Cockroach poker

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Cockroach poker
Game data
author Jacques Zeimet
graphic Rolf Vogt
publishing company Schmidt Games /
Three Magician Games
Publishing year 2004
Art Card game
Teammates 2 to 6
Duration 20 minutes
Age from 8 years

Awards

Game of the Year 2004: Recommended list
À-la-carte card game price 2004: 3rd place
Japan Boardgame Prize 2005:
Best foreign game for beginners, 2nd place
As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année 2006: nominated

Cockroach Poker is a card and bluff game by Jacques Zeimet that was published by Drei Magier Spiele in 2004 . In the same year the game was included in the jury's list of recommendations for the game of the year 2004 and won third place in the à la carte card game award, further prizes followed. In 2012 the follow-up game Cockroach Poker Royal was released .

Style of play

The game of cockroach poker is about the players pushing cards at each other and at the same time preventing them from being dealt too many cards of the same type. The motifs are "animals that nobody likes". The game material consists of a card deck with a total of 64 cards, each with eight motifs (cockroach, bat, fly, toad, rat, scorpion, spider and stink bug) in eight colors.

Game flow

At the beginning of the game all cards are shuffled and evenly distributed to the other players, regardless of whether individual players end up with one card more than others.

The game begins with the starting player. He chooses a card from his hand, puts it on the table and slides it to any other player. He claims that it is a specific card type, such as a cockroach, but that doesn't have to be true. The player to whom he pushes the card can accept the card or push it further:

  1. If he accepts it, he must say in advance whether he believes the information or not. If the player is correct in his statement (“right” or “wrong”), the pushing player must take back the card, otherwise he must take the card himself. The card is then laid out face up in front of the respective player.
  2. If he does not want to accept the card, but rather push it on, he takes it briefly in his hand for consideration and then pushes it to the next freely determined player who does not yet know the card, again stating a card type. He can accept the entry of the first player or name a new type.

The map can be moved until all players have seen the map. The last player only has the option of accepting the card and indicating whether it is "correct" or "incorrect" as described. The player who receives the card is the starting player for the next round.

The game ends when a player has four cards of the same type, i.e. a quartet, in front of him, or when a player runs out of cards and has to play a card. In both cases the respective player has lost the game.

Game for two

For a game for two, 10 cards are taken from the shuffled deck before the game. The remaining cards are dealt and the starting player begins to push a card to the other player, announcing the card type. Since there are no other players, the player must accept the card and say whether he believes the information or not. If the player is correct in his statement (“right” or “wrong”), the pushing player must take back the card, otherwise he must take the card himself. The card is then laid out face up in front of the respective player.

The game ends when a player has five cards of the same type, i.e. a quintet, in front of him, or when a player runs out of cards and has to play a card. In both cases the respective player has lost the game.

Cockroach Poker Royal

Cockroach Poker Royal is a stand-alone game based on Cockroach Poker that was released in 2012. The rules of the game are largely similar to those of cockroach poker , but with a few changes. The set of cards consists of 56 instead of 64 basic cards with eight cards each with seven motifs (cockroach, bat, fly, toad, rat, scorpion and stink bug) as well as one royal card for each animal species and two special cards. So there are 66 cards in total.

After all cards have been shuffled well, seven cards are laid out face down as a penalty pile, the top card is revealed. All other cards are distributed evenly to the players, if there are excess cards the starting player receives one more card and all remaining cards are placed on the penalty pile. As in the basic game, the start player pushes a card to any other player and claims a card type, ie one of the animal species or "Royal". "Royal" means that any animal is depicted with a crown. The target player can then, as already described in the basic game, accept the card or pass it on with the same or different announcement and the player who receives the card at the end becomes the next player.

The most important difference to the basic game are the royal and special cards. If a player receives a royal card, regardless of whether it is a "royal" or animal species, he must also take the top, open card from the penalty pile and place it in front of him. The royal cards are one of the corresponding animal species. One of the special cards is empty and always wrong, one is a joker and correct for all animal species. Both are not laid out when a player receives them, but are added to their own hand cards. Instead, the player who received it must display one of his hand cards according to the last statement in front of him or, if he cannot, display any two other cards. If a royal card is displayed, the player must also take the top penalty card and display it.

As in the basic game, the game ends when a player has a quartet in front of him or when a player runs out of cards and has to play a card. In both cases the respective player has lost the game.

Expenses and reception

The card game Cockroach Poker was developed by Jacques Zeimet and published in 2004 by Drei Magier Spiele , the children's game brand from Schmidt Spiele . The card and game design comes from the game illustrator Rolf Vogt . The game was first published in a multilingual version in German, English, Dutch, French, Italian and Korean. It was included in the jury's list of recommendations for the 2004 Game of the Year and came third in the 2004 à la carte card game award and second in the 2005 Japan Boardgame Prize as the best foreign game for beginners. It was also the French As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année 2006 nominated .

Due to its success, the game has been released since 2004 either directly by Drei Magier or as a licensed game by various publishers, also internationally in several versions and languages. In 2012, the successor to the game was Kakerlakenpoker Royal , also under the brand name Drei Magier Spiele, which, after its first multilingual edition, was also translated into several languages ​​and published internationally. Since the 2016 edition, both games have indicated that the game has already been sold more than 1 million times.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e Official rules of the game for cockroach poker
  2. ↑ a b c d Official rules of the game for Cockroach Poker Royal
  3. ↑ Versions of Cockroach Poker in the BoardGameGeek database; accessed on March 31, 2017.
  4. ^ Versions of Cockroach Poker Royal in the BoardGameGeek database; accessed on March 31, 2017.

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