The president's plan is more a shell game than a policy.

"Congress is playing a shell game with the American people."

You did not report what might be called a nuclear shell game.

Quick - which one of these is also called the shell game?

The shell game of raising one tax to cut another is over.

What kind of shell game were these people playing with their names?

What we were fed, at least in my experience, was a sort of shell game.

"The Republicans are trying to play a shell game with it."

But you cannot attack the argument for being a shell game.

They tried to play a shell game with building lots and got caught.

And that varies a lot because that's like a shell game.

She's saying that there's something more than money, real estate, the old shell game.

My guess is he'll try to confuse us with the old shell game.

"There is a shell game going on here," he said.

"I'm not going to let her play some kind of shell game," he said, turning his attention back to the numbers.

This has been referred to as a presidential shell game.

Or maybe he was staying in one place, playing a shell game with the telephone system.

Industry sources speak of what they call "the Korean shell game."

And, of course, the entire world has to put up with Pyongyang's nuclear shell game.

These pieces are now used as chips to play a shell game type challenge.

It's just playing the shell game, but on a much bigger scale, that's all.

The judges could have played a shell game to determine the winner.

Quietly, "I told him his little shell game was up.

The shell game that political professionals play with the campaign laws has taken an encouraging hit in the House.

What follows is akin to a shell game, only with goats.

Full disclosure: I've known the performers in Thimblerig Circus for a really long time.

In the 1790s, it was called "thimblerig" as it was originally played using sewing thimbles.

In route to San Antonio the pair are joined by a riverboat gambler named Thimblerig.

Denver Pyle as Thimblerig (the Gambler), one of Crockett's Tennessee volunteers.

A book published in England in 1670 (Hull Elections-Richard Perry and his fiddler wife) mentions the thimblerig game.

After they successfully manage to scale the walls, the Mexicans outnumber the Texans, killing all of them, including "Busted Luck" and Thimblerig, as well as Jim Bowie, who is sick in bed.

And yet every day one saw more distinctly that they were the pea in the thimblerig of life, the hub of a universe which, to the approbation of the majority they represented, they were fast making uninhabitable.

The shell game (also known as Thimblerig, Three shells and a pea, the old army game) is portrayed as a gambling game, but in reality, when a wager for money is made, it is a confidence trick used to perpetrate fraud.

Far from Indiana, in Moscow's Novyye Izvestia, the columnist Vyacheslav Shirayev blasted Ukraine for delaying payment of its debt to Russia for natural gas: "In fact, Kiev has resorted to a kind of thimblerig in an effort to hoodwink Moscow."