Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Light strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Win tricks for points, shuffle every card you caught into next round’s personal deck, and draw increasingly wild cards from the ocean when your catch is small.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
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Fishing begins like a familiar four-suit trick-taking game, then lets every catch alter the cards you will hold next round. Across eight rounds, each captured card scores one point and is shuffled into your personal draw stack. If that stack cannot fill your next hand, you draw fresh cards from the layered ocean deck instead. Those newcomers grow stronger as the game progresses: higher suit values, a green trump suit, zeroes that snag another card, and buoys that bend follow rules, pass cards, steal a trick, or even make the lowest card win. Success therefore creates a rich next hand but delays access to the ocean’s disruptive powers, producing a clever catch-up system and a continually evolving trick-taking landscape.
