The word "tricks" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun which can refer to a strategy or skill used to deceive or get an advantage over someone or something. For example, "The magician amazed the audience with his dazzling array of tricks."
Unlike in other European capitals, where one can perceive a degree of animosity and frustration with Cameron's tricks and tactics, Spain has no special interest in making things hard for the British prime minister.
I have to say The Theory of Everything is comparable in many ways, with similar narrative tropes and tricks about flawed-genius scientists – but The Theory of Everything is a much realer, truer and less cliched story.
Hostile foreign agencies would be using all manner of low tricks and high technology to get hold of the classified files gifted to us by Snowden.
What they fear is being wrongly dismissed as past it: out of step, technologically or culturally, with an office of bright young things and incapable of learning new tricks.
Gehry, meanwhile, is at pains to point out this isn't his usual brand of billowing architectural tricks.
Related: Fragmentation games: the return of the portmanteau film One of the portmanteau film's six storylines concerns a man who tricks various people from his life who he feels wronged by – including former employers, classmates and teachers – on to a plane, before locking himself in the cockpit and crashing it.
And while Unfriended might not reach the giddy fright heights it aims for (there's a bit too much minimising and maximising windows to fully terrify), it's a smartly constructed set of tricks.
To achieve his latest Brentford TV role, he bought a camcorder and taught himself how to edit footage, proof that old journalists can learn new digital tricks.
This is one of their tricks and a deception".
Sometimes the other children don't understand that it's not her fault, so they play tricks on her because they know she can't see.
There's a rhythm to this physical comedy, it's almost like a dance troupe, and you have to get it spot-on – everyone, say, putting their hats on at exactly the same time – and these are tricks and skills, which I at least have had to learn".
