Gooseberry High

Here's the plan.

We find ourselves two allies on the Bella Casino and Bella Thief teams. We'll call them Beauty and The Beast, respectively. So long as we throw our own Casino team to the proverbial wolves, it's possibly for me and our new allies all to win.

First off, we let them rob our Casino. You have access to our codes, and our team has no reason to distrust us, so this should be easy enough.

Secondly, we enlist their help robbing the Palace. This will be a little more complicated, and require some subterfuge, but I believe in us.

To rob the Palace, we'll need a contact on their thief team. I'll call this person Le Fou. We'll tell Le Fou that we're double-dealing and have a contact in The Bella who trusts us. We'll need Beauty to give us two matching codes for their vault, or if Le Fou has one of the codes they need already, just the matching one.

As a show of good faith, we let them validate the key. Then they know our information is good. Now they trust us. We tell them we'll keep feeding them codes for the Bella, if they can provide codes for the Palace in return. We'll make it out to be a thieves' coalition.

After we get the first key, we give them the second key for the Bella. We should also make them fund the keys - send us sixty credits. That'll put their team down financially, so they can't buy the last one. Then, we make them go first for the last key exchange, to prove their good faith.

Once we have all three keys for the Palace, we tell the Bella to proceed with the heist on the Flamingo. The game will end before the Palace thieves even know they've been betrayed, and we make out like bandits.

Of course, the way things are currently going, we could probably bunk off and your team would still win. It'd be a lot less work. I'll be perfectly happy either way, so I leave the decision to you.

I can't hear you over all the caterwauling.

Do they have orphanages in America? I think I came from an orphanage. Maybe a Russian one.