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1.1       root        1: .TH CARDS 6
                      2: .CT 1 games
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: canfield, fish \- card games
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B /usr/games/fish
                      7: .PP
                      8: .B /usr/games/canfield
                      9: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     10: .PP
                     11: The object of the children's card game
                     12: .I fish
                     13: is to accumulate `books' of 4 cards of equal rank.
                     14: At each turn one player
                     15: selects a card from his hand, and asks the other player for
                     16: all cards of that rank.
                     17: If the other player has some, he hands them all over
                     18: and the first player makes another request.
                     19: The turn ends when
                     20: the second player has no card of the rank requested;
                     21: he replies, `Go fish!'
                     22: The first
                     23: player then draws a card from the `pool' of undealt cards.
                     24: If this is the card he had last requested, he draws again.
                     25: .PP
                     26: The ranks are called 
                     27: .LR a ,
                     28: .LR 2 ,
                     29: \&...,
                     30: .LR 10 , 
                     31: .LR j ,
                     32: .LR q ,
                     33: .LR k .
                     34: Hitting
                     35: return requests information about the state of the game.
                     36: Typing 
                     37: .L p
                     38: as a first
                     39: guess gets `pro' level play.
                     40: .PP
                     41: .I Canfield
                     42: is a solitaire game.
                     43: It requires a cursor-addressed terminal.

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