Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
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.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
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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