Lord of the Fries is a card game

Card game

A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games...

 created by James Ernest

James Ernest

James Ernest is an American game designer and juggler. He is best known as the owner and lead designer of Cheapass Games. Prior to founding Cheapass, he worked as a juggler at various venues, including Camlann Medieval Village, and as a freelancer with Wizards of the Coast. He also worked for...

 and published by Cheapass Games

Cheapass Games

Cheapass Games is a game company founded and run by game designer James Ernest, based in Seattle, Washington. Cheapass Games operates on the philosophy that most game owners have plenty of dice, counters, play money, etc., so there is no need to bundle all of these components with every game that...

 and Steve Jackson Games

Steve Jackson Games

Steve Jackson Games is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and the gaming magazine Pyramid.-History:...

. In 2008 Steve Jackson Games released a new edition with revised game components.
Lord of the Fries takes place at Friedey's

Friedey's

Friedey's is a fictional fast food franchise which features in several Cheapass Games products. It is described as a "fast food restaurant for the damned" and is generally staffed by zombies in search of brains...

: The Fast Food Restaurant of the Damned. Other games that take place there include Give Me the Brain

Give Me the Brain

Give Me the Brain is a discard-style card game designed by James Ernest and released in 1996 by Cheapass Games.The name derives from the theme; players assume the role of zombies attempting to complete their tasks for the day at Friedey's, a "fast food restaurant for the damned", yet they only have...

and Change!.

Game Play

Lord of the Fries is set in the kitchen of Friedey's where your main task is to create meals using different food cards to earn points and get rid of cards. The meals are taken from various menus including those of Ratherbee's Steakhouse, Ghicciaroni's, Friedey's Restaurant, Friedey's Long Wok, Love's Labours Lunch, and the Holiday Menu. You combine meals with humorous names like Chickacheezabunga, Sheep wit' da Fishes, Lying Dead on the Floor, Manifest Destiny, Penne for Your Tots, Synaptic Relay Deteriorator, An Unbearable Likeness of Beans, Godfather, Bovine Spongiform Yum, Yum, Yum!, the enormous Magna Carta with a side of fries, and the Lord of the Fries.

Awards

Lord of the Fries was in the Games magazine Games 100

GAMES 100

The Games 100 is an annual feature of Games magazine, a United States magazine devoted to games and puzzles. The Games 100 first appeared in the November/December 1980 issue as an alphabetic list of the 100 games preferred by the editors of the magazine...

list of 2003.

External links

• Lord of the Fries product page at Cheapass Games
• Official online edition at GameTable Online