• Grateful bull draws one hundred carts for wager for master. B587.3
• Satan makes wager with God about mortal's piety. G303.9.8.7
• Devil helps journeyman win wager with master. G303.22.8
• Guessing with life as wager. H512
• "Never wager more than a groat": counsel proved wise by experience. Man loses wife on wager. J21.8
• "Do not walk half a mile with a man without asking his name": counsel proved wise by experience. Man runs race unwittingly with his wife's paramour and loses his wife on the wager. (Cf. J21.8.) J21.11
• Man wagers he can run with his head off. Asked what it will profit him, he says that it will profit his family. J322.1
• Drunk philosopher wagers that he can drink the ocean dry. Agrees to do so if the other will hold back streams emptying into the ocean. Agreed to drink only the ocean. J1161.9
• The forehanded servant. A parson boasts that when he asks his maid if certain work is done she always answers that it has been done long ago. A guest wagers that she can be trapped if she is asked whether she has thrown the parson's suit of clothes into the tub of water. She overhears the wager and has the suit in the water before he asks the question. J1614
• The silence wager. A man and his wife make a wager as to who shall speak first (close the door). The man (woman) becomes jealous and scolds; loses the wager. J2511
• Wager as to who shall rise (speak) first in morning (last up to get reward). They are carried to funeral pyre before they will give in. J2511.1
• Silence wager: man and wife taken for dead. Stand up when king offers reward for information about their death. J2511.1.2
• Numskulls make silence wager. Arrested as thieves. J2511.2
• Deceptive drinking contest: rising and falling tide. Buffalo and heron wager as to which can drink the sea until the water falls. The buffalo drinks as the tide is coming in; the heron drinks in the falling tide and wins. K82.1.1
• Deceptive wager. K264
• Deceptive wager: whose horse will jump highest. The trickster has his worthless horse jump out the window. The duke will not let his run the risk. K264.1
• Deceptive wager: cat to carry lantern into room. (Has been specially trained.) K264.2
• Unjust umpire decides a religious dispute. His confederate thus wins an absurd wager. K451.1
• The wager that sheep are hogs. A trickster wagers with a sheep driver that the sheep he is driving are hogs. The next man to overtake them will act as umpire. The trickster's confederate now arrives and declares that they are hogs. K451.2
• Greatest liar to get his supper free. Wager. Each lie is corroborated by a confederate, who poses as a newly arrived stranger. K455.7

all 75 in the index →

• ATU 1351 The Silence Wager
• ATU 1406 The Three Clever Wives Wager (previously The Merry Wives' Wager)
• ATU 1551 The Wager that Sheep Are Hogs
• ATU 1559A* Always Hungry (previously Deceptive Wager: Human or Animal Hunger)
• ATU 1835D* Wager: Clergyman to Read Prayer Without Thinking of Anything Else
• ATU 882 The Wager on the Wife's Chastity
• ATU 889 Wager on the Faithfulness of the Servant (previously The Faithful Servant)