What was the “Badger Game?

What was the “badger game?” Robert Tignor Independence, Missouri Dating to the 19th century, the badger game is arguably one of the most reproduced cons of all time. In its most famous form of blackmail, a woman seeks out a lonely man at a bar and lures him to her hotel room. After getting the man into a compromising position, her accomplice bursts into the room, often with a loaded gun. Or she tears her blouse and accuses the man of rape. The object, of course, was usually money—but n