Cockroach Poker, known in German as Kakerlakenpoker, is a bluffing card game designed by Jacques Zeimet and published in 2004 by Drei Magier Spiele. It was the first title in that publisher's Ugly Animals card game series. The special deck has 64 cards showing eight creatures: cockroach, bat, fly, toad, rat, scorpion, spider and stink bug. A player passes a card face down to another player and names a creature, and the receiver either accepts it by calling the claim true or false, or looks at it and passes it on with a new claim. The card ends up face up in front of whoever accepts it, and a player who collects four cards of the same creature loses while everyone else wins. A standalone spin-off, Cockroach Poker Royal, followed in 2012. The game was nominated for the 2004 Spiel des Jahres.
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1. UltraBoardGames: Cockroach Poker (UltraBoardGames)
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2. Cockroach Poker (Wikipedia)
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is a bluffing card game designed by Jacques Zeimet and published in 2004 by Drei Magier Spiele
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