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* In ''Legenderry: Comicbook/RedSonja'', the {{Steampunk}} version of Sonja is playing poker with a crime boss and puts down four aces. He puts down an ace-high straight and demands to know where the other ace came from. However, this turns out to be RefugeInAudacity, since Sonja reveals ''he's'' the one palming cards from a concealed deck.
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* In the Creator/MarxBrothers' ''Film/AnimalCrackers'', Harpo and Chico frustrate the other players in a game of bridge by repeatedly drawing Aces of Spades.
-->'''Chico:''' I got Ace of Spades. ''[Harpo shows his card]'' He got Ace of Spades! ''[laughs]'' That's what you call coincidences!
-->'''Mrs Rittenhouse:''' ''Two'' Aces of Spades?
-->'''Chico:''' Yeah, he's got thousands of them.
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This trope however, is when a character is cheating in an obvious and blatant manner and all the other players and the audience can clearly see that. He may do something seemingly impossible that could be only be done with special equipment or supernatural powers that aren't allowed, or something that the game itself makes impossible. The best (and most infamous) example is the name of this trope, named after the very common gag in media of a character playing Poker and having a hand of five aces. This is because most fair games of Poker have a card deck that has only four of each rank of card regardless of color[[note]]This can be possible in card games that are played with multiple decks at once, but the scoring rules might ignore duplicates[[/note]], or something similar like having a hand of six cards, when in Poker you can only get five. To clarify further, the highest scoring legal move in a Poker game is a Royal Flush, which would require the player to have a straight flush consisting of the top five highest card ranks[[note]]10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace[[/note]] with the same symbol and color, so if someone in the table says they win because they scored a five of a kind, make sure you have your [=BS=] detector (and your fists if things escalate) within arm's reach.[[note]]A five-of-a-kind is technically possible, if playing with wildcards (cards that can have any value, not just their face value), and in this case, it beats all other hands except a higher five-of-a-kind.[[/note]]

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This trope however, is when a character is cheating in an obvious and blatant manner and all the other players and the audience can clearly see that. He may do something seemingly impossible that could be only be done with special equipment or [[ParanormalGamblingAdvantage supernatural powers powers]] that aren't allowed, or something that the game itself makes impossible. The best (and most infamous) example is the name of this trope, named after the very common gag in media of a character playing Poker and having a hand of five aces. This is because most fair games of Poker have a card deck that has only four of each rank of card regardless of color[[note]]This can be possible in card games that are played with multiple decks at once, but the scoring rules might ignore duplicates[[/note]], or something similar like having a hand of six cards, when in Poker you can only get five. To clarify further, the highest scoring legal move in a Poker game is a Royal Flush, which would require the player to have a straight flush consisting of the top five highest card ranks[[note]]10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace[[/note]] with the same symbol and color, so if someone in the table says they win because they scored a five of a kind, make sure you have your [=BS=] detector (and your fists if things escalate) within arm's reach.[[note]]A five-of-a-kind is technically possible, if playing with wildcards (cards that can have any value, not just their face value), and in this case, it beats all other hands except a higher five-of-a-kind.[[/note]]



When adding examples involving supernatural powers, avoid cases where use of powers is allowed through LoopholeAbuse or because [[MuggleSportsSuperAthletes all the characters regard "creative"]] [[ParanormalGamblingAdvantage use of superpowers as part of the fun]].

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* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'': Victor Zsaaz's StartOfDarkness was when he lost everything in a poker game with the Penguin. Zsasz had four sixes, but the Penguin had a straight flush that included a fifth six. PlayedForDrama in that, even years later and having a clear memory of the game, Zsasz never realizes that he's been cheated.



* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'': Victor Zsaaz's StartOfDarkness was when he lost everything in a poker game with the Penguin. Zsasz had four sixes, but the Penguin had a straight flush that included a fifth six. PlayedForDrama in that, even years later and having a clear memory of the game, Zsasz never realizes that he's been cheated.
* In ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'', there's a TournamentArc where the player is encouraged to help Isaac cheat by having the rest of the party make his progress through an obstacle course easier. While [[InvisibleToNormals psyenergy can't be seen by the other contestants or the crowd]], he does well enough that the other contestants work out that he did ''something'' and show up as a boss battle [[VideoGame/GoldenSunTheLostAge in the sequel]].


