I was with some kids in a Middle Eastern country, and we needed to trick some bad guys into an ambush, because they were really powerful people, but I didn't know the specifics. Our plan was very elaborate: they bad guys would come through town in a wagon, and we needed to buy more time, so we set up a wagon of our own and one of the kids would ask out for help. The kid would make it clear that his wagon was full of goods so that the bad guys greed would make them stop not to help, but to steal from him.
This indeed worked, and the steal would force them to make a stop at a specific place at which we would perform the ambush. I had a dragon with me, and I was to let him out with all my force when they arrived, but when they arrived my dragon was little more than a python. We still won the battle but I was disappointed.