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GAME OBJECTIVE
Shed your entire deck first.
PLAYING A DEAL
Each deal is played over a number of rounds. Each round consists of the following:
- Starting a Round
- Menu Items & Menu Combinations
- Continuing a Round
- Serving a Higher-Ranking Dish
- Passing
- Drawing Cards
- Ending a Round
- Starting the Next Round
STARTING A ROUND
The Starter leads the first round by playing a card combination, which is called serving a dish, face up in front of themself. Each player has their own card pile, which is called the service area, on which they play all their orders. Don’t mix card piles between players.
This first dish begins the Starter’s service area for the round. The Starter serves all subsequent dishes into this area. The other player will serve their dishes into their own service area.
MENU ITEMS & MENU COMBINATIONS
There are two kinds of card combinations or dishes:
Menu Items and Menu Combinations.
There are three categories of Menu Items,
① Drinks,
② Sides, and
③ Mains.
Each category corresponds to the number of cards in the Menu Item. When a category has more than one Menu Item in it, the later Menu Items are higher ranked or more expensive than the earlier ones. The following table list all the possible Menu Items:
MENU ITEMS
Menu Item | Description | Example |
① Drinks | ||
Soda | One card played by itself | 🍅2 |
② Sides | ||
Rings | Two cards of consecutive rank | ☀️3-🥒4 |
Fries | Two cards of the same rank | 🍅6-🥒6 |
Fancy Rings | Two cards of consecutive rank and the same suit | ☀️5-☀️6 |
Fancy Fries | Two cards of the same rank and the same suit | 🍅1-🍅1 |
③ Mains | ||
Hot Dog | Three cards of consecutive rank | ☀️1-🥒2-🥒3 |
Cheeseburger | Three cards of the same rank | 🍅5-🍅5-🥒5 |
Fancy Dog | Three cards of consecutive rank and the same suit | 🥒3-🥒4-🥒5 |
Fancy Burger | Three cards of the same rank and the same suit | ☀️2-☀️2-☀️2 |
In general, each category has consecutively ranked cards being weaker than sets of cards with the same rank, and cards with the same suit are stronger than cards with different suits.
There are two types of Menu Combinations. Both types have one menu item from Mains and then one menu item from Drinks (if it is a Combo 1) or Sides (if it is a Combo 2).
MENU COMBINATIONS
Combo Type | Description | Example |
Combo 1 | 1 Main & 1 Drink | A Hotdog & Soda:
☀️4-🍅5-🥒6 & ☀️2 |
Combo 2 | 1 Main & 1 Side | A Cheeseburger & Fries:
🍅5-🍅5-🥒5 & ☀️1-🥒1 |
CONTINUING A ROUND
After a player leads a combination (serves a dish), play proceeds clockwise with each player either:
- Serving a Higher-Ranking more expensive dish or
- Passing