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- Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformations. D615
- Strength contest: contestants stand with back to rock on opposite side, an iron ring around neck of each connected by chain. They tug until ring severs neck of one. H1562.7
- One contestant chooses straight path through stones; other circles about and wins. J2119.2.2
- Race won by deception: relative helpers. One of the contestants places his relatives (or others that resemble him) in the line of the race. The opponent always thinks the trickster is just ahead of him. (Told of animals or of men; often of the hare and the turtle.) K11.1
- Race won by deception: riding on the back. One contestant rides on the other's back. (Cf. K25.1.) K11.2
- Beauty contest won by deception: other contestants covered with leaves. K98.1
- Deceptive land bargain: saints agree that the one who casts his staff far enough to reach distant island shall be owner of land. Staff of one contestant transformed to spear (or dart) and so alone reaches island. When saint touches weapon, it becomes staff again. K185.13
- Dividing the discovered oyster. The umpire takes the oyster itself as fee and gives each contestant half the shell. K452.1