{"product_id":"lynx-test-your-trapping-skills-in-the-ontario-frontier","title":"Lynx: Test your Trapping Skills in the Ontario Frontier","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn iconic symbol of wilderness, the Canada lynx is an important part of Canadian ecology and history. Lynx are top predators and predominantly hunt snowshoe hare. Because of this, abundance of snowshoe hare directly affects the abundance of lynx and vice versa. This relationship has become the classic example of predator-prey cycling.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLynx\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, each player takes the role of a late 18th-century fur trapper in the Hudson's Bay region of northern Ontario exploiting the lynx-hare cycle and outwitting other trappers. Each player starts indebted to the Hudson's Bay Company which supplied them with traps in agreement that all pelts be sold exclusively to them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn order to succeed, you need to time not just market demand, but also the balance of lynx and hare population.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy trapping when the lynx are plentiful and selling pelts at high prices, the trapper who earns the most money pays off their debt and becomes a free trapper.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWill you be a company man or a free trapper?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1 Game Board\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1 Hare Marker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1 Lynx Marker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e40 Action Markers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e60 Trap\/Pelt Cards\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e12 Venture Cards\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5 Pelt Storage Cards\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e41 Price Tokens\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5 Money Cubes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1 Black Cube\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1 Rulebook\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAges:\u003c\/b\u003e 14+\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlayers:\u003c\/b\u003e 2-5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGame Length:\u003c\/b\u003e 60 minutes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Capes and Crepes Board Game Cafe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68146520949017,"sku":null,"price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/2417\/4873\/files\/IMG_5105.jpg?v=1793499863","url":"https:\/\/capesandcrepes.com\/products\/lynx-test-your-trapping-skills-in-the-ontario-frontier","provider":"Capes and Crepes Board Game Cafe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}