Sentence examples for three-card monte from inspiring English sources

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three-card monte

noun

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.

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Today's con artists are the same species who run three-card monte tricks on the pavement.

He also warns them about the sidewalk scam of three-card monte.

Three-card monte is one of the most persistent and effective cons in history.

Like the 10 arrests to follow, this was for running a three-card monte game in midtown Manhattan.

So this is classic deflection from the key findings of the report, the PR version of three-card monte.

But three-card monte?

There is justice to three-card monte.

Three-card monte leaves absolutely nothing to chance.

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Close-up magic, like the Three Card Monte trick, are Mallick's specialty.

Linc, once a three-card-monte hustler, settles for a paying job.

We can only hope that Jack Quinn manned the three-card-monte booth.

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