The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word SAP which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.
Mark in a shell game crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SAP | 100 % | 3 |
Why may SAP be the right solution?
The term "mark" commonly refers to a person who is the target of a scam or con. In a shell game, the objective is to deceive the mark and make them guess the location of a hidden object, typically a small ball or pea, under one of three shells or cups. The answer "SAP" is appropriate because it is a slang term for a gullible or easily deceived person, making them the perfect target or mark in a shell game.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Mark in a shell game
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- pea
- scam
- gas
- jacks
- con
- crown
- peg
- crew
- oil
- thimblerig
- jack
- jacked
Crossword Answer definitions
SAP noun- The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- Any juice.
- Vitality.
- A naive person; a simpleton
- To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
- To exhaust the vitality of.
- A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- To pierce with saps.
- To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- To gradually weaken.
- To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
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