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* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', {{spoiler|Genkai}} arranges for Yusuke to be kidnapped and has Kaito, Yanagisawa and Kido test them with their special "territory"-based abilities, in order to {{spoiler|prepare them for the fight against Sensui's Seven}}.
** {{spoiler|Urahara}} in ''[[Bleach]]'' similarly comes up with a plan in which three mod-souls kidnap Orihime and force Ichigo and his friends to play several games against them, like running to certain destinations, finding their way through a maze of illusions, picking out the impostor among their classmates, and saving Chad from a giant hourglass, {{spoiler|to teach them how to work together and fight the Bounts}}.
* In ''[[
** In a filler arc, Gennou sets paper bombs throughout all of Konoha, supposedly to detonate them to destroy the village, but it is later revealed that many of the original paper bombs were replaced with fakes in order to let Naruto and his friends have a scavenger hunt like the ones his son used to enjoy.
** Since the start of the ''Killer Bee'' arc, there has been a long sequence of scams.
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[April
* ''[[The Game (
* ''[[The Sting]]''
* ''Confidence'' (spiritual remake of ''The Sting'')
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* ''[[Dirty Rotten Scoundrels]]''
* ''[[Trading Places]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Film/House Of Games|House Of Games]]''
* ''[[
* ''The Spanish Prisoner''
* ''[[Film/Derailed|Derailed]]''
* ''[[Film/The Truman Report|The Truman Report]]''
* ''[[Man
* ''[[Duplex]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Inception]]''
* ''[[Wild Things]]'' - One of the layers of deceit appears to be this.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Matchstick Men]]''
* In ''[[Murder
* ''[[
* [[James Thurber]]'s fairy tale "The Great Quillow" involves some townspeople who pull one of these on a giant to get him to leave their village alone.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The third game, fourth case of ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' is about how a cop's sister is kidnapped by her boyfriend, asking for a ransom of an expensive diamond of their father's at a mountain river. {{spoiler|It was all staged in order to sell the diamond and split the millions of dollars amongst themselves. However, all of THAT was a scam; the sister planned this all along and jumped into a river with the diamond, keeping it for herself. (Until it was lost in the river, leaving her with nothing but a criminal background and a lot of karma to hit her over the head later.)}}
== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* An episode of ''[[The Simpsons (
{{quote| '''Homer''': I can't believe everyone was in on it!<br />
'''Willie''': '''[[Enforced Method Acting|Willie]] [[Unwitting Pawn|wasn't]]!!''' }}
** Another episode featured Homer and Marge being framed for murder as contestants of a [[Reality Show]].
* The ''[[
* ''[[
** This troper likes to think that Spongebob only came up with the idea to get revenge on Squidward, who had come dangerously close to crossing the [[Moral Event Horizon]] with his so-called "prank".
* In a somewhat troperrific episode of ''[[
{{quote| [[Fade to Black|"I understand...no holding back."]]}}
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