Cockroaches duel

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Cockroaches duel
Game data
author Jacques Zeimet
graphic Rolf Vogt
publishing company Schmidt Games /
Three Magician Games
Publishing year 2017
Art Board game , bluff game
Teammates 2
Duration 15 to 25 minutes
Age from 8 years

Cockroach Duel is a board and bluff game by Jacques Zeimet for two players that was published by Drei Magier Spiele in 2017 . The game optically builds on the card game series by Zeimet in the style of the successful cockroach poker and was designed like this by Rolf Vogt .

Style of play

The game Cockroach Duel is about bluffing with the help of guessing stones and thus attracting cockroach stones. The winner is the player who can get a cockroach stone over their own finish line first. In addition to the set of instructions, the game material consists of a game board with a playing field of 4 by 8 fields and four tip fields per player, four cockroach stones, four tip stones (3 green and one red) and a royal stone with a crown for the "Royal" version of the game .

Game flow

To prepare for the game, the game board is placed in the middle of the table and the four cockroach stones are placed on the marked center line. The two players take on the roles of "bluffers" and "clairvoyants". The bluffer gets the four tip stones and places them face down on his finish line. He tries to influence the clairvoyant in such a way that he reveals the tip stone with the red cross as quickly as possible. When the bluffer has placed his stones, the clairvoyant reveals one of the tip stones. If it is a green tip, he may move the cockroach one step in his direction on the relevant lane and then reveal the next tip. If he reveals a red cross, his turn is over. The cockroach on the path with the red cross does not move. Cockroaches on the lanes where there are still hidden tipping stones are pulled one step in the direction of the bluffer.

After the round, roles are swapped and the new bluffer places his guessing stones. The game ends when one of the cockroach stones is moved past the last space on a player's side. The player who succeeds in this wins the game.

Cockroaches Duel Royal

In the "Royal" version of the game, the bluffer receives the royal stone with the crown in addition to the tip stones. With the royal stone he determines a cockroach as queen and, in addition to his tip stones, places the crown on the cockroach stone in question. If the clairvoyant reveals a green stone on the lane with the queen, the cockroach moves two spaces in his direction, if he uncovered a red stone on this lane, it moves one space in the direction of the bluffer. If the bluffer already reveals a red stone, if the tip stone has not yet been revealed on the queen's path, the queen moves two spaces in the direction of the bluffer.

Expenses and reception

The game Cockroaches Duel was developed by Jacques Zeimet and published in 2017 by Drei Magier Spiele , the children's play brand of the Schmidt Spiele publishing house , for the Nuremberg Toy Fair . There the game was played by the two jungle kings of the show I am a star - get me out of here! Menderes Bağcı and Désirée Nick presented in a cockroach costume. The card and game design comes from the game illustrator Rolf Vogt , who has already designed numerous other Zeimet games. The design is based on the card game series in which games such as the successful cockroach poker as well as cockroach salad , cockroach soup and cockroach dance have already appeared.

The game was published in a multilingual version in German, English, French and Italian. In a review in the game magazine spielbox , the reviewer Harald Schrapers rates the game as weak compared to similar games such as The Good and Bad Spirits by Alex Randolph and describes the placement of the tip stones as "inconsequential shuffling".

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d Official rules of the game for cockroaches duel
  2. ↑ Jungle camp reloaded: Désirée Nick and Menderes as cockroaches in action on focus.de, January 31, 2017; accessed on July 31, 2017.
  3. ^ Versions of cockroaches duel in the BoardGameGeek database; Retrieved July 3, 2017.
  4. ↑ Harald Schrapers: Cockroaches Duel in spielbox 3/2017, p. 60.

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