Teaching Mathematics ISSUE 2 | Page 15

Fish

The dealer deals 5 cards to each player .The remaining cards are placed face

down.The player to dealer's left asks a specific player for a specific rank. For

example, 'Mary, please give me your jacks'. The player who asks must already

hold at least one jack. If the player who was asked (Mary) has any jacks, she

must give all her jacks to the asker. That player then gets another turn and

may again ask any player for any rank already held by the asker.

If the person asked does not have any jacks ,, they say 'Go fish!'. The asker

must then draw the top card from the pile. If the drawn card is the rank asked

for, the asker shows it and gets another turn. If the drawn card is not the

rank asked for, the asker keeps it, but the turn now passes to the player who

said 'Go fish!'.

As soon as a player collects 4 cards of the same they are discarded face down.

The game continues until either someone has no cards left in their hand or the

stock runs out. The winner is the player who then has the most cards.