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To honor your favorite season, but also that of dentists and even your parents (who empty your bags of candy after dark …), we have chosen a title that shivers with fear!
Well, we’re exaggerating a bit, but after all, the idea of Halloween is a lot of making yourself laugh and scare yourself. And to combine the two, nothing better than an evening of playing Cockroach Poker ! Rats, spiders, bats and other slobbering toads: this little box of sixty cards is overflowing with disgusting creatures that players will try to pass on to themselves, because they have far too many eyes and legs to keep them from. we want to hug them. If a player ends up with four identical vermins in front of him, he loses, and the game ends. In short, the reverse of the game of the seven families.
“Po-Po-Po-Poker Face! “
No bushy rules or text on the cards, so the game is great for the whole family. From the poker from which it takes its name, that of the cockroaches has kept only the bluff. It will be necessary to lie brazenly, eye to eye, to make others lose, while showing its most beautiful ” poker face (The impenetrable face of real Las Vegas gamers, not Lady Gaga’s hit). In your turn, choose a vermin, slip it to an opponent, face down, and in a confident voice, say what it is (“a stinking bug”) or what it is not (“c ‘is a dirty scorpion’)! It’s up to him to guess if you’re trustworthy.
He is wrong ? It is he who takes the card, and he must place it in front of him, face up. Does he unmask you? It is you who inherits it. More than three of the same type, and it’s lost. Unless the opponent decides to discreetly look at the card before transferring it to another player, confirming (“it’s a bug”) or denying your words (“it’s not a bug!” ). If it reaches the last player on the table, he will have no choice but to turn it over, hoping to aim right, thanks to the information provided by the others. You will never have shuddered so much at the idea of seeing a spider… if you already have three in front of you!
Cockroach Poker, Gigamic, $ 15, 2 to 6 players, ages 8 and up, 20 to 30 minutes per game