🐟 Go Fish

How to play

Go Fish against the CPU with a standard pack. You each start with seven cards and the rest becomes the pool. On your turn you ask the CPU for a rank; if it holds any it must hand all of them over, and if it does not you go fishing and draw one card. The CPU then asks for a rank picked at random from its own hand. The object is to collect sets of four cards of the same rank.

• Click a card in your hand — asks the CPU for that rank. You can only ask for ranks you hold, since your hand is the only thing you can click.
• New Game button — reshuffles, deals seven cards each and resets both set counters.

Scoring

The score is the number of complete sets. As soon as four cards of a rank meet in a hand they are removed automatically and the owner's counter rises, so there are thirteen sets in a game. The Pool counter shows how many cards remain undealt. Play continues until a hand cannot be refilled, and whoever holds more sets wins.

Tips

• Ask for the rank you hold most of. Three of a kind needs only one card, and anything the CPU gives up is a set it can no longer finish.
• Watch what the CPU asks for. It only names ranks it is holding, so repeated requests show where its near-complete sets are.
• The turn passes to the CPU after every request in this build, so there is no benefit to saving a sure hit for later.
• Once the Pool is low, fishing no longer replaces what you give away.

Frequently asked questions