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| Subject | Russian | English |
| gen. | игра в напёрстки | three shells and a pea (wikipedia.org Andrey Truhachev) |
| gen. | игра в "напёрстки" | thimblerig |
| inf. | игра в напёрстки | shell game (1. gambling game: a form of the game thimblerig in which spectators bet on the final location of an object hidden under one of three walnut shells or cups that have been shuffled 2. fraudulent scheme: a scheme for defrauding or deceiving people Sukhopleschenko) |
| gen. | игра в напёрстки | the old army game (wikipedia.org Andrey Truhachev) |
| gen. | игра в напёрстки, лохотрон | mug's game (Nat) |