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128 editions

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  1. Edition 011Wednesday, 21 October 2026Canada

    Canada tested 100 trademark registrations at random and 54 died without a reply.

    Any person who pays $595.06 can force a Canadian trademark owner to swear to use, and may file no evidence; of 100 registrations the Registrar tested at random, 54 were expunged unanswered. The route in is auditing which registrations block a client, then filing.

    Canada federal · $423 to start · No scarce input

    Not yet scored

  2. Edition 004Tuesday, 20 October 2026United Kingdom

    A council may not bar your tender for inexperience below £207,720.

    A council buying services below £207,720 may not screen suppliers for experience or turnover before tender, under section 85(1) of the Procurement Act 2023. The operator bids only open below-threshold competitions on the central digital platform, refusing framework call-offs where the filter stays lawful.

    England · $0 to start · No scarce input

    Not yet scored

  3. Edition 004Saturday, 17 October 2026South Korea

    Korea's largest public developer bars repeat winners from a ₩132,000,000 sculpture call.

    Public owners must spend 1% of construction cost on artwork and cannot pay the fund instead, and LH bars anyone with three or more wins since 1 October 2025. The route in is entering an open LH call gated only on being 19 or over.

    South Korea national · No scarce input · Closed Tuesday, 10 November 2026

    Not yet scored

  4. Edition 006Friday, 9 October 2026Canada

    Ontario charges $50.00 a cell for ground that fetched $21,428.57 in March.

    Ontario registers a mining claim cell for $50.00 and a prospector's licence for $40.00, and publishes every forfeited parcel in the mid-May Gazette; fourteen cells were optioned in March 2026 for $300,000 cash. The route in is reading that list and registering a contiguous block.

    Ontario · $485 to start · No scarce input

    Not yet scored

  5. Edition 002Tuesday, 6 October 2026Singapore

    Nanyang Polytechnic awarded S$89,100 to one named individual, not a company.

    Singapore agencies buy up to S$90,000 by quotation with no supplier registration or audited accounts: Nanyang Polytechnic awarded S$89,100 to a named person, not a company. The operator registers a sole proprietorship for S$115, takes the free GeBIZ account, and quotes from MOF's award file.

    Singapore · $90 to start · No scarce input

    Not yet scored

  6. Edition 002Monday, 5 October 2026Australia

    The US$5,000-a-month Commonwealth contract fell below Australia’s tender line on 17 November 2025.

    Commonwealth entities may buy up to A$125,000 without an open tender, and exemption 17 extends that to A$500,000 from any supplier under 200 staff. The operator registers a free ABN and AusTender account, buys insurance, then filters contract notices for buyers already using limited tender.

    Australia Commonwealth · $416 to start · No scarce input

    Not yet scored

  7. Edition 001Wednesday, 30 September 2026Germany

    Germany just made €50,000 of federal money awardable with no tender and no notice.

    German federal authorities pay suppliers for routine services, and since 1 July 2026 may award up to €50,000 net with no tender and no published notice. The route in is a €26.00 Gewerbeanmeldung and asking Vergabestellen to enter you in their supplier file.

    Germany federal · $30 to start · No scarce input

    Not yet scored

  8. Edition 012Monday, 28 September 2026United States

    Four organisations have collected $14,405,301.80 from California insurers for arguing against rate increases. In thirteen years, eleven people and groups have asked to join them. Two were turned down. The statute’s first sentence is “Any person may initiate or intervene.”

    California pays intervenors who argue against insurance rate rises, and in thirteen years only eleven petitioners have appeared, four of whom collected $14,405,301.80. The play is 19 billable hours a month at $265.

    California · $30 to start · No scarce input

    Not yet scored

  9. Edition 001Monday, 28 September 2026Australia

    264,970 of Australia’s 277,376 paid NDIS providers are not registered.

    The NDIS pays 264,970 unregistered providers the same A$73.58 hourly cap for weekday personal care as registered ones, because registration gates only five support classes. The operator buys an A$112 worker check and first aid, works platform shifts at A$61.35, then converts to direct clients.

    Australia Commonwealth · $465 to start · No scarce input

    Not yet scored

  10. Edition 002Thursday, 17 September 2026United States

    A state agency published the exact dollar line where its automation stops. The line is $500.

    States return small unclaimed-property balances automatically and cap what a finder may charge, so the fee ceiling rather than the work limits the trade. The play is working claims inside the legislated $500-$5,000 band.

    Pennsylvania; also: North Carolina · No scarce input

    Not yet scored

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  1. Edition 007Tuesday, 10 November 2026United Kingdom

    Whitehall has just priced one day of a planning examiner's work at £993.

    Councils in England pay an examiner to examine each neighbourhood plan from a £20,000 government grant, and the statute requires no licence or register — only the appointing council's opinion. Apply free to the RICS referral service and write to councils whose plans await examination.

    England · $204 to start · Needs: Planning policy experience an appointing local planning authority will accept — both verified examiners are chartered RTPI members with decades of local-authority development plan work behind them · Closes Thursday, 26 November 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★☆☆ · Proceed if…

  2. Edition 056Monday, 9 November 2026United States

    Only 4% of the organisations Social Security trusts with benefits may charge for it.

    Social Security lets an authorised nonprofit payee deduct up to $59 a month from a beneficiary's own benefit for managing it, but only 4% of organisational payees may charge. The route in is an existing bonded 501(c) agency filing Form SSA-445 for authorisation.

    US federal · $625 to start · Needs: An existing § 501(c) community-based social service agency, bonded with SSA named as an insured party, licensed where its state requires it, with a publicly accessible staffed office and five beneficiaries already served — plus SSA's written authorisation on Form SSA-445 before any fee is collected · Closes Friday, 1 January 2027

    Feasibility ★★☆☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  3. Edition 007Saturday, 7 November 2026South Korea

    Korea caps agency fees at 1% from the worker and 30% from the employer.

    A Korean placement notice caps agency fees at 30% of wages from the employer and 1% from the worker, and the 간병·파출 trade bills the capped side. The operator registers an office, charges workers nothing and invoices employers 15%.

    South Korea national · $7,852 to start · Needs: One of the eight 「직업안정법 시행령」 제21조제1항 qualifications held by the operator personally — 직업상담사 1급/2급, 공인노무사, 사회복지사, or two years in placement-related counselling, union office, HR at a 300-employee firm, public service or teaching; without one the office cannot be registered at all

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Proceed if…

  4. Edition 053Friday, 6 November 2026United States

    A federal court reopened this morning the registration the government priced at $12,119 a year.

    Insurers pay a licensed agent $30 per member per month for Marketplace enrollees, and CMS prices the registration it briefly closed at $12,119.03 a year. A court order reopens it on 5 November 2026; register free on the CMS portal and enroll before 15 December.

    US federal; also: state insurance producer licensing · $450 to start · Needs: A current resident health insurance producer licence with a health line of authority, plus a carrier appointment effective before any enrolment is written · Closes Tuesday, 15 December 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  5. Edition 006Friday, 6 November 2026Japan

    Japan’s 20% lending cap reads 109.5% for anyone holding a ¥22,000 police licence.

    Japan caps consumer lending at 20%, but 質屋営業法第36条 rewrites that to 109.5% for licensed pawnbrokers, and only 39 new licences were granted in 2025. The operator pays ¥22,000 for the prefectural permit and lends against pledged goods at the posted 8% a month.

    Japan national · $334 to start · Needs: A 質屋営業 permit from a prefectural public safety commission, ¥22,000 per premises — only 39 were granted in all of Japan in 2025, against 80 surrendered; without it the 109.5% rate is criminal usury under 出資法第5条第2項

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  6. Edition 007Thursday, 5 November 2026France

    Twenty-one websites hold Paris’s right to sell legal notices at state-fixed prices.

    French companies must publish legal notices at prices the state fixes, €199 for a SAS, and 21 of Paris's 29 authorised titles are websites. The route in is six months of weekly local reporting, CPPAP registration, then a préfectoral application by 27 November.

    France national · $500 to start · Needs: The annual préfectoral habilitation under loi n° 55-4, which requires a CPPAP registration plus a certified départemental audience — 9,925 weekly visits from Paris under décret n° 2026-862, 16,630 in the Nord · Closes Friday, 27 November 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  7. Edition 017Wednesday, 4 November 2026Canada

    Canada licenses 429 customs brokers for 197,414 importers, and the door opens annually.

    Canadian importers pay licensed customs brokers to file entries, and 429 brokers serve 197,414 active importers, 86% of whom lack posted security. The route in is one three-hour CBSA examination at 60%, written once a year, plus CAD $250.55 and CAD $751.65 in fees.

    Canada, federal · $1,002 to start · Needs: A pass on the CBSA Customs Brokers Professional Examination, held once a year, with the 2026 application window already closed · Closes Thursday, 19 November 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  8. Edition 006Wednesday, 4 November 2026Germany

    Same expert, same crash: €131 or €169, decided by the court’s wording.

    German courts pay court-appointed experts from a federal table whose hourly rate is set by how the appointment is worded, not the work — €114 at the median, €169 at the top. The route in is being named to a court under § 404 ZPO.

    Germany, federal · $322 to start · Needs: An existing professional qualification and track record in a Sachgebiet named in Anlage 1 Teil 1 zum JVEG

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★★ · Switch

  9. Edition 047Sunday, 1 November 2026United States

    A lab accreditation spec is now New York City’s legal definition of a lead hazard.

    New York City now defines lead-contaminated dust as 4 micrograms a square foot, a figure taken from a laboratory accreditation spec, and bars re-occupancy until a third party's results arrive. The play is clearance dust-wipe sampling at $299.

    US federal; also: New York City · $480 to start · Needs: EPA lead inspector certification, plus a route to the New York City abatement contractors and managing agents who order clearance · Closed Wednesday, 4 November 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★☆☆ · Proceed if…

  10. Edition 006Saturday, 31 October 2026South Korea

    Korea's 87% wage rule makes owning a home-care agency worth less than working in one.

    The long-term care fund pays visiting-care agencies, and a ministry notice reserves 87.0% of each fee for care workers, leaving the owner 13.0%. The route in is holding 사회복지사 2급, filling the 제57조 social-worker post yourself, and taking 33.0% across 24 clients.

    South Korea national · Needs: 사회복지사 2급 held by the operator personally — the credential that puts the owner inside the 87.0% wage pool under 고시 제11조의2 and satisfies the 제57조 posting duty; without it the take falls to 13.0%

    Not yet scored

  11. Edition 045Friday, 30 October 2026United States

    A $2,000,000 interest-free loan from the customer, exempted by Treasury for six months.

    A Treasury regulation turns exchange funds into an interest-free loan to the facilitator holding them, exempt below $2,000,000 for six months. The play is earning the float on eleven exchanges a year.

