Go a Sea, Go Fish!

Go a sea, Go Fish! is best for 3-6 players, but it is possible for 2 to play. A standard 52 card deck is used. The dealer deals 5 cards to each player (7 each for 2 players). The remaining cards are placed face down to form a stock.

The player to dealer’s left starts. A turn consists of asking a specific player for a specific rank. For example, if it is my turn I might say: ‘Terrence, please give me your jacks’. The player who asks must already hold at least one card of the requested rank, so I must hold at least one jack to say this. If the player who was asked (Terrence) has cards of the named rank (jacks in this case), he must give all his cards of this rank to the player who asked for them. (add: Providing the person who asks answers the questions on each jack card, if they only get one or two right, then they only get those cards and the game continues to the next player.” That player then gets another turn if they get all right and may again ask any player for any rank already held by the asker.

If the person asked does not have any cards of the named rank, they say ‘Go a sea, Go fish!’. The asker must then draw the top card of the undealt stock. 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 a sea Go fish!’.

As soon as a player collects a book of 4 cards of the same rank, this must be shown and 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 books.