Bastard (game)

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Bastard
Game data
author Frank Bebenroth
graphic Frank Bebenroth,
Katja Witt
publishing company Cosmos Games ,
White Goblin Games ,
etc. a.
Publishing year 2012
Art Card game
Teammates 3 to 5
Duration 10 mins
Age from age 6

Awards

Drecksau is a card game by the German game designer Frank Bebenroth , which was published by Kosmos Spiele in 2012 . In the year of publication, it was included in the recommendation list for Game of the Year ; in the same year it was voted seventh in the choice of the best card game at the à la carte card game award .

Theme and equipment

With bastards , the players try to make the pigs on display in front of them happy as "bastards". The winner is the player who first manages to make all of his pigs dirty with his mud cards. In addition to instructions, the game material consists of 12 double-sided pig cards, each with a “clean pig” and a “bastard”, as well as 54 action cards.

Style of play

Before the game, the pig cards are distributed evenly to the other players, who lay them out in front of them with the “clean pig” side up. The action cards are shuffled and each player receives three cards from his hand; the remainder is placed as a face-down draw pile in the center of the playing field.

The game is played one after the other in clockwise order, according to the instructions in the game the starting player is “the smallest bastard”. In their turn, depending on the card type, the players either play one of their hand cards on the discard pile or place them on their pig display. The different cards have different effects:

  • a mud card is placed on the discard pile. The player may turn one of his pig cards from the clean pig to the bastard.
  • a rain card is also placed on the discard pile. It triggers a rain shower that cleans all dirty pigs that do not have a stable and are therefore unprotected. This affects both foreign and own pigs.
  • a stable card is placed on a pig. A pig in the stable is protected from rain.
  • a lightning card ignites and torches any stable; this is placed on the shelf with the lightning card.
  • A lightning rod is attached to a built stable and protects it from a lightning strike.
  • a "farmer-scrubs-the-pig" card sends a farmer to a bastard to wash it. This can be a sow in a barn that has not been nailed up or one without a barn.
  • a “farmer annoy you” card is placed next to a stable; this is nailed up and protects against the "farmer-scrub-the-pig" card.

A pig that has a stable with a lightning rod and a “farmer annoy you” card is protected from all cleaning activities. After playing and performing the appropriate action, the player draws a card from the draw pile.

The game ends as soon as a player only has dirty pigs and no more clean pigs in front of them.

Versions and reception

The game was developed by the German game designer Frank Bebenroth and was published by Kosmos Spiele in 2012 . In the same year, it was included in the Game of the Year recommendation list for the Game of the Year and was voted seventh in the choice of the best card game at the à la carte card game award of the magazine Fairplay . In the same year the game was published in Dutch by White Goblin Games ( Moddervarkens ) and in Greek by Kaissa Chess & Games ( Γουρουνάκια στη λάσπη ). In 2019, North Star Games published the game in an English version as Dirty Pig for the American market, at the same time it was published in Korean by Mandoo Games.

The jury's assessment of the game of the year said:

"Wallowing in the mud and getting every bristle dirty: In this entertaining and funny card game the players create a real mess."

In 2016, Kosmos published the extension Drecksau: Sauschön .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f game instructions Drecksau , Kosmos 2012
  2. ↑ a b Drecksau in the database of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on April 13, 2020.
  3. ↑ Bastard , versions at BoardGameGeek. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Filthy pig: Sauschön at BoardGameGeek; accessed on April 13, 2020.

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