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You're flipping through a magazine, and there are almost always captions under the pictures (save for ads), but some magazine editors admit they can't do the best at them. So they offer the readers a chance to do better, usually challenging them to "Beat this caption." So if you can write a better caption than the magazine writers, it'll appear in the next issue, and maybe even win the contest. Any further prizes are optional.
Of course this doesn't just end with magazines. Web sites have them as well. They tend to be popular on [[Message Board|forums]].
A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Audience Participation]].
Compare [[Let's See You Do Better]], [[Official Fan
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* ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'' has this round (almost) [[Once an Episode]] with odd-looking photos [[It Makes Sense in Context|taken from news stories]].
** A 2003 episode ground to a halt just before the end as the guests, Ruby Wax and Glenda Jackson, appeared [[Completely Missing the Point|not to understand the concept]], with both of them asking what the "real" answer was and Jackson complaining that Wax's team had been given a photo and hers hadn't (prompting [[Guest Host]] Martin Clunes to shout, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"Well, if you'll WIND YOUR NECK IN we'll get your picture out!"]]).
* The [[
* On ''[[The Office]]''(US version) Pam puts up a funny drawing she made of a Sabre printer for a caption contest in the office. The other employees make suggestions which insult Sabre products, much to the chagrin of Gabe, the Sabre company's representative and he bans the contest.
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** Back in the days when there was a personal computer manufacturer named "Wang", readers went to great lengths to [[Running Gag|fit it in]] to their captions.
** All-time winner was for Pietro da Cortona's [http://todaysnewsart.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/cortona_rape_of_the_sabine_women_01.jpg "Rape Of The Sabine Women"]: {{spoiler|'''Woman at upper right''': "Hey, Louise! I'm looking right at his Wang and it's this big!"}}
* The British Army in Germany in the '80s used to issue a magazine teaching their troops about Warsaw Pact forces, and it sometimes ran these contests. One picture showed two soldiers riding in a ridiculously tiny armored
== Newspapers ==
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* [http://eggycaption.livejournal.com/ Eggycaption's Journal] offers up a pic for captioning (nearly) every weekday.
* ''[http://www.cracked.com Cracked]'' holds a daily Craption contest: whoever comes up with the stupidest caption makes it to the home page.
* One female troper was [https://web.archive.org/web/20080610172851/http://www.manatheater.com/images/caption/caption3.htm one of the winners of a caption contest] for ''[[Secret of Mana]] Theater''. It had two categories, pure text (which she won) and Photoshopping.
* The webcomic ''[[Bruno the Bandit]]'' has them sometimes, for the single strips. (Most often, cartoonist Ian McDonald will deliver them later by himself.)
* ''[http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/ I can has cheezburger?]'' chooses its daily [[LOLcats]] with a caption contest: the visitors write the caption in the Lolcat Builder, and the best caption is featured in the home page.
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