Introduced in 1903 — more than 30 years before Monopoly — Pit was a parlor card game inspired by the agricultural commodities market. Game play was a chaotic free-for-all — not unlike the real exchange floor — in which players traded cards with their neighbors to "corner the market" on a single commodity, such as wheat, corn or flax. "Pit parties" became a craze and more than a million units of the game were sold in its first year.

Lexiko was the original name of what board game, invented by Alfred Mosher Butts in the 1930s?

A) Diplomacy

B) The Game of Life

C) Scrabble

D) Stratego

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