Phrases Often Used During Play
- Chasing the bear
- When one attempts to follow the progress of the bear after trading it away by watching the following trades.
- Going for a hay ride
- When one attempts to pick up all of a commodity that one has little of, because one has traded enough of it back and forth that one has an idea where it is all located.
- Slip him/her the bull/bear
- When one trades away the bull/bear, usually just before the game ends.
- The granary
- A player's hand.
- Getting flaxed
- Inadvertently acquiring an abundance of flax, the commodity with the lowest value.
- Flaxing out
- Cornering the market on flax.
- Bear trap
- Receipt of the Bear just preceding the ring of the bell to signify the game's end; doubly nasty if receipt of the Bear was part of the final trade that facilitated the winning hand.
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