USA: James Randi Educational Foundation $1,000,000 award
Open to:
Anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event.

An additional $50,000 is available to the person who introduces a successful claimant. (Note that this amount has not been included in the totals below).

Link to main award details: http://www.randi.org/research/index.html?
Link to 'finder's fee' details: http://www.mindspring.com/~anson/randi-hotline/1998/0012.html


USA: New York Area skeptics' $2,000 JREF pledge
In the event that the James Randi Educational Foundation's $1,000,000 be won, the New York Area skeptics will add a further $2000 to the total.

Contact: Jeff Corey jcorey@liunet.edu


USA: Shadow Villanueva $2,000 JREF pledge/award
In the event that the James Randi Educational Foundation's $1,000,000 be won, Mr Villanueva will add a further $2000 to the total.
Alternatively, the amount may be awarded to anyone passing his paranormal challenge.
Open To:
Anyone who can provide evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power.
Link: http://www.magickalshadow.com/challenge.html


Canada: Les Sceptiques du Quebec CAN$10,000 award ($9,000 approx)
Open To:
Anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event.

This challenge is run in conjunction with the James Randi Educational Foundation. The winning of this prize will also be considered a successful completion of the JREF preliminary test (see link).
Link : http://www.sceptiques.qc.ca/DS/dsmain.html (in French - click here for the Alta Vista Babel Fish Translation service)


UK: Association for Skeptical Enquiry £13,000 award ($23,000 approx).
Open to:
Those with psychic powers.
Link: http://www.aske-skeptics.org.uk/challenge_rules.htm


Australia: Australian Skeptics' AUD$100,000 award ($75,000 approx)
Open to:
Those with psychic/paranormal powers.

Upon successful completion of the test, the claimant will be awarded AUD$80,000 and the person who introduced the claimant AUD$20,000. If the successful claimant contacted the Australian Skeptics him/herself, AUD$100,000 will be awarded.
Link: http://www.skeptics.com.au/prizes/challenge.htm

On occasions, tests performed in an attempt to win this prize have been accepted (by representatives of the James Randi Educational Foundation) as also constituting the preliminary tests for the JREF million dollar challenge.
Source: http://www.randi.org/jr/011102.html


China: Sima Nan 10,000,000 yuan award ($1,200,000 approx)
Open to:
Anyone who can prove, under strict scientific conditions, that they have supernatural powers.

*Attempts are still being made to verify the details of this challenge.*

The winning of this prize will also be considered a successful completion of the JREF preliminary test.
Winners of the JREF $1,000,000 challenge will automatically be awarded this prize too.
Source: http://www.randi.org/jr/11-30-1999.html


USA: Fayetteville Freethinkers' $1,000 award
Open to:
Anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event.
Web page: http://members.aol.com/fayfreethinkers/index.html


USA: Tampa Bay Skeptics' $1000 award
Open To:
Anyone able to demonstrate any paranormal phenomenon under mutually agreed upon observing conditions.
Link: http://www.tampabayskeptics.org/challenges.html


USA: North Texas Skeptics' $12,000 award
Open To:
Any person who can demonstrate any psychic or paranormal power or ability under scientifically valid observing conditions.
Link: http://www.ntskeptics.org/challenge/challenge.htm


India: B. Premanand 100,000 rupee award ($2,000 approx)
Open to:
Any person or persons who will demonstrate any psychic, supernatural of paranormal ability of any kind under satisfactory observing conditions.
Link: http://www.indian-skeptic.org/html/rules.htm


USA: Eric Krieg $10,000 award
Open To:
Any persons who can demonstrate a working free energy device
Link: http://www.phact.org/e/freetest.html
Additionally there is a $2,000 commission available to anyone referring an applicant who performs a successful test. (This commission is not included in the total below).


USA: Center for Inquiry - West $50,000 award
Open To:
Anyone who can prove paranormal or paranatural ability.
Link: http://www.iigwest.com/challenge.html


UK: Tony Youens £5,000 award ($9,000 approx)
Open To:
Any psychic that can present a claim capable of being objectively tested.
Link: http://www.tonyyouens.com/challenge.htm


Finland: Finnish Association of Skeptics' (in collaboration with Hannu Karttunen and Iiro Seppänen) 10,000 Euros award ($12,000 approx)
Open To:
Anybody who can produce a paranormal phenomenon under satisfactory observing conditions
Link: http://www.skepsis.fi/eng/ (Abbreviated description, in English)


Finland: Finnish Association of Skeptics' (Skepsis) 10,000 Euros grant ($12,000 approx)
Open to:
The first non-human alien visitor that applies for it in person, and agrees to leave a sample of DNA (or the equivalent) for scientific study, or any human contactee who helps Skepsis get in touch with the aforementioned alien visitor.
Link: http://www.skepsis.fi/eng/ (Abbreviated description, in English)


Belgium: SKEPP (in association with the Sisyphus project) 10,500 Euros award ($13,000 approx)
Open to:
Anyone who can show that they have paranormal capacities or prove pseudoscientific claims.
A successful initial test, in the presence of SKEPP representatives, will result in an award of 500 Euros. An additional 10,00 Euro sum will be awarded on the successful completion of a second test, with representatives of the Sisyphus project in attendance.
Link: http://www.skepp.be/prijzen/de-sisyphus-prijs/ (in Dutch - click here for the Alta Vista Babel Fish Translation service)


Kazakhstan: Kazakhstan Commission for the Investigation of Anomalous Phenomena (KCIAP) $1,000 award
Open To:
Any person who can show they are in contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence by identifying (with the ET's aid) the path of 10 comets that are not yet known to science. A precise figure, identifying the moment in which each of the comets passes the perihelion of their respective orbits, will be required.
Contact: Sergey Efimov efim@aphi.kz


Italy: Alfredo Barrago's 50,000 Euro bet ($60,000 approx)
Open to:
Any "medium, seers, sensitive etc." who can demonstrate a phenomenon of a "paranormal nature" in the presence of a committee of observers.
Should the demonstration be successful, the 50,000 Euros put forward by Alfredo Barrago will be handed to the claimant. In the event of failure, the 50,000 Euros offered by the claimant will be given to charity.
Link: http://www.antiplagio.org/eng/pages/millenium.html


New Zealand: Stuart Landsborough's Puzzling World NZ$50,000 challenge ($35,000 approx)
Open to:
Anyone who can find the hidden promissory note with their paranormal powers.
NZ$1,000 ($700 approx) challenge entry cost.
Contact: info@puzzlingworld.co.nz