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* FakeDangerGambit
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* ProppingUpTheirPatsy
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** MacguffinDeliveryService

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** MacguffinDeliveryService
MacGuffinDeliveryService
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* InsidiousRumorMill
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* SelfDefenseRuse
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* If the plan involves fooling your enemies into fighting each other, it's PlayingBothSides

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* If the plan involves fooling your enemies into fighting each other, it's PlayingBothSidesPlayingBothSides.
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* AgentProvocateur
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* AccidentalSuicide - specific to DeathIsTheOnlyOption
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* GideonPloy
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* ConfoundThemWithKindness
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* ResurrectionGambit
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much less clunky.


* If things do go wrong, but the person keeps adjusting the plan so that it works anyway, s/he's playing XanatosSpeedChess.
* If the plan involves predicting someone's actions based on his/her character and planning accordingly, then it's a BatmanGambit.

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* If things do go wrong, but the person keeps adjusting the plan so that it works anyway, s/he's they're playing XanatosSpeedChess.
* If the plan involves predicting someone's actions based on his/her their character and planning accordingly, then it's a BatmanGambit.



** If there was no way for the planner to have known that option was even possible, then s/he DidntSeeThatComing.

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** If there was no way for the planner to have known that option was even possible, then s/he they DidntSeeThatComing.
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Listed Briar Patching as a form of gambit, filed under Kingmaker Scenario

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** If you use ReversePsychology to trick the enemy into doing what you want, then it's BriarPatching.
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* AntiInterferenceLockUp
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-->-- '''[[Literature/TheFourGospels Luke 14:28-32]]'''

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14:28-32]]''', ''Literature/TheBible''
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* FakeAFight
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%%* If you have a smooth-talking Cajun card shark who can "charge" ordinary objects into explosive devices, that's probably just plain Comicbook/{{Gambit}}.
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* FakingAndEntering
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* SpringtimeForHitler
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* FalseFlagOperation


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* IndyPloy
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** If the goal is to pretend to be an enemy and attacking another enemy so they'll fight each other without them knowing it was you, then it's FalseFlagOperation.
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* BondVillainStupidity
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* If you pretend to be someone else, that's an ImpersonationGambit.

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* If you pretend to be someone else, that's an ImpersonationGambit.



* If the plan envolves deliberately poisoning yourself or at least pretending to be poisoned in order to poison someone else, then it's a {{Self Poisoning Gambit}}.

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* If the plan envolves involves deliberately poisoning yourself or at least pretending to be poisoned in order to poison someone else, then it's a {{Self Poisoning Gambit}}.
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* If the gambit envolves deliberately poisoning yourself or at least pretending to be poisoned in order to poison someone else, then it's a {{Self Poisoning Gambit}}.

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* If the gambit plan envolves deliberately poisoning yourself or at least pretending to be poisoned in order to poison someone else, then it's a {{Self Poisoning Gambit}}.
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* If the plan involves tricking someone into leading you to what or who you want, then it's a TrickAndFollowPloy.


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* TrickAndFollowPloy
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This is indeed a gambit because it's a way to gambit someone else and even has the word "Gambit" in the title.

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* If the gambit envolves deliberately poisoning yourself or at least pretending to be poisoned in order to poison someone else, then it's a {{Self Poisoning Gambit}}.


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* SelfPoisoningGambit
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* For the speech that comes when the plan is completed and your enemies defeated, they just don't know it yet, that's CheckAndMate

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* For the speech that comes when the plan is completed and your enemies are defeated, but they just don't know it yet, that's CheckAndMateCheckAndMate.
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* If the plan is created by the "victim"'s friends and loved ones for benign purposes (for example, as a practical joke), it is FriendlyScheming.

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* If you have a smooth-talking Cajun card shark who can "charge" ordinary objects into explosive devices, that's probably just plain Comicbook/{{Gambit}}.

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* %%* If you have a smooth-talking Cajun card shark who can "charge" ordinary objects into explosive devices, that's probably just plain Comicbook/{{Gambit}}.Comicbook/{{Gambit}}.
* If you purposely yield to a powerful enemy because it benefits you more to do so, it's a KingmakerScenario.
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-->--'''[[Literature/TheFourGospels Luke 14:28-32]]'''

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-->--'''[[Literature/TheFourGospels -->-- '''[[Literature/TheFourGospels Luke 14:28-32]]'''14:28-32]]'''

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