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== Films -- Live-Action ==

* Played ~~with~~ ~~-- interestingly enough -- in~~ ''Dragonball: Evolution''. "Mai" disguises herself as "Chi-Chi", and in the ensuing fight, "Goku" mistakes the REAL "Chi-Chi" for the fake one, punching her and knocking her out. Whoops!

* Played with—interestingly enough—in ''Dragonball: Evolution''. "Mai" disguises herself as "Chi-Chi", and in the ensuing fight, "Goku" mistakes the REAL "Chi-Chi" for the fake one, punching her and knocking her out. Whoops!

* Johnny Five learns it from a street performer in ''[[Short Circuit]] 2''.

* ''[[Tom Clancy|Patriot Games]]''. When a IRA terrorist is being transferred to another facility, several prisoner vans are sent out at the same time to confuse any possible attackers. It doesn't work because [[The Mole]] has told the terrorists which route the correct van is taking.

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* In ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'', out back of Koopa Village, you have to play a "shell game" where the prize is... Kooper's shell! The Fuzzy with the shell climbs the tree, then trades places with Fuzzies in other trees several times. Then you have to whack a tree. If it's the wrong tree, you'll have to fight a Fuzzy; if it's the right one, you go to the next round, where they switch around faster. Win that, and you move on to the final round, where they switch even faster. Win that, and you get the shell to give to Kooper.

** Also, on Shiver Mountain and in Crystal Palace, there will be a few points where you have to use Kooper or Bombette, and once you do, there will be one or more Duplighosts mimicking the partner, and you have to decide which is the real one and which are the fakes. This involves watching what they say. (The Duplighosts with the "worst disguises ever" don't count.)

** In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', Mimi disguises herself as Merlee. One of these times, you're talking to the real Merlee, and they mix it up. Then you have to guess which one is the real one. You may ask 5 questions, so you can base this on [[Something Only They Would Say]] or [[Something They Would Never Say]]. <ref>Or you can just look for a visual clue. (Hint: {{spoiler|Where did she hide?)}}</ref>

** In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', Mimi disguises herself as Merlee. One of these times, you're talking to the real Merlee, and they mix it up. Then you have to guess which one is the real one. You may ask 5 questions, so you can base this on [[Something Only They Would Say]] or [[Something They Would Never Say]].<ref>Or you can just look for a visual clue. (Hint: {{spoiler|Where did she hide?)}}</ref>

* ''[[Harvest Moon]]'' FoMT has Won give the player a version of this. In this case, you need to guess which apple is which.

* One ''[[Wario World]]'' boss requires you to find which cup he's hiding under.

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== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Toph finds out she can scam street magicians by ''playing'' this game. Because her earthbending [[Disability Superpower]] lets her sense where the pebble is, she can get it right every time. She even puts it back under a shell when a con artist tries to stealthily put it in his sleeve.

* An episode of the ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' animated series has an ancient creature holding an item of mystic power that the group needs. He puts before them several tests that are borderline [[Ice Cream Koan]] versions of such ~~things -- such~~ as "stick out your tongue and touch your forehead" (Aladdin sticks out his tongue... and touches his forehead with his finger). One of them is a shell game. The creature claims to have won after Aladdin chooses, but Aladdin has Abu and Carpet move the other two shells to reveal there was nothing under them... so clearly there must be something under the one he chose. (Invoking the "shell games aren't won by the player" point.)

* An episode of the ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' animated series has an ancient creature holding an item of mystic power that the group needs. He puts before them several tests that are borderline [[Ice Cream Koan]] versions of such things—such as "stick out your tongue and touch your forehead" (Aladdin sticks out his tongue... and touches his forehead with his finger). One of them is a shell game. The creature claims to have won after Aladdin chooses, but Aladdin has Abu and Carpet move the other two shells to reveal there was nothing under them... so clearly there must be something under the one he chose. (Invoking the "shell games aren't won by the player" point.)

* In one episode of ''[[American Dad]]'', a significant jar of peanut butter is swapped several times between two identical bags. Eventually one falls into lava, at which point Steve learns that Stan had been trying to do this, but had thought it was a "magic bag" and didn't realize he had to ''do'' anything to make the swap, resulting in the jar being in the bag that fell into lava.

* In an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Homer becomes a licensed Krusty impersonator and gets grabbed by [[The Mafiya]] when they mistake him for the real Krusty...who gets brought in at the same time. The mobsters are going to shoot Krusty and let Homer go, but Krusty grabs each of their heads and plays a human Shell Game, which succeeds in confusing the gangsters and winning them their freedom...until [[Too Dumb to Live|Homer says "Good one, Krusty!"]]