Pit is a fast card game for three to eight players that imitates the shouted bidding of a commodities exchange. Parker Brothers, an American games company, first sold it in 1904. It drew on the Chicago Board of Trade, known as the Pit, and on the US Corn Exchange, and was probably based on Gavitt's Stock Exchange, invented in 1903 by Harry E. Gavitt of Topeka, Kansas. Hasbro still holds the Pit trademark in many countries, and versions have been sold under other names including Billionaire, Business, Cambio, Deluxe Pit, Quick 7 and Zaster. The clairvoyant Edgar Cayce once claimed he developed the game and sent it to Parker Brothers.
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The game first went on sale in 1904 by the American games company Parker Brothers.
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Pit is a fast-paced card game for three to eight players
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