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Cockroach Poker Royal

#129736BGG ↗

2012 · 2-6 players · 25min · weight 1.14 · 4,899 ratings

v2 v3

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ID
129736
Name
Cockroach Poker Royal
Year
2012
Rank
1368
Min players
2
Max players
6
Playing time
25
Min playtime
15
Max playtime
25
Avg weight
1.136
Num weights
125
Bayes avg
6.49961
Average
7.01813
Users rated
4899
Num owned
9653
Wanting
136
Wishing
1019
Num comments
895
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:17:05 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (3)
Hand ManagementSet CollectionSingle Loser Game
Categories (3)
BluffingCard GameParty Game
Description (1460 chars)

As in its parent game Kakerlakenpoker, Kakerlakenpoker Royal 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. 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. Passes the card to another player, peeking at it first, then keeping it face-down and 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 accept it and make a true/false claim. 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. To this, Kakerlakenpoker Royal adds new rules and new nasty "royal" critters to create more options for players during the game.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).