Visual Accessibilityįor those where total blindness must be taken into account, this is yet another game that is all but entirely inaccessible. We’ll recommend, but only just, Hey That’s My Fish in this category. You lose a not insignificant portion of the whimsy of the theme in doing that, but the game is playable. If this strategy does not suffice it’s possible to use replacement alternate markers. In the end though the penguins are only used to indicate position. Every player shares the same set of four moulds, with colour being used to differentiate them by player owner. Each player has between two and four penguin markers, and all four of these have a different visual design.
Colour BlindnessĬolour blindness is going to be an issue, but it’s one that can be somewhat haphazardly addressed within the context of the game itself. Let’s just get on with it while I try to light my feet on fire to fight the frostbite. So, let’s dip our toes into the water and find out… oh God no, let’s not do that. These are the kind of issues that impact on all gamers, but this additional hassle is something we need to look at too in terms of how the game presents itself to people with accessibility considerations. If you could only get the fun stuff without the setup, it would receive a review expressed with a more generous spirit. Most of us don’t have that, yet, so we have to rate it based on our real world experience. It’s actually a decent enough game, but in order to nudge it upwards in our rating you’d need to have a dedicated board-game sommelier available to gently break it down and build it back up again after every round. Hey, That’s My Fish suffers from having an appalling setup to play time ratio and it’s one of the things that made us offer it an admittedly miserly two and a half stars in our review. This is a case of a game being popular enough to warrant many reprints and good enough to not need any changes to the rules.Fantasy Flight English edition 2015 Introduction Our Mayfair Games edition was published in 2005, and was reissued recently in 2012 by Fantasy Flight Games. The colony with the highest catch total win! If there happens to be a tie, the player with the most captured ice floes is declared the winner. Once all players have exhausted all of their possible moves, the game ends and everyone counts their catch. At this point they remove their bird from the board, taking the tile they last landed on into their catch. These represent your catch and will ultimately be counted to determine the winner of Hey! That’s My Fish! Players take turns moving and capturing until each player cannot move their penguin any longer. On your turn you may move one penguin in any direction as far as you like as long as you don’t pass over an empty spot or a tile that contains any other penguin, even your own.Īfter moving, pick up the tile you just vacated and place it in front of you. This becomes your starting position and careful selection is required for ultimate success. Each player receives a number of penguins of their chosen player color depending upon the number of overall participants.Įveryone takes turns (starting with the youngest player) placing their penguins on any tile which contains only one fish. It does not have to be a perfect square, just try to make sure the tiles are distributed randomly. Arrange them in a rough square in rows of seven or eight until all tiles are on display. At the end of the game, the colony that catches the most fish is declared the winner!įor the setup, shuffle the sixty included hexagon tiles and flip them face-up. At the same time they are trying to prevent other colonies from doing the same and attempting to secure the best fishing grounds for themselves. In Hey! That’s My Fish! each player controls a colony of penguins jumping from ice floe to ice floe hunting fish. A rare feature in most games and another reason we couldn’t believe someone donated this to thrift. Hey! That’s My Fish! is super-simple to explain to children as young as 5 or 6, yet has strategic complexity that will keep adults coming back. I have never played (until now), but have seen it mentioned a lot in different Facebook groups in response to questions about great family games that are entertaining for all ages.Īnd now after a couple plays, we understand what all the hubbub was about. What would you call a penguin-shaped meeple? A peeple? Pengle? Meepguin? I haven’t made up my mind yet either, but am happy to have finally found a copy of Hey! That’s My Fish! by Mayfair Games at our local Goodwill.
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