A funny bluff game with creatures that no one likes!
The player on whom four cards of a kind are palmed off will lose this amusing bluff game. One player offers a card to another player stating what creature is pictured on it - correctly or incorrectly. The player who misjudges the other ends up with the card. "This is a stink bug!" You can peek at the card and pass it on: "Oh no, it's a spider!" True or false - who knows? Are you a good bluffer?
Despite the name, Cockroach Poker has nothing to do with poker – except that the game is all about bluffing, but with cards showing cockroaches, rats and stink bugs instead of queens, 10s and aces.
The deck includes 64 cards, with eight copies of eight types of critters. To set up the game, shuffle the deck and deal the cards out to players. On a turn, a player takes one card from his hand, lays it face down on the table, slides it to a player of his choice, and declares a type of critter, e.g., "Stink bug". The player receiving the card either
• Accepts the card, says either "true" or "false", then reveals the card. If this player is wrong in her claim, she keeps the card on the table in front of her face up; if she is right, the player who gave her the card places it face up before him.
• Peeks at the card, then passes it face down to another player, either saying the original type of critter or saying a new type. This new player again has the choice of accepting the card or passing it, unless the card has already been seen by all other players in which case the player must take the first option.
The game ends when a player has no cards to pass on his turn or when a player has four cards of the same critter on the table in front of him. In either case, this player loses and everyone else wins.
Awards & Honors
2007 Hra roku Nominee
2006 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Nominee
2005 Japan Boardgame Prize Best Foreign Game for Beginners
2004 Spiel des Jahres Recommended
2004 Kinderspielexperten "8-to-13-year-olds" Nominee
2004 Fairplay À la carte Winner
2-6 players 8+
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION
Released: 17 December 2021
