What game did Fagin play with his boys in Oliver Twist?

In Oliver Twist, Fagin and the boys play a pickpocket game. Fagin walks about with items in his pockets, and the object of the game was for the boys to take things out of his pocket without him noticing. Charley and Doger try to successfully pickpocket him, but it is Oliver who successfully takes a handkerchief from Fagin’s pocket without him feeling it. Fagin praises him for this feat.
For the boys, the game is fun, but it also has an educational purpose. Pickpocketing might be the only means the boys will have to obtain money or anything of value that could be used for food or other things they need to survive; it is a necessary skill for the street life depicted in the novel. Additionally, by the boys learning how to pickpocket, they are essentially criminals in training and are being conditioned for a life of poverty in Victorian England.
Works Cited:
Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Baronet Books, 2008.