Pop open the tube and start chucking dice with family and friends! In Chicken!, players will be rolling dice each turn—pressing their luck to score more Chickens while avoiding those foxes.
On a turn, a player must choose to roll all the dice passed to them or "Chicken Out" to roll fewer dice. Players will score points from the Chickens they roll, but they will bust (and score no points) if 3 or more foxes appear across their dice.
For each Egg symbol rolled, a die is hatched from the Coop and then the active player will choose to reroll all of their blanks, eggs, and newly hatched dice, or they may score their points and pass the dice to the next player. If a player chooses to "Chicken Out" at the start of their turn, they lose a point for being a chicken, but they get to place all Yellow and Orange dice back into the Coop.
The first player to reach 25 Points from their Chickens wins the game!
—description from designer
- Short play time (roughly 10–15 minutes)
- Supports 2–8 players, scalable crowd appeal
- Very approachable and family-friendly
- Colorful component design and thematic flavor
- High element of luck can dominate outcomes
- May feel chaotic with larger player counts
- Poultry-focused, lighthearted push-your-luck scoring around a central coop
- Farmyard / rural setting featuring chickens and eggs
- humorous, family-friendly, fast-paced
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice drafting / rolling — Players roll white and colored dice, then allocate outcomes to eggs and chickens on the center board.
- Dice rolling — Players roll white and colored dice, then allocate outcomes to eggs and chickens on the center board.
- press-your-luck / risk management — After each egg or favorable result, players decide whether to continue or stop to bank points, risking busts from foxes.
- set collection / scoring by chickens — Chickens gathered during a turn contribute to the player's score, with certain outcomes yielding multiple chickens.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- it's super fun it's super fast takes 10 to 15 minutes to play
- fantastically fun familyfriendly just wild cool game night
- this is a silly game don't worry about it
- lots of silliness
- you could just do mutton busting and chicken and just roll the dice and see what happens