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Noun Concept
Categories: Confidence tricks, Psychological manipulation, Organized crime activity, Articles with short description, Fraud
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bunco  bunco game  bunko  bunko game  con
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A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property WordNet 3.0
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gambling
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Bunco is a dice game with twelve or more players, divided into groups of four, trying to score points while taking turns rolling three dice in a series of six rounds. Wikipedia
A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Wikipedia
A parlor game played in teams with three dice Wikipedia Disambiguation
Intentionally misleading a person or persons for gain Wikipedia Disambiguation
A trick performed by a con artist Wikipedia Disambiguation
attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, used in the classical sense of trust; exploites characteristics of the human psyche, such as credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, irresponsibility, and greed Wikidata
Dice game Wikidata
A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century. Wiktionary
A swindle in which the mark, or victim, is defrauded after his or her trust has been won. Wiktionary
Malicious breach of trust. Wiktionary (translation)
A method of cheating somebody by winning their confidence and inducing them to hand over money (or other valuables). Wiktionary
A cheat or swindle; a rip-off. Wiktionary
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Why do we have to buy this new edition of the textbook when there’s almost no difference between it and the previous one? What a gyp! Wiktionary