Cockroach Poker Royal

Should this hit the table?

Quick read before the metadata.

Moderate level of direct and strategic confrontation with high interaction frequency, but low emphasis on cooperation.

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 3.9

High replayability

Interaction 3.8

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 3.5

More strategic control

Table feel

Moderate level of direct and strategic confrontation with high interaction frequency, but low emphasis on cooperation.

Replay value

Cockroach Poker Royal has a high variability gameboard, offering fresh experiences each time. The presence of expansions adds new content and gameplay elements. The game provides deep strategic possibilities and allows players to improve their tactics over time. The player interaction score is good. It scales well with different player counts without compromising its appeal or balance. The game is moderately easy to learn, offering a balance between depth and accessibility. Overall, Cockroach Poker Royal has a strong replayability score of 7.85.

Luck profile

Cockroach Poker Royal has a moderate level of luck involved in the game. Random elements, such as card draws, have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. However, players have substantial ability to mitigate the effects of luck through strategic decisions and planning. The game outcome is primarily determined by player strategy and decisions, with luck playing a minor role. Overall, Cockroach Poker Royal strikes a good balance between luck and strategy.

Overview

What ABG knows about this game

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.

Mechanism

3

Hand Management Set Collection Single Loser Game

Family

6

Animals: Bats Animals: Cockroaches Animals: Frogs / Toads Animals: Insects Animals: Rats Series: Ugly Animals (Drei Magier)

Type

1

Party

Media

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