The most sophisticated emoji challenge on earth: 5–8 completely random emojis drop (no faces, no objects, only abstract or emotionally charged symbols: 🌪️🪞🕳️🕊️🔻, etc.). You have 20–35 minutes to craft a polished short story (spoken or written, 300–600 words) that: uses every emoji as a pivotal plot/symbolic element, employs an assigned literary technique (flashback, unreliable narrator, magical realism, stream-of-consciousness, etc.), sustains a specific mood and stylist

One of the deepest and most elegant Grandomastery challenges: four Sanskrit terms – Klesha (afflictions), Kashay (passions), Karana (causal actions), and Karma (consequential ripening) – appear as your only mandatory ingredients. In 15–20 minutes you must write (or orally deliver) a 200–300-word secular, contemporary short story that weaves all four elements with sensory vividness, emotional precision, and at least one surprising twist or dark-humoured revelation about the so