Literature
Team fishing with a memory test. Ask the other side for cards, track every answer, and claim whole half-suits for your side. 4 players, in partnerships.
Also known as Canadian Fish.
How to play Literature
- 1Two teams of two; partners sit across from each other. The eights are taken out, and the other 48 cards are dealt, twelve each.
- 2Each suit splits into two half-suits of six cards: low (2 to 7) and high (9, 10, J, Q, K, A). Your side wins a half-suit by claiming it.
- 3On your turn, ask an opponent for one card. You must already hold a card of its half-suit, and you can’t ask for a card you hold. Pick a card from your hand to choose the half-suit, then the card you want, then who to ask.
- 4If they have it, they hand it over and you ask again. If not, the turn passes to the player you asked.
- 5Everyone hears every question and answer, so pay attention: who asked for what tells you who holds which half-suits.
- 6On your turn you may claim a half-suit instead of asking. If your side holds all six cards, it’s yours; if the other side holds any of them, it goes to them.
- 7If you run out of cards, your partner takes your turns. When all eight half-suits are claimed, the side with more wins.
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