Big Fat Burger Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Components
• Setup
• Gameplay
• Ending the Game
• Additional Information

Components

• 85 Order/Ingredient cards
• 24 Special cards
• 1 First Player card
• 5 Character cards
• 5 Help cards
• 5 Bonus cards: "+2 dollars", "+2 Special cards", "+1 dollar or +2 Ingredients", "+1 Special card", "+2 Special cards"
• 4 Track cards, numbered 1 to 4
• 10 Player tokens
• 1 play mat (the game tablecloth)

Setup

1. Lay out the play mat. Place the 4 Track cards across the top of the mat, and place the 5 Bonus cards down the left side of the mat.
2. Give each player 1 Character card and 2 Player tokens that match the picture on that Character card.
3. Shuffle the Order/Ingredient cards and place Orders on the first space of each track.
4. Deal each player 1 Ingredient card. Divide the remaining cards into three piles of equal height and place them with the Ingredients face up.
5. Shuffle the Special cards. Deal two to each player, and place the rest face down beside the mat.
6. Give the First Player card to the player who last ate a burger.

Gameplay

Take your turns in clockwise order.

Reservation: If at the start of your turn you have a free Token and there is a free Order on the mat, you must reserve in that turn: place a Token on the free Order. If a free Order appears during your turn, reservation is voluntary.

Apart from Reservation, in each turn you may perform 2 of the following 3 actions (no action may be performed more than once in one turn):

• Draw 2 Ingredients. Place the drawn Ingredients face up on the table in front of you.
• Fulfil one of the Orders you have reserved.
• Draw 1 Special card. Place the drawn Special cards face down on the table in front of you.

If a player starts their turn and there are no Orders on the table, they lay out new Orders as at the start of the game.

Passage of time: At the end of your turn you must move one Order of your choice down one space. This represents the growing impatience of the customers. You cannot move an Order if the space below it is occupied by another Order.

If, as a result of the move, an Order leaves the track, place it on the discard pile. If the discarded card was reserved, the Token returns to its owner, who discards 1 dollar from their pile. (If you cannot immediately deduct 1 dollar, write the missing amount on a piece of paper.)

Cleaning up the workplace: After finishing your turn, you may have at most 5 Ingredients on the table. You must give all excess Ingredients to other players. (At this moment they may have more than 5 Ingredients on the table.)

Ending the Game

When any Ingredient pile runs out, the active player may finish their turn. Then take turns clockwise, up to the player to the right of the starting player. After that player's turn the game ends, and you count up your profits.

If you have collected the most dollars, you WIN and become the BURGER MASTER!

Additional Information

1. If at any moment of the game, after drawing an Order/Ingredient card from a pile, a track card is revealed whose first space is empty, place on that space, as an Order, the top card of any pile.

2. To fulfil an Order, place the fulfilled Order on the discard pile of used cards, and from your table discard the Ingredients needed to fulfil it. Take back your Token. Then draw from the discard pile of Ingredient/Order cards as many cards as the Order was worth. The dollar value is printed in the bottom right corner of the Order.

   Note: Do not count collected dollars during the game.

   At the end, take the tip that matches the row the Order was in at the moment it was fulfilled.

3. Keep Special cards hidden from opponents. You may use them at any moment of your turn. In one turn you may play any number of the Special cards you hold. Used Special cards are placed on the discard pile of used Special cards. When the Special card deck runs out, shuffle the used Special cards and return them to play.

4. In case of a tie in points, the player who has fewer Ingredient cards on their table wins. If still tied, the player who holds more Special cards in hand wins.

5. If the Special card deck has run out and all Special cards are in players' hands (that is, there are no cards in the discard pile of used Special cards), you cannot perform the action of drawing a Special card. If a player would receive a tip in the form of Special cards and cannot draw them, they receive 1 dollar for each card they were to draw.