Pit: Corner the Market Card Game First Impressions
Pit sees you shout it out!
Indeed…
In this loud, real-time trading game, players are given the task of cornering the market in one type of commodity. There are as many suits as there are players, and all the cards are dealt out at the start of each round. When the trading begins, players offer sets of cards to each other in the hopes of completing a set for themselves. If you’re successful, you ring the (optional)bell and yell out, “Corner on wheat!” (or whatever your commodity is). You then score points depending on which it was – some are more valuable than others.
So as the blurb says, Pit has one set of commodities for each player and each commodity has 9 cards. These are shuffled and 9 cards are dealt out to each player.
Once everyone has sorted their hand someone says “Shout it out!”.
Then you take a number of identical cards in your hand and let people know how many you’re trading. For example, if you don’t want the 3 Diamonds cards in your hand you’ll say “Trading 3, Trading 3” until someone else offers 3 cards to trade.
You can then trade 3 cards with that player. Then you readjust your hand, pick another set from it and go again.
Pit continues until someone gets 9 cards in their hand of one commodity at which point they slap their hand on the table and shout “pit”. They win and score points equal to the value of that commodity then the cards are shuffled and a new round starts.
Pit Summary
This continues until someone scores 500 points and they are the winner.
One thing about this is that it is VERY loud and probably more suited to a private game day at home or a large convention rather than a small organised game day. I’m sure people would find you more annoying than humorous.
A very fun game, looking forward to playing it with the full 8 players and the Bear and Bull card.
Update 30/05/2018
I’ve played this a few times since and well, it’s pretty same-y game to game as you can imagine.
It’s still fun but rounds are stressful and quite tiring, especially at the end of a long day. I’d rather play a set collection game that’s a bit calmer… something like Ethnos. Not the same game, but set collection none the less 🙂
Jesta ThaRogue
