three-card monte

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English

A typical street setup for three-card monte

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Noun

three-card monte (usually uncountable, plural three-card montes)

  1. 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.
    • 2022 October 5, Michael Paulson, “Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else”, in The New York Times:
      A starry 20th-anniversary revival of “Topdog/Underdog,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning fable about two brothers, three-card monte and one troubling inheritance, is in previews on Broadway.
    Synonyms: find the lady, follow the bee, follow the lady, menage-a-card, three-card marney, three-card trick, three-way, three-card shuffle, triplets

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