Confidence games
The crossword clue "Confidence games" is answered by SCAMS, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1984. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SCAMS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SCAMS answer page.
Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1984. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SCAMS
Every other clue in this collection answered by SCAMS, most used first.
- Con games - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Swindles - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Cons - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Con jobs - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Hustles - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Flimflams - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- Ponzi schemes, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Rackets - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Self-confidence - POISE, used 46 times
- Like seven Nolan Ryan games - NOHIT, used 25 times
- Confidence - TRUST, used 20 times
- Have confidence in - TRUST, used 17 times
- Won all the games - SWEPT, used 13 times
- Big name in arcade games - ATARI, used 11 times
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