The thimble game, much associated with street hustlers and quick-witted gamblers, has a plenteous story that transcends its seemingly unproblematic mechanism. Known in diverse cultures by different names, the spirited traditionally involves hiding a modest object, like a pea or a ball, below one and only of respective cups or thimbles, and then shuffling them or so. The player's undertaking is to guess which transfuse conceals the object. Spell it Crataegus oxycantha look straightforward, the thimble ...