three-card monte
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three-card monte
noun three-card montes
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A confidence game in which the victim, or mark, is tricked into betting a sum of money that they can find the money card, for example the queen of hearts, among three face-down playing cards.
A starry 20th-anniversary revival of “Topdog/Underdog,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning fable about two brothers, three-card monte and one troubling inheritance, is in previews on Broadway.
Similar: find the lady, follow the bee, follow the lady, menage-a-card, three-card marney, three-card trick, three-way, three-card shuffle, triplets
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noun confidence trick
| Français | bonneteau |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Kümmelblättchen |
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