ruse (n.)
- art
- artifice
- blind
- bluff
- catch
- chicanery
- conspiracy
- contrivance
- coup
- craft
- curve
- deceit
- deception
- design
- device
- dodge
- expedient
- feint
- fetch
- gambit
- game
- gimmick
- googly
- hoax
- hocus-pocus
- imposture
- intrigue
- jig
- joker
- juggle
- jugglery
- knavery
- maneuver
- move
- pass
- plot
- ploy
- pretext
- racket
- scheme
- shift
- sleight
- stratagem
- strategy
- subterfuge
- tactic
- trick
- trickery
- wile