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Game Between Heirs

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Game Between Heirs	comment	Bob is dead. His potential heirs gather after his funeral. Who will inherit his possessions? The will is opened, but...there's no clear heir. This trope occurs when the will of the deceased doesn't specify who will inherit their possessions, leaving it up to a game or a puzzle, so whoever is worthy can obtain the fortune. The puzzle can be a race, a mystery game with continuous hints or a number of things. May also be a Secret Test of Character. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A common twist includes discovering that one of the potential heirs is the one who killed Bob. The winner usually ends up with an unexpected new fortune. Legal nitpick: Since Bob for this trope necessarily leaves a will, the "heirs" are technically "devisees" and "legatees": Bob's heirs are those who stood to inherit had he died without a will; devisees and legatees are persons named in the will receiving real property (land) or personal property (anything other than land) respectively. Often these are the same people as Bob's heirs, but often they are not. May be a result of Inadequate Inheritor. Often a characteristic of a Silly Will. Compare On One Condition. If the "game" is just the aspiring heirs killing each other, and the inheritance is on a very large scale, see Succession Crisis.
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Game Between Heirs / int_14d99ded	comment	Professor Layton and the Curious Village uses this trope as its main plotline. Layton and Luke have to find the Golden Apple in order to inherit the late Baron Reinhold's wealth. The Golden Apple turns out to be a birthmark on his daughter's neck that only appears when she laughs - the baron was looking for a guardian who could make Flora happy.
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Game Between Heirs / int_25f6f1a0	comment	Umineko: When They Cry: The successor to the Ushiromiya family's headship and fortune (which includes 10 tons of solid gold) seemed to be locked and set—and then a letter from the resident witch arrived, announcing that the spoils have been made fair game to anyone who can solve the Witch's Epitaph, a long riddle which incidentally, details a ritual requiring human sacrifice. Mind games (and lots and lots of murder) ensue.
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Game Between Heirs / int_2a162f17	comment	101 Dalmatians: The Series: During a Family reunion, Malevola DeVil announced she'd bequeath her whole estate to the relative who takes Dearly Farm for her. Since nobody won the "game", see Insurrectionist Inheritor to learn who got the inheritance.
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Game Between Heirs / int_2de2da9	comment	Scavenger Hunt (1979): 1979 movie based on this premise. Milton Parker dies and leaves his fortune to the person or group of people that win his scavenger hunt. There is no motivation to make them become a family.
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Game Between Heirs / int_304d4028	comment	Spirou and the Heirs has one between Fantasio and Zantafio courtesy of their recently deceased and very rich uncle. The challenges are: Invent something that will benefit humanityspoiler Fantasio with his Fanta-Copter backpack, come at least third in a formula 1 racespoiler Zantafio wins with heavy implication towards that he cheated and capture a Marsupilami.spoiler Fantasio wins after Zantafio gives up Turns out that said uncle had actually managed to squabble away all his money and the inheritance was simply the experience from their adventures
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Game Between Heirs / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist has Ling and May, two potential successors to the throne of Xing (out of over a dozen others). All of them are searching for the best way to prove that they will be the best to succeed the throne, and these two decide to seek out the philosopher's stone in hopes of obtaining a method to give immortality to others.
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Game Between Heirs / int_3558eaa2	comment	In the Community episode "Digital Estate Planning", Pierce's father leaves his will in the form of a video game. Whoever wins the game gets the inheritance.
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Game Between Heirs / int_358d8450	comment	The 39 Clues begins when Amy and Dan Cahill attend their grandmother Grace's funeral and the reading of her will. There, along with an assortment of colorful distant relatives, they make the choice: one million dollars or the chance to find the Clues alongside au pair Nellie Gomez. They choose to receive their first Clue, and are subsequently thrown into a five-hundred-year-old web of backstabbing, lies, and deceit.
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Game Between Heirs / int_40c8681	comment	Forest Kingdom: In book 2 (Blood and Honor), since King Malcom's will is missing, along with the two items used in the ritual coronation, it's initially declared that whichever of his three sons finds those items will become King. The Regent later opens the game of finding these items to anyone of the right Blood, but the three sons all have their own allies standing by to intercept anyone who tries to take the throne that way.
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Game Between Heirs / int_4617a9f2	comment	In an episode of Married... with Children, Al Bundy's Uncle Stymie, the only male Bundy to be a success in life (Al credits this to the fact that Stymie was the only one who never married), left his $500,000 estate to the first male Bundy to have a legitimate son named after him. Considering that the lawyer who read the will would later marry a male Bundy and give birth to Stymie Junior to get the money, Al and the other Bundys didn't get the money, even though they could have challenged the will under claims of undue influence. Something similar happened in "Love and the Baby Derby", a episode of Love, American Style. The brothers learn, at their uncle's funeral, that the first one to marry and have a son will inherit. Then the uncle rises from the coffin: he'd faked his death, 'cuz he's such a funny guy, but he was serious about the "baby derby". Given his sense of humor, its not surprising that after both brothers do father children, the uncle reveals that he himself had married and had a son, so the money stayed with him. (He tells the brothers that their new families are the "real" wealth. Their response: "Wanna trade?")
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Game Between Heirs / int_46196a4	comment	This is the premise of the "Russian Doll Case" in The Kindaichi Case Files. A famous mystery writer has died without heirs, and he selects five close "friends" as his potential beneficiaries to his enormous wealth. These candidates must solve the mystery he's set up in order to win the inheritance.