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* In ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'', there's a TournamentArc where the player is encouraged to help Isaac cheat by having the rest of the party make his progress through an obstacle course easier. While [[InvisibleToNormals psyenergy can't be seen by the other contestants or the crowd]], he does well enough that the other contestants work out that he did ''something'' and show up as a boss battle [[VideoGame/GoldenSunTheLostAge in the sequel]].
* ''VideoGame/HardWest''2: In the prologue, Gin gambles his posse's souls against ''The'' Mammon, Archdevil of Greed, for his supernatural future-technology Ghost Train. Gin gets four aces and an eight - but Mammon draws four kings and a ''Joker''. To which Gin comments that the deck they used definitely did ''not'' have a joker - except Mammon doesn't care about being caught, seeing as how Gin and company broke into his train in the first place and it's his 'house' to win in.
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This trope however, is when a character is cheating in an obvious and blatant manner and all the other players and the audience can clearly see that. He may do something seemingly impossible that could be only be done with special equipment or supernatural powers that aren't allowed, or something that the game itself makes impossible. The best (and most infamous) example is the name of this trope, named after the very common gag in media of a character playing Poker and having a hand of five aces. This is because most fair games of Poker have a card deck that has only four of each rank of card regardless of color[[note]]This can be possible in card games that are played with multiple decks at once, but the scoring rules might ignore duplicates[[/note]], or something similar like having a hand of six cards, when in Poker you can only get five. To clarify further, the highest scoring legal move in a Poker game is a Royal Flush, which would require the player to have a straight flush consisting of the top five highest card ranks with the same symbol and color, so if someone in the table says they win because they scored a five of a kind, make sure you have your [=BS=] detector (and your fists if things escalate) within arm's reach.[[note]]A five-of-a-kind is technically possible, if playing with wildcards (cards that can have any value, not just their face value), and in this case, it beats all other hands except a higher five-of-a-kind.[[/note]]

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This trope however, is when a character is cheating in an obvious and blatant manner and all the other players and the audience can clearly see that. He may do something seemingly impossible that could be only be done with special equipment or supernatural powers that aren't allowed, or something that the game itself makes impossible. The best (and most infamous) example is the name of this trope, named after the very common gag in media of a character playing Poker and having a hand of five aces. This is because most fair games of Poker have a card deck that has only four of each rank of card regardless of color[[note]]This can be possible in card games that are played with multiple decks at once, but the scoring rules might ignore duplicates[[/note]], or something similar like having a hand of six cards, when in Poker you can only get five. To clarify further, the highest scoring legal move in a Poker game is a Royal Flush, which would require the player to have a straight flush consisting of the top five highest card ranks ranks[[note]]10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace[[/note]] with the same symbol and color, so if someone in the table says they win because they scored a five of a kind, make sure you have your [=BS=] detector (and your fists if things escalate) within arm's reach.[[note]]A five-of-a-kind is technically possible, if playing with wildcards (cards that can have any value, not just their face value), and in this case, it beats all other hands except a higher five-of-a-kind.[[/note]]
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If it was multiple choice, that could imply that there were at least three possible answers, so getting all of them wrong wouldn't necessarily indicate that he knew all the right answers. This was a true-or-false test, where there's only two possible choices.


* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': Miles attempts to invert the trope by cheating to ''lose'' a test (he doesn't like his school and wants to be kicked out so he can go back to his old one) by deliberately answering every question wrong. His teacher immediately figures him out because his plan involved getting a 0% on a ''multiple choice'' test- something ''astronomically'' unlikely if you truly don't know the answers and guess randomly. [[SpringtimeForHitler She gives him a perfect score]] for obviously knowing which answers to avoid.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': Miles attempts to invert the trope by cheating to ''lose'' a test (he doesn't like his school and wants to be kicked out so he can go back to his old one) by deliberately answering every question wrong. His teacher immediately figures him out because his plan involved getting a 0% on a ''multiple choice'' ''true-or-false'' test- something ''astronomically'' unlikely if you truly don't know the answers and guess randomly. [[SpringtimeForHitler She gives him a perfect score]] for obviously knowing which answers to avoid.
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This trope however, is when a character is cheating in an obvious and blatant manner and all the other players and the audience can clearly see that. He may do something seemingly impossible that could be only be done with special equipment or supernatural powers that aren't allowed, or something that the game itself makes impossible. The best (and most infamous) example is the name of this trope, named after the very common gag in media of a character playing Poker and having a hand of five aces. This is because most fair games of Poker have a card deck that has only four of each rank of card regardless of color[[note]]This can be possible in card games that are played with multiple decks at once, but the scoring rules might ignore duplicates[[/note]], or something similar like having a hand of six cards, when in Poker you can only get five. To clarify further, the highest scoring legal move in a Poker game is a Royal Flush, which would require the player to have a straight flush consisting of the top five highest card ranks with the same symbol and color, so if someone in the table says they win because they scored a five of a kind, make sure you have your [=BS=] detector (and your fists if things escalate) within arm's reach.