    US federal · Needs: A state facilitator licence where one is required, with a $1,000,000 bond in Nevada and a bond, deposit or dual-signature escrow in California

    Not yet scored

  12. Edition 014Wednesday, 28 October 2026Canada

    Ontario will waive any court fee except the one it never collects.

    Ontario cannot waive the court transcript fee, so a household qualifying for a fee waiver still pays $6.30 to $12.55 a page to a private transcriptionist, with a $25 order minimum. The route in is the authorized-transcriptionist course and working short, urgent orders.

    Ontario · $717 to start · Needs: Authorization on the Registry of Authorized Court Transcriptionists, which requires the college course and a 98% accuracy examination

    Not yet scored

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  1. Edition 017Wednesday, 4 November 2026Canada

    Canada licenses 429 customs brokers for 197,414 importers, and the door opens annually.

    Canadian importers pay licensed customs brokers to file entries, and 429 brokers serve 197,414 active importers, 86% of whom lack posted security. The route in is one three-hour CBSA examination at 60%, written once a year, plus CAD $250.55 and CAD $751.65 in fees.

    Canada, federal · $1,002 to start · Needs: A pass on the CBSA Customs Brokers Professional Examination, held once a year, with the 2026 application window already closed · Closes Thursday, 19 November 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  2. Edition 005Thursday, 22 October 2026France

    One cent of advertising costs a French associative radio €87,359.

    France's FSER pays an associative radio only while its advertising stays below 20% of total turnover, and the form counts the grant itself in that denominator. The route is taking the reserved associative frequency and claiming the installation grant of up to €16,000.

    France national · Needs: An Arcom authorisation to broadcast, held by an association carrying a mission de communication sociale de proximité, for which article 29 reserves a share of the frequencies · Closes Thursday, 19 November 2026

    Not yet scored

  3. Edition 020Wednesday, 11 November 2026Canada

    Ontario's only unlicensed wholesale electricity seat pays $171,319 a megawatt-year.

    Ontario's grid operator pays CAD $645.24 per MW-day to bidders promising to curtail load, the only wholesale seat needing no Ontario Energy Board licence. The route in is qualifying as a capacity auction participant and contracting 1.5 MW of curtailable load.

    Ontario · $4,038 to start · Needs: Contracted curtailable load at Ontario commercial or industrial sites, all inside a single IESO electrical zone, declared from the sites' own interval data and able to reduce by 90% of cleared ICAP for four consecutive hours · Closes Wednesday, 25 November 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  4. Edition 007Tuesday, 10 November 2026United Kingdom

    Whitehall has just priced one day of a planning examiner's work at £993.

    Councils in England pay an examiner to examine each neighbourhood plan from a £20,000 government grant, and the statute requires no licence or register — only the appointing council's opinion. Apply free to the RICS referral service and write to councils whose plans await examination.

    England · $204 to start · Needs: Planning policy experience an appointing local planning authority will accept — both verified examiners are chartered RTPI members with decades of local-authority development plan work behind them · Closes Thursday, 26 November 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★☆☆ · Proceed if…

  5. Edition 007Thursday, 5 November 2026France

    Twenty-one websites hold Paris’s right to sell legal notices at state-fixed prices.

    French companies must publish legal notices at prices the state fixes, €199 for a SAS, and 21 of Paris's 29 authorised titles are websites. The route in is six months of weekly local reporting, CPPAP registration, then a préfectoral application by 27 November.

    France national · $500 to start · Needs: The annual préfectoral habilitation under loi n° 55-4, which requires a CPPAP registration plus a certified départemental audience — 9,925 weekly visits from Paris under décret n° 2026-862, 16,630 in the Nord · Closes Friday, 27 November 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  6. Edition 055Sunday, 8 November 2026United States

    E-Rate underspent its cap by $1.7 billion, then the Fifth Circuit unmade its administrator.

    Every eligible American library holds a $30,175 five-year E-Rate equipment budget whatever its size, in a programme that took $3.5 billion of demand against a $5.2 billion cap. The play is registering with USAC and filing for small libraries at a flat $1,500 a year.

    US federal · $460 to start · Needs: Reach into small and rural public libraries and the state library administrative agencies and regional consortia that convene them, which is what gets a library director to answer at all · Closes Sunday, 29 November 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  7. Edition 033Sunday, 18 October 2026United States

    Below $14.29 a month, leaving Google Play’s checkout costs more than staying.

    Apple charges $0 on a linked-out purchase in the US App Store while Google Play began charging on 1 October 2026. The play is 532 subscribers at $9.99 off-store.

    US; also: UK, EEA · $124 to start · Needs: Subscribers already inside your app who can be sent to a web checkout · Closes Tuesday, 1 December 2026

    Not yet scored

  8. Edition 007Monday, 9 November 2026Australia

    Victoria rations an A$77 price gap by random draw and 152 applications failed.

    Victoria rations the right to sell water through the Barmah Choke by random draw, and the A$77 gap between the two zones is what a slot is worth. The route in is lodging those applications for irrigators for a commission, which needs no licence.

    Victoria (also: Commonwealth) · $38 to start · Needs: Irrigators holding water allocation in Victorian Murray Zone 6 above the Barmah Choke who will let you prepare and lodge their inter-valley trade applications · Closes Tuesday, 15 December 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★☆☆ · Proceed if…

  9. Edition 053Friday, 6 November 2026United States

    A federal court reopened this morning the registration the government priced at $12,119 a year.

    Insurers pay a licensed agent $30 per member per month for Marketplace enrollees, and CMS prices the registration it briefly closed at $12,119.03 a year. A court order reopens it on 5 November 2026; register free on the CMS portal and enroll before 15 December.

    US federal; also: state insurance producer licensing · $450 to start · Needs: A current resident health insurance producer licence with a health line of authority, plus a carrier appointment effective before any enrolment is written · Closes Tuesday, 15 December 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  10. Edition 038Friday, 23 October 2026United States

    No imported food enters until a U.S. agent FDA never verifies says yes.

    No imported food clears the port unless a US agent FDA never verifies agrees, registration costs $0, and renewal runs to 31 December 2026. The play is 70 facilities at $858.

    US federal · $0 to start · Needs: Foreign food facilities whose registration lapses unless an American agent is on file · Closes Thursday, 31 December 2026

    Not yet scored

  11. Edition 001Friday, 2 October 2026Japan

    Japan’s invoice cliff landed at 70% yesterday, not the legislated 50%.

    Japanese buyers may deduct 70% of the tax on purchases from unregistered suppliers, not the 50% the 2016 statute set, cutting the penalty for staying unregistered to ¥1.20 per ¥100. A sole proprietor registers free via e-Tax and bills businesses ¥790,800 a month pre-tax.

    Japan national · $0 to start · Needs: Japanese business buyers willing to contract direct at ¥790,800 a month pre-tax, rather than through a freelance marketplace · Closes Thursday, 31 December 2026

    Not yet scored

  12. Edition 056Monday, 9 November 2026United States

    Only 4% of the organisations Social Security trusts with benefits may charge for it.

    Social Security lets an authorised nonprofit payee deduct up to $59 a month from a beneficiary's own benefit for managing it, but only 4% of organisational payees may charge. The route in is an existing bonded 501(c) agency filing Form SSA-445 for authorisation.

    US federal · $625 to start · Needs: An existing § 501(c) community-based social service agency, bonded with SSA named as an insured party, licensed where its state requires it, with a publicly accessible staffed office and five beneficiaries already served — plus SSA's written authorisation on Form SSA-445 before any fee is collected · Closes Friday, 1 January 2027

    Feasibility ★★☆☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

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  1. Edition 058Wednesday, 11 November 2026United States

    CBP just made a free 20-hour form compulsory for 2,028 brokers by May.

    CBP bars foreign importers of record from entry unless they or their customs broker are CTPAT validated, and 78% of 2,600 permitted brokers are not. The operator writes the 20-hour CTPAT security profile for brokers before 6 May 2027.

    US federal · $470 to start · Needs: Working access to licensed customs brokers and importers of record who will buy a supply-chain security engagement from someone who is not a customs broker · Closes Tuesday, 5 January 2027

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★☆☆ · Pause

  2. Edition 020Wednesday, 11 November 2026Canada

    Ontario's only unlicensed wholesale electricity seat pays $171,319 a megawatt-year.

    Ontario's grid operator pays CAD $645.24 per MW-day to bidders promising to curtail load, the only wholesale seat needing no Ontario Energy Board licence. The route in is qualifying as a capacity auction participant and contracting 1.5 MW of curtailable load.

    Ontario · $4,038 to start · Needs: Contracted curtailable load at Ontario commercial or industrial sites, all inside a single IESO electrical zone, declared from the sites' own interval data and able to reduce by 90% of cleared ICAP for four consecutive hours · Closes Wednesday, 25 November 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  3. Edition 007Wednesday, 11 November 2026Germany

    A German microbusiness can bill €100,000 VAT-free, but only €25,000 of it in Germany.

    Germany exempts a microbusiness from VAT only to €25,000, while § 19a UStG lets the same seller use Italy's €85,000 threshold, because the BZSt treats the two schemes as independent. The route in is registering with the Bundeszentralamt für Steuern and selling abroad.

    Germany, federal · $17 to start · Needs: Customers outside Germany — at least €65,347.15 a year of them, because German-taxable turnover must stay at or under €25,000 to keep the domestic exemption

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★☆☆ · Proceed if…

  4. Edition 057Tuesday, 10 November 2026United States

    The bond that protects farm workers is indexed to the wage America just cut.

    Farms pay an H-2A labour contractor to supply seasonal workers; his worker-protection bond is a base amount multiplied by the farm wage, so every bond is 10.0338% smaller since 3 August 2026. The operator signs grower contracts, registers under MSPA and files the certification.

    US federal · $1,444 to start · Needs: Executed work contracts with named fixed-site growers whose housing is certified by the State Workforce Agency, held before anything is filed

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  5. Edition 007Tuesday, 10 November 2026United Kingdom

    Whitehall has just priced one day of a planning examiner's work at £993.

    Councils in England pay an examiner to examine each neighbourhood plan from a £20,000 government grant, and the statute requires no licence or register — only the appointing council's opinion. Apply free to the RICS referral service and write to councils whose plans await examination.

    England · $204 to start · Needs: Planning policy experience an appointing local planning authority will accept — both verified examiners are chartered RTPI members with decades of local-authority development plan work behind them · Closes Thursday, 26 November 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★☆☆ · Proceed if…

  6. Edition 007Tuesday, 10 November 2026Singapore

    Singapore fined a travel company S$47,000 over an appointment that costs nothing to make.

    Singapore SMEs pay an outside data protection officer an annual retainer for a role the law makes compulsory for all 625,437 registered entities and licenses nobody to fill. The operator registers a sole proprietorship for S$115 and sells annual retainers at S$3,000.

