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He's a card, performing parlour game (8)

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I believe the answer is:

charades

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'parlour game' is the definition.
'charades' can be an answer for 'game' (charades is a kind of game). I am unsure of the 'parlour' bit.

'he's a card performing' is the wordplay.
'performing' indicates anagramming the letters (the letters move around or 'perform').
'hes'+'a'+'card'='hesacard'
'hesacard' is an anagram of 'CHARADES'.

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(Other definitions for charades that I've seen before include "Games like this" , "Game in which answers are acted out" , "Party guessing game" , "Miming games" , "Guessing game where words are acted out" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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