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.