Prep six dishes, combine ingredients and plan your station work as a tiny diner fills with orders.

Play

Arrows / WASD - walk

Space / Enter - open diner or use station

X - discard held food

Next order… button - confirm an early arrival

P - pause

R - resume

N - play again

Run and score

Serve at least eight dishes in a three-minute shift. Five missed orders close the diner early. Salad, toast, soup, sandwiches, stew and crostini require different station routes. Combine ingredients at MIX. Finished food has an eighteen-second collection window before burning. Orders arrive faster as the shift progresses, up to three at once. Next order… opens a confirmation; Send order adds one ticket immediately and restarts the arrival timer. Cooking and customer patience continue while you decide. There is no gameplay hotkey for rushing an order. Scores are local practice; no global leaderboard is connected.

Write your own approach

Launch with --script or type script to open your saved Bash workspace. Copy policy-v2.sh, edit with nano, run chmod +x on your copy, then execute ./your-file.sh. fixtures selects three repeatable runs; standard returns to manual play. Stop cancels. gif, replay and receipt export local practice evidence. Saved files survive re-entry. These games do not submit ranked scores.

The official Script Library example is [email protected]. Try it with scripts try [email protected] or install an editable copy with scripts install [email protected] my-short-order. Installed copies include ORIGIN.json and LICENSE.txt for attribution. Existing copies are never overwritten. Add a toast route, or use order confirm when you are ready for another ticket.

Use man short-order for the command reference, or play Short Order.