Drecksau: Sauschön
Drecksau: Sauschön Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
32 playing cards:
- 16 Pretty Pig cards (Schönsau)
- 12 Escape cards (Aus dem Staub)
- 4 Lucky Bird cards (Glücksvogel)
For the tournament:
- 3 mud buckets (with one, two and three carrots)
- 3 trophies (with one, two and three stars)
Goal
Whoever has only Dirty Pigs left in front of them, or only Pretty Pigs, wins!
Setup
The Drecksau with Sauschön expansion is played exactly like Drecksau. There are the following additional cards:
- Pretty Pig card (Schönsau-Karte)
- Escape card (Aus-dem-Staub-Karte)
- Lucky Bird card (Glücksvogel-Karte)
Each player takes 3 double-sided Pig cards from the Drecksau base game and lays them out in front of them with the Clean Pig side up. The remaining Pig cards are not needed. All other cards from the base game and the expansion are shuffled together well. Each player takes 3 cards face-down into hand. The remaining cards form the draw pile.
Note: the sheet's setup gives 3 Pig cards per player and does not vary this by player count; it is transcribed as printed.
Cards
Pretty Pig Card (Schönsau-Karte)
The farmer spruces up the pig. Is it not pretty? This card can be placed on any double-sided Pig card, whether it shows the Clean Pig side or the Dirty Pig side. Place it either on your own pig or on an opponent's pig.
Watch out:
- The Pretty Pig has an umbrella and stays pretty even in the rain!
- No Bauer-ärgere-dich card can be attached to a barn in which a Pretty Pig is standing.
- The Pretty Pig card cannot be placed on a Dirty Pig standing in a nailed-shut barn, that is, one with a barn and a Bauer-ärgere-dich card attached. The luckiest Dirty Pig (a Dirty Pig with a barn, a Lightning Rod and a Bauer-ärgere-dich card) therefore can never be made pretty again. A player who owns a luckiest Dirty Pig must end the game with Dirty Pigs.
Escape Card (Aus-dem-Staub-Karte)
The Pretty Pig no longer wants to be pretty and makes a run for it. The Escape card is placed on the discard pile together with one Pretty Pig card lying out, either your own or an opponent's. What remains is either a Clean Pig or a Dirty Pig, depending on what lies under the Pretty Pig.
Watch out: only the Escape card can remove a Pretty Pig! The Mud card (Matsch), the Rain card (Regen) and the Clean That Pig card (Bauer-schrubbt-die-Sau) cannot remove a Pretty Pig.
Lucky Bird Card (Glücksvogel-Karte)
Whoever plays the Lucky Bird may at the same time play their two other hand cards. Afterwards the player draws three new cards from the draw pile.
Bad luck? If the player has a second or third Lucky Bird in hand, these cards are discarded unused at the same time.
Translation note: where the sheet refers to a base game card, the base game's English card name is used. The card names in brackets are the German names printed on the sheet. Matsch = Dirty Your Pig, Regen = Rain, Bauer-schrubbt-die-Sau = Clean That Pig, Stall = Barn, Blitzableiter = Lightning Rod. The sheet calls the barn-door card the Bauer-ärgere-dich card (literally "farmer, be annoyed"); the sheet's own description of a nailed-shut barn identifies it with the base game's Barn Door card.
End of the Game
The first player to manage either of the following wins the game:
- either send all their Clean Pigs into the mud, so that only Dirty Pigs are left in front of them;
- or make all their Clean Pigs pretty, so that only Pretty Pigs are left in front of them.
Tournament (Sauschönes Drecksau-Turnier)
If you play several rounds, place the trophies and the mud buckets in two separate stacks. Each trophy shows one, two or three stars; each mud bucket shows one, two or three carrots. These are the victory points. Lay them out in ascending point order 1-2-3, so that at the start of the tournament the one-carrot mud bucket and the one-star trophy are on top.
Depending on which pigs a player wins the round with, they receive the top trophy if they won with Pretty Pigs, or the top mud bucket if they won with Dirty Pigs, and lay it down in front of them. Then a new round begins.
The tournament lasts until one of the two stacks is completely cleared, that is, 3 to 5 rounds. Then all players add up their stars and carrots; the player with the most points wins the pretty Drecksau tournament. In case of a tie, the players leading on points play one final, decisive round.