Let's Play COCKROACH POKER | Board Game Club

[Music] foreign [Music] hello i'm adam from no rolls bard and welcome to board game club where the first rule of board game club is actually a toad every week we gather together a group of our friends here at drafts board game cafe in london to play a game to show you how much fun board games can be this week we'll be playing cockroach poker designed by jack zymot and published by dry majia spieler it is a game of bluff tension and a whole bunch of creepies crawlies and pests that are so ugly they almost go full circle and become cute but they don't it's halloween and what's more halloween than things that creep and crawl the game's a little different than most in that instead of one winner and everyone else loses there's one loser and everyone else wins this game's it's a little mean but it's it's not that mean a player loses when they have in front of them four cards of the same type the types of cards are cockroach stink bug rat fly bat toad and scorpion they can also lose by having to play a card but not having one in hand but it's more likely the game will end with someone having four cards of the same type like that every turn goes like this the player who lost the previous turn takes a card from their hand and plays it face down offering it to another player whilst also saying what it is so i could pass this to laurie and say laurie this is a cockroach if i do pass it to lori he has a choice he can either make a claim about the card or he can pass it on if he makes a claim he doesn't look at the card then he tries to suss me out and guess whether or not i'm lying and he either says that is a cockroach or that isn't a cockroach whichever the two statements he makes if he's right i have to take the card and put it in front of me so for example if he says that isn't a cockroach and it isn't it's a toad he's right i have to take the card put in front of me i lose there however if it was a cockroach he would have to take the card remember four cards are the same type player instantly loses however if laurie doesn't want to make a claim about the card he can pass it on at which point he takes a peek at it he has to look at it and then he passes it along to someone else also saying what the card is so he could pass it along to sully so for example he could pass it to sully and he can either maintain my lie or he can change the bluff for example he can say sully adam was lying this is not a cockroach this is actually a toad and then sully now has the choice to make a claim or pass it on if everyone else around the table has seen the card and sully is the only one who hasn't then sully has to make a claim saying whether or not he believes what laurie is telling him yes laurie i believe you that is a cockroach oh no it's a game of bluff double bluff occasionally triple bluff and a sprinkling of cruelty what a happy time we'll have here one and all at the ugly bug ball also known as cockroach poker joining me for board game club this week as ever i'm joined by laurie hello i'm joined by john hello i'm joined by sally hello i'm joined by tom hello and we're bloody hell we're joined by rosie hi good thank you now i don't know if you can tell but it is spooky season so we're going to be playing a game crammed full of creepy crawlies we're playing cockroach poker everyone has their hand of card so we're going to start the game right now sullivan this is a cockroach oh is it a cockroach of cockroach poke fame yes the title character the eponymous cockroach or is this something else do they mean the same thing yes i'm not going to make it i'm going to have a look because sully of course could have said that is a cockroach well that isn't a cockroach and if he was right i would have kept the card but he was wrong so he would have kept the card but instead you're passing along to someone else aren't you son yes passing the buck and i can tell you all tell you all yes and you told them specifically that adam was lying to me that is a rat you were doing if you were lying to me i'm going to wear your teeth like a necklace holy [ __ ] oh wow wow boo i guess very scary pure teeth is a necklace oh tom you horrify me i don't want it i've decided against it a rat smell a wrap cockroach rat rat you gotta pass it to me you got less coward yeah why do i invade him why don't i always bait him go on i can lie a little teeth off no i'll give him to talk a wrap oh oh oh oh rosie wait let me just find my good side it's a pig it's a pig is this a pig this is a rat i believe it that would be good to you laurie welcome to the game well does it happen i happen to like rats so thanks john you're welcome good company right um sullivan yes [Laughter] and there's no reason for you to doubt it yep and i don't i believe you oh that was that that was a heavy-handed play there rosie you went to drama school and no one can tell i scream and i scream forcing people to like me um this is a um come on drama school training just bring it don't fail take it back think about what you're going to say and then say it like the power of bristol i have i was just doing this like line for god's sake people play the game in different ways all right yeah and yes yes there's such a thing as a poker face but some of us are just too damn honest john and that's why this is a fly i really want to call this either way because it'll be very funny but i i can't read you or can i i'm just doubting myself i'm gonna pass this on down the river sail it on down uh thomas [Music] [Laughter] what rosie said did you say it's a fly i'm saying those flies are flying i believe such a such a set up slowly take that back [Laughter] you don't like lying how does this game make you