After seeing "Kakerlaken Poker" or in Japanese "ゴキブリポカー" (Gokiburi Poker) appear as a top 10 on a lot of Japanese board gaming catalogs, I decided to check out what the hype was all about. So I picked up a copy of the Japanese version (luckily the cards had no language specific text) and once I opened the box, I was immediately hooked by the colourful and amazingly cute artwork. This cute little Take That style game by Jacques Zeimet has been my go to game for the month. You can print out a Tuckbox from BGG which allows you to fit this game into your pocket, literally. There's a different image on each of the 64 cards, no 2 cockroaches are exactly alike, which makes the game higher on my Gaming list. The artist who designed the FANTASTIC art is Rolf Vogt (yes, I was so interested in who did the art, I looked it up on BGG). If you hated creepy crawlies before, this game might make you rethink those pre-conceptions. "Awh, isn't that cockroac
At the start of the year I promised to myself to play Dominant Species, Command and Colours: Napoleonics and Twilight Struggle 5 times each this year.
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