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Alternative spelling of three-card monte [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.]
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A card game played as a practical joke, wherein the "dealer" throws the deck of cards in the air, and the other player must pick them up off the floor.
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(card games) In gin rummy, to discard a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.
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(card games) In gin rummy, the discarding of a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.
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(archaic) Two ones; the lowest throw at dice; a pair of aces.
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(board games, sometimes derogatory) A genre of board games predominant in the United States, characterized by a high degree of luck, longer playtimes, player conflict, and highly developed, often dramatic themes, especially involving war or adventure.
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(card games, gambling) A gambling game in which one or more punters play against a banker, who controls the game.
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(gambling) A die used for cheating, having some sides slightly rounded instead of flat.
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(gambling, dice games) A roll of ten in the game of craps.
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A person who plays board games
adj
In bridge and other card games if the cards in a pack are reversed face-up and face-down then the pack is said to be boxed.
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(colloquial) A form of cheating in the board game Scrabble, where a player drawing tiles from the bag attempts to feel their raised surfaces so as to choose specific letters.
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(gambling, slang) A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.
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(card games, possibly vulgar) A card game in which players try to discard their hands first, following rules that encourage bluffing, calling others' bluffs, and penalizing others by tricking them into inaccurate accusations.
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(obsolete) A social event, sometimes organized regularly, at which guests play card games.
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(obsolete, idiomatic) A bold front, an instance of standing one's ground.
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Alternative form of cardsharp [(card games) A professional cheater at card games.]
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A table, in a casino, used to play cards.
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Any magic trick involving playing cards.
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Alternative form of cardsharp [(card games) A professional cheater at card games.]
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(countable) Synonym of house of cards (any sense).
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One who performs card tricks.
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A person who engages in cardistry.
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(chiefly US) A cardsharp.
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(card games) A professional cheater at card games.
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(card games) An employee at a gambling establishment who assists the players and prevents dealer cheating by counting cards using an abacus-like device with counters on spindles.
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A public building or room for gambling.
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(uncommon) A single round of the game charades, an acted form of the earlier riddles.
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(card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
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(gambling, slang) An adhesive used by cheats to steal chips or coins from a stack using the palm of the hand.
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(card games) To hold one's hand close to one's chest so that other players cannot see the cards.
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(gaming) A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization.
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(card games) In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
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(gambling) A pre-shuffled deck of cards substituted for the real deck in order to cheat.
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(video games) In fighting games, a specific move that prevents the opponent from completing a combo.
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(gambling) A playing card made concave for use in cheating.
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(gambling) A playing card made convex for use in cheating.
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(US, slang) A gambling game which moves to a different location every night.
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(card games, slang) The nine of diamonds.
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(dice games) A die roll used for example in some role-playing games and wargames to generate a random number between 1 and 100. The most common method is to roll 2 differently colored d10s, where each color has been designated to represent one of the two digits. (Rolls of 10 are treated as the digit 0. Double-0 can be treated as zero or 100, depending on the context.)
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(card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.
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(derogatory) playing cards, regarded as sinful because of the connection with gambling
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(gambling, slang) Any die used for cheating, whether fraudulently weighted or bearing duplicate numbers.
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To deal the top and bottom cards from a deck to a confederate in a card game as if they were one card.
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(UK) Something that attracts customers, visitors, spectators, etc. to a place or an event.
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(idiomatic) Synonym of drawcard (“something that attracts patronage to a place or an event”)
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(intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
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A traditional game associated with (the children of) a community.
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(tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
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(bridge) contract bridge in which only goulash hands are played (usually used in the plural)
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(collectible card games) A draw which is especially suited to a player's needs; an optimal draw.
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(obsolete) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.
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(obsolete) To cheat at cards.
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(gambling, slang) A cheat who covertly adds or removes cards during a card game.
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(obsolete) A children's game in which one child guesses in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong.
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(card games, chiefly cribbage) a jack; a knave
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A shape, used in magic tricks, made by cutting and folding a playing card
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In card tricks, one or more cards secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck towards the performer.
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(slang) Anything built into dice for the purpose of loading them and cheating at games.
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(of a slot machine, intransitive) To issue a jackpot.
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In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.
