No Fish! Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Casting Your Line (Setup)
• Catching and Releasing (Playing the Game)
• Special Fish

Casting Your Line (Setup)

There are 54 fish cards, made up of 4 types of standard fish (with numbers 1 to 10) and 5 types of special fish (with yellow backgrounds).

4 Standard Fish sets (each set numbered 1 to 10): Goldfish, Dogfish, Rainbowfish, Clownfish.

1. The player who most recently ate fish is the dealer. The dealer shuffles all of the cards together and deals 7 fish face down to each player. The leftover fish are placed face down to become the Fish Deck.
2. Remove the top 4 fish from the Fish Deck and place them aside without revealing what they are.
3. Players pick up their 7 fish and, without looking at their faces, hold them fanned in their hand so that everyone except them can see the faces.
4. The player to the dealer's left starts and play continues clockwise.

Catching and Releasing (Playing the Game)

1. Each turn, you must guess either a number (1 to 10) or special fish type.
2. If you don't have that number/special fish in your hand, the other players call "No Fish!". You then draw a fish from the Fish Deck and add it to the fishes you are holding, without looking at its face.
3. If you do have that number/special fish in your hand, the other players release all the matching fish by taking them from your hand and discarding them. You then either... a. Make another guess of a number (1 to 10) or special fish type. If you guess correctly the fish are released but, if you don't, you do not have to draw a fish. Regardless of whether or not you are correct your turn is now finished. OR b. Take a special fish from another player's hand, use its special power and then discard the fish.
4. It is then the turn of the player to your left.
5. Once any player has no fish left in their hand, the game ends and they win!

Special Fish

There are 5 special fish types (2 Monkfish and 3 of each other type).

• Starfish: Choose any one of the nine fish types. All fish of that type are released from every player's hand.
• Flyingfish: Without looking at your fish, select one and release it. The matching number/special fish are then released from every player's hand.
• Toadfish: Make another player draw 2 fish from the Fish Deck.
• Lionfish: Look at 2 fish in your hand and then draw 1 fish from the Fish Deck.
• Monkfish: Make another player skip their next turn.