    Singapore · $90 to start · Needs: Twenty Singapore SMEs the operator already reaches — an existing book invoiced for IT, accounting, corporate services or insurance, or one vertical with a referral source inside it

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★☆☆ · Proceed if…

  7. Edition 056Monday, 9 November 2026United States

    Only 4% of the organisations Social Security trusts with benefits may charge for it.

    Social Security lets an authorised nonprofit payee deduct up to $59 a month from a beneficiary's own benefit for managing it, but only 4% of organisational payees may charge. The route in is an existing bonded 501(c) agency filing Form SSA-445 for authorisation.

    US federal · $625 to start · Needs: An existing § 501(c) community-based social service agency, bonded with SSA named as an insured party, licensed where its state requires it, with a publicly accessible staffed office and five beneficiaries already served — plus SSA's written authorisation on Form SSA-445 before any fee is collected · Closes Friday, 1 January 2027

    Feasibility ★★☆☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  8. Edition 019Monday, 9 November 2026Canada

    A federal fee frozen since 1998 pays $170 an hour and needs no licence.

    Canadian bankruptcy estates pay $85 a session for two compulsory counselling sessions, a price fixed in 1998, and the counsellor needs no licence. The route in is the CAIRP course, CAD $1,582, and a Licensed Insolvency Trustee who registers you and assigns files.

    Canada federal (also: Ontario, for the tax and sales-tax modelling) · $1,121 to start · Needs: A Licensed Insolvency Trustee who will register you in OLAA under Directive No. 1R8, observe ten counselling sessions and assign files to you; CAIRP will not even enrol you in the PCIC without one named in the application

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★☆☆ · Proceed if…

  9. Edition 007Monday, 9 November 2026Australia

    Victoria rations an A$77 price gap by random draw and 152 applications failed.

    Victoria rations the right to sell water through the Barmah Choke by random draw, and the A$77 gap between the two zones is what a slot is worth. The route in is lodging those applications for irrigators for a commission, which needs no licence.

    Victoria (also: Commonwealth) · $38 to start · Needs: Irrigators holding water allocation in Victorian Murray Zone 6 above the Barmah Choke who will let you prepare and lodge their inter-valley trade applications · Closes Tuesday, 15 December 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★☆☆ · Proceed if…

  10. Edition 055Sunday, 8 November 2026United States

    E-Rate underspent its cap by $1.7 billion, then the Fifth Circuit unmade its administrator.

    Every eligible American library holds a $30,175 five-year E-Rate equipment budget whatever its size, in a programme that took $3.5 billion of demand against a $5.2 billion cap. The play is registering with USAC and filing for small libraries at a flat $1,500 a year.

    US federal · $460 to start · Needs: Reach into small and rural public libraries and the state library administrative agencies and regional consortia that convene them, which is what gets a library director to answer at all · Closes Sunday, 29 November 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  11. Edition 008Sunday, 8 November 2026China

    China licenses bookkeeping at three full-time staff and leaves tax agency entirely unlicensed.

    Small businesses must buy bookkeeping from a licensed enterprise with three full-time staff, while China reserves the eight paid tax services to nobody, so a solo operator sells the returns but not the books. Start with one real-name filing, then take referrals from licensed agencies.

    PRC national · $69 to start · Needs: Small businesses whose books a licensed 代理记账机构 or 会计师事务所 already keeps, reached through those agencies · Open until Friday, 31 December 2027

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★☆☆ · Proceed if…

  12. Edition 054Saturday, 7 November 2026United States

    Medicare’s 2027 rule pays ACO clinicians double on a code 76% never bill.

    Medicare pays practices a 16% office-visit add-on from 1 January 2027, and 32% inside an ACO, on a code 76% of eligible clinicians never billed. The play is reviewing small practices’ claims for documented unbilled visits at a flat monthly fee.

    US federal · $499 to start · Needs: A working relationship with independent primary-care practices that bill Medicare office E/M visits and will sign a business associate agreement giving access to their claims · Closes Friday, 1 January 2027

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Proceed if…

  13. Edition 007Saturday, 7 November 2026South Korea

    Korea caps agency fees at 1% from the worker and 30% from the employer.

    A Korean placement notice caps agency fees at 30% of wages from the employer and 1% from the worker, and the 간병·파출 trade bills the capped side. The operator registers an office, charges workers nothing and invoices employers 15%.

    South Korea national · $7,852 to start · Needs: One of the eight 「직업안정법 시행령」 제21조제1항 qualifications held by the operator personally — 직업상담사 1급/2급, 공인노무사, 사회복지사, or two years in placement-related counselling, union office, HR at a 300-employee firm, public service or teaching; without one the office cannot be registered at all

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Proceed if…

  14. Edition 053Friday, 6 November 2026United States

    A federal court reopened this morning the registration the government priced at $12,119 a year.

    Insurers pay a licensed agent $30 per member per month for Marketplace enrollees, and CMS prices the registration it briefly closed at $12,119.03 a year. A court order reopens it on 5 November 2026; register free on the CMS portal and enroll before 15 December.

    US federal; also: state insurance producer licensing · $450 to start · Needs: A current resident health insurance producer licence with a health line of authority, plus a carrier appointment effective before any enrolment is written · Closes Tuesday, 15 December 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  15. Edition 018Friday, 6 November 2026Canada

    Canada Post alone now sets the minimum price its competitors may lawfully charge.

    Law firms pay messengers to carry urgent letters, which is lawful only at three times Canada Post's 50 g rate, so the CAD $5.25 floor is set by the competitor. An operator registers a business for CAD $60 and sells document runs above that floor.

    Canada federal (also: Ontario, for the registration, tax and transit figures) · $145 to start · Needs: A dense urban corridor of litigation firms, legal clinics and title or notary practices within one transit circuit — the published tariffs and the 21.55 deliveries a working day the base case needs exist in a central business district, not in a dispersed market

    Feasibility ★★★★☆ · Difficulty ★★★☆☆ · Pause

  16. Edition 006Friday, 6 November 2026Japan

    Japan’s 20% lending cap reads 109.5% for anyone holding a ¥22,000 police licence.

    Japan caps consumer lending at 20%, but 質屋営業法第36条 rewrites that to 109.5% for licensed pawnbrokers, and only 39 new licences were granted in 2025. The operator pays ¥22,000 for the prefectural permit and lends against pledged goods at the posted 8% a month.

    Japan national · $334 to start · Needs: A 質屋営業 permit from a prefectural public safety commission, ¥22,000 per premises — only 39 were granted in all of Japan in 2025, against 80 surrendered; without it the 109.5% rate is criminal usury under 出資法第5条第2項

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  17. Edition 052Thursday, 5 November 2026United States

    The United States prices an enforceable photograph at 7.3 cents, rising to 11.3.

    Photographers pay the Copyright Office $85 to register up to 750 photographs on one application, and timely registration doubles the Copyright Claims Board ceiling to $15,000 a work. The operator files those groups as the duly authorized agent, charging $249 a filing.

    US federal · $425 to start · Needs: A book of working photographers, agencies or stock contributors who publish images in volume and will pay per filing · Closed Wednesday, 11 November 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★☆☆ · Proceed if…

  18. Edition 007Thursday, 5 November 2026France

    Twenty-one websites hold Paris’s right to sell legal notices at state-fixed prices.

    French companies must publish legal notices at prices the state fixes, €199 for a SAS, and 21 of Paris's 29 authorised titles are websites. The route in is six months of weekly local reporting, CPPAP registration, then a préfectoral application by 27 November.

    France national · $500 to start · Needs: The annual préfectoral habilitation under loi n° 55-4, which requires a CPPAP registration plus a certified départemental audience — 9,925 weekly visits from Paris under décret n° 2026-862, 16,630 in the Nord · Closes Friday, 27 November 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  19. Edition 051Wednesday, 4 November 2026United States

    Freddie Mac prices the appraisal at $600 and the unlicensed walk-through at $200.

    Borrowers pay about $200 for a property data collection that replaces a $600 appraisal, and Fannie Mae states no licence is required to perform it. The operator buys the $25 ANSI measuring standard, joins an appraisal management company panel at $105 an assignment, and collects.

    US federal · $25 to start · Needs: A territory supplying roughly 3.77 property data collections every working day within a 25-mile round trip, in a state with no statute licensing the work

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★☆☆☆ · Proceed if…

  20. Edition 017Wednesday, 4 November 2026Canada

    Canada licenses 429 customs brokers for 197,414 importers, and the door opens annually.

    Canadian importers pay licensed customs brokers to file entries, and 429 brokers serve 197,414 active importers, 86% of whom lack posted security. The route in is one three-hour CBSA examination at 60%, written once a year, plus CAD $250.55 and CAD $751.65 in fees.

    Canada, federal · $1,002 to start · Needs: A pass on the CBSA Customs Brokers Professional Examination, held once a year, with the 2026 application window already closed · Closes Thursday, 19 November 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  21. Edition 006Wednesday, 4 November 2026Germany

    Same expert, same crash: €131 or €169, decided by the court’s wording.

    German courts pay court-appointed experts from a federal table whose hourly rate is set by how the appointment is worded, not the work — €114 at the median, €169 at the top. The route in is being named to a court under § 404 ZPO.

    Germany, federal · $322 to start · Needs: An existing professional qualification and track record in a Sachgebiet named in Anlage 1 Teil 1 zum JVEG

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★★ · Switch

  22. Edition 049Tuesday, 3 November 2026United States

    Thirty-three filings a year would be 11% of every charge complaint in America.

    Ocean carriers must print 20 items on a demurrage invoice; omitting any one eliminates the obligation to pay, and the FMC charges nothing to complain and sets no deadline. The operator audits importers' paid invoices against the list and hands over a draft complaint.

    US federal · $176 to start · Needs: US importers, NVOCCs or customs brokers who paid demurrage or detention invoiced after 16 June 2022 and will hand over the invoices and bills of lading

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★☆☆ · Proceed if…

  23. Edition 006Tuesday, 3 November 2026United Kingdom

    1,200 MHz becomes licence-exempt on 10 November with no coordinator registered to use it.

    Ofcom hands 5925–7125 MHz to unlicensed devices at 36 dBm for £0 from 10 November 2026, while the same 1,200 MHz costs £19,200 a year under Shared Access. The operator sells monthly links to sites with a detached building, each radio £326.49.

    UK-wide · $942 to start · Needs: A second conforming 6 GHz radio: a link needs two at £326.49 each, and the £373.25 stake buys one, leaving the £702.98 entry cost £329.74 short. · Closed Tuesday, 10 November 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  24. Edition 006Tuesday, 3 November 2026Singapore

    Singapore’s telecom licence is free and the interconnection deposit behind it is S$20,000.

    IMDA charges S$0 to register a telecom reseller and never renews it, while Singtel's IMDA-approved interconnection offer takes S$20,000 from any first-time requester with paid-up capital under S$1,000,000. The operator registers a sole proprietorship for S$315, owns no switch, and resells voice seats to SMEs.

