Chicken Out
BGG rank
BGG #28,590
BGG rating
5.3

Chicken Out

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Rules assistance for Chicken Out

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 20 min
  • 6+
  • Complexity 1.2/5

Rules assistant for Chicken Out

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Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

Chicken Out is a board game released in 1988 for 2–4 players, 20 minutes per game, and ages 6 and up. Its main mechanics are Hand Management, Push Your Luck, and Roll / Spin and Move.

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About the game

In Chicken Out, players try to have their chickens cross a busy road to the finishing point. Each player takes charge of a pair of chicken playing-pieces and move them along a zig-zag path across the game board, crossing a road four times. At the start of a player's turn, he or she draws cards to form a four-card hand and uses numbered cards to move their playing pieces. A player can also declare to play Chicken cards, which can cause other players' chickens on the road to move back to the starting point if their color matches the card. The other players can respond by playing Goose and Safe cards, Chicken Out backwards to the road shoulder, or stay their pieces on the road and chance the result of the Chicken card. The game ends when a player has both his or her chickens reach the finishing point, making him or her the winner.

Editions

  • Chicken OutenParker Brothers1988
  • Poule mouilléeenParker Brothers1988

Questions and answers

Chicken Out supports 2–4 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.