feel who told you i was feeling something this is a stinkbug i believe you holy [ __ ] wow that's so powerful believe it or not you're good uh kind of a cockroach [Laughter] that's a fly that's a fly adam laurie look at this fly i don't believe you gold [Laughter] so rosie and sully are both actors i'm not sure if you can tell but both have a kind of uh more is more quality when it comes to their bluffing here we go it's it's the big one it's the big boy the big lie it's it's the big old the big old lie the big the big the this one's for you john yeah [Laughter] so i think i think this is like an intentionally slightly clumsy lie because it's actually true but how confident am i in this he is flashing up bells and whistles yeah but then he always does yeah i was born with belgium he just walks wherever he walks maracas um the doctors were horrified no i'm too much of a coward it's halloween too scary um the bells and whistles were correct trust myself damn very excited this is a toad for me is it mm-hmm i don't know about lorry right that's a fly it's a fly eating toad it's a toad when toad fly toad got raised there you go is it turning closer it's a toad not louder so we've had lies truth truth toad boom that's science baby that's how it works that's beautiful science that is two toads that is rosy two-toed friends do big times that's a toad that's a toad oh god it's a toad it's the fastest i've ever seen you played that's a toad is that for me yeah of course it's a tonight jump deflection of the toad deflection of the toad oh i see i've now got a new mission in this game excellent that's a toad well that mission's complete damn it cockroaches poker is like it's a tricky game because it's so meta-dependent and we have such an ostentatious group that kind of trying to work out when the ostentation what's covering up for what like lorry for example is very kind of paired back so lori's really inscrutable but once you kind of crack him you can feed him loads of cards [Music] this lorry stinkbug oh it's a stinkbug so you gave laurie stinkbug under the assumption that he would say yes it was because otherwise he runs the risk of taking a third one so it's definitely not a stinkbug eat [ __ ] wait what oh well done i don't know how you figured that out this is a cockroach you've never seen a cockroach before in your goddamn life happy lolly break lollipop lolly lolly brain holy brain new nicknames have yourself a little [Laughter] rosie this is the scorpion and it's got a sting in its tail who did it come from you hey [Laughter] let me just think about what's on the card this yes he's a scorpion master of deception i believe you oh you've got a real very menagerie yeah two toes cockroach [Laughter] this is a cockroach fresh from rosie zoo finally rosie someone who knows what a cockroach looks like sullivan i'm gonna tell you this is a cockroach what do you need to work out is if i'm around you or not [Laughter] this was a little stinky bug made just for you lorrie made just for you you just think you just figured out a little stinky bug don't turn it over good little stinky [ __ ] be sad it's definitely not a stink bug inscrutable face of lolly break i think it's a cockroach nice nice king cockroach look at a couple of kings royalty over there on that side it's a real royal zoo over here it's getting a bit bigger for half an hour anyone confused as to why some of the delightful creatures are wearing crowns it's for a variant of the game we're not playing fascinating stuff from board game club but look at his little face king stink bucket never used to have the words the crown don't i'm using that in bloody betrayal later it's a shakespeare quote cut that chips or don't i don't know which order these are coming out shut up everyone let's play it's [ __ ] untraveled that took less than i expected i spent 10 minutes looking up shakespeare quotes i will not have that be wasted 500 year old [ __ ] please please don't take my hundred years is that for me yeah yeah of course it's a fly name don't take it nice don't take the [ __ ] piercing it'll come calm down i've had i've had a third of the coffee because it is running through me it's a fly uh no it's not yeah i almost went flying why did i calm down much better when i'm angry john has quite a good ability to read people i think john is quite good he's quite good at deception and he's quite good at reading people and then something like you know that you know the saying about a toddler in a room with a small stone they'll repeatedly somehow bash their head against it that's how john unravels he'll find the smallest possible thing and suddenly it all goes to [ __ ] what do you have to have three of one thing four four so you're okay you haven't entered now but if you get one pick you lose one pig there is [Laughter] all right leave me alone i'll leave you alone when i finish bothering you wow i don't think that's a good defense your honor the highway is alive tonight nobody's kidding nobody about where it goes i'm sitting down here by the campfire light waiting on the ghost of tom toad tommy toad anyone like that reference oh but i enjoyed it i enjoyed it yeah well that's a wrap for me yes for you if you can believe it nope if you can bloody believe it pretty certainly tuesday morning it depends on what you're gonna say [Music] [Laughter] hold on i just wanted to think very hard about this before we turn it over use that big brain or something and just think about this think about whether you want to be on this team or if you want to ostracize it to my own zoo okay [Laughter] you master manipulator rosie nicholas i'm gonna let you turn this card over until you really thought about it obviously you're clearly