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Short Stories.

A focused category with 128 clues. 94% of clues land in Double Jeopardy, making this a high-dollar battleground.

Total clues
128
Daily Doubles
12
9.4% of clues
DJ skew
92%
Final J!s
2
Stumper rate
24.6%
Avg value
$1,004
Key Answers 19 gimmes · 1 stumpers
Top answers 19 total answers
The answers every prepared player should know.
Answer Clues Stumper Avg $
01 Walter Mitty
6 0.0% $817
02 Rip Van Winkle
5 0.0% $2,050
03 O. Henry
5 60.0% $1,360
04 Stephen Crane
4 0.0% $500
05 (Edgar Allan) Poe
3 0.0% $500
06 The tiger
2 50.0% $900
07 New Orleans
2 0.0% $550
08 Miss Marple
2 0.0% $600
09 John Steinbeck
2 0.0% $900
10 J.D. Salinger
2 50.0% $1,400
11 Isaac Bashevis Singer
2 50.0% $900
12 Ernest Hemingway
2 50.0% $1,400
13 Dorothy Parker
2 100.0% $1,500
14 Bartleby
2 0.0% $1,000
15 "The Lottery"
2 0.0% $700
16 Eudora Welty
2 0.0% $1,400
17 Nathaniel Hawthorne
2 50.0% $1,550
18 a leaf
2 0.0% $400
19 Franz Kafka
2 50.0% $1,573
Sample clue Short Stories
In the last paragraph, this James Thurber guy goes from smoking by a drugstore to bravely facing a firing squad
What is — Walter Mitty
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