About Go Fish
Go Fish is one of the first card games kids learn. You ask another player for a particular card: “Got any 7s?” If they have any, they have to give you all of them, and you get to ask again. If they don’t, they say “Go fish!”, and you draw a card from the pond. When you have four of a kind, you lay them down in front of you, and whoever has the most sets of four wins.
On GameBase, the game is built for little hands: big buttons for choosing who to ask and which card you want, a pond full of cards in the middle and speech bubbles so everyone can follow along. The game keeps track of whose turn it is and lays down the sets of four by itself.
Play with one iPad that is passed around with a cover screen, so nobody sees the others’ cards. Or put the pond on the TV, and let each player hold their cards on their phone. Go Fish practises numbers, memory and asking nicely.
How to play
- Choose one iPad or TV and phones, and type in the names. Two or three players get 7 cards each, four or more get 5.
- When it’s your turn, you pick a player and a card you have at least one of yourself.
- If that player has any, you get all of them and ask again. If they have none, they say “Go fish!”, and you draw from the pond.
- If you fish exactly the card you asked for, you get another turn. Sets of four are laid down straight away.
- When all 13 sets of four are down, whoever has the most wins.