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Pit
Out of 72 cards for eight commodities - Cattle, Corn, Coffee, Gold, Oil, Oranges, Sugar and Wool - you use one set of 9 commodity cards per player, shuffle them and deal nine cards to each player. Now all simultaneously bid several identical cards by holding the cards up and naming the number - one to four - of cards, but NOT the commodity, and can swap their offer for the offer of another player with the same number of cards. In this way you try to gain control of a market by collecting all nine cards of a commodity. If you achieve it, you hit the bell and win the round. If you are first to win three rounds, you win the game.
The game is an evergreen, it was first published in 1903 and re-published again and again in countless versions; in the new edition 2018 there are new commodities and the rules provide versions for experienced players - using the Bull and Bear cards - for younger players.
Bull and Bear are - in stock exchange jargon - the terms for Hausse and Baisse; in Pit, you can use the Bull as a Wild Card; if you hold all nine cards of a commodity and the Bull, you score double. If you hold the Bear, you cannot end the round, even if you have all nine cards of a kind. If someone else wins the round, you score -20 if you hold Bull or Bear. The winner scores the points of his commodity and you win with 500 or more points.
For younger players, you use only six cards of a commodity.
A classic game, a bestseller, an evergreen, and still the game that imitates the hectic of stock exchange most simply and most directly, using simple rules and providing lots of fun. Should be part of every game collection!
Players: 3-8
Age: 6+
Time: 30+
Designer: not named
Artist: not named
Price: ca. 15 Euro
Publisher: Hasbro 2018
Web: www.hasbro.at
Genre: Swapping, sets
Users: For families
Special: Many players
Version: de
Rules: cn de dk en es fi fr gr is it jp nl no se
In-game text: no
Comments:
First edition 1903
Edition with box-integrated bell
Simple rules
Several versions given
Compares to:
Set collecting games with swapping via card amounts
Other editions:
Numerous editions from many publishers
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