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This trope however, is when a character is cheating in an obvious and blatant manner and all the other players and the audience can clearly see that. He may do something seemingly impossible that could be only be done with special equipment or supernatural powers that aren't allowed, or something that the game itself makes impossible. The best (and most infamous) example is the name of this trope, named after the very common gag in media of a character playing Poker and having a hand of five aces. This is because most fair games of Poker have a card deck that has only four of each rank of card regardless of color[[note]]This can be possible in card games that are played with multiple decks at once, but the scoring rules might ignore duplicates[[/note]], or something similar like having a hand of six cards, when in Poker you can only get five. To clarify further, the highest scoring legal move in a Poker game is a Royal Flush, which would require the player to have a straight flush consisting of the top five highest card ranks with the same symbol and color, so if someone in the table says they win because they scored a five of a kind, make sure you have your [=BS=] detector (and your fists if things escalate) within arm's reach.
reach.[[note]]A five-of-a-kind is technically possible, if playing with wildcards (cards that can have any value, not just their face value), and in this case, it beats all other hands except a higher five-of-a-kind.[[/note]]
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This trope however, is when a character is cheating in an obvious and blatant manner and all the other players and the audience can clearly see that. He may do something seemingly impossible that could be only be done with special equipment or supernatural powers that aren't allowed, or something that the game itself makes impossible. The best (and most infamous) example is the name of this trope, named after the very common gag in media of a character playing Poker and having a hand of five aces. This is because most fair games of Poker have a card deck that has only four of each rank of card regardless of color[[note]]This can be possible in card games that are played with multiple decks at once, but the scoring rules might ignore duplicates[[/note]], or something similar like having a hand of six cards, when in Poker you can only get five. To clarify further, the highest scoring legal move in a Poker game is a royal flush, which would require the player to have a straight flush consisting of the top five highest card ranks with the same symbol and color, so if someone in the table says they win because they scored a five of a kind, make sure you have your [=BS=] detector (and your fists if things escalate) within arm's reach.

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This trope however, is when a character is cheating in an obvious and blatant manner and all the other players and the audience can clearly see that. He may do something seemingly impossible that could be only be done with special equipment or supernatural powers that aren't allowed, or something that the game itself makes impossible. The best (and most infamous) example is the name of this trope, named after the very common gag in media of a character playing Poker and having a hand of five aces. This is because most fair games of Poker have a card deck that has only four of each rank of card regardless of color[[note]]This can be possible in card games that are played with multiple decks at once, but the scoring rules might ignore duplicates[[/note]], or something similar like having a hand of six cards, when in Poker you can only get five. To clarify further, the highest scoring legal move in a Poker game is a royal flush, Royal Flush, which would require the player to have a straight flush consisting of the top five highest card ranks with the same symbol and color, so if someone in the table says they win because they scored a five of a kind, make sure you have your [=BS=] detector (and your fists if things escalate) within arm's reach.
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** Happens accidentally on a deleted scene from "$pringfield", as seen on "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular". Homer is the dealer for a Franchise/JamesBond stand-in, who loses because Homer forgot to take the jokers and the "instructions to pinochle" cards out of the deck.

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** Happens accidentally on a deleted scene from "$pringfield", as seen on "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular". Homer is the dealer for a Franchise/JamesBond stand-in, who loses because Homer forgot to take the jokers and the "instructions to pinochle" "rules for draw and stud poker" cards out of the deck.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' Miles attempts to invert the trope by cheating to ''lose'' a test (he doesn't like his school and wants to be kicked out so he can go back to his old one) by deliberately answering every question wrong. His teacher immediately figures him out because his plan involved getting a 0% on a ''multiple choice'' test- something ''astronomically'' unlikely if you truly don't know the answers and guess randomly. [[SpringtimeForHitler She gives him a perfect score]] for obviously knowing which answers to avoid.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': Miles attempts to invert the trope by cheating to ''lose'' a test (he doesn't like his school and wants to be kicked out so he can go back to his old one) by deliberately answering every question wrong. His teacher immediately figures him out because his plan involved getting a 0% on a ''multiple choice'' test- something ''astronomically'' unlikely if you truly don't know the answers and guess randomly. [[SpringtimeForHitler She gives him a perfect score]] for obviously knowing which answers to avoid.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'' ''[[WesternAnimation/ScreenSongs Screen Song]]'' "One More Chance" ends with an entire gambling house being thrown in the back of a police wagon (literally the entire house) save for one dog character while he was in the middle of a poker game. When the dog notices he somehow has five aces, he chases down the police wagon and jumps into it in order to play his hand.

