Food Truck Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Contents
• Setup
• How to Play
  • Prep
  • Service
    • Playing Truck Cards
  • End of Service
• Example Turn
• Truck Cards

Contents

• 65 Meal cards (including 5 Dessert cards)
• 25 Truck cards
• 9 Victory points
• 1 First-player marker

Setup

1. Give each player 1 Dessert card (pink background) and return any remaining Dessert cards to the box.
2. Give each player 5 Meal cards (blue background), as follows: 2 Burger cards, 1 Pizza card, 1 card of the fries-and-drink icon type, and 1 card of the takeaway-box icon type. (The last two are identified from the icon artwork only; the rulebook prints no names for them.)
3. Shuffle the remaining Meal cards (blue and green backgrounds) to create the deck. Draw as many Meal cards from the deck as there are players and place them face up in the center of the table. These cards form the general supply.
4. Each player then chooses their Food Truck and shuffles the corresponding 5 Truck cards, placing them in a facedown stack in front of them. Return any remaining Truck cards to the box.
5. Place the Victory points within reach of the players.
6. The player who last ate at a Food Truck places the first-player marker in front of them.

The background colors help you sort the cards during setup. The Meal cards make up your starting hands and have a blue background. Dessert cards have a pink background.

How to Play

You will play a series of rounds until one player has 3 Victory points (or 2 Victory points if there are 5 players). This player wins the game and is crowned owner of the Best Food Truck.

Each round is made up of 3 phases:

1. Prep
2. Service
3. End of service

Prep

Each player turns over the first Truck card in their pile and tells the other players what effect it has (see Truck Cards below).

Each player then looks at their hand of Meal and Dessert cards and arranges them in the order they choose. Each player places these cards face-down in an individual draw pile.

In doing so, players sort their Meal cards into the order they wish to play them. The card on top of your draw pile will be the first one you play, and the first Meal you serve at your food truck!

Service

Starting with the first player and continuing clockwise, each player turns over the top Meal card of their deck and then one of two things takes place:

• If no one else has served this Meal: The player places their Meal card in front of them, face-up. If they have played this Meal card before, place it on top of the previous one, forming a pile.
  • Important: Dessert cards are wildcards, so they can always be played face-up.
• If another player has already served this Meal: The player cannot play their Meal card, and is eliminated from the round. As compensation, that player chooses one Meal card from the general supply to add to their deck. The first player to be eliminated each round also takes the first-player marker.

Important: Meal cards previously served by the eliminated player remain face-up, continuing to affect other players.

Playing Truck Cards

At any point during their turn, a player may choose to play their Truck card for the current round. The card's effect is applied (see Truck Cards below) and then it is discarded.

Note: Players can look at the top card of their deck at any time.

End of Service

• Continue until one player remains, with the others having been eliminated. That player wins the round. They gain a victory point and take the last Meal card from the general supply.
• Discard your face-up Truck card if you haven't used it.
• When players have used all their Truck cards, they can reshuffle their discard pile to form a new deck.
• Draw as many Meal cards as there are players from the central deck and place them face up in the center of the table, as in Setup.

At the end of service, if a player has 3 victory points (or 2, for 5 players), they win the game.

Example Turn

• Lisa draws a Pizza card. Fortunately for her, Joseph and Alan haven't yet served this meal. Lisa adds the card to her service (1).
• Joseph draws a Hot Dog but Alan has already played this card (2). Oh no! Joseph is toast!
• Joseph chooses a card from the general supply and adds it to his facedown deck, ready for the next round (3). His Burger card remains in play.
• Alan then draws a Burger. He should be eliminated as Joseph's Burger card is still in play. But Alan has another trick up his sleeve! He plays his Truck card (4), which lets him put the Burger card at the bottom of his draw pile and draw his next Meal card.
• It's a Hot Dog! Alan is the only player to have played this card so far. He places it on top of his first Hot Dog, to make a pile (5).

Truck Cards

Each Truck card has one of the following effects. Truck cards are played as described under Playing Truck Cards above.

• Rearrange the top 5 Meal cards in your draw pile.
• Choose a face-up Meal card that is not part of a pile and place it at the bottom of that player's draw pile.
• Swap the Meal card you need to play with one from the general supply. Then play the new card instead.
• Place the Meal card you need to play at the bottom of your draw pile. Play the next card in your pile.
• You can play your Meal card if ONLY ONE other player has already played this card and it is not part of a pile.

Note: The printed Truck card effects are unnamed in the rulebook; they are listed here in the order shown on page 8.