At the beginning of the game, the container cards are placed in 5 piles of 4 containers of the same type per pile. All stacks are face down, none of the players knows which stack contains which type of container. Each player blindly takes 3 cards with containers - one from any of the 5 different piles and does not show the others until the end of the game.
The cards with recyclables and garbage trucks are turned face up, shuffled and placed face down on the table in even rows.
We advise to give the right of the first move to the youngest player at the table, but age is a very conditional thing, so players in a convenient way for themselves (but within the current legislation🤓) have every right to otherwise determine who will go first, second, third ... and who will go for pizza ... and who will go for the pizza.
Each player has the right to turn over any two cards during his turn. If the images on them match, the player takes the cards, sorts them (puts them on the pile with the appropriate type of recyclables) and has the right to another turn.
But if the images on the cards do not match, the player turns them back over with the turn up and puts them exactly where they hit. The other players try to memorize the position of the cards.
If a player gets a card with a garbage truck on it, he takes it as a prize and immediately takes it for himself by completing the task on the card. After completing the task, the turn passes to the next player.
The task is to collect as many recyclables as possible, which can be sorted into their containers. The winner is the player who collects more recyclables than the other paired recyclables in their containers. If several players have the same amount of recyclables, the player who has less unsorted (extra) recyclables, i.e. those that do not match the player's containers, wins.
Rules for using prize cards:
On any of your turns, you may use a card to exchange any pair of your recyclables, for any pair of another player's recyclables.
When this card is revealed, the unopened recyclables on the general field are shuffled. The player who opened it decides how many cards to shuffle, from two to all. After use, the card is discarded.
On your turn, you may use a card to draw a pair of recycled cards from any player in your supply.
On your turn, you may use a card to toss a pair of recycled cards to any player.
The holder of this card may replace a container with another from the container stack at any time during his turn. Neither the replaced nor the new container is shown to the other players.