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Drecksau

Go and scrub someone else’s pig!

Mud is fashionable this year, after Matschig! now comes Drecksau, but instead of fending off mud we want to end up with really, really dirty pigs and only clean up pigs of other players.

Depending on the number of players you have 3-5 clean pigs on the table. The remaining cards - mud cards, rain cards, barn cards, lightning cards, lightning rod cards, farmer-scrubs-the-sow cards and miffed-farmer cards are well shuffled and then each player is dealt three cards on hand, the rest of the cards is draw pile. You play a card from your hand and - in the case of barn, lighting rod and miffed farmer - places it next to one’s pigs, clean or dirty, or you discard the card open-faced in case of mud, rain, lightning and farmer-scrubs-the sow cards. The action on these cards is executed. If you do not want to implement the action of a card you can discard it unused. If you cannot use any of your cards, for instance in case of three lightning rods without a barn, you discard all three of them and draw new ones. A barn protects the pig next to it from rain, but not from farmer-scrubs-the-sow! Rain cleans all dirty pigs, lightning burns down all barns unless protected by a lightning rod; this protects the barn, it is secure for the rest of the game. Miffed-farmer protects the pig against farmer-scrubs-the-sow, which would otherwise turn a dirty pig into a clean one.

The first player to have only dirty pigs on display wins immediately.

Drecksau is a pattern card for a good family card game; it has simple, quickly grasped rules, plays very quick and is a lot of fun to play! Let’s go and find some clean pigs for another game of Drecksau!

Players: 2-4

Age: 7+

Time: 15+

Designer: Frank Bebenroth, Arpad Fritsche

Art: Frank Bebenroth, Katja Witt

Price: ca. 7 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2012

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Card game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Fantastic family game

Funny topic and witty illustrations

Good to carry along

Quickly learned, plays fast

Compares to:

Card placement games using action cards

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0