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Pit is a fast-paced card game for three to eight players, designed to simulate open outcry bidding for commodities. The game first went on sale in 1904 by the American games company Parker Brothers. [1] The inspirations were the Chicago Board of Trade (known as the Pit) and the US Corn Exchange.
The object is to obtain a hand with a value total as close as possible to 31, from which the name of the game is taken. [3]The game is also known as Blitz, [2] Scat, [2] Cadillac [2] in south Louisiana and Mississippi, Cad in Pennsylvania, Whammy! in central Indiana, Juble in Oklahoma and Kansas, as also as Kitty, [2] High Hat, [2] Ride the Bus [2] and Geronimo. [2]
The "dummy" is dealt 13 cards; the cards are kept face-down until after the auction, when the dummy's cards are turned face-up and facing opposite the declarer. After the dummy cards are turned face-up, the declarer declares a trump suit if he bid "uptown" or "downtown" or he declares uptown or downtown if he bid no-trump. If playing with ...
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The equivalent game in many European countries is known (in each country's own language) as "Peter" or "Black Peter", and is often played with special cards, typically 31 or 37, in which the odd one out is typically a chimney sweep or a black cat. The game can also be played with a standard 32-card pack from which a black jack is removed.
Pitch (or "high low jack") is an American trick-taking game equivalent to the British blind all fours which, in turn, is derived from the classic all fours (US: seven up). ). Historically, pitch started as "blind all fours", a very simple all fours variant that is still played in England as a pub ga
One game board of thin cardboard with two folds, measuring 28 by 19 inches (71 by 48 cm) overall and depicting a stylised early 1960s Formula One motor racing track in plan view Six 1 by 5 ⁄ 8 inch (2.5 by 1.6 cm) plastic playing pieces in the form of late 1950s / early 1960s style Formula One racing cars coloured green, yellow, red, orange ...
A handmade Rummoli board. Rummoli is a family card game for two to eight people. This Canadian board game, first marketed in 1940 by the Copp Clark Publishing Company of Toronto [1] requires a Rummoli board, a deck of playing cards (52 cards, no jokers), and chips or coins to play.