Cockroach Soup (Card Game)

In Cockroach Soup, players work together to create a soup from leeks, peppers, carrot and mushrooms – but they won’t always be saying which ingredient they’re adding to the pot!

The 128 cards – 112 vegetable cards in the four types and 16 “taboo” vegetable cards, four of each type that bear cockroaches – are shuffled and divided among the players. On a turn, a player plays the top card from their deck onto the central pile of cards, naming the vegetable as they play it, e.g., “Pepper!” – except in the following situations:

• If their vegetable matches the previously played vegetable, the player must lie.
• If their vegetable matches the claim made by the previous player (perhaps because that player lied), then the player must lie.
• If they play a taboo card, which shows a cockroach slurping from a spoon, they must slurp and the next player starts a new pile next to the first one so that the taboo card remains visible.
• If their vegetable matches a visible taboo card, they must slurp – unless the last person who played such a card slurped, in which case they must say, “Mmmm”.

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 Cockroach Salad.