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Stakes & Tension

Locking yourself in a room until you hit a number turns a money brag into a test that can fail. The giant figure looms behind him while he looks small and serious, so the pressure reads in the picture. You stay to see the ending.

How the packaging works
Title

The title sets the rule of the challenge and the number that ends it.

Thumbnail

The thumbnail makes the target loom over a small, serious figure at work.

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Use this when you can set a real rule with a real finish line. The same number can sit on both surfaces here because the figure is the whole premise, not a detail.

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The transferable lesson

A rule that can fail beats a brag

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