Salsicha Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Components
• Game Summary
• Setup
• Dog Combinations (Combina-cães)
• Round Play
  • Buy Action
  • Discard Action
  • End of the Round
• Scoring
  • Revealing a Salsicha (Going Out)
  • Consolation Prize (Prêmio de Consolação)
  • Winning a Consolation Perfect
• New Round
• End of the Game
  • Victory Card
• Two-Player Rules

Components

54 Salsicha cards (9 colours)

• 1 Head
• 4 Body
• 1 Tail

(The printed component sheet lists these three card types under the 54-card heading; each of the 9 colours has its own set of these cards.)

13 Dog Combination cards (Cartas de Combina-cão)

• 1 Perfect Salsicha (Salsicha Perfeito)
• 12 varied Dog Combinations

1 Victory card (Carta de Vitória)

Each Dog Combination card shows a sausage made of letters and textures. Each letter and texture stands for one colour (type) of Salsicha only. The number in the corner of each card is the total number of Salsicha cards that combination uses.

Game Summary

1. Deal 5 Salsicha cards to each player and leave the rest face down as the draw deck (Baralho de Compras). Turn 5 cards from the draw deck face up to form the discard area (Área de Descarte).
2. Place 3 Dog Combination cards face up in the centre of the table, next to the Perfect Salsicha card.
3. On your turn, draw 0 or 2 Salsicha cards (from the draw deck and/or the discard area) and then, mandatorily, discard 1 card to the discard area. Pass the turn to the player on your left, after resolving any extra effects if the discarded card is a head or a tail.
4. When you form a Dog Combination using all the cards in your hand, reveal them at the start or the end of your turn. You have gone out! The round then ends.
5. If the Dog Combination revealed is a Perfect Salsicha, the player who revealed it ends the game and wins! Otherwise, begin a new round and continue until a player reaches 4 victory points OR 4 rounds have been played.

Objective: Finish the game with more victory points, or win immediately by revealing the Perfect Salsicha (an instant victory).

Setup

1. Prepare the Salsicha card deck according to the number of players:
   • For 4 or 5 players: use all the cards.
   • For 3 players: remove all the cards of two colours of your choice.
2. Shuffle the Salsicha cards and deal 5 to each player.
3. Turn 5 Salsicha cards face up in the centre of the table to form the discard area. The remaining Salsicha cards are placed face down in a pile, forming the draw deck.
4. Prepare the Dog Combination deck:
   • Place the Perfect Salsicha card in the centre of the table, next to the discard area.
   • Shuffle the other 12 Dog Combination cards and turn 3 of them face up, visible to all players. There should then be 4 Dog Combinations in the round: the Perfect Salsicha and 3 others.
   • The three Dog Combination cards and the Perfect Salsicha form the round's Dog Combinations.

The player who most recently ate a hot dog starts the game.

Dog Combinations (Combina-cães)

A Salsicha is made of a head, a body and a tail, in the quantities shown on each Dog Combination card. On those cards, each letter and texture represents only one colour (type) of Salsicha.

Examples from the rulebook:

• Perfect Salsicha (Salsicha Perfeito): AAAAAA. All 6 cards are one colour.
• Salsicha de Calça (Trousers Salsicha): AAAABB. 6 cards.
• Salsiberus: ABCCCDA. 7 cards.
• Salsicha de Dois Andares (Two-Storey Salsicha): ABBACCA. 7 cards.

Salsiberus is built as follows: one head must have the same colour as the tail (A). The other head must be a different colour (B). The body is made of 4 parts: 3 of one new colour (C) and the last part of a colour different from all the others (D).

Round Play

Salsicha is played in turns. On your turn, you MAY buy two Salsicha cards and you MUST discard one.

Buy Action

If you choose to buy, you must take exactly two Salsicha cards. You may take them in any combination from the discard area and/or the top of the draw deck: one card from each source, or both from the same source.