    Singapore · $246 to start · Needs: An existing book of Singapore SME clients, typically an IT or managed-service practice, whose phone and connectivity can be moved onto your own invoice

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Proceed if…

  25. Edition 048Monday, 2 November 2026United States

    Treasury made a viewer’s badge a deductible tip and their access fee ordinary income.

    Viewers pay creators, and TD 10044 makes that payment a deductible tip only when it unlocks nothing; the paragraph deciding whether creators qualify is blank. The play is publishing free and asking $5 tips on a zero-fee rail, $87,170.20 a year for $5,000 a month.

    US federal · $0 to start · Needs: An existing audience that already consumes the free work and would pay voluntarily, with nothing given in return · Open until Sunday, 31 December 2028

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★☆☆ · Proceed if…

  26. Edition 016Monday, 2 November 2026Canada

    Canada’s Competition Tribunal has not granted a private applicant leave since 2015.

    Since 20 June 2025 any person may seek leave at the Competition Tribunal under six sections, with no filing fee, and a successful applicant may be paid the benefit the respondent derived. The route in is filing an affidavit, a proposed notice and a memorandum.

    Canada federal · $0 to start · Needs: A documented refusal-to-deal or exclusive-dealing injury from an existing supply relationship, plus competition litigation counsel acting on contingency

    Feasibility ★★☆☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★★ · Switch

  27. Edition 006Monday, 2 November 2026Australia

    The ATO lists honey beside grapes as a rebatable wine source product.

    The Australian Taxation Office lists honey as a source product for the wine producer rebate, so a mead maker reclaims the 29% wine tax up to A$400,000 a year. The operator takes a A$343.20 Victorian producer's licence and ferments bought honey.

    Victoria; also: Commonwealth · $425 to start · Needs: Premises in Victoria whose planning zone permits manufacture and retail sale of a fermented beverage without a Class 1 use permit, which costs A$1,537.00 — more than twice the starting capital

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Switch

  28. Edition 047Sunday, 1 November 2026United States

    A lab accreditation spec is now New York City’s legal definition of a lead hazard.

    New York City now defines lead-contaminated dust as 4 micrograms a square foot, a figure taken from a laboratory accreditation spec, and bars re-occupancy until a third party's results arrive. The play is clearance dust-wipe sampling at $299.

    US federal; also: New York City · $480 to start · Needs: EPA lead inspector certification, plus a route to the New York City abatement contractors and managing agents who order clearance · Closed Wednesday, 4 November 2026

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★☆☆ · Proceed if…

  29. Edition 007Sunday, 1 November 2026China

    China caps unregistered online selling at ¥100,000 a year and exempts eight services entirely.

    China's e-commerce law exempts eight named service trades from registration with no turnover ceiling, while goods sellers are capped at ¥100,000 a year. Pick one of the eight, spend the stake on tools rather than formation, and register as 个体工商户 only above ¥294,500 a year.

    China national; also: Shanghai · $0 to start · Needs: Repeat local customers willing to pay well above the ¥52,059 published private-sector average for these trades — the pre-assessment names filling a day at that price, and the repeat demand behind it, as the hard step · Open until Friday, 31 December 2027

    Feasibility ★★☆☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★☆☆ · Switch

  30. Edition 046Saturday, 31 October 2026United States

    Unclaimed songwriter royalties are handed, by statute, to the songs already paid.

    Songwriter mechanicals the MLC cannot match are, after a holding period, paid out pro rata to the songwriters who were matched. The play is registering independent songwriters' catalogues with the MLC for a flat $175 fee before the February 2027 snapshot.

    US federal · $500 to start · Needs: Access to independent songwriters whose catalogues are unregistered or unmatched at the MLC · Closes Wednesday, 10 February 2027

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★☆☆ · Proceed if…

  31. Edition 006Saturday, 31 October 2026South Korea

    Korea's 87% wage rule makes owning a home-care agency worth less than working in one.

    The long-term care fund pays visiting-care agencies, and a ministry notice reserves 87.0% of each fee for care workers, leaving the owner 13.0%. The route in is holding 사회복지사 2급, filling the 제57조 social-worker post yourself, and taking 33.0% across 24 clients.

    South Korea national · Needs: 사회복지사 2급 held by the operator personally — the credential that puts the owner inside the 87.0% wage pool under 고시 제11조의2 and satisfies the 제57조 posting duty; without it the take falls to 13.0%

    Not yet scored

  32. Edition 045Friday, 30 October 2026United States

    A $2,000,000 interest-free loan from the customer, exempted by Treasury for six months.

    A Treasury regulation turns exchange funds into an interest-free loan to the facilitator holding them, exempt below $2,000,000 for six months. The play is earning the float on eleven exchanges a year.

    US federal · Needs: A state facilitator licence where one is required, with a $1,000,000 bond in Nevada and a bond, deposit or dual-signature escrow in California

    Not yet scored

  33. Edition 015Friday, 30 October 2026Canada

    Ontario’s only qualification for taking 3% of another person’s property is being eighteen.

    Ontario prescribes an attorney under a continuing power of attorney 3% of receipts, 3% of disbursements and 0.6% of assets a year, and asks only that the attorney be eighteen. The route in is being named in the document and keeping the prescribed accounts.

    Ontario · $0 to start · Needs: Grantors who will name you attorney under a continuing power of attorney — about ten estates of $500,000 to reach the target

    Not yet scored

  34. Edition 005Friday, 30 October 2026Japan

    Japan prices unwanted land at ¥214,000 a parcel and unlicensed firms charge ¥50,000.

    Japanese heirs pay to be rid of unwanted land: the state charges ¥214,000 per parcel, while 59 private firms charge ¥150,000 for the first and ¥50,000 for each later one. The operator accepts scattered parcels for a ¥500,000 fee and files the ¥2,200 transfer itself.

    Japan national · $500 to start · Needs: Heirs holding scattered unwanted parcels who will pay the ¥500,000 fee; no marketplace lists them and the operator must find them · Open until Wednesday, 31 March 2027

    Not yet scored

  35. Edition 044Thursday, 29 October 2026United States

    Six uncompeted federal purchases a year clear $5,000 a month after tax.

    The United States raised the no-quote federal purchase ceiling 50% to $15,000, and card spend is invisible in the contract database everyone measures. The play is six uncompeted sales a year.

    US federal · $0 to start · Needs: Federal purchase-card holders who already know you and can buy without a competitive quote · Open until Tuesday, 1 October 2030

    Not yet scored

  36. Edition 006Thursday, 29 October 2026France

    An unwritten French agency mandate, registered for €6.05, just won €289,765.49.

    French law gives a commercial agent a termination indemnity worth two years of gross commission that cannot be waived and vests on an unwritten mandate. The route is a €6.05 filing on the agents commerciaux register, then collecting mandates and refusing rate cuts.

    France national · $7 to start · Needs: Principals willing to hand a mandate, won in person at trade fairs and showrooms, together with the retail buyers already in the agent's own book

    Not yet scored

  37. Edition 043Wednesday, 28 October 2026United States

    Of 271 federally registered internet advisers, 107 told the SEC they had no clients.

    The SEC closed its cheapest federal adviser route after finding 107 of 271 users had no clients, while a state registration costs $312 in Texas. The play is advising at 1% of assets.

    US federal · $312 to start · Needs: Advisory clients: the base case needs millions of dollars of assets, not a cheaper registration

    Not yet scored

  38. Edition 014Wednesday, 28 October 2026Canada

    Ontario will waive any court fee except the one it never collects.

    Ontario cannot waive the court transcript fee, so a household qualifying for a fee waiver still pays $6.30 to $12.55 a page to a private transcriptionist, with a $25 order minimum. The route in is the authorized-transcriptionist course and working short, urgent orders.

    Ontario · $717 to start · Needs: Authorization on the Registry of Authorized Court Transcriptionists, which requires the college course and a 98% accuracy examination

    Not yet scored

  39. Edition 005Wednesday, 28 October 2026Germany

    Germany deleted the €18,000 ceiling on exam-free paid tax advice on 1 September.

    Members pay a Lohnsteuerhilfeverein a flat yearly fee for tax help, and since 1 September 2026 § 4 StBerG names no income ceiling at all: the €18,000 limit is deleted. The route in is leading up to three Beratungsstellen, which costs €0 in federal fees.

    Germany federal · $0 to start · Needs: Three years of practical income-tax work at a minimum of sixteen hours a week under § 20 Abs. 2 Nr. 3 StBerG, which training time cannot count towards

    Not yet scored

  40. Edition 042Tuesday, 27 October 2026United States

    America prices a prospector’s eleventh mining claim at $2,050 and the tenth at $15.

    America prices ten mining claims at $15 a year each under a waiver and the eleventh at $200, so the eleventh costs $2,050. The play is six claims for $444 and a royalty.

    US federal · $444 to start · Needs: Federal land open to mineral location with something worth optioning on it · Closed Tuesday, 1 September 2026

    Not yet scored

  41. Edition 005Tuesday, 27 October 2026United Kingdom

    Anyone may be the surveyor who settles a party wall dispute and its cost.

    Neighbours in a party wall dispute pay surveyors who set their own costs under section 10(13), and section 20 admits any person not a party. The operator takes written appointments, which section 10(2) makes irrevocable, and records hours against the 2026 Guideline Hourly Rates.

    England and Wales · $0 to start · Needs: A flow of party wall appointments originated from homeowners, builders or architects — the edition names origination as the entire job

    Not yet scored

  42. Edition 005Tuesday, 27 October 2026Singapore

    Singapore’s tuition cap is nine pupils in total, not nine per class.

    The Education Act 1957 counts 10 or more persons taught across classes, not per class, so an unregistered tutor is capped at nine pupils. The tutor trades under their own name at zero cost, teaching three at a time at home for S$711.67 a pupil.

    Singapore · $0 to start · Needs: Nine fee-paying pupils at S$711.67 each a month — 1.873x a registered centre's published group rate, or about 15 hours a pupil a month

    Not yet scored

  43. Edition 041Monday, 26 October 2026United States

    Amazon taxes software at 20% and the consultant’s hours at 0.5%.

    AWS charges 20% on a software dollar and cut the professional-services fee to 0.5%, then to 0% inside a paid bundle. The play is $60,301.51 of contract value at 0.5%.

    Global (platform terms) · $0 to start · Needs: AWS Marketplace buyers willing to sign a private offer with you

    Not yet scored

  44. Edition 013Monday, 26 October 2026Canada

    Canada deputised 718 private technicians as federal inspectors, then exempted them from its price list.

    Canada makes weights-and-measures device examinations compulsory on a statutory clock, then exempts private inspectors from its own fee schedule; 718 recognised technicians examined 194,791 devices in the year to 31 March 2026. The route in is the technician course, then recognition as an organisation.

