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Three-card Monte

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Three-card Monte – also known as find the lady and three-card trick – is a confidence game in which the victim, or "mark", is tricked into betting a sum of money, on the assumption that they can find the "money card" among three face-down playing cards. [1]

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Bob Nygaard

Bob Nygaard (born c. 1961) is an American private investigator (PI) and member of the National Association of Bunco Investigators; he specializes in the investigation of psychic fraud.

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Bola

Bola may refer to.

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Bunco

Modern Bunco (also Bunko or Bonko) is a parlour game generally played with twelve or more players, divided into groups of four, trying to score points while taking turns rolling four dice.

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Bunco Busters

Bunco Busters is the 64th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series.

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Canada Bill Jones

William "Canada Bill" Jones (c.1837–1877) was a noted confidence artist, riverboat gambler and card sharp.

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Charlie Ve'hetzi

Charlie Ve'hetzi (a.k.a. - Charlie and a Half; Hebrew צ'ארלי וחצי) is a 1974 Israeli comedy.

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Climate Hustle

Climate Hustle is a 2016 film rejecting the existence and cause of climate change, narrated by climate change denialist Marc Morano, produced and directed by Christopher Rogers, co-written by Morano and Mick Curran, and funded by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), a free market pressure group funded by the fossil fuel lobby.

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Code Monkeys

Code Monkeys is an American animated television program by Adam de la Peña.

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Discworld characters

This article contains brief biographies for characters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

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Drummond Money-Coutts

Drummond William Thomas Money-Coutts (born 11 May 1986) is an English magician and specialist card sharp.

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Edmond (film)

Edmond is a 2005 American drama film directed by Stuart Gordon and starring William H. Macy, based on the 1982 play Edmond by David Mamet.

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Edmond (play)

Edmond is a one-act play written by David Mamet.

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Fan-Tan

Fan-Tan, or fantan (literally "repeated divisions") is a form of a gambling game long played in China.

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Gambling

Gambling is the wagering of money or something of value (referred to as "the stakes") on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning money or material goods.

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Glossary of magic (illusion)

This is a glossary of conjuring terms used by magicians.

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House Training

"House Training" is the 20th episode of the third season of House and the 66th episode overall.

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Hungry Joe

Joseph "Hungry Joe" Lewis (1850 – March 22, 1902) was an American criminal and swindler.

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Inattentional blindness

Inattentional blindness, also known as perceptual blindness, is a psychological lack of attention that is not associated with any vision defects or deficits.

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It's Tricky

"It's Tricky" is the fourth and final single released from Run–D.M.C.'s third album, ''Raising Hell''.

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Joaquin Murrieta

Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo (sometimes spelled Murieta or Murietta) (1829 – July 25, 1853), also called The Robin Hood of the West or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was a famous vaquero, and gold miner in California during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s.

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John Lenahan

John Lenahan (born 1961 in Philadelphia, US) is an American illusionist and entertainer resident in the UK since 1984.

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John Scarne

John Scarne (March 4, 1903 – July 7, 1985) was an American magician and book author who was particularly adept at playing card manipulation.

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John Wesley Hardin

John Wesley Hardin (May 26, 1853 – August 19, 1895) was an American, Old West outlaw, gunfighter, and controversial folk icon.

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List of British films of 1956

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1956 (see 1956 in film).

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List of con artists

This is a list of notable individuals who exploited confidence tricks.

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List of confidence tricks

This list of confidence tricks and scams should not be considered complete, but covers the most common examples.

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List of episodes in Against the Day

The following is a list of episodes in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day.

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List of Everybody Hates Chris characters

This is a list of the main characters in the Emmy-nominated TV series Everybody Hates Chris.

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List of Everybody Hates Chris episodes

The following is a list of episodes of the UPN/The CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris.

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List of Hardcore Pawn episodes

Hardcore Pawn is an American reality television series airing on truTV that follows the day-to-day operations of American Jewelry and Loan, a family-owned and operated pawn shop in Detroit, Michigan's 8 Mile Road corridor.

