These are a few examples of Challenges that commonly come up in the game, including good Abilities to have in order to improve how good you are at certain things.

Bite, claw, or punch an opponent

• Risk a Physical Trait that like Strong or Quick.
• Add your brawl to the trait amount you have to challenge 
• Spend the Brawl Ability to retest.

Shrug off a blow

• Risk a Physical Trait like Tough.
• Add your survival or athletics to the trait amount you have to challenge
• Spend the Survival or Athletics Ability to retest.

Strike an opponent with your blade

• Risk a Physical Trait like Strong or Quick.
• Add your melee to the trait amount you have to challenge
• Spend the Melee Ability to retest.

Shoot an opponent with your gun

• Risk a Physical Trait that like Quick or a Mental Trait like Perceptive or Wily.
• Add your firearms to the trait amount you have to challenge.
• Spend the Firearms Ability to retest.

Dodge out of the way

• Risk a Physical Trait like Quick.
• Add your dodge or athletics to the trait amount you have to challenge.
• Spend the Dodge or Athletics Ability to retest.

Leap safely from a moving vehicle

• Risk a Physical Trait like Quick.
• Add your athletics to the trait amount you have to challenge.
• Spend the Athletics Ability to retest.

Hide from sight

• Risk a Mental Trait like Wily.
• Add your Primal Urge to the trait amount you have to challenge
• Spend the Stealth Ability to retest.

See something hidden

• Risk a Mental Trait like Perceptive.
• Add your investigation to the trait amount you have to challenge.
• Spend the Investigation Ability to retest.

Follow a scent

• Risk a Mental Trait like Perceptive.
• Add your Primal Urge or Investigation to the trait amount you have to challenge.
• Spend the Primal Urge Ability or the Investigation Ability to retest.

Remember information you’ve studied

• Risk a Mental Trait like Intelligent.
• Add your lore to the trait amount you have to challenge 
• Spend a Lore Ability that fits the information to retest.

Lie convincingly

• Risk a Social Trait like Manipulative.
• Add your subterfuge to the trait amount you have to challenge.
• Spend the Subterfuge Ability to retest.

Stare down a rival

• Risk a Social Trait like Impressive.
• Add your primal urge or Intimidation to the trait amount you have to challenge. 
• Spend the Intimidation Ability or the Primal Urge Ability to retest.

Step in or out of the spirit world

• Use your Gnosis Traits in the Challenge. You don't risk them. 
• Spend the Primal Urge Ability to retest.