GOFISH(6)

🎀 NAME 🎀

gofish — play “Go Fish” 💖 (this is the GOFISH(6) page, straight outta the Games Manual, and yes bestie we’re about to collect some books)

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so gofish is literally 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). The object of the game is to collect “books”, aka all of the members of a single rank. For example, collecting four 2's would give the player a “book of 2's”. slay. 💅

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. A player must have at least one of the cards of the rank they request in their hand. periodt. 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. If they draw the card they asked for, they keep their turn going, 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. yup, book completed, rank exited the chat. 🎀

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

gofish provides instructions as to what input it accepts. so you’re not just out here guessing, bestie. 🫶

mwah 💋 this page is brought to you by Debian, dated May 31, 1993 — iconic little time capsule, fr fr.