Sentence examples for swindling game from inspiring English sources

If you look up the word bunco in the dictionary, you'll learn that it can be spelled bunco or bunko and that it means a swindling game or scheme.

The vast majority of the movies in the series (which runs through Dec. 2) are comedies, and many of those involve, in one way or another, people putting things over on other people: a really remarkable number of screwball comedies are about swindles, confidence games, boldface lies, impostures of every variety — and brazen imposture happened to be Carole Lombard's special talent.

By the time he is swindled in a game of three-card monte, Edmond has become a cartoon: the squarest, most naïve city slicker ever to affect a gloss of urbanity.

Some card game swindles use this strategy.

We must refuse to be swindled in a shell game.

Confidence game, any elaborate swindling operation in which advantage is taken of the confidence the victim reposes in the swindler.

But three-card monte is not a game; it is a swindle.

A 16-year-old boy in Tokyo was charged with stealing the ID and password of a fellow player in order to swindle virtual currency in an online game.

Remember that Texas Holdem was once a kind of parlor game that hucksters used to swindle draw and stud poker players.

Alternate stealth-action games: The Swindle, age 10+; Republique, age 15+. 7. Mortal Kombat X The 10th installment of the popular and controversial fighting-game series offers more intricate gameplay mechanics and features than ever before.

PS4, PS Vita, Xbox One, PC (£11.99) A 2D stealth game with randomly-generated levels, The Swindle is inspired by recent titles Spelunky and Rogue Legacy.