A game, traditionally associated with confidence tricksters, in which bets are made on which is the queen among three cards lying face downwards.
三牌猜王后（一种纸牌游戏，在三张背朝上的纸牌中猜哪一张是Q牌）
Also called monte
Example sentencesExamples
With elections in the air again, the party is rolling out the old three-card trick.
He called the whole thing: ‘The best three-card trick I've seen in a long time.’
He accused them of rewriting history after what he called a failed three-card trick in the general election in May.
What these businessmen have somehow managed to do is pull off is possibly the most audacious and lucrative three-card trick in history.
Perhaps the most famous of such crooked games is find the lady or the three-card trick, which I have seen played in street markets in Morocco, on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, and in many other places.
If you play a three-card trick in the middle of the street, people are basically playing you; they think they can win, get one up on you.
We should not fall for the propagandist's three-card trick, which as Aldous Huxley put it is to ‘make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human’.
Definition of three-card trick in US English:
three-card trick
noun
A game traditionally associated with con men, in which the dealer shows the player three cards then moves them around face-down, the player being obliged to pick the specified card from among the three.
Also called monte
Example sentencesExamples
We should not fall for the propagandist's three-card trick, which as Aldous Huxley put it is to ‘make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human’.
Perhaps the most famous of such crooked games is find the lady or the three-card trick, which I have seen played in street markets in Morocco, on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, and in many other places.
If you play a three-card trick in the middle of the street, people are basically playing you; they think they can win, get one up on you.
He accused them of rewriting history after what he called a failed three-card trick in the general election in May.
With elections in the air again, the party is rolling out the old three-card trick.
What these businessmen have somehow managed to do is pull off is possibly the most audacious and lucrative three-card trick in history.
He called the whole thing: ‘The best three-card trick I've seen in a long time.’