How to play
Be the first to build three sandwiches. This is a fan-made picnic, not an official Fundex product.
The idea from the card game
- Deal two cards each. Draw from the face-down pile. Never take the face-up discard.
- A sandwich starts with bread, then peanut butter and jelly, then another bread.
- An ant takes a part of a sandwich and adds it to yours.
- The fly spoils one sandwich until a later fly moves it. Start another sandwich meanwhile.
- A finished sandwich with the fly on it does not count.
House rules Not the original instructions
The printed rules never list how many of each card, and they leave several edges open. This version uses these house rules:
- The 54 cards are 16 bread, 12 peanut butter, 12 jelly, 8 ants, and 6 flies, plus one fly token.
- Against the computer, you go first. Pass and play starts with Player 1. The printed game lets the youngest start.
- On your turn you draw one card, may play any number of legal cards, then end the turn. If nothing is legal, discard exactly one card. You cannot discard a card you are allowed to play.
- Close a sandwich only after it has at least one peanut butter and one jelly, in either order. Extra spreads are allowed if they alternate. A spread cannot sit on itself.
- An ant steals only the top card of an unfinished sandwich the fly is not covering, and only when that card legally continues your own sandwich. Finished sandwiches are safe. The ant card is discarded.
- Playing a fly card moves the token onto a different sandwich. The frozen sandwich stays built. Its owner may start a new one. Drawing a fly does nothing until you play it.
- When the draw pile is empty, the discard pile is shuffled to refill it. That is not the same as drawing the face-up card.
- If no remaining card can add a sandwich part or make a legal ant steal, the picnic ends. More counting sandwiches wins; a tie stays a tie. Fly cards do not prolong a stuck game. Sixty actions without a finished sandwich also end it, so passing, discarding, and trading parts cannot loop forever.
Controls
- Tap a gold card to play it. Ants and flies then ask you to tap a sandwich. Cancel or Escape backs out.
- Arrow keys move through your hand. Enter or Space plays the focused card. The E key ends the turn. Keys do nothing while you are typing in the request form.