A confidence swindle or fraud; also a parlor game played with dice, often used as a cover for gambling schemes.
From Japanese 'bunkō' or Spanish 'bunco,' possibly originating from a confidence game popular in the 1870s-1880s in American frontier towns.
Bunko reveals how games and cons blur together—it started as an innocent dice game but became code for fraud schemes so effectively that police formed 'Bunko Squads' to fight organized swindling.
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