History Main / FiveAcesCheater

* During the Townies vs. Farmers game in ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', Toady throws dust in Anne's eyes. This gets him immediately expelled, which the Townies considered a necesarry sacrifice to take out the farmers' star player.

* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'': In "Brucey B and The Lucky Coin", when Brucey B is playing Cheat with R.S., near the end of the game, R.S. plays a single four. Brucey calls him out on it, but R.S. reveals his card to be the four of diamonds. Brucey ponders how such a thing is possible when he had played four fours not too long ago.

* When playing the card game "Cheat!"[[note]]A {{Bowdleriz|ation}}ed name for the real card game "Bullshit"[[/note]] on ''Website/{{Neopets}}'', you won't be ''stopped from'' attempting to say you're laying down five (or more) of a given card, but [[EveryoneHasStandards even the early opponents that are characterized as not-very-bright pathological liars]] know that's impossible; the game is hard-coded so that [[NoFairCheating you'll always be caught if you use more than four cards]].

* Arguably the point of the ''Website/{{Neopets}}'' game called "Cheat!" In that game, players place one to four cards of the same value onto a pile, facedown, claiming that they fit a certain criteria. The other players can accuse them of cheating and flip the cards. Since this is a 52-card deck, someone who plays more than four cards is obviously cheating, and it's possible to catch a cheater if they play cards that are currently in your hand (i.e. you have three fives and they play two or more fives).

* When playing the card game "Cheat!"[[note]]A {{Bowdleriz|ation}}ed name for the real card game "Bullshit"[[/note]] on ''Website/{{Neopets}}'', you won't be ''stopped from'' doing this, but [[EveryoneHasStandards even the early opponents that are characterized as not-very-bright pathological liars]] know that five or more of the same card is impossible; the game is hard-coded so that [[NoFairCheating you'll always be caught if you use more than four cards]].

** On a smaller-scale example, Bart's attempt to forge his grades was immediately spotted by everyone who looked at them because he gave himself straight A+'s. As Lisa put it, "Oh, Bart, couldn't you at least forge ''plausible'' grades?"

* Arguably the point of the ''Website/{{Neopets}}'' game called "Cheat!" In that game, players place one to four cards of the same value onto a pile, facedown, claiming that they fit a certain criteria. The other players can accuse them of cheating and flip the cards. Since this is a 52-card deck, someone who plays more than four cards is obviously cheating, and it's possible to catch a cheater if they play cards that are currently in your hard (i.e. you have three fives and they play two or more fives).

** In "Hell is Other Robots", Bender finds himself sat at a poker game in Robot Hell, and tries to cheat by hiding extra cards in his torso. The Robot Devil catches him, grabs him by the wrist and reveals the cards he tried to add to the game - five copies of the Ace of Spades.

** In "Hell is Other Robots", Bender finds himself sat at a poker game in Robot Hell, and tries to cheat by hiding extra cards in his torso. The Robot Devil catches him, grabs him by the wrist and reveals he's holding a hand consisting of five copies of the Ace of Spades.

'''Mario:''' 'Til Toad finds the Princess... or I win all their money!

* ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'': During "Rolling Down the River", Mario and Luigi stow away on King Koopa's steamboat to free Princess Toadstool by disguising themselves as professional gamblers, and Mario ends up beating Koopa's minions by a landslide. However, when Mario runs after a Goomba carrying a tray of chicken legs, he's revealed to have been cheating by cards falling out of his sleeves. A Koopa Troopa then shakes him down for the other cards he's been hiding, only to rip off his coat and reveal him and Luigi as the Mario Bros.
-->'''Luigi:''' How much longer do we gotta keep these guys busy?\\

* A BlackComedy example in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''. In Jacobstown, you can enter the various resort bungalows there to loot the place. One bungalow contains a long-dead skeleton in a fallen chair, in front of a table where a card game was being played. There's also evidence of drinking and guns involved. It's quite clear that someone was shot for cheating... what makes it hilarious is what the cheater had tried to claim. As per the trope, five kings. Not just five kings, but five kings [[UpToEleven all of the same suit]]. And his opponent's hand had a ''sixth'' king of that suit. And yes, the evidence points to only one standard deck of cards having been involved in the game. The collective IQ of the setting probably went up a point when the cheater was escorted off the mortal coil.

In extreme cases, all the competitors are doing something impossible or that they can't do all at once, such as a card game in which every player has four aces, meaning all of them are cheating.[[note]]Bar the one player that might have ''legitimately'' gotten four aces; but what are the odds of that....[[/note]]

This is pretty much a PaperThinDisguise version of cheating and it's almost always PlayedForComedy. The more comedic version is when no one notices the obvious cheating and they maybe even think the character is just that good, or someone actually notices but does nothing about it. The less comedic version is when audience and other competitors notice it and complain, but the cheater still gets away, or doesn't. The PlayedForDrama version is when it's revealed or stated since the beginning that the whole game is rigged, and/or the cheater is [[LetTheBullyWin such a powerful or dangerous person]] that nobody will risk standing up to him.

* This was brought up when ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' did the WAR! Update, which involved a contest where Soldier and Demoman players would try to kill each other, with the winning side getting the Gunboats item. Naturally, the developers discovered that some players were getting outrageous kill counts--the highest scorer on either side had accumulated over 200,000 kills. Keep in mind that the contest lasted a week, so that translates to getting a Soldier or Demoman kill every three seconds, in an online FPS where only a fraction of the base plays Soldier or Demoman, and doing this every second of every day. Or, as the Administrator put it:

* ''Minecraft'' is no stranger to blatant cheaters. The game has a very prevalent hacking community, and a lot of the time, the hacks are extremely easy to detect, and are sometimes even noticeable by regular players.

* ''VideoGame/Minecraft'' is no stranger to blatant cheaters. The game has a very prevalent hacking community, and a lot of the time, the hacks are extremely easy to detect, and are sometimes even noticeable by regular players.

* In the 2012 Olympics, several Chinese and South Korean badminton teams realized that if they lost in their first-round, [[ThrowingTheMatch they would face easier competition later]]. However, they tried far too hard in throwing the match, failing to even get the badminton over the net. This got both teams banned.

** In "Hell is other robots", Bender finds himself sat at a poker game in Robot Hell, and tries to cheat by hiding extra cards in his torso. The Robot Devil catches him, grabs him by the wrist and reveals he's holding a hand consisting of 5 Ace of Spades.

* In one of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' movies, this happens to Bender by accident during a Texas Hold'em Poker tournament. Only Fry and Bender are left in the tournament due to a combination of Fry having the ability to read minds, and Bender having stolen a lucky charm. Bender figures out what Fry is doing and opts to play without looking at his own cards. Fry has two aces, and the community cards are three kings and the other two aces (which means Fry would win regardless of what Bender has). Bender casually flips his cards over to find out that he has the fourth king...and a coaster from the bar that looks like a king (The kings of beers!). The judge ([[Creator/PennAndTeller Penn Jillette]]) rules that this counts as '''five''' kings, winning Bender the tournament.