wrong all right everything about it are we agreed [Laughter] yeah is one of them rosie's attempt rosie's method of bluffing is a little more a little different from mine instead of going going with your gut she goes with full narrative and also holding the card down so that if you get it wrong or right uh she will not lift it up now it remains to be seen how successful this will be because it does suggest when you say don't pick up this card that you're not that rosie's not gonna win but hey if you're against sullivan he might just go for it he might just be uh contrary enough to pick it up it's a big old rat it's a big old rat isn't it why did you do this rosie i wanted to leave this zoo all right then this is um this is a stink bug this is we agreed yeah go on just think very really hard all right anymore yeah [Laughter] a is there's that drama school training kicking in i don't believe you danger zone that's three [Laughter] so when somebody has three cards and they are literally one card away from losing that game suddenly all attention around the table turns to that one focal point and it becomes about trying to pile as many cards on them as possible and even if you're not sending them the card that they that they need to lose the game suddenly they've got a menagerie building up right what now i keep keep at it you've got this break break your spirit you know what actually everyone i'm going to put it in the middle and the first person who wants it who wants this rat john okay you have chosen me the first person john the first best person i didn't look at it you [ __ ] chill your boots lolly break i i think this is you're saying it's a wrap yes [Laughter] yes i you know what i think it is yay oh i almost wanted to be wrong though that rat's very disappointed oh my god that rat's leaving you you are teetering on the edge rosie i really am and i've really had a cast yeah how many cards um that is privy knowledge you never ask a lady how many clutches do you have two cards oh no one rack to clarify if rosie runs out of cards then ever like loses around and needs to play a card rosie will also lose the game the biggest loser okay right this uh tom is a toad i can afford to take a toad should we just move on from port road is [Applause] ah yes and so the zoo is complete tenner so uh we're gonna start game two uh and i think it's only fair that our resident uh loser rosie nichols starts the game rosie on you laurie rat king all right this toad isn't flying anywhere sullivan what have you done you said that like like we are scientists together and i once again failed to make a toad fly yeah you'll get there sullivan you just keep sticking wings on toads and see what happens that's a rat so what we had rat king fly toad rat [Music] all right that's fair i'm happy to have the rat king we haven't got a choice mate i love wrecking all right you make hay while the sun doesn't shine why do you join the regency king fly king fly king fly that's what my story is [Laughter] yes in other words i'm sticking to it that's right what are you going to do drop me a like i think it is a kingfly yeah look at you my court of miracles all right let's uh let's move away from you you've got my number this one is a fly wait you're giving to me again oh you tricked me you little monster fly it is a fly lorry oh it's a fly would you like a fly rosie because you're gonna work every day's halloween this is where i'm going wrong yeah you've said all you need to say because he's baiting you in by not saying things the more you say the more he's going to read you just stoic don't even look at it bro sit down right sullivan not even look at you that's right say it to me i'm sullivan okay say it to me well if you'll be telling me oh sport sports is so good [Laughter] [Music] that impersonation is slanderous awful and incredibly truthful if it's a toad yeah somebody said yeah yeah no i'm not we then what um you will be buying me lunch whoa raise the steaks wait where's the toad sullivan will buy you lunch yeah so even if i guess it right and it is a toast i say oh it is [Laughter] tickets very good but i don't believe you i don't think it is a toad oh of course it's not i i got so into that i thought it wasn't not only do you get the my god she's done it thanks everyone uh scorpion king oh dwayne johnson himself wayne the rock johnson yeah i do kind of want another king but do i [ __ ] dweeb hmm yes say yes then he'll have it and i have it it's definitely oh laurie you got this lolly eater lolly lolly gagger molly blake lolly gagger like a weird slur that i've come up thank you lolly eater referencing the bit we did five minutes ago it's a scorpion king give it to me scorpion king who's left me give it to me and me don't give it to john sally's not heavy is the head that works nice he's busy buying him from lunch don't you dare say that shakespeare line out that's my line i wrote that line is this a scorpion king i see before me no uh yes sorry i misspoke yes it is a scorpion i wanted to have that hmm you should have taken it shouldn't you i can't no i couldn't though we still wouldn't have been adam's yeah [Laughter] [Music] and you paid the price doubting mine doubting lawrence nice this is a bat ah that is why would you do that because he's not a king he has no place in this court would you like a king yes gravity this is the cockroach king having a lovely time watch me sing it's the cockroach cockroach cake i don't believe you you should have done it's the key hooray for me i didn't believe you either [Music] yeah uh yes i've got three kings and that's enough for me i think so let's pass this on to rosie rosie yes that is a cockroach i don't believe you that's a shame well now