present in a forest area. The original version has to have the exact amount guessed to win, coming short or going over results in a draw; remakes alter the rule slightly to guess close to the exact amount to win.
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* ''VideoGame/MarioParty2'': There is a minigame called "Roll Call" where the player has to count out the correct amount of species present in a forest area. Each variant of the minigame features a caveat to keep in mind: If it's Bob-ombs, the characters have to deduct the current number when one explodes; if it's Boos, they have to account for the ones that vanish and reappear; if it's Toads, they have to avoid mistaking the similar-looking static mushrooms for Toads. The original version has to have the exact amount guessed to win, coming short or going over results in a draw; remakes of the minigame (which appear in ''VideoGame/MarioPartyTheTop100'' and ''VideoGame/MarioPartySuperstars'') alter the rule slightly to guess close to the exact amount to win.
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* ''VideoGame/Undertale'': In Mettaton's first battle, he once asks the player how many flies there are in a jar.
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* ''VideoGame/Undertale'': ''{{VideoGame/Undertale}}'': In Mettaton's first battle, he once asks the player how many flies there are in a jar.
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* ''Literature/CuriousGeorge'': One episode of the PBS series revolves around a gumball machine full of toy bouncing balls. Betsy (with George's help) wins the contest by filling a hat box with similar-sized golf balls. Steve's method of multiplying and dividing the different colors proves...less reliable.
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* ''Literature/CuriousGeorge'': ''WesternAnimation/CuriousGeorge'': One episode of the PBS series revolves around a gumball machine full of toy bouncing balls. Betsy (with George's help) wins the contest by filling a hat box with similar-sized golf balls. Steve's method of multiplying and dividing the different colors proves...less reliable.
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* ''VideoGame/Undertale'': In Mettaton's first battle, he once asks the player how many flies there are in a jar.
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* In one episode of Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 sitcom ''The Break'', Andy and Uncle Jeff go hiking and happen to find themselves in a village that is holding a fete. Jeff does absurd calculations to get his answers for these competitions, which Andy finds embarassing. Even Jeff finds it embarassing when the winners are announced, and it turns out he won ''all'' of them. He quickly decides to forgo the prizes in favour of leaving without being lynched.
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* In one the episode "A Fun Day Out" of Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 sitcom ''The Break'', Andy and Uncle Jeff go hiking on a bike ride and happen to find themselves in a village that is holding a fete. Jeff does absurd calculations to get his answers for these competitions, which Andy finds embarassing. Even Jeff finds it embarassing when the winners are announced, and it turns out he won ''all'' of them. He quickly decides to forgo the prizes in favour of leaving without being lynched.
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* In one episode of Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 sitcom ''The Break'', Andy and Uncle Jeff go hiking and happen to find themselves in a village that is holding a fete. Jeff does absurd calculations to get his answers for these competitions, which Andy finds embarassing. Even Jeff finds it embarassing when the winners are announced, and it turns out he won ''all'' of them. He quickly decides to forgo the prizes in favour of leaving without being lynched.
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* In one episode of Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 sitcom ''The Break'', Andy and Uncle Jeff go hiking and happen to find themselves in a village that is holding a fete. Jeff does absurd calculations to get his answers for these competitions, which Andy finds embarassing. Even Jeff finds it embarassing when the winners are announced, and it turns out he won ''all'' of them. He quickly decides to forgo the prizes in favour of leaving without being lynched.
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* Toyota did a commercial in which a customer could get a special discount on a car if they could guess the number of peapods in a jar. Subverted in that the customers would always point out there was only '''ONE''' peapod in the jar, at which point a gong would sound and the announcer would say "Winner! Winner!"
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* Toyota did a commercial in which a customer could get a special discount on a car if they could guess the number of peapods in a jar. Subverted in that the customers would always point out there was only '''ONE''' peapod in the jar, at which point a gong would sound and the announcer would say "Winner! Winner!"
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* In the Italian 1980s television show ''Pronto, Raffaella?'', one of the games consisted in guessing the exact number of beans in a glass jar.
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* ''VideoGame/MarioParty'': In ''Mario Party 2'', there is a minigame called "Roll Call" where the player has to count out the correct amount of species present in a forest area. The original version has to have the exact amount guessed to win, coming short or going over results in a draw; remakes alter the rule slightly to guess close to the exact amount to win.
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* ''VideoGame/MarioParty'': In ''Mario Party 2'', there ''VideoGame/MarioParty2'': There is a minigame called "Roll Call" where the player has to count out the correct amount of species present in a forest area. The original version has to have the exact amount guessed to win, coming short or going over results in a draw; remakes alter the rule slightly to guess close to the exact amount to win.
