play (upon)

engineer, finagle, jockey, maneuver

beguile, bluff, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fool, gull, hoax, hoodwink, kid, shanghai, snow, take in, trick

intrigue, machinate, plot, scheme

arrange, contrive, devise, finesse, mastermind

cheat, chisel, con, defraud, fleece, gyp, hustle, swindle