Welcome, new chef! Your goal is to survive 5 nights feeding hungry monsters. Each night has 3‑5 customers. You'll use a deck of ingredient cards to feed them meals and fill their hunger scales.

1. The Deck and Stack (Hand)

• You start with a deck of 10 cards (which you can increase using upgrades). Cards have a type: Meal, Snack, or Sweet.
• You always hold 5 cards in your stack. After playing, you draw back up to 5. Any unused card stays in the stack
• If the deck and your hand run out, you can't feed remaining customers, and you'll lose ratings!

2. The Customer and Their Preferences

• Each monster has a hunger scale that you must fill to at least 80%.
• Monsters also have visual traits that dictate hidden food rules:
  • Colour: e.g., Yellow hates Cheese, Brown hates Burgers, Blue loves Snacks, Green likes heavy meals, Red adores Sweets.
  • Horns: Horned monsters dislike sweets (gives a penalty). No horns means no special rule.
• Ignore these rules, and you'll get a strike (lose 1 health) at the end of the meal!

3. Building a Meal (Combos)

• Select the cards from the stack and click on the Feed button.
• The game checks for card combos. Here are some of the best:
  Bread + any Meal = +30 hunger
  Solo Burger = +1× multiplier
  Cake + another Sweet = +0.5×
  Cheese + Bread + Meal = +0.75x
  Chicken + Sweet = +0.5×
  Fries + Burger = +50 hunger, +1×
  Pizza = +20 hunger to every other Meal card
  2 Steaks = +1×
  Stew (2+ types) = +0.5×
  Taco + exactly 1 Sweet = +1.5×
  *Full combo list is displayed during the game.
• Your final hunger = (sum of card hunger + bonuses) × multiplier.

4. After Serving

• The scale fills, and you'll see if the monster is happy (80%+) or sad (<80%). Sad customers cost 1 rating.
• If your ratings hits 0, the diner closes!
• After the meal, the monster leaves, and the next one arrives. Continue until the day ends.

5. End of Day and Upgrades

• At the end of each day, you can buy permanent upgrades with the coins you earned:
  • Multiplier+ – adds +0.5× to all future meals
  • Bigger Hand – increase deck by 3 cards
  • Shuffle – reshuffle your remaining deck
  • Peek – look at the top card of the deck
• Choose wisely, they make later nights possible!

Pro tip: Plan your combos. Save cards for picky eaters, and use the Cheese/Bread/Meal combo to soften a tough customer ahead!