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.