The purchase can be made in any order. If you decide to take the first card from the draw deck (face down), you may look at what you drew before deciding whether to take the second card from the draw deck or from the discard area.

You may also choose NOT to buy any cards.

Discard Action

After your Buy action, even if you chose to buy no cards, you must always discard one Salsicha card from your hand. It can be any card, including one you have just bought.

Discards are not stacked, and all cards in the discard area must always be visible. Discarding can trigger extra actions:

• If the player discards a Salsicha head card: every player passes one card from their hand to the player on their left (clockwise).
• If the player discards a Salsicha tail card: every player passes one card from their hand to the player on their right (anticlockwise).

Any card may be passed. Pass your card BEFORE looking at the card you received.

Starting with the first player, each player takes all of their actions (Buy and/or Discard, plus the consequences of the discard, if any) and then passes the turn to the player on their left. The round continues in this way until someone forms one of the round's Dog Combinations.

End of the Round

A round ends at the exact moment a player "goes out" (bate), meaning they use ALL the cards in their hand, without exception, to reveal their Salsicha.

The reveal must happen at the start of your turn (before the Buy action) OR at the end of your turn (after the Discard action is complete, including any extra effects of the cards, if any).

Scoring

Revealing a Salsicha (Going Out)

The player who went out scores 2 victory points.

Consolation Prize (Prêmio de Consolação)

Any player who could have gone out by completing a single turn (discarding a single card, or buying two cards and discarding one, or already holding a ready Dog Combination) scores 1 victory point.

When determining a Consolation Prize, do not make any actual card exchanges between your hand and the discard area. Simply show the other players how a Dog Combination could be formed using the permitted moves, since more than one player may use the same cards at that moment.

Winning a Consolation Perfect

A player who forms the Perfect Salsicha by way of the Consolation Prize scores only their 1 victory point.

New Round

Gather all the Salsicha cards, shuffle them, deal 5 to each player, and turn 5 cards face up to form the discard area.

Remove the 3 Dog Combination cards used in the previous round and turn 3 new ones face up. Do NOT remove the Perfect Salsicha card.

The new round starts with the player to the left of the last player to go out.

End of the Game

The game ends in three ways:

Points: In the round in which a player scores 4 or more victory points, the player with the most points wins. In case of a tie, the last player to have gone out is the winner.

End of rounds: After 4 rounds the game ends, because no more Dog Combinations are available. The player with the most accumulated points wins. In case of a tie, the last player to have gone out is the winner.

Perfection: In the special case of a player going out by revealing the Perfect Salsicha, that player wins the game immediately. The Perfect Salsicha is made of all 6 cards of one colour (AAAAAA).

Source note: the printed text reads "O joga acaba de três formas", which is a typo for "O jogo acaba de três formas" (the game ends in three ways); it is translated as the intended sentence.

Victory Card

The winner takes the Victory card (Carta de Vitória) and may post a celebration photo on social media together with their Salsicha. The printed text on the card reads "Take a photo and celebrate on social media by tagging @copag.games!"

Two-Player Rules

For a game with only 2 players, set up the game as for 3 players (with two colours removed).

Place one card face down on each side between the players, as if there were a player to the left and to the right of each of you.

During the round, when discarding Salsicha tail and/or head cards, use the cards placed between the players as part of the exchange, as if there were players between you:

• Take the card to your right (if it is a head) or to your left (if it is a tail), face down, and place it next to you without looking at it.
• Choose a card from your hand to discard and place it to your left (if it is a head) or to your right (if it is a tail).
• Add the card you took to your hand.

The round continues and ends in the same way as a game with 3 to 5 players, with one player going out.

The player who goes out wins a round. There is no Consolation Prize.

The first player to win two rounds, or to go out by revealing a Perfect Salsicha card, is the Winner.

The Winner takes the Victory card (Carta de Vitória) and may post a celebration photo on social media together with their Salsicha.