Five Little Fish
Five Little Fish Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Contents
- 5 Little Fish
- 36 Lily Pad Cards
- 2 Fishing Rods
Set Up
To set up this game, place the Little Fish in the middle of the table so that the heads are facing up and the bodies are collapsed inside the heads.
Shuffle the Little Fish around so that no one knows with one's which and put the Fishing Rods to the side.
Shuffle the Lily Pad Cards and lay them out face down around the Little Fish (see image above for reference).
How to Play
The youngest player goes first! Start by turning over a Lily Pad Card of your choice. If the Lily Pad Card shows a...
Fish
Take a Fishing Rod, choose any one of the Little Fish on the table and hook it with the Fishing Rod. Lift up the Little Fish so that everyone can see which colored body falls out from underneath its head. If the hooked Little Fish matches the fish shown on the Lily Pad Card, place it down on the table in front of you, making sure to collapse the body back inside its head. If there is no match, then the Little Fish you chose remains in its current position.
NOTE: If you choose a Little Fish that a player has already caught and it matches the Lily Pad Card you turned over, you still take that Little Fish and place it in front of you.
When your turn is over, put the used Lily Pad Card in a discard pile to the side. Pass a Fishing Rod to the player on your left to start their turn!
Rainbow Fish
Choose ANY one of the Little Fish that are still in the middle of the table and drag it in front of you. Do NOT lift it up and reveal the color of the body. If there are no Little Fish in the middle of the table, then you may take one Little Fish that is sitting in front of another player (be careful to not lift it up and reveal the body). Place the Little Fish in front of you. Your turn is now over.
Grumpy Frog
Bad luck! Push one of your Little Fish from in front of you back to the middle of the table but do NOT lift it up and reveal the colored body hidden inside. If you do not have a Little Fish in front of you then nothing happens and your turn is over.
Taking Another Turn
If a Lily Pad Card that you turn over reveals a Little Fish that you think you already have in front of you, then you can use a Fishing Rod to lift it up and show the match. If on the first try you correctly reveal the matching Little Fish, then you can turn over another card to have another turn. However, if you do not reveal the matching Little Fish, your turn is over.
Winning the Game
The game ends when all of the Lily Pad Cards have been discarded at which point the player with the most Little Fish in front of them wins the game! If two or more players have the same number of Little Fish at the end of the game, then those players must look at the numbers on the tips of the tails of their Little Fish; the player with the highest number on their Little Fish tail wins the game!