Is this Christmas 2014 — or 1974? A stark reminder of New York City’s bad old days appeared on the streets of Manhattan Thursday , as three-card monte dealers turned out in force on Fifth Avenue.

Via L.A. Downtown News, a story worthy of The Onion: Police detectives really working it to clean up the scourge of … three card monte. Really, isn't there some punk at UCLA with a pyramid ...

In 3-card Monte, a dealer shows the audience a card, shifts that card with two others and asks someone in the audience to guess which card was shown. One person in the audience is in on the game ...

According to the Greensboro Police Department, people are setting up in parking lots and challenging passersby to games of "Three Card Monte," a notorious card game traditionally associated with ...