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Thimblerig(1)

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(1) Find the Lady is, except for the props used, essentially the same as the probably centuries-older shell game or thimblerig .(2) Select your character and find it hidden beneath one of the three containers in the game of thimblerig .(3) There was Dr. Bennett, a riverboat gambler who invented thimblerig and could still outwit the best of them at 70.(4) You'll find thimbleriggers frequently, but don't be misled to play the three shells game, you'll lose!(5) But thimbleriggers are masters of sleight of hand and can move and manipulate the seed unfairly - so the guileless player doesn't stand a chance of winning.(6) I couldn't keep from laughing for he performed his trick so crudely that he would have had a hard time in our country being accepted by our apprentice thimbleriggers .(7) The sort of stuff that thimbleriggers and sleight-of-hand artists peddled off the backs of wagons to gawping farmhands and country bumpkins back in the 19th century.
Related Words
(1) rig
(2) thimble
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Noun
1. shell game


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