Cockroach Salad

Cockroach Salad (Kakerlakensalat) is a quick, chaotic party game where players build a salad by playing vegetable cards—tomatoes, peppers, lettuces, and cauliflowers—while shouting out what they just added… unless they are not allowed to say that vegetable, in which case they have to lie. Simple? Not quite. One slip of the tongue, hesitation, or wrong shout, and you’re grabbing the whole discard pile as a penalty.

On your turn, you flip a card from your hand onto the pile and say the vegetable name—unless that veg is currently banned due to a matching card already played, or a special cockroach rule is in play. The rules stack and shift as the game goes on, creating a hilarious mess of stammering, bluffing, and quick thinking. It’s loud, silly fun and great with a group that does not mind getting a bit flustered.