In a Pickle is a card and word game for two to six players.
On their turn, a player may take a card from their hand and place it under or on top of one of the four piles in the center of the table.
The rule book encourages players to be creative when placing cards; one possible creative play is to place "universe" beneath "dictionary", as the word "universe" can be found in a dictionary.
Once the fourth card is placed in any of the four stacks, a "pickle round" begins.
For example, normal rules would allow the sequence lawyer-pickle-jar, because a lawyer could be in a pickle (in a manner of speaking) and a pickle can fit in a jar, but the alternate rules would not allow this because a lawyer cannot fit in a jar.