    Canada federal · $1,575 to start · Needs: Measurement Canada recognition as a technician, usable only while actively employed by a registered organisation, with the whole door costing $2,204.45

    Not yet scored

  45. Edition 005Monday, 26 October 2026Australia

    Reach Resources is paying A$25,000 and 2,509,008 shares for a A$478 prospecting licence.

    Western Australia sells a prospecting licence for A$478.00 plus A$4.40 a hectare, and explorers buy them for the ground they block: Reach Resources is paying A$25,000 and 2,509,008 shares for one. The operator reads tenement maps against published pit designs, then marks out fifty hectares.

    Western Australia · $491 to start · Needs: Unclaimed ground in Western Australia adjoining an active open-pit operation's optimised shell, which must be physically marked out with posts and trenches on site

    Not yet scored

  46. Edition 040Sunday, 25 October 2026United States

    The cheaper kitchen business on Flippa earned 2.84 times the profit.

    Flippa's own table prices the $10K-$100K band at 2.24x profit on average and 5.96x at the top quartile, wider than any larger band. The play is building $1,333 a month and selling it.

    US federal · $29 to start · Needs: Clients for the business you build first: the multiple is paid on profit, and one retainer is most of the target

    Not yet scored

  47. Edition 006Sunday, 25 October 2026China

    Second-hand books are China's only resale with no VAT and no ceiling.

    Second-hand books are VAT-exempt for any seller at any scale, while every other resold good pays 2% as 旧货, so the gate is a publication permit, not tax. Get the 出版物经营许可证, buy printed matter at ¥1,568 a tonne, and sell the sortable fraction by title.

    China national; also: Shanghai · Needs: An 出版物经营许可证 from the 县级 publishing authority, which 出版物市场管理规定 第九条 conditions on business registration, retail in scope and a fixed premises, and 第十五条 extends to internet distribution

    Not yet scored

  48. Edition 039Saturday, 24 October 2026United States

    FMCSA has been free to halve trucking’s drug testing since January 2025.

    FMCSA may halve trucking's 50% random drug-testing rate on evidence published since January 2025, and has not, while the consortium seat stays flat at $85. The play is 706 one-truck carriers.

    US federal · $0 to start · Needs: One-truck carriers and owner-operators who must sit in somebody's random testing pool

    Not yet scored

  49. Edition 005Saturday, 24 October 2026South Korea

    A statutory 1,550kW ceiling makes Korea's smallest electrical customers the only ones worth holding.

    Site owners pay a registered 개인대행자 ₩142,476 a month per small low-voltage site, a ministry-set fee, while a statutory 1,550kW ceiling caps the book. The route in is individual registration with a technical qualification and the 별표 10 kit, then 47 sites averaging under 32.98kW.

    South Korea national · Needs: Registration as an 개인대행자 under 전기안전관리법 시행규칙 제38조제4항, which requires an electrical technical qualification or a 전력기술인경력확인서 together with the 별표 10 equipment schedule

    Not yet scored

  50. Edition 038Friday, 23 October 2026United States

    No imported food enters until a U.S. agent FDA never verifies says yes.

    No imported food clears the port unless a US agent FDA never verifies agrees, registration costs $0, and renewal runs to 31 December 2026. The play is 70 facilities at $858.

    US federal · $0 to start · Needs: Foreign food facilities whose registration lapses unless an American agent is on file · Closes Thursday, 31 December 2026

    Not yet scored

  51. Edition 012Friday, 23 October 2026Canada

    Ontario set a legal minimum of $1,000 an hour for construction adjudicators.

    Ontario forbids a private construction adjudicator from charging less than $1,000 an hour, and replaces the Authority's percentage cut with a flat $350, so $1,000.00 nets $650.00 where $999.99 nets $600.00. The route in is ODACC's training course and qualification examination.

    Ontario · $1,202 to start · Needs: ODACC certification as a private adjudicator, whose $1,689.35 course and examination exceeds the capital and which qualified 2 of 8 applicants

    Not yet scored

  52. Edition 004Friday, 23 October 2026Japan

    Japan added 42,172 secondhand dealers last year and lost two secondhand markets.

    Japan's 古物営業法 prices the dealer licence and the dealer-market licence identically at ¥19,000; 42,172 dealers registered last year while the market count fell by two. The operator files a 市場規約 and 参集者名簿 of attending dealers, then charges both sides of each trade.

    Japan national · $121 to start · Needs: 古物市場主許可 under 古物営業法第3条, which the prefectural 公安委員会 issues only against a 市場規約 and a 参集者名簿 naming the licensed dealers who will attend

    Not yet scored

  53. Edition 037Thursday, 22 October 2026United States

    Washington fines a building $0.30 a square foot and pays it $0.30.

    Washington fines a Tier 2 building $0.30 a square foot and pays $0.30 to comply, for three documents and no energy target. The play is 24 buildings a year at $2,500.

    Washington State · $0 to start · Needs: Tier 2 covered buildings in Washington State, whose owners can claim the utility-funded incentive · Open until Thursday, 1 July 2027

    Not yet scored

  54. Edition 005Thursday, 22 October 2026France

    One cent of advertising costs a French associative radio €87,359.

    France's FSER pays an associative radio only while its advertising stays below 20% of total turnover, and the form counts the grant itself in that denominator. The route is taking the reserved associative frequency and claiming the installation grant of up to €16,000.

    France national · Needs: An Arcom authorisation to broadcast, held by an association carrying a mission de communication sociale de proximité, for which article 29 reserves a share of the frequencies · Closes Thursday, 19 November 2026

    Not yet scored

  55. Edition 036Wednesday, 21 October 2026United States

    New York’s transparency act now reaches 41 companies and $1,025 a year.

    New York's LLC Transparency Act points at a federal definition the state does not control, and the pointer now resolves to 41 companies paying $25 each. The play is filing for foreign-formed LLCs.

    New York State · $25 to start · Needs: The 41 foreign-formed LLCs the amended definition still reaches, identified from the state's free active-corporations file

    Not yet scored

  56. Edition 011Wednesday, 21 October 2026Canada

    Canada tested 100 trademark registrations at random and 54 died without a reply.

    Any person who pays $595.06 can force a Canadian trademark owner to swear to use, and may file no evidence; of 100 registrations the Registrar tested at random, 54 were expunged unanswered. The route in is auditing which registrations block a client, then filing.

    Canada federal · $423 to start · No scarce input

    Not yet scored

  57. Edition 004Wednesday, 21 October 2026Germany

    Germany’s guardianship fee for the same person drops 53% at month 13.

    The Landeskasse pays a court-appointed Betreuer €208 a month for a ward without means in a care home, €98 from month 13 for the same duties. Entry is a €200 registration under § 24 BtOG, then 14 cases at €324 a month.

    Germany federal · Needs: Registration as a beruflicher Betreuer under § 24 BtOG, requiring proof of Sachkunde, personal suitability and liability cover of at least €250,000 per claim · Closes Friday, 1 January 2027

    Not yet scored

  58. Edition 035Tuesday, 20 October 2026United States

    Filing three years late costs $7,078,226, or $1,500, depending who speaks first.

    A late benefit-plan report costs $2,739 a day with no cap, or $1,500 under a programme that closes the moment the Department writes to you. The play is 48 filings a year at $1,250.

    US federal · $0 to start · Needs: Plan sponsors with delinquent Form 5500s, found by diffing the free EBSA datasets year on year

    Not yet scored

  59. Edition 004Tuesday, 20 October 2026United Kingdom

    A council may not bar your tender for inexperience below £207,720.

    A council buying services below £207,720 may not screen suppliers for experience or turnover before tender, under section 85(1) of the Procurement Act 2023. The operator bids only open below-threshold competitions on the central digital platform, refusing framework call-offs where the filter stays lawful.

    England · $0 to start · No scarce input

    Not yet scored

  60. Edition 004Tuesday, 20 October 2026Singapore

    Singapore’s cheap gold-dealer registration now caps each sale at 12.8 grams.

    Singapore registers a gold dealer for S$250 a year under a cap of S$2,000 a piece, 12.84 grams of 916 gold, while S$350 removes the cap. The operator registers a UEN, pays S$120 and S$350 for Class B, and brokers gold rather than taking title.

    Singapore · $457 to start · Needs: MinLaw registration as a Class B regulated dealer under the Precious Stones and Precious Metals Act 2019; dealing unregistered carries up to S$75,000 and 3 years

    Not yet scored

  61. Edition 034Monday, 19 October 2026United States

    Washington swapped an unrefundable tariff for one that refunds at 99%.

    Section 301 tariffs refund at 99% through drawback and the replacement action's own notice never mentions it, with five years to claim. The play is 4.754 claims a year at 20%.

    US federal · $390 to start · Needs: A customs broker licence: 19 U.S.C. 1641 makes drawback customs business, and the April 2026 examination passed 22%

    Not yet scored

  62. Edition 010Monday, 19 October 2026Canada

    Only 433 people in Canada hold the $175 certificate that legalises beyond-line-of-sight flight.

    SOR/2025-70 moved beyond-visual-line-of-sight drone flight from discretionary permits to a published $310.00 of fees that the Minister must grant, and only 433 people in Canada hold the certificate. The route in is passing the exam and buying an aircraft model already declared.

    Canada federal · $219 to start · Needs: An aircraft of a model already declared and pre-validated under section 901.194, which costs more than the capital left after the $310.00 of fees

    Not yet scored

  63. Edition 004Monday, 19 October 2026Australia

    A$1,000 bought ten years of immunity to bargain against AGL, Origin and Coca-Cola.

    Small businesses may bargain collectively if someone files for them: a s 93AB notification costs A$1,000 with every further counterparty at A$0, yet just 133 groups have filed. The operator recruits one trade's sellers, lodges the free class-exemption notice, then charges members A$120 a month.

    Australia Commonwealth · $698 to start · Needs: Sixty small businesses in one trade facing a common large counterparty who will pay a A$120 monthly subscription, the group size Delivery Angel disclosed · Open until Sunday, 30 June 2030

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  64. Edition 033Sunday, 18 October 2026United States

    Below $14.29 a month, leaving Google Play’s checkout costs more than staying.

    Apple charges $0 on a linked-out purchase in the US App Store while Google Play began charging on 1 October 2026. The play is 532 subscribers at $9.99 off-store.

    US; also: UK, EEA · $124 to start · Needs: Subscribers already inside your app who can be sent to a web checkout · Closes Tuesday, 1 December 2026

    Not yet scored

  65. Edition 005Sunday, 18 October 2026China

    China's 0.25% scrap-seller tax is a prepayment that stops matching at ¥1,800,000.

    A recycler writes the invoice, files the VAT and prepays the seller's income tax at 0.25% of sales to ¥600,000, a prepayment that stops matching the charge above ¥1,800,000. Sell scrap as a natural person to a filed recycler using 三流合一 reverse invoicing, registering nothing.

