Listen up, AnCaps: Pit (game)

Subject: Listen up, AnCaps: Pit (game) Tue Aug 07, 2012 5:22 am

Pit is a fast-paced card game for three to eight players, designed to simulate open outcry bidding for commodities. The game was developed for Parker Brothers and first sold in 1904. This popular version of the game was developed by Edgar Cayce,[1] who would also become famous for his psychic predictions.[2]

The inspirations were the Chicago Board of Trade (known as 'The Pit') and the US Corn Exchange and it was likely based on the very successful game Gavitt's Stock Exchange, invented in 1903 by Harry E. Gavitt of Topeka, Kansas (and reprinted in 2004 in an authentic "heirloom" edition by Out of the Box Publishing). Versions of the game have been marketed under the names Billionaire, Business, Cambio, Deluxe Pit, Quick 7, and Zaster.[2]

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Phrases often used during play

Chasing the bear
When one attempts to follow the progress of the bear after trading it away by watching the following trades.
Going for a hay ride
When one attempts to pick up all of a commodity that one has little of, because one has traded enough of it back and forth that one has an idea where it is all located.
Slip him/her the bull/bear
When one trades away the bull/bear, usually just before the game ends.
The granary
A player's hand.
Getting flaxed
Inadvertently acquiring an abundance of flax, the commodity with the lowest value.
Flaxing out
Cornering the market on flax.
Bear trap
Receipt of the Bear just preceding the ring of the bell to signify the game's end; doubly nasty if receipt of the Bear was part of the final trade that facilitated the winning hand.

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More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_%28game%29

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Listen up, AnCaps: Pit (game)

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