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Chicken out!

COunt the red hens, and the black ones, too

Counting day for poultry, but the hens do not keep still to be counted but are running about, and the fox has a hand in the pie, too!

The chickens are to be found on cards featuring yellow hens and black numbers - those values must always be added up - and on cards featuring red hens and red numbers, those cards can sometimes be subtracted. And then there are the fox cards - they either double the current total, or turn the current total into 0 or 20, or correspond in color and value to the last chicken card that was played before the fox appeared. All those cards are shuffled and distributed evenly among players, an eventual rest is taken out of play.

You play the top card from your face-down stack and add its value to the current total; if you would go over 21 with a red card, you may subtract its value. If you top 21 with your card - having Bad Luck! - or pass on playing by announcing Chicken out!, you take all previously played cards; if you achieve Bull’s Eye by achieving exactly 21, the cards played go out of play; in all three cases, the active player then plays two cards; in case of Bull’s Eye you are allowed to play more until you are satisfied or top 21.

If you are out of cards, you have won - the other players score, after the next taking or setting aside of cards - each chicken card with 1 and each fox cards with 10 points. In case of several games you note all scores and win - after the agreed number of games- with the lowest score.

No risk, no fun! A game of pure chance, but fun - will I have the necessary fox to transform the total to zero or must I take cards again? Playing only Chicken out!, will not let you win!

Players: 2-5

Age: 7+

Time: 30+

Designer: David Parlett

Artist: Robert Bayer, xl-graphics

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2017

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Card summarizing, limit

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: cz de fr hu it pl sk

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard basic mechanism

Solely chance-driven

Nice filler game

You will not win doing only Chicken out!

Compares to:

All shedding games with a value limit

Other editions:

Gibsons (en), Piatnik (fr)

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0