NAME

fish -- plays the children's game of Go Fish


SYNOPSIS

fish [-p]


DESCRIPTION

fish plays the children's game of Go Fish. The computer plays against the player. The object of the game is to collect more ``books'' of cards than your opponent by querying each other's hand.

This version implements the child-friendly rules outlined in Hoyle's Rules of Games.


OPTIONS

fish accepts the following option:

-p
Puts fish into ``professional mode''.


BUGS

Strategy employed by fish's ``professional mode'' could be somewhat smarter.

User interaction resembles BSD's implementation which is rather...spartan.


AUTHOR

The Perl implementation of fish was written by Clinton Pierce, clintp@geeksalad.org.


COPYRIGHT and LICENSE

This program is Copyright 1999, by Clinton Pierce.

Freely redistributable under the Perl Artistic License.