you have one yes thank you you're welcome thank you welcome right then everyone [Laughter] good luck mate this is a rat oh i think it is a rat but i'm not i'm not confident though i'm your [ __ ] coward you call me a coward for that one so this is my vengeance yeah i'm gonna get diabetes from all this delicious sweetness rosie will you do me a really big favor get this big old stink book to adam blumpjs [ __ ] hell it is a stinkbug john i can confirm [Applause] anyone from liverpool i'm sorry yeah sorry i don't apologize send all my hate mail to sullivan by brown yeah and is this thing from the very beginning i mean great play guys we got him sullivan how are you doing real sweet yeah just a couple of good friends having what's that ah i think someone's left the window open and in this early autumn heat a fly has landed on your dinner you really need to change tom's batteries i'll suppose sullivan that's a fly tom terrifies me in a weirdly comforting way i don't believe you happy halloween you let it get in your head come on you got right into my head see rosie that's how it's done remember last time when we tried to get that stick book over to random blond beer well this time we're going to do it go ahead get a stinkbug over here over the bleep bloop over there go on go on bleep blue bluntly here go on i do not know how sullivan expects this plan to work a second time it does seem to be what he's doing this is legitimately a stinkbug well blow me down with a feather rosy knicks it is astonishingly it is a stinkbug desperate that you weren't gonna pass it to me sorry it is a stinkbug don't blow it laurie hold hold i believe [Laughter] every time they send me a stink book and every time it is sent back no thank you now rosie you can keep this fly for yourself you can give it to someone else i want to give it to john do you know is it a fly do you have any words to go with it rosie [Laughter] you do legally have to say what you are claiming it is rosie so you're saying it's a fly yeah okay wait i haven't said anything wait let me layer this sponge it just it is you have to find me lunch inexplicably if if i get this back you have to buy me let me guess [ __ ] lunch lunch what a twist [ __ ] sake uh tom that is a fly tom tom passed it on oh he knows it's a fly adam as a fly i believe you ah welcome to the club [Music] i throw spiders at you all damn it now i don't have to buy john lunch [Laughter] well i know someone's got a taste for bats okay not a bat that's a cockroach tom it's a cockroach son i don't believe you oh damn damn damn damn it's a run you just can't do it dramatically can he damn this friction heavy surface my old foe ruining cool card slides since 99 cockroach i believe it what does that mean all i'm interested in is getting lunch at some point so if i get lunch as a result of the game then that's good for me if i get lunch um as a result of losing the game really when we're honest what's more important here is it lunch or is it winning it's lunch oh jesus christ okay it's such a simple rule it's so hard for you oh smoking smoking [ __ ] still smoking pigs absolutely no idea just could be enough very cleverly that's about yep wow rosie i can honestly say in all my years of playing cockroach poker lorry that is a bat i think we're going to win this one yeah yeah b a t spells yeah oh no we found the perfect vector for delivering cards to solid creepy this isn't a bat this is a cockroach but can you afford to believe me i don't believe you oh we'll get you sullivan brown one day he's got you good at this sally i can see the truth in people's eyes and that's why i have managed to master this game adam yeah get this back to sullivan get this back to sullivan get this back to sullivan please pass the bat to sullivan yeah sullivan this is a bat [Laughter] nailed it when [Laughter] you've got to buy lunch now sally you didn't wait sorry sorry what are the terms who has to buy who lunch if you end up with a card you buy me lunch and if i end up with a card you buy me a coffee oh no it's done no i win tails you lose [ __ ] well i don't believe you as i said before and i buy you nothing crucially winning again yeah you want another master another victory for me okay legal mastermind hostages [Laughter] well i'm gonna have to look at it because you don't even know what it is it is a bath for the sake of it i believe you oh [ __ ] you danger zone oh yes i knew what the card was nice oh oh i thought you're doing a crazy play sally's on three bats i've not looked to the next stinkbug he said stink he said but i believe you stink butt oh head's gone he's rattled now oh it all came from rosie playing the long game oh rosie's got to be the one to topple him right for you oh stop it really right for you really big old lovely ref for you no it's not a [Laughter] would you like a little concrete he did i would have loved the cockroach and i'm very happy to have been given as a approach no it is not what hold on hold on hold on do i have to buy tom lunch oh it's a rat and who are you passing it to you uh it's not oh for god's sake oh brilliant right what day what day at the races okay right oh why would you put me under pressure like this yeah watch him crumble apple crumble this is a stick bug she's trying to get you his little stink bog there oh disgusting and sexy um laurie yeah scorpion for you uh i believe you oh sally's only got how many cards four cards left the mask has just fallen uh would you would you like a scorpion all right yeah i'll have one thank you there we go yep does that mean you believe that i'm kidding i don't believe you this time [Applause] oh [ __ ] son here we go once more into the bridge dear friends once more sally you know that's