When Life Gives you Lemons,
Play Lemon Game!

2-4 Players, 15 min, Ages 8+

54 Card Deck:
-12 Hazards: 4 Mold, 4 Fly, 4 Sun
-42 Ingredients: 14 Lemon, 14 Sugar, 14 Water

Goal:
Be the first to make the perfect pitcher of lemonade!
Reveal a hand with three of each Ingredient and no other cards at any time to win!

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Setup:
-Shuffle the deck face-down to form a draw pile.
-Place one card per player face-up in the center. This is The Stand.
-Deal each player a private hand of 5 cards.
-The player who last drank lemonade goes first.

Turn:
-Hazards: Discard an Ingredient for each Hazard in your hand.
-Action: Take One Action
-Draw: You may draw two cards from the draw pile. Then pass turn.

Actions:
-Draw one card from The Stand or draw pile.
-Discard one card.
-Swap a card from your hand with The Stand.
-Swap 1-3 chosen cards with an opponent for that many random cards.

Gameplay FAQ:
-If you don’t have the Ingredient for a Hazard, discard that Hazard instead.
-Cards in hand and player swaps are private.
-Hand size is public information.
-Players must take one Action and it must be during their own turn.
-Cards drawn from The Stand are refilled from the draw pile.
-Cards are discarded face-up to a discard pile.
-If 2/3+ of The Stand is Hazards, clear and refill The Stand from the draw pile.
-If the draw pile is emptied, shuffle the discard pile to form a new draw pile.
-Players taking a swap action may swap a max of one Hazard.

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