"managed to trick" is a perfectly correct phrase and it is used quite often in written English.
For example, you could say: "The clever student managed to trick the teacher into giving him extra credit."
Had he managed to trick her, too?
For £150, a group of four can do a shift working with the gorillas – the park has managed to trick us into paying them to do their work.
What if I had managed to trick myself into feeling / experiencing the normal emotions of a normal person stricken with grief to avoid the realization that I was a frozen freak, unmoved by the death of my mother?
Scotland Yard reported this week that one crook who posed as a courier from a bank managed to trick unsuspecting Londoners into handing him £244,500 of their cash.
Perhaps they want the myths to be true so badly that they've managed to trick themselves into seeing things that aren't there, or they've made connections between things that aren't connected.
Android's facial recognition got some bad marks early on when someone managed to trick it using nothing but a printed still photo.
Taking advantage of this, he manages to trick the two into breaking up.
Unfortunately, if you do somehow manage to trick another human into meeting you IRL, your failings will be readily apparent.
Bart, taunting Willie by calling him "Yard Boy" (a parody of the lawn tractor company) manages to trick Willie into mowing over a sandbox containing quicksand, and Willie sinks.
My favorite moment in this movie -- the hero, Mr. Renner, almost-bewildered-by-his-fate, manages to trick a wolf in Alaska in order to fake his own death.
The Grim Reaper has been reported to "bend the rules" on occasion, and famous accounts abound of people managing to trick him out of taking their life.
