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This week's question: A ragtag band of investors temporarily caused the stock price of struggling video-game retailer GameStop to skyrocket — netting a few lucky individuals millions of dollars and costing some hedge funds billions in losses. If Hollywood were to make a movie about this short-lived stock market rebellion, what should it be titled?

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THE WINNER: "Get Shorters"

Tim Mistele, Coral Gable, Florida

SECOND PLACE: "Mutiny on the S&P"

Jesse Rifkin, Glastonbury, Connecticut

THIRD PLACE: "The Hedge Clippers"

Bill Levine, Belmont, Massachusetts

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

"Reddit or Not, Here We Come"

Glen E. Rainsley, Brevard, North Carolina

"Joystickin' It to Them"

Janine Witte, Doylestown, Pennsylvania

"Big Game Hunting"

Phyllis Klein, New York City

"Robin Hoodwinked"

Bernard Slack, Littleton, Colorado

"Code Reddit"

Ken Liebman, Williston, Vermont

"Honey I Shrunk the Shorts!"

John E. Schulz, New York City

"Nightmare on Wall Street"

Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California

"Raging Bull Market"

Patty Oberhausen, Fort Wayne, Indiana

"Trader Woes"

Ernie Hanson, Madison, Wisconsin

"Brawl Street"

Joe Ayella, Wayne, Pennsylvania

"Ready Player Everyone"

Matt Mistele & Janet Coleman-Belin, Palo Alto, California

"Bonfire of the Nonentities"

Norm Carrier, Flat Rock, North Carolina