Fish! The Synonym Game

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What Is It?

A playful card deck featuring 52 different words separated into groups of four synonyms. Each card features a word in the centre with its synonyms listed in the corners so kids know which other words to look out for during the game. 

 

Who’s It For?

Anyone can play – but we’d recommend for anyone who is 7 years old or over 

 

Why We Made It

This is less work and more fun – a game you can play around the dinner table, on the train or when friends are over!

 

£8.99

Description

How It Works

Use it like a traditional deck of cards – but with words! We recommend playing the game ‘Go Fish’ first. 

  1. Shuffle the cards
  2. Deal out between 5-7 cards per player (depending on how many are in the game!)
  3. Place the rest of the cards in a pile, face down in the middle 
  4. Each player can look at their own cards and can ask another player if they have a set of synonyms, e.g. attempt, endeavour, strive, try; if the other players don’t have it then they can tell that player to ‘go fish’ and take a card out of the pile
  5. The aim of the game is to get the most sets of synonyms by the time the cards have all been used. 

 

Deck One words include: dwelling, preceding, melancholy, irate and more.

Deck Two words include: coax, bashful, contemplate, archaic and more.

 

Once you’ve played “Go Fish” a few times, you can use your deck to play a host of other traditional card games. Here are a few more games we recommend.

 

Heads up: we’ve made a slight change to the packaging of our FISH! deck; so, when your order arrives, the box may be different from the ones you see in the pictures above. Rest assured, the awesome content inside remains the same.

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