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Cockroach Poker Royal
Year
2012
Players
26
Play time
25min
Min age
8+
Weight
1.14
BGG rating
7.02
BGG rank
#1336
Best with
4, 5

MeepleMates notes for Cockroach Poker Royal

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  • Cockroach Poker Royal is available as a public board game page on MeepleMates for group planning and collection tracking.
  • Best with 4, 5 players according to player poll data.
  • BoardGameGeek average rating 7.02 and BGG rank #1336.
  • Groups use this page to connect Card Game, Bluffing, Party Game metadata with real play history, ratings and game night notes.
  • Recommended player counts include 3, 6.
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.

Categories

Card GameBluffingParty Game

Mechanics

Hand ManagementSet CollectionSingle Loser Game

Best with how many players

1
Not rec.
2
Not rec.
3
Recommended
4
Best
5
Best
6
Recommended
6+
Not rec.

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

No necessary in-game text(10 of 10 votes)

Sub-rankings

  • Party Game Rank#72

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External data

No Wikidata data is stored for this game yet. If the scheduled enrichment has run recently, Wikidata probably has no BGG mapping for it.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 07/09/2026.