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* The ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'' ''[[WesternAnimation/ScreenSongs Screen Song]]'' "One More Chance" ends with an entire gambling house being thrown in the back of a police wagon (literally the entire house) save for one dog character while he was in the middle of a poker game. When the dog notices he somehow has five aces, he chases down the police wagon and jumps back into it the gambling house in order to play his hand.
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* ''MissionImpossible'' has Rollin Hand reveals during a game that he has a winning hand: five pair. For the record, this requires a ten-card hand, which pretty much no version of poker allows.

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* ''MissionImpossible'' ''Series/MissionImpossible'' has Rollin Hand reveals during a game that he has a winning hand: five pair. For the record, this requires a ten-card hand, which pretty much no version of poker allows.
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* ''VideoGame/SafeCracker'' The 1997 game has a book about cheating in chess with an example of "minimal and discrete" cheating where there are 15 queens on the board.[[note]]Each player begins with one queen and a maximum of eight pawns can be promoted to queens. It would take a spectacular combination of ineptitude and skill to allow that to happen without losing the game.[[/note]]

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* ''VideoGame/SafeCracker'' The 1997 game has a book about cheating in chess with an example of "minimal and discrete" cheating where there are 15 14 black queens on the board.[[note]]Each player begins with one queen and a maximum of eight pawns can be promoted to queens. queens, resulting in a max of 9 queens for one player. It would take a spectacular combination of ineptitude and skill to allow that to happen without losing the game.game ending.[[/note]]
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This trope however, is when a character is cheating in an obvious and blatant manner and all the other players and the audience can clearly see that. He may do something seemingly impossible that could be only be done with special equipment or supernatural powers that aren't allowed, or something that the game itself makes impossible. The best (and most infamous) example is the name of this trope, named after the very common gag in media of a character playing Poker and having a hand of five aces. This is because most fair games of Poker have a card deck that has only four of each rank of card regardless of color[[note]]This can be possible in card games that are played with multiple decks at once, but the scoring rules might ignore duplicates[[/note]], or something similar like having a hand of six cards, when in Poker you can only get five. To clarify further, the highest scoring legal move in a Poker game is a royal flush, which would require the player to have a straight flush consisting of the top five highest card ranks with the same symbol, so if someone in the table says they win because they scored a five of a kind, make sure you have your [=BS=] detector (and your fists if things escalate) within arm's reach.

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This trope however, is when a character is cheating in an obvious and blatant manner and all the other players and the audience can clearly see that. He may do something seemingly impossible that could be only be done with special equipment or supernatural powers that aren't allowed, or something that the game itself makes impossible. The best (and most infamous) example is the name of this trope, named after the very common gag in media of a character playing Poker and having a hand of five aces. This is because most fair games of Poker have a card deck that has only four of each rank of card regardless of color[[note]]This can be possible in card games that are played with multiple decks at once, but the scoring rules might ignore duplicates[[/note]], or something similar like having a hand of six cards, when in Poker you can only get five. To clarify further, the highest scoring legal move in a Poker game is a royal flush, which would require the player to have a straight flush consisting of the top five highest card ranks with the same symbol, symbol and color, so if someone in the table says they win because they scored a five of a kind, make sure you have your [=BS=] detector (and your fists if things escalate) within arm's reach.
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This trope however, is when a character is cheating in an obvious and blatant manner and all the other players and the audience can clearly see that. He may do something seemingly impossible that could be only be done with special equipment or supernatural powers that aren't allowed, or something that the game itself makes impossible. The best (and most infamous) example is the name of this trope, named after the very common gag in media of a character playing Poker and having a hand of five aces. This is because most fair games of Poker have a card deck that has only four of each rank of card regardless of color[[note]]This can be possible in card games that are played with multiple decks at once, but the scoring rules might ignore duplicates[[/note]], or something similar like having a hand of six cards, when in Poker you can only get five. To clarify further, the highest scoring legal move in a Poker game is a royal flush, which would require the player to have a straight flush consisting of the top five highest card ranks with the same symbol, so if someone in the table says they have five of a kind, make sure you have your [=BS=] detector (and your fists if things escalate) within arm's reach.

