Unlike the original Kakerlakak game, Mein erstes Kakerlakak is aimed at very young players. The mama cockroach — that is, a HEXBUG — runs through a path that loops on the game board. At the start of a round, each player places one of their "food balls" (a colored marble) in the starting location, then you start mama on the path, with her ideally knocking your food through the holes in the path to feed the baby cockroaches that live in the floor. Whoever first has all their food delivered to the babies wins! Mein erstes Kakerlakak includes a variant for slightly older children in which players try to collect an assortment of food colors to fill their basket first.