Butts in Space: The Card Game
Butts in Space: The Card Game Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
How to Win
The winner is the player with the most sets of toilet paper when the game ends.
The game ends when all 7 spaceship parts have been drawn from the deck.
In the event that multiple people have the same number of sets, the one with the most points wins.
- Common TP - 1 point per set
- Rare TP - 2 points per set
- Mythical TP - 3 points per set
Setup
Place a butt character card face up on the play area in front of each player.
- If there are less than 4 players, place the extra butt character cards on the play area as if they were in use.
Shuffle the remaining cards and place them face down to form the draw pile. The player with the biggest butt goes first.
The setup diagram shows the four butt character cards around a centre group: the draw pile (a face-down card with the Butts in Space logo) and a dashed-outline discard pile.
On Your Turn
Draw from the draw pile until you have 6 cards in your hand. If you already have 6 or more cards, draw 1 card.
There are two types of cards that must be played immediately after drawing your hand: Assteroids and Ship Parts. [The booklet prints "Assteroids" here; the card itself reads ASTEROID.]
- When an assteroid card is drawn, you must lay it in the discard pile and give every other player a card from your hand.
- Asteroid card text: "Play after drawing your hand: give each player a card from your hand."
- When a ship part card is drawn, lay it face up on the side of the play area and draw another card.
- Ship part card text: "When drawn: set aside and draw a card." The booklet example is the Flush Drive. Several ship part card names are cut off on the page art; see the Ship Parts note below.
Now you may play other cards from your hand. There is no limit to the number of cards you can play per turn.
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Action cards are played to the discard pile.
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Toilet paper cards are played by laying a completed set face up in front of you.
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A completed set consists of 1 mythical, 2 rare, or 3 common toilet paper.
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Each toilet paper in a set must also have the symbol on your current butt character card in order to play it. The booklet diagram shows a Mythical TP, a Butt Butt character card and several Common TP cards, each with a symbol matching the butt character card.
- Bow Butt - bow symbol
- Classy Butt - top hat symbol
- Hairy Butt - plunger symbol
- Butt Butt - butt symbol
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A maximum of one toilet paper card in a common or rare set can be replaced with a wild TP card.
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Some toilet paper cards have actions that you must perform when you lay them down in a set.
If the butt character cards are rotated, any completed toilet paper sets you've laid down remain yours and count toward your final score.
Your turn ends whenever you decide to stop playing cards from your hand. You do not discard when ending your turn.
Underwear
The underwear card can be played to the discard pile at any time on anyone's turn. It is used to protect you from the effect of any other card that involves you.
For example, if a player uses a red crystal on you to steal a card, underwear will prevent you from losing a card. If a power fart rotates the butts, underwear will prevent your butt from rotating. Etc.
Action Cards
Green Crystal
Draw two cards and then discard two cards.
Red Crystal
Steal a random card from a player of your choice's hand.
Confusion
Everyone gives you their hand and you shuffle them together with yours. The shuffled cards are then dealt back out to the players.
Power Fart
Rotate the butt character cards in the direction of your choosing.
Crate
Look at another player's hand and take a card of your choosing.
Evil Butt
There are two types of Evil Butt cards:
- Steal a TP set from a player
- Steal a random TP from everyone's hand
Boob Butt
Skip a player of your choosing's next turn.
Space Blob
Draw 2 cards or swap butt character cards with another player.
The booklet's contents list, printed on the same page:
Contains 120 playing cards, including: 4 butt character cards, 7 spaceship part cards, 3 crate cards, 4 space blob cards, 3 evil butt cards, 3 boob butt cards, 4 asteroid cards, 6 green crystal cards, 6 red crystal cards, 7 power fart cards, 4 underwear cards, 3 confusion cards, 8 wild tp cards, 18 rare tp cards, 36 common tp cards, and 4 mythical tp cards.
Example Toilet Paper Cards
The booklet illustrates these cards. Their printed effect text is listed where it is legible.
- Rare TP "Aquarium" - When played: prevent an effect.
- Rare TP "Royal" - When played: everyone draws a card.
- Rare TP "Mermaid Scale" - no effect text shown in the booklet.
- Mythical TP "Toaster" - no effect text shown in the booklet.
- Common TP "Witch" - no effect text shown in the booklet.
- Wild TP "Kitty" - When played: discard a card.
Transcriber notes
- Ship part card names are partly hidden on the page art, because the seven cards overlap in the illustration. As printed on the cards, the names read: "FLUSH VAL...", "FLUSH TRANSC...", "FLUSH REGUL...", "FLUSH DRI..." (confirmed as FLUSH DRIVE on the "On Your Turn" card), "FLUSH CO...", "FLUSH CAPAC...", and "FLUSH ACCELERATOR". The cut-off names are not legible in the booklet and are left as shown rather than completed.
- The spelling "Assteroid" in the "On Your Turn" text is printed in the booklet as is; the card itself reads ASTEROID.