    China national; also: Shanghai · $0 to start · Needs: A 资源回收企业 buyer qualified to reverse-invoice you — holding a 危险废物经营许可证, a 报废机动车回收拆解企业资质认定证书, or a completed 再生资源回收经营者备案 (in Shanghai, filed with 市商务部门 within 15 days of its licence)

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  66. Edition 032Saturday, 17 October 2026United States

    CMS cut the price of federal arbitration 87% for the side that wins 85%.

    The fee to open federal No Surprises arbitration fell 86.96% to $15 for the side that wins 85%, halving the smallest claim worth filing. The play is batched disputes at $2.97 a line.

    US federal · Needs: Providers holding small out-of-network underpayments that were not worth arbitrating at the old fee · Closed Sunday, 1 November 2026

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  67. Edition 004Saturday, 17 October 2026South Korea

    Korea's largest public developer bars repeat winners from a ₩132,000,000 sculpture call.

    Public owners must spend 1% of construction cost on artwork and cannot pay the fund instead, and LH bars anyone with three or more wins since 1 October 2025. The route in is entering an open LH call gated only on being 19 or over.

    South Korea national · No scarce input · Closed Tuesday, 10 November 2026

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  68. Edition 031Friday, 16 October 2026United States

    The Tax Court is 78% self-represented and passed 14 of 167 non-lawyers.

    Congress opened the Tax Court to non-lawyers in 1954 and 165 have passed since 2000, against 14,468 self-represented petitioners a year. The play is 230.77 hours a year at $260.

    US federal · $200 to start · Needs: Admission to practise before the Tax Court by its non-attorney examination, which 14 of 167 candidates passed

    Not yet scored

  69. Edition 009Friday, 16 October 2026Canada

    Section 103 cancels the credits unless the charging network gives every dollar back.

    The Clean Fuel Regulations mint a credit for every kilowatt-hour put into an electric vehicle, and section 103 makes network operators spend the proceeds while leaving the charging-site host free to keep them. The route in is leasing a station at a fleet site.

    Canada federal · $0 to start · Needs: A high-throughput charging site — a fleet depot, taxi rank or municipal yard — where someone else supplies the vehicles and the kilowatt-hours

    Not yet scored

  70. Edition 003Friday, 16 October 2026Japan

    Japan caps one support officer at 49 foreign workers while authorising 805,700 of them.

    Japanese employers pay registered support organisations to support 特定技能1号 workers, and from 1 April 2027 one full-time officer may lawfully support at most 49 workers across nine employers. Registration costs ¥28,400 and must be filed before that date.

    Japan national · $180 to start · Needs: 登録支援機関 registration with the Immigration Services Agency, the only lawful destination for outsourced 特定技能1号 support · Open until Thursday, 1 April 2027

    Not yet scored

  71. Edition 029Thursday, 15 October 2026United States

    The Copyright Office prices a $741.02 service at $6.

    The Copyright Office prices a DMCA agent designation at $6 against a $741.02 cost of service, and the designation expires every three years. The play is 923 accounts at $65.

    US federal · $6 to start · Needs: Website and platform operators who host user content and have no agent on file, or a lapsed one · Closed Wednesday, 11 November 2026

    Not yet scored

  72. Edition 008Thursday, 15 October 2026Canada

    One freelance interpreter’s federal contract was worth $452,000.00.

    Ottawa must interpret parliamentary proceedings by statute and pays $1,353 for a four-hour day plus a 25% broadcast bonus, while the accredited supplier pool fell from 75 resources to 41. The route in is buying a certification candidacy and sitting the Translation Bureau's accreditation exam.

    Canada federal · $111 to start · Needs: Translation Bureau accreditation as a conference interpreter, which passed 22 of 194 external candidates since 2022

    Not yet scored

  73. Edition 003Thursday, 15 October 2026Germany

    Germany’s deepest letter discount, 50%, begins at 250 letters, not 25,001.

    Deutsche Post refunds consolidators who pre-sort letters for it, paying a flat 50% from 250 items handed in at the delivering Briefzentrum but only 47% at 25,001 nationally. The route in is entry in the Anbieterverzeichnis and a BZE contract, then 31,343 letters a month.

    Germany federal · Needs: Entry in the Bundesnetzagentur's Anbieterverzeichnis under § 5 PostG, required before carrying a letter, with operating outside the register fined up to €500,000 · Closes Friday, 1 January 2027

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  74. Edition 003Thursday, 15 October 2026France

    A €150 door opens on a market whose smallest legal step is €441,000.

    French energy-savings certificates are negotiable property any legal person may hold, and a register account costs €150, after a drafted €100,000 capital test was dropped. The route is opening the account and acting as tiers regroupeur, assembling others' operations into a 50 GWh cumac dossier.

    France national · $465 to start · Needs: Enough obligés or éligibles willing to let you present their energy-saving operations, since the 50 GWh cumac floor applies to the dossier you file, not to your own works

    Not yet scored

  75. Edition 028Tuesday, 13 October 2026United States

    A federal transcript page sells for $4.40 for 90 days, then $0.10.

    A federal transcript page sells for $4.40 inside a 90-day window and $0.10 after it, and the courts' approved lists run six names. The play is 13,636 original pages a year.

    US federal · $275 to start · Needs: AAERT certification and a place on a district court's approved transcriber list, which the court may close at any time

    Not yet scored

  76. Edition 003Tuesday, 13 October 2026United Kingdom

    Defra priced the service at £26 and the software it mandates at £632.

    Permitted waste sites in England pay £26 for Defra's tracking service while the impact assessment budgets £632 a site for the software needed to use it. The operator passes Defra's 14 test scenarios free and joins the gov.uk provider list sites are sent to.

    England, also: Wales · $0 to start · Needs: Defra production API credentials, earned by passing the 14 Production Approval Test scenarios, and the resulting place on the gov.uk approved-provider list

    Not yet scored

  77. Edition 003Tuesday, 13 October 2026Singapore

    Above six permits a month, hiring a Singapore customs agent loses money.

    Importers pay a declaring agent S$10 per TradeNet permit costing S$3.19, filed from a S$40 monthly seat, so the market is importers filing under 5.87 permits monthly. The operator registers a UEN, passes the SC 401 test and activates a Customs Account: S$234.96 in all.

    Singapore · $184 to start · Needs: About 161 small importers each filing fewer than 5.87 permits a month; the edition names clients as the only scarce input

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  78. Edition 027Monday, 12 October 2026United States

    A review nobody is required to request raised 13,884 set-asides by $229,654,328.

    CMS reviews workers' compensation Medicare set-asides free and raised 13,884 of them by $229,654,328, though nobody is required to ask. The play is 26.67 allocation reports a year at $2,250.

    US federal · $0 to start · Needs: Workers' compensation claimants and their attorneys at the point of settlement

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  79. Edition 007Monday, 12 October 2026Canada

    Canada’s newest 5G blocks cost $50.14 a year and bar Bell outright.

    ISED issues 3900 MHz licences first come, first served at the $50.14 minimum annual fee in remote Canada, and bars carriers with 100,000 or more mobile subscribers from four blocks. The route in is filing for the maximum 165 km² and buying one base station.

    Canada federal · $652 to start · Needs: A licence polygon inside ISED's remote classification, with a site to mount the radio and households within it to sell service to

    Not yet scored

  80. Edition 003Monday, 12 October 2026Australia

    The ACCC moved BYD’s dealer diagnostics from A$14,719.60 outright to A$140 a day.

    Australian law forces carmakers to sell diagnostic access by the day, and the ACCC moved BYD from A$14,719.60 to A$140, yet 1% of technicians hold the credential. The operator buys A$211 in AASRA registration, EV module and police check, then rents brand-days to batch jobs.

    Australia Commonwealth · $147 to start · Needs: AASRA scheme-adviser registration, open only to a verified automotive service, repair, modification, dismantling or smash-repair business, plus the AURETH101 high-voltage battery unit and a current AFP police check

    Not yet scored

  81. Edition 026Sunday, 11 October 2026United States

    Five business days of silence is worth 2.5¢ a kilowatt-hour.

    The IRS prices the same kilowatt-hour at 0.6 cents or 3.1 cents, and the higher rate is free to any facility under one megawatt. The play is filing the wage determination that unlocks it.

    US federal · $0 to start · Needs: Owners of sub-megawatt generating facilities who will let you prepare the filing that claims the higher rate

    Not yet scored

  82. Edition 004Sunday, 11 October 2026China

    The only zero-tax structure in PRC law is the one that forbids adding value.

    A grower selling self-produced produce pays no VAT and no income tax, with no ceiling, and needs no registration; processing or reselling bought-in produce cancels it. Grow and sell direct at 50–200 kg a day, carrying the 产地证明 and 检测合格证明 Shanghai requires, never through wholesale.

    China national; also: Shanghai · Needs: The 产地证明 and 检测合格证明 that 上海市食品安全条例 第五十条 requires on every edible agricultural product offered for sale, plus a pitch inside the 临时区域(点)and hours a district government designates under 第六十二条

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  83. Edition 025Saturday, 10 October 2026United States

    FEMA pays $510 for a flood claim that pays the policyholder nothing.

    FEMA pays a flood adjuster by the file, $510 even for a claim closed without payment, and posts no entry requirements of its own. The play is working the fee schedule's small-file rows.

    US federal · $0 to start · Needs: An adjuster licence and NFIP certification, plus admission to a WYO firm's roster, which costs a senior adjuster's inspections to grant

    Not yet scored

  84. Edition 003Saturday, 10 October 2026South Korea

    Korea's only legal online liquor shop is a brewing licence given away on recommendation.

    Korean law lets only approved 전통주 manufacturers sell liquor by mail, and one holding a 직매장 may ship other breweries' bottles nationwide. The route in is 농업경영체 등록, a 제8조 recommendation from the Minister of Agriculture, a small-scale manufacturing licence and 지방국세청장 승인.

    South Korea national · Needs: A 전통주 제조면허 obtained on the Minister of Agriculture's recommendation under 전통주산업법 제8조제1항, held by a registered 농업경영체, plus the 지방국세청장 승인 that permits mail-order sale

    Not yet scored

  85. Edition 024Friday, 9 October 2026United States

    Congress will pay $15,000 for a plan whose published price is $5,000.

    Congress pays 100% of a small employer's retirement-plan startup costs, up to $5,000 a year, so the buyer's cost is zero. The play is selling setup against a credit that repays it.

    US federal · $0 to start · Needs: Small employers with no retirement plan who will let you set one up and claim the credit

    Not yet scored

  86. Edition 006Friday, 9 October 2026Canada

    Ontario charges $50.00 a cell for ground that fetched $21,428.57 in March.

    Ontario registers a mining claim cell for $50.00 and a prospector's licence for $40.00, and publishes every forfeited parcel in the mid-May Gazette; fourteen cells were optioned in March 2026 for $300,000 cash. The route in is reading that list and registering a contiguous block.

