How to play

EGYPTIAN RAT SCREW

Slap-the-pile chaos — burn through the deck, win face-card duels, and slap valid triggers fastest.

Setup

• Played on a standard 52-card deck dealt evenly (this engine route is solo-vs-AI, 26/26).
• You may not look at your stack — flip blind.

Turns & the face-card duel

• On your turn, flip the top card of your stack onto the centre pile.
• When a face card or Ace lands, the next player owes a count: A = 4, K = 3, Q = 2, J = 1.
• They flip up to that many cards; a new face/Ace flips the obligation back on its own value.
• If the count runs out with no face/Ace, the player who started the duel takes the whole pile.

Slapping

• Slap on a valid trigger — doubles (top two match) or a sandwich (top matches the card two down).
• The first to slap takes the pile.
• A wrong slap is a penalty: you send your bottom card to the bottom of the pile.

Winning

• The first player to hold all 52 cards wins.
• Losing your last card isn't fatal while the pile is non-empty — a good slap brings you back in.