The Basics
Bakin' with Bacon is a card game for 2-4 players consisting of 2 decks of cards: The Bakin' with Bacon game deck and Bacon Playing Cards (a standard deck bacon-themed deck of 52 cards + 2 jokers + 2 extra cards). The game deck includes recipe cards, action cards, wild cards, and instruction cards.
Each recipe is made up of 4 ingredients, represented by specific cards from the standard deck. The goal is to collect all four ingredients to complete a recipe and then to complete all 3 recipes. The first person to complete all 3 recipes wins the game.
Gameplay
Each player begins with 7 cards held in his/her hand and 3 unique recipe cards face up on the table. Players take turns in a clockwise direction. At the beginning of a turn, a player draws one card from the deck. The player ends a turn in one of three ways: applying 4 ingredients to complete a recipe, playing an action card, or discarding an unwanted card into the discard pile.
When a recipe is completed, that recipe and the 4 cards used to complete the recipe are no longer in play, unless reactivated with an action card that specifically affects cards that are out of play.
At any point during the game, if a player draws the last remaining card from the deck, at the end of that player's turn, the discard pile is shuffled and then becomes the deck to draw from.
The game ends when one player completes all three of his/her recipes and is declared the winner.