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This trope however, is when a character is cheating in an obvious and blatant manner and all the other players and the audience can clearly see that. He may do something seemingly impossible that could be only be done with special equipment or supernatural powers that aren't allowed, or something that the game itself makes impossible. The best (and most infamous) example is the name of this trope, named after the very common gag in media of a character playing Poker and having a hand of five aces. This is because most fair games of Poker have a card deck that has only four of each rank of card regardless of color[[note]]This can be possible in card games that are played with multiple decks at once, but the scoring rules might ignore duplicates[[/note]], or something similar like having a hand of six cards, when in Poker you can only get five. To clarify further, the highest scoring legal move in a Poker game is a royal flush, which would require the player to have a straight flush consisting of the top five highest card ranks with the same symbol, so if someone in the table says they have win because they scored a five of a kind, make sure you have your [=BS=] detector (and your fists if things escalate) within arm's reach.
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This trope however, is when a character is cheating in an obvious and blatant manner and all the other players and the audience can clearly see that. He may do something seemingly impossible that could be only be done with special equipment or supernatural powers that aren't allowed, or something that the game itself makes impossible. The best (and most infamous) example is the name of this trope, named after the very common gag in media of a character playing Poker and having a hand of five aces. This is because most fair games of Poker have a card deck that has only four of each rank of card regardless of color[[note]]This can be possible in card games that are played with multiple decks at once, but the scoring rules might ignore duplicates[[/note]], or something similar like having a hand of six cards, when in Poker you can only get five.

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This trope however, is when a character is cheating in an obvious and blatant manner and all the other players and the audience can clearly see that. He may do something seemingly impossible that could be only be done with special equipment or supernatural powers that aren't allowed, or something that the game itself makes impossible. The best (and most infamous) example is the name of this trope, named after the very common gag in media of a character playing Poker and having a hand of five aces. This is because most fair games of Poker have a card deck that has only four of each rank of card regardless of color[[note]]This can be possible in card games that are played with multiple decks at once, but the scoring rules might ignore duplicates[[/note]], or something similar like having a hand of six cards, when in Poker you can only get five.
five. To clarify further, the highest scoring legal move in a Poker game is a royal flush, which would require the player to have a straight flush consisting of the top five highest card ranks with the same symbol, so if someone in the table says they have five of a kind, make sure you have your [=BS=] detector (and your fists if things escalate) within arm's reach.
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* ''Film/JohnWickChapter4'': John, Caine, Mr. Nobody, and Killa play poker. John gets a DeadMansHand, Caine gets four Nines and a Four, Mr. Nobody gets a royal flush, and Killa gets five Twos and declares he wins. Annoyed and unsurprised, Caine calls him out for it before he and the other three immediately pounce to kill him and his men.

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* ''Film/JohnWickChapter4'': John, Caine, Mr. Nobody, and Killa play poker. John gets a DeadMansHand, Caine gets four Nines and a Four, Mr. Nobody gets a royal flush, and Killa gets five Twos and declares he wins. Annoyed and unsurprised, Caine calls him out for it before he and the other three two immediately pounce to kill him and his men.
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* In ''Film/{{Solo}}: A Franchise/StarWars Story'', Lando Calrissian uses a green sylop hidden up his sleeve to achieve a full sabbaac, despite the fact that (as Han Solo points out afterwards) all the green sylops had been played.
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--> "Come on, guys, if you're gonna hack the scoreboard, at least come up with something ''believable''!

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--> "Come on, guys, if you're gonna hack the scoreboard, [[DoWrongRight at least come up with something ''believable''!something]] ''believable''!"
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* During his review of ''Clustertruck'', [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] mentions that the scoreboard was hacked and all of the top 10 best times are ''0.1 of a second''.
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* In Comic/WinnieWitchAndTheGiantPotato, Winnifred and a lot of other witches are playing cards, and the cheating is obvious. Potato sees his hand get magically changed several times, and finally all the witches lay down their hands stating "Four Aces! King High!" Then then start giggling in guilt, realizing they've effectively all been caught cheating. Potato even mentions their cheating.
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* In the DeathMontage in ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'', cheating with a hand of five aces was the cause of Puss' second death. This proved a bad idea when facing CaninesGamblingInACardGame

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