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Phở Phở is a hand-shedding card game where players compete to inherit the street stall by serving customers, managing favor tokens, and collecting star ratings[cite: 1].

Objective

Collect the most Stars on Loyal Customer cards by the end of the game[cite: 1].

Setup & Customer Line

• Three customers are face-up in the customer line: one Active Customer on the Bowl and two Side Customers waiting in line[cite: 1].
• Customers feature a Star Value (1 or 2 Stars), a Loved ingredient, and a Hated ingredient[cite: 1].
• Players start with a 6-card hand (which is also the hand limit) and 6 Favor Tokens set to their Mad side[cite: 1].

On Your Turn

Choose one of two actions[cite: 1]:

• Serve the Customers: Play 1–5 cards from your hand[cite: 1]:
  • Single Customer: Play 1 to 5 numerically consecutive cards (e.g., 2, 3, 4, 5) onto one customer[cite: 1].
  • Multiple Customers: Play 2–3 matching value cards to serve up to 3 separate customers (1 card per customer)[cite: 1].
  • Bill: Play 1 Bill card next to any customer[cite: 1]. This allows you to discard any number of cards from your hand and redraw that many[cite: 1].
  • Placement Rule: An empty customer must start with a Value 1 (Noodle)[cite: 1]. Subsequent cards must either match the current top card's value or be exactly 1 value higher[cite: 1].
• Restock Ingredients: Draw cards equal to your current number of Mad Tokens[cite: 1]. You may then immediately perform a "Serve the Customers" action, finally discarding down to 6 cards[cite: 1].

Loved & Hated Ingredients

• Loved: Playing a customer's loved ingredient flips 1 of your Mad Tokens to its Happy side[cite: 1].
• Hated: Playing a customer's hated ingredient immediately fails the order; the customer and their cards are discarded, and you give 1 of your Mad Tokens to an opponent[cite: 1].

Completing Orders & Scoring Favor

• An order is finished once a customer has both a Bill Card and a Value 5 Ingredient (unless the customer hates Bills, in which case no Bill is required)[cite: 1].
• Active Customer finished: All players flip Favor Tokens from Mad to Happy equal to the customer's Star Value[cite: 1].
• Side Customer finished: Only the player who completed the order flips Favor Tokens to Happy equal to the customer's Star Value[cite: 1].
• When a customer leaves, slide remaining customers toward the bowl and draw a replacement[cite: 1].

Key Bonuses

• Empty Hand: If you empty your entire hand, flip 1 Mad Token to Happy and immediately draw a fresh hand of 6 cards[cite: 1].
• Perfect Reputation: When all your tokens become Happy, immediately claim a Loyal Customer card facedown to score at the end of the game, then reset all your tokens back to their Mad side[cite: 1].

Game End

When The King card is revealed from near the bottom of the deck, each player gets one final turn[cite: 1]. The King is awarded as a Loyal Customer to the player with the most Happy Tokens (tiebreak: fewest Mad Tokens)[cite: 1]. Players reveal all earned Loyal Customers, and the player with the most total Stars wins[cite: 1].