GO-FISH(6)

🎀 GO-FISH(6) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Games Manual, and today's main character is go-fish — literally the card game "Go Fish", a traditional children's card game. it's giving cozy. it's giving nostalgic. it's giving "i will absolutely destroy you at a game designed for six-year-olds." 💅

✨ NAME ✨

go-fish — play "Go Fish" 🐟

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

go-fish is the game "Go Fish", a traditional children's card game. no cap, that's the whole vibe.

The computer deals the player and itself seven cards, and places the rest of the deck face-down (figuratively). 🃏 lowkey iconic that they clarified "figuratively" like we were all gonna panic about a physical deck materializing inside our terminal.

The object of the game is to collect "books" — that's all of the members of a single rank, bestie. for example, collecting four 2's would give the player a "book of 2's". ✨ slay ✨

The options are as follows:

• -p — Professional mode. 💼👑

The computer makes a random decision as to who gets to start the game, and then the computer and 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. 🫶

real rule alert 🚨 — 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 hold. that's the law fr fr.

When a player asks for a rank of which the other player has no cards, the asker is told to "Go Fish!" 😭 brutal. Then, the asker draws a card from the non-dealt cards. 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. 🔄

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. not coming back.

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

go-fish provides instructions as to what input it accepts. (it will tell you what it wants, bestie. just read the screen. it's not gonna leave you on read. 🫶)

💀 BUGS 💀

The computer cheats only rarely.

ngl that's the most ominous sentence in this entire manual. "only rarely"?? ONLY RARELY??? bestie that is not the reassurance you think it is. 😭 stay vigilant. vibe check your opponent.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

nothing else listed here, bestie — go-fish is out here standing on its own two feet. main character energy, no entourage. 💅

and that's the whole page!! 🌈 this one comes to you from Debian, dated May 31, 1993 — yes, 1993, this manpage is literally older than most of the internet and it still ate. 💖 go play some Go Fish, win your books, and remember: if the computer wins, it cheated only rarely. allegedly. 🎀🐟✨