Silent go fish

Collect resources

You will need:

• playing cards 1-10

• someone to play with.

How to play

• Each player gets 7 cards. The rest of the cards are placed in a pile in the middle as the draw pile.

• Players try to make matches, that is, pairs of cards that are the same.

• Once players can't make any more matches using their own cards, they can take turns to ask their opponent for a card, using their fingers to show the number they need. For example, to ask my opponent for a 9, I would show them 9 fingers.

  • If their opponent has that card, they must give it to the asking player.

  • If they don't have that card, they say 'go fish' and the player gets a card from the central pile of cards.

• If at any point a player has no cards left, they can pick up another 7 cards from the draw pile.

• Play continues until all there are no cards left in the draw pile and/or all matches have been made.

• The player with the most matches at the end is the winner!

Discuss/Reflect

• How many pairs did you collect?

• Is this more than, less than or the same as your opponent?

• What’s the difference between how many pairs you collected and how many pairs your opponent collected?

• If you played the game again tomorrow, what’s an adaptation we could make?