shell game

shell game
    n 1: a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of
         three things a pellet is under [syn: {shell game},
         {thimblerig}]
    

33 Moby Thesaurus words for "shell game":
      bingo, boiler room, bucket shop, bunco game, card games,
      chuck and toss, chuck farthing, chuck-a-luck, con game,
      confidence game, crack-loo, crap game, crap shooting, craps,
      fan-tan, goldbrick, hazard, horse racing, keno, lotto, pinball,
      pitch and toss, policy, rouge et noir, roulette, skin game,
      sweepstake, sweepstakes, the numbers, the numbers game, thimblerig,
      thimblerigging, trente-et-quarante