Talk:Go Fish

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I rewrote this based on both my experience and information I could find. But a few things remain unclear. In the basic game with more than two players:
 * To whom does the turn pass when the player whose turn it is has no cards?
 * When only one of the players runs out of cards, the remaining players would naturally ask each other for cards, and so the fished-out player could effectively take no further part in the game. Is this really what happens?

-- Smjg 09:31, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Beats "52 card pickup" ever play that? Juzzztkidding! I think the player that runs out of cards is out if I remember how wee played when Izuh yung en'... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.35.196.93 (talk • contribs) 00:22, 3 October 2006 (UTC) I would like some footnotes or sources for the rest of the article. NPOV? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.35.196.93 (talk • contribs) 00:24, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Mistake?

 * "The recipient of the request must then hand over all cards of that rank"

Yet, as I understand it, if a player has a pair, he/she puts it down on the table... How can one have several cards of the same rank then? IronChris |  (talk) 05:39, 12 February 2007 (UTC)


 * It's simple - somebody once upon a time made a total mess of editing the article. I've just cleaned it up. -- Smjg 00:59, 1 April 2007 (UTC)


 * If you're playing with two-card books, then you wouldn't have more than one card. If you're playing with 4-card books, which is how I learned it, than you may have 2 or 3 of the requested card, and must pass them all over.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.102.106.80 (talk) 16:56, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

when there are know cards left to fish for what do u do we need to know —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 90.240.166.218 (talk • contribs) 16:39, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

According to sources like Bicycle and Pagat, cards should be in four-card books rather than pairs. That is how multiple cards can be handed over to the player asking for them. CardFish (talk) 22:19, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Game over when?
"The game ends when all cards in a player's hand are played down, and the player who won the most books wins." This is unclear. Is the game over when any one player has all cards down or when all players have all their cards down. If the former, then how could the player whose turn it is ever be out of cards, as is discussed further in the article? Wouldn't that be the end of the game? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tpellman (talk • contribs) 17:57, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

History
There should be a section about the history of the game. The article only really talks about how to play the game. -Kyuko (talk) 01:18, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * If you can find a reliable resource or information on the history of Go Fish, then go ahead Kiwinil (talk) 06:58, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

How old is this game? -ErinHowarth (talk) 03:02, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Proper noun
Really? Is it a trademark? I thought it was just go fish. Mglovesfun (talk) 00:16, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

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