Today Christopher Chung (Lanterns: The Harvest Festival) looks at board game design based on the word "thimblerig".

1 : to cheat by trickery

2 : to swindle

by a trick in which a small ball or pea is quickly shifted from under

one to another of three small cups to fool the spectator guessing its

location

http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD119-Thimblerig.mp3