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In a competition to rob the most money from the bank, you will need to make preparations, manage risks and make informed decisions to come out on top. With unpredictable events coming up that may get you locked up, would you take the time to prepare for what’s coming next, or would you continue to rob? Leave with the getaway truck and you will get a split of the loot. Stay too long however, you will leave with nothing but a life behind bars. In a high risk high reward setting, who is the ultimate chicken? Who will be the first to chicken out? You or your friends?
Chicken Heist is a Press Your Luck Card game inspired by the game of chicken. Players must leverage all their moves from getting more information by Lookout, manipulating events by Tinkering, getting more tools via Resupply to simply making more money by Robbing to ensure that they safely exit the heist with the most amount of loot possible. 3-8 players can play and an average game runs anywhere from 15-45 minutes.
—description from the publisher
- Theme and gameplay mechanics work well together.
- Quick to learn and play.
- Accessible enough for new gamers but with depth and complexity.
- Appealing artwork with vibrant colors and clear design.
- Encourages interesting player dynamics, from cooperation to betrayal.
- Player elimination can occur.
- Potential for player stagnation when determining actions, especially at lower player counts.
- May be best played with 5-6 players, with 3-4 players sometimes lacking enough disseminated information early on.
- Working as a team or betraying friends during a heist to collect loot and escape the police.
- A dangerous heist
- play chicken
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Play — Players play various action cards and character abilities to manipulate the game state, gain information, or influence outcomes.
- Player Elimination — Players can be caught or fail to escape, being eliminated from the current round.
- Pressure Luck — Players must decide how far to push their luck when collecting loot and escaping, balancing personal gain with the risk of getting caught.
- Set Collection — Players collect loot (treasure) to win the game.
- Social Deduction — Players try to deduce actions and intentions of others, potentially working together or betraying each other.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- It's this weird dynamic of taking a piece of loot for yourself and trusting your neighbor to tell you what that card is so that you can do the same thing for them next turn.
- This is one of the things that I I think makes Chicken Heist such an interesting and unique little party game.
- I really enjoy this lightweight pressure luck party game, and if it seems like the right game for you, I'd be willing to bet that it is.
- So, there's this really nice pressure luck element to the game. It's a party game with what I think is a a fair amount of depth, complexity, and choices. And I really like it. I think it's a really interesting game.
- When you get down to these final rounds, it kind of becomes a shove your friend under the bus sort of dynamic.
- I know my name is Quackalope. I may be a little biased towards birds, but you can't look at these chickens and not think to yourself that they're adorable.