Synopsis:
Time for New Year's resolutions. Donald resolves to cook only the kind of food his nephews like. The nephews resolve to eat only the kind of food their uncle likes. Collision course...

Stakes:
The stakes are terribly high - if you lose you wash the dishes for a whole month!!! Who wouldn't stoop to cheating? Well, Donald has no inhibitions...

Synopsis:
Scrooge participates in a steamboat race in which two river captains are fighting over a southern mansion on the Mississippi River.

Stakes:
The uncles of Scrooge and 'Horseshoe' Hogg raced their paddle-wheelers 85 years ago, but they never managed to finish the race and win the great prize. Their nephews are now finishing the overdue bet but they do not realize that the grand but unattended house is now worthless - it is nothing but a ruin...

Synopsis:
Scrooge makes a bet with Donald that he can find gold anywhere on the globe. They wind up in the Australian desert...

Stakes:
Although this is just about the worst place to look for valuables, Scrooge is confident that his knowledgeability can help him strike gold. He even offers Donald one dollar for every hundred dollars worth he collects along the way!!!

Synopsis:
Scrooge's Zoo is failing and in order to get some more guests he will pay a billion dollars for a speckled elephant with a square trunk!

Stakes:
The stakes are toweringly high and many feel called upon, but Scrooge is calm; no one will ever be able to collect. His heart misses a few beats, though, when lucky Gladstone also enters the competition...

Synopsis:
What does it take to climb Old Demontooth? Donald's youthful vigour or Scrooge's overwhelming wealth?

Stakes:
Donald wagers that he can beat Scrooge to the top of mountain Demontooth, and they both start the arduous climb. Only one man has ever climbed Old Demontooth - and he has been in a rest home ever since!

Synopsis:
Donald is stricken with megalomania and sees himself as the world's greatest kite flyer. And perhaps he is! But the nephews are hesitant...

Stakes:
The scene for the bet on who is the greatest kite flyer is quickly set, when the nephews dare Donald in order not to get a good beating.

Synopsis:
The nephews and Donald get into a swimming contest. But Donald plans to cheat by hindering the nephews. Among others he is using a miniature submarine to help him along.

Stakes:
The nephews are tiring of being forced to play the piano instead of being allowed to swim, so Donald promises that they will never have to play again - if they win...

Synopsis:
Donald and Scrooge get into a contest as to who is the best salesman. Donald bets that he can beat Scrooge at any odd job. Scrooge accepts the challenge. They arrive in a city where Donald tries to sell mini hi-fis that play Bongo music...

Stakes:
This is a duel of skills: Donald's energetic spirit against Scrooge's experienced enterprising. Donald quickly manages to sell scores of his goods, but Scrooge is biding his time...

Synopsis:
Flintheart Glomgold challenges Scrooge to a competition - who is the richest duck in the world? Will Flintheart play fair?

Stakes:
This is a very inconvenient sort of bet, because both contestants have to convert all their assets into silver coins in order to settle the argument. But they both gladly do it in order to win the show-off bet...

Synopsis:
Donald bets that he can bathe in the lake during winter and Gladstone bets that he can drink two gallons of lemonade in one hour. Will they ever learn?

Stakes:
Donald will forfeit his house to Gladstone if he loses, but - thanks to Daisy - she has made the latter sign an agreement that he will give back the house if he loses!
The two relatives make yearly bets that neither of them are able to carry through. So, for next year Donald will climb in a barrel of ice water and sit in it for an hour, and Gladstone will drink five gallons of lemonade in half an hour...