Auf die Eier
Auf die Eier Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Object
Roll yourself to 100 points first by hard-boiling whole eggs, turning cracked eggs into fried eggs in the pan, and grabbing the hard-to-catch chickens. But watch out for rotten eggs, or your breakfast will be ruined in no time!
Contents
9 dice, with the following faces:
- Whole Egg
- Cracked Egg
- Rotten Egg
- Pot
- Frying Pan
- Chicken
You will also need a pencil and paper to keep score.
Setup
Place the 9 dice in the middle of the table and choose one player to keep score. That player takes the pencil and paper and writes down the names of all players. To the right of each player's name, they write a vertical sequence of the numbers from 1 to 5 and then back down to 1 (for scoring Chickens, see below). The player who last ate an egg goes first!
How to Play
Starting with the start player and then continuing clockwise, you try to score as many points as possible.
On your turn, you may roll up to three times. First you roll all 9 dice, then decide which ones to set aside. The best way to decide is to keep an eye on the possible combinations (see Scoring, below).
Caution: Rotten Eggs must be set aside!
After that, you re-roll any number of dice, or you may choose to stop voluntarily. At the latest after the third roll, you pass any Rotten Eggs you are holding to the player on your right, who rolls them again for you. You must use every die rolled this way for your scoring.
Note: Except for Rotten Eggs, on the third roll you may also re-roll dice that you had already set aside after the first roll.
Scoring
Once the player on your right has re-rolled all your Rotten Eggs for you, add the results to your other set-aside dice. Then you score your dice as follows:
Rotten Eggs
If the player to your right rolls more Rotten Eggs while re-rolling for you, you must assign them to your Fried Eggs and/or Breakfast Eggs combinations. Any combination that a Rotten Egg is assigned to scores no points.
Note: At most one Rotten Egg can be assigned to each combination.
Fried Eggs
For each combination of exactly one Cracked Egg and one Frying Pan, you score 5 points.
Breakfast Eggs
For a combination of any number of Whole Eggs and exactly one Pot, you score 3 points per die (including the Pot). Only one combination of this kind may be scored per turn.
Chickens
If you have rolled exactly as many Chickens as the topmost number not yet crossed off on the scoresheet, you score 5 points for each Chicken. The corresponding number is then crossed off. The next time a player wants to score Chickens, they must roll the number shown below it.
Caution: Chickens must be rolled exactly! If you have fewer or more Chickens than required, they score no points.
These points are written on the scoresheet, then the next player clockwise takes their turn.
End of Game
As soon as a player reaches or passes 100 points, the end of the game is triggered. The round is played out to the end, then the game ends and the player with the most points wins!
In case of a tie, all tied players take one more turn each. If the tie remains after that, the tied players share the victory.
Example of a Turn
Stefan rolls all 9 dice for his first roll:
Roll 1: 2 Rotten Eggs, 1 Cracked Egg, 3 Frying Pans, 2 Pots, 1 Chicken.
He has to set the two Rotten Eggs aside. He also sets aside a Fried Eggs combination (1 Cracked Egg + 1 Frying Pan), 1 Pot, and the Chicken. He then re-rolls the remaining two Frying Pans and one Pot:
Roll 2: 2 Pots, 1 Chicken.
He keeps the second Chicken, since three Chickens are currently required. For his third roll, he re-rolls only the two Pots:
Roll 3: 1 Chicken, 1 Rotten Egg.
Before Stefan can score, the three Rotten Eggs (two from Roll 1, one from Roll 3) must be re-rolled. He hands them to Gabriela, who rolls the following for him:
Gabriela's Roll (Rotten Eggs): 1 Whole Egg, 1 Rotten Egg, 1 Frying Pan.
This gives Stefan the following score for the turn:
- For his Breakfast Eggs combination (the Whole Egg he received from Gabriela plus the Pot he set aside from Roll 1), Stefan scores 3 points per die, so 6 points in total.
- For his Fried Eggs combination (the Cracked Egg and Frying Pan he set aside from Roll 1), he would score 5 points … but the Rotten Egg he received from Gabriela spoils his Fried Eggs combination, so it scores no points.
- The remaining Frying Pan (from Gabriela's roll) scores no points without a Cracked Egg to pair with.
- Stefan has three Chickens — he scores 5 points for each, so 15 points in total. Had Gabriela rolled a fourth Chicken, he would have scored no points at all for Chickens.
Stefan therefore scores a total of 21 points on this turn. Since Stefan scored three Chickens, the 3 on the scoresheet is crossed off, and the next player who wants to score Chickens must now roll 4 Chickens.
Did You Know?
- ... that chickens really do have a good memory? They can remember and recognize the faces of more than 100 of their fellow chickens, and they recognize people too.
- ... that you can tell an egg's color from a chicken's earlobes? Chickens with red earlobes lay brown eggs; chickens with white earlobes lay white eggs.
- ... that the world looks more colorful to chickens than it does to us? Besides the colors we can see, chickens can also perceive ultraviolet light.