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Game Between Heirs / int_46e051cd	comment	Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?: In "The Nightmare Ghost of Psychic U!", the titular university's founder made a will saying that, if it closes, the property goes to his nearest living relative.
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Game Between Heirs / int_51ba977e	comment	The Clue VCR game from The '80s had one of these as Mr. Boddy's third will. (Apparently in case the previous two were destroyed, which they were.) The challenge was to divulge secrets about the others and the one who exposes the most wins. Mrs. White says that the challenge was geared towards her since she's been cataloging secrets about the others in her diary, except it's been stolen by Mr. Green. In the end, nobody wins since they're all driven to kill each other.
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Game Between Heirs / int_52855c7	comment	In the video game Safe Cracker, a millionaire hides his will in a house full of bizarre safes, every one of which must be unlocked to access the document. When found, the document leaves it up to whoever successfully cracks the safes to decide who gets his fortune.
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Game Between Heirs / int_59ae1426	comment	The Drops of God: The whole plot is basically the main character getting into a wine tasting contest with his adoptive brother to inherit his father's vast and valuable wine collection.
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Game Between Heirs / int_5ab7ccaf	comment	In Ready Player One, Halladay's contest for the OASIS can be considered one of these, though in a twist, the potential heirs are effectively everyone in the entire world. (Excluding those who are unable to use the OASIS, obviously.)
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Game Between Heirs / int_69fa7496	comment	Disney Ducks Comic Universe story "Family of Fore" features Scrooge McDuck and Flintheart Glomgold learning they're distantly related and must play a golf match against each other for a treasure left behind by a relative named Bogey McDivot. After Scrooge wins, both competitors are dismayed to learn the "treasure" is the golf course.
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Game Between Heirs / int_74801083	comment	Edgar & Ellen: Augustus Nod, the founder of Nod's Limbs, willed his estate to whoever finds the original limbs of the statue erected to him.
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Game Between Heirs / int_74c659e6	comment	In Rocket Age some Martian Principalities determine succession through Royal Karn Chariot Races. Some principalities use ceremonial duels to determine succession, a fact exploited by Danny Hatfield to gain control of J'lkarine.
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Game Between Heirs / int_7c432481	comment	The Westing Game: Samuel W. Westing chose 16 people apparently at random as his heirs; the book opens with them summoned to hear the reading of the will. He leaves everything to the winner of the puzzle he calls The Westing Game. Who will win? That's the entire book.
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Game Between Heirs / int_968513c4	comment	Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?: Carmen's will placed her main henchpeople and the main detectives on a scavenger hunt to decide who's fit to inherit her place as head of VILE.
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Game Between Heirs / int_9ddfa30a	comment	The primary inheritance in The Pajama Party Murders is to be split evenly among all surviving Cosmo cousins who stay the night, but the much more valuable patent rights go to the person who can solve the poem that Cosmo left after his death and find the unsigned paperwork.
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Game Between Heirs / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Gol D. Roger effectively did this with his dying statement that kicked off the Golden Age of Piracy, declaring that he was leaving his treasure to whomever could find it and thus making everyone in the world his potential heirs. The only one he ever considered giving the information to directly was Edward "Whitebeard" Newgate, but the other man turned it down.
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Game Between Heirs / int_a1dd9577	comment	The Hudsucker Proxy: The terms of Mr. Hudsucker's Lost Will and Testament state whoever becomes the first person to replace him as the CEO of Hudsucker Industries will inherit his shares of the company.
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Game Between Heirs / int_aaf0e0d8	comment	Something similar happened in "Love and the Baby Derby", a episode of Love, American Style. The brothers learn, at their uncle's funeral, that the first one to marry and have a son will inherit. Then the uncle rises from the coffin: he'd faked his death, 'cuz he's such a funny guy, but he was serious about the "baby derby". Given his sense of humor, its not surprising that after both brothers do father children, the uncle reveals that he himself had married and had a son, so the money stayed with him. (He tells the brothers that their new families are the "real" wealth. Their response: "Wanna trade?")
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Game Between Heirs / int_abfcff6a	comment	In one story arc on Rocky and Bullwinkle, a will specified that the deceased's "million-dollar note" would go to whoever had a foot bearing a certain name on it—which turned out to be Bullwinkle. Except that to claim the money, he had to spend the night in the owner's mansion (with the owner's sons making various attempts to get him out of the building). Rocky and Bullwinkle succeed, but then it's revealed that Bullwinkle's foot no longer bears the mark, because apparently it was just an imprint from his shower mat. So the million-dollar note goes to the sons. BUT! It turns out to be a promissory note, placing the sons in a $1 million debt, while Bullwinkle gets to go home to the happy status quo (telling Rocky that although that mark on his foot was just a temporary imprint, the mark on his other foot "never comes off").
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Game Between Heirs / int_ac70897e	comment	Stardust: It's something of a tradition for the princes of Stormhold to kill each other off before their father dies, until only one remains to inherit. On his deathbed, the king expresses some disappointment that his sons didn't manage it, and announces that his heir will be the one who manages to obtain a ruby he threw into the sky. They all die before any of them manage to obtain it, and their long-lost nephew acquires it and unintentionally inherits the throne in their stead.
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Game Between Heirs / int_b40d4111	comment	Most of the plot of Stardust comes from a set of heirs competing to inherit the throne. The expected method of succession isn't primogeniture, but for one son to murder all the others before his father dies. When this fails to happen, the disappointed father sets them on a competitive quest to prove their worth.
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