Drecksau Total
Drecksau Total Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
- 18 double-sided Pig cards
- 21 Dirty Your Pig cards
- 4 Rain cards
- 12 Barn cards
- 8 Clean That Pig cards
- 4 Barn Door cards
- 4 Lightning cards
- 4 Lightning Rod cards
Set-Up
To start, give every player the correct number of Pig cards. Line up your Pig cards in front of you with the Clean Pig side up. Set aside any unused Pig cards.
- Two Players (5 Pigs Each)
- Three Players (4 Pigs Each)
- Four to Six Players (3 Pigs Each)
Shuffle the deck and deal 3 cards face-down to each player (players can look at their cards). Place the remaining deck in the center of the table.
The youngest player begins and play proceeds clockwise. On your turn, play one card from your hand. Then draw a new card from the deck. You should always have 3 cards in your hand after your turn. If you do not have any cards you want to play, you may exchange cards instead of playing one (see Exchanging Your Cards).
If the deck runs out, shuffle the discard pile (see FAQ) and make a new deck.
Cards
Dirty Your Pig — It's so nice to be dirty! Play this card to dirty one of your pigs. Flip that Clean Pig over to the Dirty Pig side.
Rain — Oh no! Rain spoils the fun. Playing the Rain card washes clean all unsheltered Dirty Pigs (including yours).
Barn — These pigs are smart enough to seek shelter. Place a Barn on one of your pigs (dirty or clean) to protect it from the rain.
Clean That Pig — Rain cannot get into a barn... but a pesky farmer can! Play this card to clean another player's pig, even if it's in a barn. You choose which player's pig to clean.
Barn Door — These pigs are crafty. They can nail the barn door shut! Place the Barn Door on a barn to keep the farmer out, but only if the pig is dirty.
Lightning — Watch out! Lightning can destroy your barn and expose the pig! Play the Lightning card to destroy another player's barn (and door if it has one). You choose which barn to destroy. Put those cards in the discard pile.
Lightning Rod — These brilliant pigs have another trick up their sleeve. Place a Lightning Rod card on a barn to protect it from the destructive lightning.
FYI
A Dirty Pig, in a Barn, with a Barn Door, and a Lightning Rod is completely safe!
Exchanging Your Cards
If you don't want to play any of your cards (or cannot play them – for instance, you have a Barn Door card yet no Barn to place it on), you can discard 1, 2 or all 3 of your cards and draw back up to 3 cards. This is your turn. Play moves to the next player.
Ending the Game
The first person to get all their pigs dirty wins!
FAQ
Where do my cards go when played? Place the Dirty Your Pig, Clean That Pig, Rain, and Lightning cards face-up in a discard pile when played. All other cards go directly on your Pigs.
Can a pig in a barn be cleaned or dirtied? Yes, as long as the barn does not have a Barn Door.
When can I play the Barn Door or Lightning Rod cards? You can play the Barn Door and Lightning Rod cards only if there is a barn on a pig. You can play the Barn Door only if there is a Dirty Pig in the barn.
When a Lightning card is played, what happens to the pig? Lightning does not affect the pig (phew!)
Sauschön Expansion
The Sauschön expansion is played exactly like Drecksau, with the additional cards and rules below. The card names in brackets are the German names printed on the sheet.
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
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 base game's setup table gives 5, 4 or 3 Pig cards per player depending on player count. The Sauschön sheet's setup gives 3 Pig cards per player and does not vary this by player count; it is transcribed as printed.
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 is showing 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: the sheet's card names are translated here, using the base game's English card names where the sheet refers to a base game card. 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, with a barn and a Bauer-ärgere-dich card attached, identifies it with the base game's Barn Door card. Matsch = Dirty Your Pig, Regen = Rain, Bauer-schrubbt-die-Sau = Clean That Pig, Stall = Barn, Blitzableiter = Lightning Rod.
Ending the Game (Ende des Spiels)
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.