Cockroach Poker
| Year | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Designer | Jacques Zeimet |
| Publisher | Drei Magier Spiele |
| Players | 2–6 players |
| Playing time | 25 min |
| Ages | Ages 8+ |
| Mechanics | Bluffing |
A bluffing game about passing around 64 cards of vermin — cockroaches, rats, stink bugs and their kin. On your turn you slide one card face down to another player and declare what it is: "This is a cockroach." It may be a lie. The receiver can accept it, or peek and pass it on to someone else with a new declaration. Guess wrong, and the card stays face up in front of you. Collect four of a kind and you are the single loser. There is no winner, only a loser. That asymmetry, and how the remaining cards become readable late in the game, is the flavor of it.