Three-card monte is a street swindle and a magic plot built around three cards, usually two losers and one winner such as a queen. The dealer mixes the cards face down and invites the mark to follow the winning card, but a series of throws, bends, and switches keeps the mark wrong. In a magic performance the same sequence often ends with a sucker-style twist that rules out the solution the spectator had settled on. It belongs with sucker tricks because the entertainment comes from the gotcha, not from a flourish with the cards.