    Ontario · $485 to start · No scarce input

    Not yet scored

  87. Edition 002Friday, 9 October 2026Japan

    Japan’s lowest supplier grade now covers the exact band where competitive tendering was abolished.

    Japanese ministries award contracts up to ¥2,000,000 for services without a tender, choosing who is asked to quote, and the lowest D supplier grade covers that whole band. A new supplier registers free for 全省庁統一資格, claims 新規中小企業者 status and quotes under ¥2,000,000.

    Japan national · $0 to start · Needs: 全省庁統一資格 supplier registration, graded D under 予決令第72条 — without it an official cannot place a no-tender award with you

    Not yet scored

  88. Edition 023Thursday, 8 October 2026United States

    DOJ priced the door into this market at exactly $500.

    The Justice Department prices approval as a bankruptcy financial-management course provider at about $500 and never enforced its own fee cap. The play is 1,200 certificates a year at $50.

    US federal · $500 to start · Needs: Approval by the Executive Office for United States Trustees as a personal financial management course provider

    Not yet scored

  89. Edition 002Thursday, 8 October 2026France

    The French state prices a phone number at €0.02 a year.

    Arcep taxes a French telephone number at €0.02 a year in blocks of 10,000, while a published retail list rents the same number at €0.80 HT a month. The route is taking one block in a single zone for €200 a year and reselling numbers.

    France national · $224 to start · Needs: An Arcep attribution of a 10,000-number block in one zone de numérotation élémentaire under décision 2018-0881, open only to an applicant up to date on its taxes

    Not yet scored

  90. Edition 022Wednesday, 7 October 2026United States

    HUD doubled the billable visits on a loan only 835 people may inspect.

    HUD raised the billable visits on 203(k) loans that only 835 consultants may inspect, pricing draw inspections at $375 each. The play is joining that list and working the repeat fees.

    US federal · $360 to start · Needs: A place on HUD's closed roster of 835 consultants, which requires a licensed architect or engineer or three years of qualifying experience

    Not yet scored

  91. Edition 004Wednesday, 7 October 2026Canada

    Ottawa projects refunding 77.9% of the auto surtax and 28.8% of everyone else’s.

    Ottawa projects remitting $4,697 million of $8,722 million in counter-tariff revenue, and the open remission order covers any US-origin good used in Canadian manufacturing, uncapped. The route in is a free import-export account and contingency claims filed within two years of importation.

    Canada federal · $141 to start · Needs: Importers of surtaxed US-origin goods who will hand over two years of customs entries on a contingency fee · Open until Thursday, 4 March 2027

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★★☆ · Proceed if…

  92. Edition 002Wednesday, 7 October 2026Germany

    Nordrhein-Westfalen’s discounted group rate pays 2.4 times its full one-to-one rate.

    Care insurers pay recognised everyday-support providers in Nordrhein-Westfalen €25 an hour one-to-one but €20 per person for three at once, which is €60 an hour. The route in is a 40-hour course and district recognition, then 34 clients at €131 a month.

    Nordrhein-Westfalen · Needs: Recognition as an everyday-support provider by the Kreis or kreisfreie Stadt under § 19 Abs. 1 AnFöVO, which requires the 40-hour Basisqualifikation under § 8 Abs. 3

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  93. Edition 021Tuesday, 6 October 2026United States

    America has 1,300 people certified to write a plan USDA prices at $6,153.48.

    USDA prices a conservation plan at $6,153.48 for three land uses and about 1,300 people are certified to write one. The play is certifying free and writing plans against the published schedule.

    Kansas · $0 to start · Needs: Certification to write the plan: about 1,300 people nationally hold it, and the engineering lines sit behind state licensure

    Not yet scored

  94. Edition 002Tuesday, 6 October 2026United Kingdom

    Priced for 1% of High Court cases, the letter-only stage now settles 24%.

    A certificated enforcement agent earns £79 for serving one letter and £247 for a visit, and the 2026 reform excludes business debt from its 28-day notice extension. The operator is certificated and works commercial rent arrears, which section 72 allows without a court order.

    England and Wales · Needs: A court-granted enforcement agent certificate under SI 2014/421, which requires £10,000 of security lodged by way of bond

    Not yet scored

  95. Edition 002Tuesday, 6 October 2026Singapore

    Nanyang Polytechnic awarded S$89,100 to one named individual, not a company.

    Singapore agencies buy up to S$90,000 by quotation with no supplier registration or audited accounts: Nanyang Polytechnic awarded S$89,100 to a named person, not a company. The operator registers a sole proprietorship for S$115, takes the free GeBIZ account, and quotes from MOF's award file.

    Singapore · $90 to start · No scarce input

    Not yet scored

  96. Edition 020Monday, 5 October 2026United States

    SSA will pay one employment network $38,268 for a single beneficiary who works.

    SSA pays an employment network up to $38,268 when one disability beneficiary works, and the realised average is $651. The play is 92 cases a year at that average.

    US federal · $0 to start · Needs: Disability beneficiaries who will assign their Ticket and actually go back to work

    Not yet scored

  97. Edition 003Monday, 5 October 2026Canada

    Schedule VI zero-rates your American invoices, and section 169 refunds your Canadian costs.

    An invoice to a foreign client is a zero-rated taxable supply, so it counts toward the $30,000 small-supplier threshold while the Canadian tax on costs stays refundable. The route in is registering for GST/HST on day one, electing monthly returns and refusing the quick method.

    Canada federal · $42 to start · Needs: Non-resident clients to invoice, since the zero-rating and the refund both depend on the recipient being a non-resident person

    Not yet scored

  98. Edition 002Monday, 5 October 2026Australia

    The US$5,000-a-month Commonwealth contract fell below Australia’s tender line on 17 November 2025.

    Commonwealth entities may buy up to A$125,000 without an open tender, and exemption 17 extends that to A$500,000 from any supplier under 200 staff. The operator registers a free ABN and AusTender account, buys insurance, then filters contract notices for buyers already using limited tender.

    Australia Commonwealth · $416 to start · No scarce input

    Not yet scored

  99. Edition 019Sunday, 4 October 2026United States

    Carriers refunded $2,890,000 last year to the 164 complainants who bothered to ask.

    A demurrage invoice missing any of thirteen required elements cannot be collected, and only 164 complainants asked last year. The play is 13.6 cases a year at a quarter of $17,622.

    US federal · $104 to start · Needs: Shippers and truckers holding demurrage and detention invoices they have already paid without checking

    Not yet scored

  100. Edition 002Sunday, 4 October 2026China

    Shanghai's bankruptcy auctions have no price floor, and three registered trademarks opened at ¥1,920.

    Shanghai bankruptcy auctions carry no price floor and no cap on cuts, so one estate opened three registered trademarks at ¥1,920, ¥640 a mark. Filter the auction platforms for 破产强清 rather than 司法拍卖, read the creditors' realisation plan, and bid with a resale buyer named.

    Shanghai · $0 to start · Needs: An identified end buyer for the specific trademark, receivable or equity lot, named before you bid — the margin is the gap between what the creditors' committee will take and what that buyer will pay

    Not yet scored

  101. Edition 018Saturday, 3 October 2026United States

    $2,285,000,000 of federal school-internet money went unrequested in a year with no competition.

    Schools left $2,285,000,000 of E-Rate money unrequested in a year when every eligible request was funded in full. The play is eight retained applicants at $7,750.

    US federal · $0 to start · Needs: Schools and libraries eligible for E-Rate that are not filing a Form 470 at all

    Not yet scored

  102. Edition 002Saturday, 3 October 2026South Korea

    ₩20,000 buys the one Korean lodging licence with no residence, nationality or day limit.

    Guests pay hanok operators, and Korea's 한옥체험업 licence costs ₩20,000 with no owner-residence duty, no foreigners-only rule and no annual night cap. The route in is a 사용권 from a Seoul owner carrying a five-year operating undertaking, then two houses at ₩530,000 a night.

    Seoul · $125 to start · Needs: A 사용권 over a Seoul hanok whose owner took the city's restoration grant and carries the five-year 한옥체험업 operating undertaking; the arithmetic is priced on 종로구, 성북구 and 동대문구 stock, and 북촌1구역 is closing to new registrations

    Not yet scored

  103. Edition 017Friday, 2 October 2026United States

    $750,000 from Alphabet for paperwork the SEC tells OMB takes 30 minutes.

    The SEC tells OMB that Section 16 filings cost filers $0 to buy and take 30 minutes, then fines people who miss them. The play is 664 filings a year on a $2,995 subscription.

    US federal · $480 to start · Needs: Corporate insiders and small issuers with Section 16 filing obligations nobody has priced for them

    Not yet scored

  104. Edition 002Friday, 2 October 2026Canada

    Ottawa can hand one person $40,000 of work without soliciting a single bid.

    Ottawa can award a services contract up to $40,000 without soliciting any bid, and must publish every award over $10,000 with the supplier's name and price. The route in is a $60 sole-proprietor registration, free federal supplier accounts, and quoting inside the ceiling.

    Canada federal · $42 to start · Needs: A federal buyer who already has your name, because s. 6(b)(iv) is a permission for the department and confers no right to be asked; the published contract file must already show awards in your trade

    Feasibility ★★★☆☆ · Difficulty ★★★☆☆ · Proceed if…

  105. Edition 001Friday, 2 October 2026Japan

    Japan’s invoice cliff landed at 70% yesterday, not the legislated 50%.

    Japanese buyers may deduct 70% of the tax on purchases from unregistered suppliers, not the 50% the 2016 statute set, cutting the penalty for staying unregistered to ¥1.20 per ¥100. A sole proprietor registers free via e-Tax and bills businesses ¥790,800 a month pre-tax.

    Japan national · $0 to start · Needs: Japanese business buyers willing to contract direct at ¥790,800 a month pre-tax, rather than through a freelance marketplace · Closes Thursday, 31 December 2026

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  106. Edition 016Thursday, 1 October 2026United States

    662,000 revoked nonprofits never filed the $275 form that undoes it.

    The IRS restores 662,000 auto-revoked nonprofits retroactively, penalty waived, if they file one $275 form inside fifteen months. The play is 14.3 reinstatements a year at the $350 marketplace rate.

    US federal · $275 to start · Needs: Auto-revoked nonprofits still inside the fifteen-month retroactive reinstatement window

    Not yet scored

  107. Edition 001Thursday, 1 October 2026France

    Since 1 April a €60,000 no-tender French contract must be prepaid €12,000.

    A French public buyer may award a contract below €60,000 HT with no advert and no competition, and above €50,000 HT a 20% advance becomes a right. The route is free micro-entrepreneur registration, liability cover, and writing to the service holding the budget.

    France national · Needs: A French public buyer's budget-holding service that already has your SIRET, insurance certificate and attestation de vigilance on file, since nothing about these awards is advertised

    Not yet scored

  108. Edition 015Wednesday, 30 September 2026United States

    Statute hands $243,856,456.84 of unclaimed royalties to whoever already has market share.

