The idea
You run a famous food truck and the ingredients never stop coming. Every turn you must make a sandwich: three cards where the middle one sits exactly between the other two. Matching suits earn you more ingredients back; sloppy, mixed-color sandwiches shrink your hand until you're locked out. A quick, light filler.
Setup
- Shuffle the deck face down.
- Draw 8 cards as your hand.
- Leave room for a discard pile.
How to play
- Discard exactly 3 cards that make a sandwich: arranged in order, the gap from the first to the second equals the gap from the second to the third.
- Ace is 1, Jack 11, Queen 12, King 13, and values wrap around from King to Ace — so Q, A, 3 (gaps of 2 through K and A) is fine.
- Three of the same rank is a sandwich too (gaps of 0). The gaps must be equal, so 8, 10, 8 is not one.
- Draw replacements based on the sandwich's suits: all one suit, draw 4; one color but mixed suits, draw 3; mixed colors, draw 2.
- You can never hold more than 8 cards — any extra draws are skipped.
Winning, losing and score
- You win
- Draw the last card of the deck. Then keep making sandwiches (no more draws) until you can't.
- You lose
- You can't make a sandwich from your hand.
- Score
- Cards left in your hand at the end — lower is better. One card is a perfect game.
Tips
- You may look through the discard pile, and through the deck as long as you shuffle it after.
- Any valid sandwich can be reordered so its gaps are 6 or less, which makes them easier to spot.
- Mixed-color sandwiches cost you hand size. Use same-suit sandwiches to build it back up — but watch the 8-card limit.