one of mine [Music] you're sitting right here you're stealing my words uh that is a stink bug for adam for adam okay i mean for you but ultimately for adam this is a oh before i flip that one over that's a stink bug for adam oh right okay so what are you claiming is it back it's a bat that's right done him there son but this is a stinkbug for adam if you could get that over to it and that'd be great no this is a bat don't give it to me you're the only other person other than that straight to adam [Laughter] start a new page who wants this wrap okay that's not how it works and last time sally asked he just picked i'll i'll take it i'll take it it's a wrap very nice nice brown soft wrap oh gross you know what yep i can afford a rat i believe you oh you're on three rounds why i get the round a trio of rats adam this is a wrap okay that is a rat is that coming for me isn't it please just be honest rosie yes all jokes aside do you want me to keep you safe or you want to treat you with someone with their own autonomy please i'm an autonomous being great question tom just think though who's had it i said rats has to go to lorry or sullivan you said rap i said rat rat stink bug it's a rat that's a stink bug uh i believe it [Laughter] how many cars have you got selling two and this one yes is a little bet for me for you i don't believe you i don't believe you now oh god yes yes rosie this is my last one yeah and if you get this wrong you will lose so whoever you give it to they have to challenge in order to trying enough for solid than to lose yeah yeah we could we could pass it along and keep sullivan safe but you don't want that do you suffer you want to feel alive the big risks here we go this i don't want it please please give it to rosie please give it to rosa please i don't want it give it to me adam has to buy me lunch i'll buy her lunch if she's the one who puts you in a shallow grave i'll buy others you know what i'll buy your lunch as well no lunch is all right and to be clear we're buying you a different lunch each yeah for the same lunch oh yeah three toes four lunches come on guys come on for the money the best thing about this is that we're gonna do that hang on hang on the best thing about this is that this is a wrap i knew he was going to say that i think it is a rat you want to tell us that that's your safest bet i don't think that's there okay unless he's been holding onto oh no it would have been a double loss but it's not a loss no saying saying it was a rat was your safest play because it meant that you wouldn't take a rap that means game that's absolute game theory you're absolutely right how many cards you got there rosie i've got a couple thanks pig right this is a scorpion for sullivan okay oh excellent sally nice i am the scorpio so suit this is a bat for sullivan this is a toad for some of them let's set up in the only one left no jump jump then let's get this towed to cylinder toad oh it is a tide sullivan let's smoke be aware of what hangs in the balance is that a toad how many toads must a man walk out uh yes it is was a [ __ ] demon that's true i got you i gotcha yeah you're safer now sully but let's just say there's more insects coming down the toad it's a rhyme on road isn't it laurie oh right yeah well we've got mad max fury tote hit the toad jack and don't you come back but then that is that is glamorizing toad violence which i'm not into the toad less traveled this doesn't toad well ah depeche toad my favorite 80s synth band currently all the players told us operandi what would you say it was toad yeah and i rhymed it with rogue explain it one more time i will this is a bat for sullivan why is it always for me it's for solomon rosie oh okay i thought you were actually giving this this tom is a bat for sullivan who's left sullivan just a big dog have you seen it i've not seen it oh sullivan you and i taking a lovely stroll to a dark cave look up sullivan look up at the cave roof hundreds [Laughter] it's a dungeon master's dream yes i suppose it has to be pigs now hundreds of people hundreds of pigs that's how dnd works they're pigs now yes they're forever pigs pigs well i had a great bit about it made hundreds and hundreds of toads but someone shouted all over that like a bunch of pigs from a ceiling yeah i just felt that if there was a moment for pigs to be included in a story that was it and i think tom deep down does understand that no lunch for you the crux of this fundamentally failed joke the climax of this night the new more if you will sullivan is that this card which you're about to take is [Laughter] a toad i love the idea that you heard all of that rosie and you went i don't think it's built into anything hey i think he's forgotten his life admittedly he hasn't paused yet but he might have forgotten anyway you won't forget like next time will you i've really enjoyed my last time [Laughter] maybe i'm still furious that's not maybe about it what oh it cockroach okay oh this is nice it is nice yeah that's really nice not being here hello this is a cockroach sorry this is back [Music] oh well that was a cockroach john i hate to do this too sully uh yes i think it is a cockroach could you please turn it over wait is that it oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] [Applause] [Laughter] that's it's cockroach poker oh man we will see you next week for another episode of board game club what are we playing next week the halloween episode of board game club we're playing betrayal at house on the hill see you next week get on boom [Music] you [Music]

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Id: 6oN_jf0To2w

Length: 56min 21sec (3381 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 19 2021