    Unclaimed mechanical royalties are distributed by market share rather than held for the writer who earned them, $243,856,456.84 of them. The play is registering writers' catalogues at a published 20% rate.

    US federal · $500 to start · Needs: Independent songwriters whose catalogues are unregistered or unmatched at the MLC

    Not yet scored

  109. Edition 001Wednesday, 30 September 2026Germany

    Germany just made €50,000 of federal money awardable with no tender and no notice.

    German federal authorities pay suppliers for routine services, and since 1 July 2026 may award up to €50,000 net with no tender and no published notice. The route in is a €26.00 Gewerbeanmeldung and asking Vergabestellen to enter you in their supplier file.

    Germany federal · $30 to start · No scarce input

    Not yet scored

  110. Edition 014Tuesday, 29 September 2026United States

    FMCSA prices the Clearinghouse query at $1.25 and lets unlicensed resellers charge $12.

    Every self-employed CDL driver must join a consortium, and FMCSA states there are no qualification requirements to run one. The play is 717 enrolled drivers at $83.75 net.

    US federal · $499 to start · Needs: Self-employed CDL drivers and small carriers who must join somebody's consortium pool

    Not yet scored

  111. Edition 001Tuesday, 29 September 2026United Kingdom

    £341 of tribunal fees now buys a claim capped at 24 months’ rent.

    A tenant pays £341 in tribunal fees for a rent repayment order now capped at 24 months' rent, refunded under rule 13(2) on a win. The operator finds unlicensed HMOs on council licence registers and represents the tenants, which rule 14(1) allows without legal qualification.

    England · $452 to start · Needs: Tenants of unlicensed HMOs in designated licensing areas who will appoint you as their representative under rule 14(1)

    Not yet scored

  112. Edition 001Tuesday, 29 September 2026Singapore

    NEA let one Indian Cuisine stall at S$2 a month and another at S$4,349.

    Hawker stallholders pay NEA rent set by sealed tender with no reserve price, so April 2026 let the same Indian Cuisine trade at S$2 and S$4,349 a month. The operator bids on stalls that drew one bid, paying a S$500 tender deposit and S$32 licence.

    Singapore · $573 to start · Needs: An NEA hawker stall won in a tender that drew few or no other bidders, operated personally — subletting and assignment are prohibited

    Not yet scored

  113. Edition 012Monday, 28 September 2026United States

    Four organisations have collected $14,405,301.80 from California insurers for arguing against rate increases. In thirteen years, eleven people and groups have asked to join them. Two were turned down. The statute’s first sentence is “Any person may initiate or intervene.”

    California pays intervenors who argue against insurance rate rises, and in thirteen years only eleven petitioners have appeared, four of whom collected $14,405,301.80. The play is 19 billable hours a month at $265.

    California · $30 to start · No scarce input

    Not yet scored

  114. Edition 001Monday, 28 September 2026Canada

    Québec wrote a paid repair technician into statute, and nobody read it that way. The clock starts 5 October 2026.

    Québec's repair statute pays the technician, not the owner: it protects the consumer's paid agent, makes service manuals free, and from 5 October 2026 warrants appliances for up to six years. The route in is registering as a sole proprietor and quoting merchants $159.99 calls.

    Quebec · $500 to start · Needs: Being physically in Québec to attend appliance calls, since the warranty durations and the free repair information are Québec statute

    Not yet scored

  115. Edition 001Monday, 28 September 2026Australia

    264,970 of Australia’s 277,376 paid NDIS providers are not registered.

    The NDIS pays 264,970 unregistered providers the same A$73.58 hourly cap for weekday personal care as registered ones, because registration gates only five support classes. The operator buys an A$112 worker check and first aid, works platform shifts at A$61.35, then converts to direct clients.

    Australia Commonwealth · $465 to start · No scarce input

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  116. Edition 011Sunday, 27 September 2026United States

    CBP has certified $122 billion of tariff refunds and cannot pay $1.3 billion of it. 20,184 refunds — an average of $64,410 each — are frozen because the importer never gave CBP a bank account. And the rule CBP wrote says only the broker who filed the original entry may claim.

    CBP has certified $122 billion of tariff refunds and $1.3 billion sits frozen for missing bank details, while any licensed broker may file the protest. The play is 33 filings a month at $150.

    US federal · $390 to start · Needs: A customs broker licence: the $390 examination has a 22% pass rate and the protest cannot be filed without it · Closed Wednesday, 28 October 2026

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  117. Edition 001Sunday, 27 September 2026China

    Shanghai's own rule for its government marketplace forbids anyone from charging a supplier to be listed on it — and PRC procurement law names 自然人, a natural person, as a valid supplier.

    Shanghai's rule bans any charge for listing on its government e-marketplace, and PRC law names a natural person a lawful supplier, paid 10 working days after invoice. Register as a sole trader, list on the 网上超市, and price each quote under ¥200,000 to avoid auction.

    Shanghai · $0 to start · Needs: 个体工商户 registration and the 电子营业执照 it issues — the licence is what lets you raise the 发票 that starts the 10-working-day payment clock, and what backs the 承诺与审核 undertaking for 网上超市 entry · Open until Friday, 31 December 2027

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  118. Edition 010Saturday, 26 September 2026United States

    A federal agency told the White House, in writing, that the annual work of being a foreign food company’s U.S. agent is 0.25 hours. The registration it unlocks costs $0. Without it, 21 U.S.C. 381(l) holds the company’s cargo at the port. Published price for those fifteen minutes: $279–$849 a year.

    FDA charges $0 to register a foreign food facility and requires only a US agent with an American address, a role its own burden estimate prices at 0.25 hours a year. The play is 71 clients at $849.

    US federal · $0 to start · Needs: Foreign food facilities that need an American agent on file before their cargo is released · Closed Thursday, 1 October 2026

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  119. Edition 001Saturday, 26 September 2026South Korea

    Korea runs four legally binding public-procurement quotas. Three were beaten in 2025. The fourth — 8% reserved for firms less than seven years old — came in at 3.06%, leaving ₩8.23 trillion of mandated spend unplaced.

    Korean public institutions must place 8% of purchases with firms under seven years old but placed 3.06% in FY2025, leaving ₩8.23 trillion unplaced. The route in is a free 사업자등록 plus 창업기업확인 and 중소기업확인서, which lift the no-tender ceiling to ₩100m.

    South Korea national · $81 to start · Needs: 창업기업확인 under 창업지원법 제39조 and a 중소기업확인서 or 소상공인확인서 — both free and issued online, but without them the no-competition award ceiling stays at ₩20m instead of ₩100m

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  120. Edition 009Friday, 25 September 2026United States

    A federal agency just cut the price of admission to its own $22.4 billion arbitration market by 87% — $115 to $15 per dispute — and from 1 November one dispute may carry 50 claims instead of one. Providers win 85% of these.

    The fee to start federal No Surprises arbitration fell from $115 to $15 a party, and providers won 85% of 1,145,039 determinations. The play is 1.5 batched disputes a month.

    US federal · Needs: Providers with underpaid out-of-network claims who will hand you their disputes · Closed Sunday, 1 November 2026

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  121. Edition 008Thursday, 24 September 2026United States

    One unaccredited firm collected more than $250,000,000 for VA claims help. A federal judge ruled in May that it was illegal. The legal version of that job needs no degree, no license, and costs $0 — and 473 people in the country hold it.

    The VA accredits non-attorney claims agents for $0 after a 75% exam and only 473 hold the credential, while an unaccredited firm charging 5x was ruled illegal. The play is 13 appeals a year.

    US federal · $0 to start · Needs: VA accreditation as a claims agent under 38 CFR 14.629(b), which takes a 75% exam and which only 473 people hold

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  122. Edition 007Wednesday, 23 September 2026United States

    Epic is currently paying island developers 74% of what players spend. Apple pays 70%. Roblox's own filing says it paid 22%. The 74% expires on 1 February 2027.

    Epic pays Fortnite island creators about 74% of what players spend until 31 January 2027, while Roblox's own filing shows 22.1%. The play is 40 island sales a day at 500 V-Bucks.

    Global (platform terms) · $20 to start · Needs: Players who find and play the island; Epic's payout is a share of what an audience already spends · Closes Sunday, 31 January 2027

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  123. Edition 006Tuesday, 22 September 2026United States

    The federal court tier that requires no exam has had its pay raised 89% since 2015. The tier that requires the exam: 48%.

    Federal courts pay an uncertified language-skilled interpreter 89% more than in 2015 while certified pay rose 48%, and exams exist for only three languages. The play is 9.3 days a month at the uncertified rate.

    US federal · Needs: A place on a federal court's interpreter roster in one of the languages it actually calls

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  124. Edition 005Monday, 21 September 2026United States

    Disability advocates told the FTC that 60–82% of the days a broken wheelchair sits unrepaired are caused by the vendor having nobody to send.

    Wheelchair repair stalls because vendors have nobody to send, and six states now force manufacturers to hand independent repairers the manuals and tools free. The play is billing Medicare labour at $32.02 a quarter-hour.

    US federal; also: Washington · Needs: A Medicare DMEPOS supplier enrolment, without which the K0739 repair labour cannot be billed

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  125. Edition 004Saturday, 19 September 2026United States

    The federal government spent $39.4 billion on credit cards last year, and below $15,000 the regulation says the seller does not have to be registered in SAM.

    Federal buyers moved $39.4 billion on purchase cards at a $480 average, and below the micro-purchase ceiling no competitive quote or SAM registration is required. The play is 10.4 card orders a month.

    US federal · $0 to start · Needs: Federal purchase-card holders who already know you and can buy below the micro-purchase ceiling without a quote

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  126. Edition 003Friday, 18 September 2026United States

    On the only Stripe-verified revenue database, the AI category has the lowest median revenue of any category measured.

    On the only Stripe-verified revenue database, AI projects post the lowest median revenue of any category, $156 a month, while a Buffer clone shipping a CLI clears far more. The play is 173 accounts at $29.

    Global (platform terms) · Needs: Distribution: an audience or channel that converts to paid accounts, which the lowest-median category does not supply on its own

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  127. Edition 002Thursday, 17 September 2026United States

    A state agency published the exact dollar line where its automation stops. The line is $500.

    States return small unclaimed-property balances automatically and cap what a finder may charge, so the fee ceiling rather than the work limits the trade. The play is working claims inside the legislated $500-$5,000 band.

    Pennsylvania; also: North Carolina · No scarce input

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  128. Edition 001Wednesday, 16 September 2026United States

    The acquisition multiple did not move while product supply exploded.

    Buyers of small SaaS price distribution rather than product, so the median multiple stays flat at 3.9x even as AI floods supply. The play is building channel-first at $500 and selling into that unmoved multiple.

    Global (platform and market data) · Needs: Distribution: an existing channel or audience to launch the product into, which is what buyers are shown to price

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