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An advanced form of confidence trick where the mark is aware of being involved in a swindle and believes that he/she can outsmart the swindler; however, this is all part of the trick, and by attempting to retaliate, the mark unwittingly assists the con artist.
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(cartomancy) The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
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Synonym of jack of clubs
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(card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
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(gambling) A small plastic disk used by a croupier or dealer to track the state of a game of chance or a debt owed; also button or marker.
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A game that is based on players’ knowledge of a language or languages, such a fictionary, hangman. etc.
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(two-up) A bat with a slot to conceal a third coin which is used for cheating (that coin being either a jack or a gray).
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(obsolete, gaming) A stake played for at dice.
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(of a playing card) Having a secret mark on the back for cheating.
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(gambling) A cheat who manipulates the cards or dice.
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A way to hold a deck of playing cards in the hand, facilitating card tricks and cheating.
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(gambling) Any game based on chance rather than skill.
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In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards.
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(collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
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A board game in which players use play money to buy and trade properties, with the objective of forcing opponents into bankruptcy.
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A brainteaser regarding probability, in which a game show contestant picks a door to win a prize. One door conceals a car; the other two conceal goats. After the contestant picks a door, the host opens one of the two remaining doors which reveals a goat. Counterintuitively, it is then in the contestant's interests to switch to the remaining door.
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(board games, usually in the plural) A round, in which each player has a turn.
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(slang, collectible card games, derogatory) To use decklists copied from the Internet.
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(cribbage) A jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer. (See also nibs.)
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Alternative spelling of no-trump [A declaration, in bridge and similar games, that a hand is to be played without a trump suit.]
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Any of many games based upon numbers.
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A lottery in which bettors attempt to guess which numbers will later be drawn randomly.
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(collectible card games) A method of winning the game in a single turn combo.
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(originally US, gambling) A gaming machine having a long arm-like handle at one side that a player pulls down to make reels spin; the player wins money or tokens when certain combinations of symbols line up on these reels.
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One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
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Alternative spelling of parlour game [Any of a number of amusing games played indoors with few props by the members of a social gathering.]
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A game played at a party, such as musical chairs or charades.
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(dice games, historical) A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
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(obsolete) To cheat at cards.
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(gambling) Dice that have been tampered with for the purpose of cheating.
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One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money.
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In children's games, such as jacks, the simplest style of play, without additional actions such as clapping.
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A casino loyalty card offering various benefits.
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An electronic device that keeps track of tokens, properties and dice rolls, and initiates auctions and mortgages, in the game Monopoly.
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(gambling, US, Australia, New Zealand) A slot machine used for gambling.
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(informal) A person who is very fond of poker.
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(UK, dialect, archaic) A poker.
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(slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
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(slang, gambling) Odds of four to one.
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A sleight of hand trick whereby a coin is sandwiched between two playing cards and apparently made to vanish.
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(cartomancy) The tenth Lenormand card.
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A small reflective surface used for cheating at card games.
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(cartomancy) A card representing a querent, question, or situation.
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Any of several variants of the solitaire (patience) card game that employs two packs of cards
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Alternative form of spoilfive [A card game in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be "spoiled".]
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(blackjack, slang) The form of hole carding engaged in by a spook.
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The theoretical lottery game in the St. Petersburg paradox.
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(card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
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(gambling) A playing card that has been trimmed so that a cheat can recognise it from the back.
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(slang) Money spent on gambling.
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(poker slang) An instance of winning a hand by sucking out.
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(Philippines, chiefly political) A system by which the government gives out assets, such as land, supposedly at random, but which some feel is actually rigged.
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(card games, board games) Of a card or playing piece: used up for the current turn.
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In the above game, the designated player who controls the game
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(collectible card games, intransitive) To draw cards from one's deck and play them immediately turn after turn because one has no other cards to play.
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(cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
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Something used to obtain an advantage, sometimes unscrupulously.
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(card games) A carton for storing a set of playing cards.
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(UK, slang, obsolete) The pawnbroker's sign of three balls.
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(board games) A line of play that differs from the original.
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(card games, intransitive) To win all the tricks by a vole.
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A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.
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Synonym of Blind Hookey (“card game”)
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(slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
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(archaic, derogatory) A chess player who is not good at the game.
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