Example sentences for: three-card

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  • 7. thimble-rig--the equivalent of three-card monte, only with three thimbles and a pea, where the sucker guesses which thimble has the pea under it; shell game; another cheating game.

  • Most authorities in these matters [cf. Darwin Ortiz's Gambling Scams , p. 189] agree that the broads tossed or faked in three-card monte [XXII,3,15, item 5] are not specifically the queens; rather, the reference is to pasteboards that are wider than the standard deck (viz. pokersized cards vs. bridge-sized), which makes cheating by sleight-of-hand easier in that game.

  • "It is a kind of three-card monte," says Olson.

  • "Three-card monte."

  • 5. fake the broads--broads are the three queens in a three-card monte game, and faking broads would be setting up the usual fraudulent game.


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