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Kakerlakensalat (Import)

$25.95 CAD
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Game details

  • Jacques Zeimet Designer
  • 2–6 PlayersBest: 4, 5
  • 10–20 min Play time
  • 6 and up Age
  • ★ 6.1/ 10 BGG rating
  • #4312 BGG rank
Complexity Light · 1.1 / 5

Awards & honors

  • 2008 Fairplay À la carte Runner-up
  • 2008 Japan Boardgame Prize Voters' Selection Nominee
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  • 2008 Fairplay À la carte Runner-up
  • 2008 Japan Boardgame Prize Voters' Selection Nominee
  • 2008 Kinderspielexperten "8-to-13-year-olds" Nominee
  • 2008 Spiel des Jahres Recommended
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Note: This game includes English, French, Italian, Dutch and German. For a preview, English rule can be found here.

In Kakerlakensalat players create a common salad packed with lettuce, peppers, tomatoes and cauliflower – but they won't always be saying which ingredient they're adding to the bowl!

The 128 cards – 120 vegetable cards in the four types and eight "taboo" vegetable cards, two of each type that bear cockroaches – are shuffled and divided among the players. On a turn, a player plays the top card from his deck onto the central pile of cards, naming the vegetable as he plays it, e.g., "Pepper!" – except in the following situations:

  • If his vegetable matches the previously played vegetable, the player must lie.
  • If his vegetable matches the claim made by the previous player (perhaps because that player lied), then the player must lie.
  • If he plays a taboo card, he shouts "Cockroach!" and the next player starts a new pile next to the first one so that the taboo card remains visible.
  • If his vegetable matches a visible taboo card, he must lie.

Make a mistake or stumble or hesitate too long, and a player must pick up all cards played to that point in the game. The first player to run out of cards wins!

Can be combined with Kakerlakensuppe.

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