FISH(6)

🐟 NAME 🐟

fish — okay bestie, it's literally the game of “Go Fish” 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

fish [-p]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

fish is the game “Go Fish”, which is, like, a traditional children's card game 🃏💖 — yes the actual card game, no cap.

So here's the vibe: the computer deals seven cards to you and seven cards to itself, and the rest of the deck goes face-down (figuratively, bestie 🙈 — it's a computer, everything's figurative). The whole object of the game 👑 is to collect “books”, which is all of the members of a single rank. Like, collecting four 2's would give you a “book of 2's” ⭐ — that's the dream, fr fr.

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

Because yes, there are options, we're fancy:

• -p — Professional mode. That's it. That's the flag. 💅

🦋 HOW THE GAME ACTUALLY GOES 🦋

The computer makes a random decision as to who gets to start the game 🎲 — so don't come for me if the computer goes first, it's random, iykyk.

Then the computer and the player take turns asking each other for cards of a specified rank. If the asked player has any cards of the requested rank, they give them up to the asking player 🫶. Lowkey important rule: a player must have at least one of the cards of the rank they request in their hand — no asking for stuff you don't even have, bestie, that's not the vibe 🙅‍♀️.

When a player asks for a rank of which the other player has no cards, the asker is told to “Go Fish!” 🐟😭. Then, the asker draws a card from the non-dealt cards. And here's the slay part: if they draw the card they asked for, they continue their turn, asking for more ranks from the other player 🔥. Otherwise, the other player gets a turn. Periodt.

When a player completes a book — either by getting cards from the other player or drawing from the deck — they set those cards aside and the rank is no longer in play ✨. Gone. Retired. Iconic.

The game ends when either player no longer has any cards in their hand 💀. The player with the most books wins 🏆👑.

Also fish provides instructions as to what input it accepts, so like, it'll tell you what to type, you won't be left guessing 🧚💜.

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💀 BUGS 💀

The computer cheats only rarely. 🙈 That's the whole bug report. Make of that what you will.

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okay that's the whole page bestie, go collect your books 🍓🦋

Sign-off time: this one's from the Debian crew, dated May 31, 1993, and it's filed under the Games Manual — yes, the header said FISH(6) and the footer said FISH(6) too, it's giving consistent 💅✨