Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shell_game

1 sense of shell game

Sense 1
shell game, thimblerig -- (a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under)
       => swindle, cheat, rig -- (the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud")