Let's Play COCKROACH POKER

**Let's Play COCKROACH POKER** is a video in the Board Game Club series.

"*Finally, Rosie, someone who knows what a cockroach looks like.* "
― Tom
## Notable moments

* The first rule of Board Game Club is "actually, a toad".
* *What a happy time we'll have here, one and all - at the ugly bug ball.*
* This one's a bit mean, but not too bad - bluffing and chancing all round.
* Rosie gets her usual effusive welcome. This an absolutely wonderful Rosie episode - full of bizarre plots, making up her own rules and general Rosie-madness.
* Tom: "If you're lying to me, I'm going to wear your teeth like a necklace". Starting strong, then.
* Rosie thinks the card might be a pig. Umm. She's fine-tuning her approach here.
* By the power of Bristol!
* Jon has tiny T-rex arms.
* Laurie: "You don't like lying, how does this game make you feel?" Tom: "Who told you I was feeling something?"
* Sullivan and Rosie are doing acting-school bluffing. It's a bit... more.
* Sullivan has tiny T-rex arms. He was born with bells and whistles.
* Rosie has two toads - and two toes, like a horse.
* Sullivan: "Have yourself a little lolly break on me."
* Rosie has a horrible zoo. You need to pay a tenner or we'll open the zoo and throw the specimens at you.
* Tom defines the game for Sullivan. Who looks terrified again.
* Jon: "The inscrutable face of Lolly Brake".
* Jon's unravelled, it took less time than we expected. He's overstimulated and had coffee but he's going to calm down. He's claiming all Shakespeare quotes for his exclusive use.
* It's PIGS! Rosie's new rule - if you get one pig (which she made herself) you lose, but if he brings an apple you win.
* Tom: "I'll leave you alone when I've finished bothering you." Tom's reciting poetry we're all enjoying, even if we don't recognise the reference.
* Sullivan needs to think very hard about whether he wants to be on Rosie's team or ostracise her to her own zoo. And we've gone.
* Rosie's method of bluffing is a little more assertive and narrative-driven than some people, but you know, it may work on Sullivan. It's not a toad, it's an ashamed rat.
* Jon: "You never ask a lady how many cards she has left."
* Sullivan's putting their funding at risk by being unable to make a toad fly.
* Adam's Sullivan impression is spot on. Sullivan thinks it's slanderous.
* Rosie's playing her own game for her own stakes at this point.
* Singalonga NRB: "Cockroach king." "Rat for you!" "Would you like a little cockroach?"
* Laurie: "You fucking coward!" Jon: "You potty-mouthed motherfucker!"
* Oh, we're doing accents. How unfortunate. And we've gone.
* Adam: "I really need to change Tom's batteries."
* Sullivan: "Tom terrifies me. In a really really comforting way".
* Rosie's going to get a lot of lunch out of this. Inexplicably.
* Adam to Rosie: "What does your brain sound like?"
* The lovely bespoke games table doesn't exactly support dramatic card slides.
* Rosie's main focus is still lunch. She's not too sure of the rules, 3/4 of the way through Game 2. Rosie: "It's all smoke and shit".
* Sullivan's head's gone. Adam's quoting Ozymandias at him now.
* Rosie: "Yeah, suck my toad!" Sullivan: "Disgusting. And Sexy."
* It's the last play, and Rosie may have finally worked out the rules.
* If Rosie's the one that puts Sullivan in a shallow grave, she's going to get lunches from everyone.
* How many toad puns can we come up with?
* There's Tom, weaving his storyteller magic. There's Sullivan with fear and trepidation, but drawn into the story. There's the rest of the cast, rapt with attention. And there's Rosie: "OF PIGS!!!" We've gone again. Tom's keeping going manfully.

## Talking Heads

Beautiful talking heads are available this episode.

## Trivia

* Game introduction and rules are presented by Adam.
* An extended version of this episode is available on the No Rolls Barred Patreon.