# Skills testing to win prize in Canada?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skills-testing-to-win-prize-in-canada/711848>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 5, 2015, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skills-testing-to-win-prize-in-canada/711848 "2015-02-05T00:09:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Lurker\_Above](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Lurker\_Above](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lurker_Above)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skills-testing-to-win-prize-in-canada/711848/21 "2015-02-06T00:08:17Z")

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> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#):
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> I’m surprised to hear that this doesn’t work in Canada. It seems less cheesy than a “skills test”.

Canadian contests generally do _both_.

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**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skills-testing-to-win-prize-in-canada/711848/22 "2015-02-06T01:19:32Z")

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[Wiki pretty much covers it.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skill_testing_question)

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