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List of magic tricks

This page contains a list of magic tricks.

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List of Mexican inventions and discoveries

Mexican inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques invented or discovered, partially or entirely, by a person from Mexico.

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List of NewsRadio episodes

NewsRadio is an American sitcom, originally broadcast from 1995 to 1999 by NBC.

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List of The Real Hustle episodes

This is an episode list for The Real Hustle.

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Luke Short

Luke L. Short (January22, 1854September8, 1893) was an American Old West gunfighter, cowboy, U.S. Army scout, dispatch rider, gambler, boxing promoter and saloon owner.

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Magic (illusion)

Magic, along with its subgenres of, and sometimes referred to as illusion, stage magic or street magic is a performing art in which audiences are entertained by staged tricks or illusions of seemingly impossible feats using natural means.

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Marco Malvaldi

Marco Malvaldi (born 27 January 1974, in Pisa) is an Italian crime writer.

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Monte

Monte may refer to.

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Monte Bank

Monte Bank, Mountebank, Spanish Monte and Mexican Monte, sometimes just Monte, is a Spanish gambling card game and was known in the 19th century as the national card game of Mexico.

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Mountebank

Mountebank may refer to.

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NewsRadio

NewsRadio is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from 1995 to 1999, focusing on the work lives of the staff of an AM news station.

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Nigel Green

Nigel McGown Green (15 October 192415 May 1972) was an English character actor.

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Penn & Teller

Penn & Teller (Penn Jillette and Teller) are American magicians and entertainers who have performed together since the late 1970s, noted for their ongoing act which combines elements of comedy with magic.

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Queen (playing card)

The Queen is a playing card with a picture of a woman on it.

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Recurring segments on The Colbert Report

In addition to its standard interviews, The Colbert Report features many recurring segments that cover a variety of topics.

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Shell game

The shell game (also known as thimblerig, three shells and a pea, the old army game) is portrayed as a gambling game, but in reality, when a wager for money is made, it is almost always a confidence trick used to perpetrate fraud.

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Shill

A shill, also called a plant or a stooge, is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with the person or organization.

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Shootout on Juneau Wharf

The Shootout on Juneau Wharf was a gunfight between Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith, Frank H. Reid and Jesse Murphy that occurred Friday, July 8, 1898, at approximately 9:15 pm in Skagway, District of Alaska, in the United States.

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Snake Jailbird

Snake Jailbird (usually referred to as simply Snake) is a recurring fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons, who is voiced by Hank Azaria.

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Soapy Smith

Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith II (November 2, 1860 – July 8, 1898) was a con artist and gangster in the Old West.

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The Life (musical)

The Life is a musical with a book by David Newman, Ira Gasman and Cy Coleman, music by Coleman, and lyrics by Gasman.

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Tom London (magician)

Tom London (born Thomas Webb; 11 December 1991) is a magician and hacker who is best known for his well-received performances on Season 12 of the popular talent show America's Got Talent.

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Topdog/Underdog

Topdog/Underdog is a play by American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks which premiered in 2001 off-Broadway in New York City.

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Velocity (comics)

Velocity (real name Carin Taylor) is an Image Comics/Top Cow Productions character from the comic series Cyberforce, created by Marc Silvestri in 1992.

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Western saloon

A Western saloon is a kind of bar particular to the Old West.

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Whit Haydn

Whit "Pop" Haydn (born July 19, 1949 as Whitney Wesley Hadden in Clarksville, Tennessee) is an American magician, and the winner of seven performing awards (for performances in showrooms at the Magic Castle) from the Academy of Magical Arts.

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Zatanna

Zatanna Zatara is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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2015 White Sox–Orioles crowdless game

On April 29, 2015, the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Chicago White Sox 8–2 in the first crowdless game ever played by Major League Baseball teams.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-card_Monte

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