shell game in English
noun
1
a game involving sleight of hand, in which three inverted cups or nutshells are moved about, and contestants must spot which is the one with a pea or other object underneath.
One way they can achieve this is to have their friend Ron play a variation of the familiar shell game by hiding a pea under one of three walnut shells, numbered 1, 2 and 3.
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1. Someone is playing a shell game, Bruce.
2. I don't know how much longer we can keep this shell game going.
3. 27 Some cheat that the contact lenses in a special potion soak 12 hours can penetrate any poker mahjong shell game.
4. Sure, peddle a few lightning rods, pick up a couple of bucks in a shell game fleece a yokel without even scratching him and you're a scalawag.