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2020 Ranked #19,656

Chicken War

This tile-matching game has players build a yard of chickens that share exactly two traits with a secret leader. Revealing the pattern too clearly invites rivals to guess the leader, and a correct guess eliminates the owner.

Animals Children's Game Deduction Player Elimination

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

?/5

Rating

6.13

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.1/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

All’s fair — or fowl — in a chicken war! In Chicken War, the goal is to have all of the Chickens in your Yard match your secret Leader Chicken.

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All’s fair — or fowl — in a chicken war! In Chicken War, the goal is to have all of the Chickens in your Yard match your secret Leader Chicken. Every Chicken has certain traits, and to match, Chickens must have two and only two of these traits in common. On your turn, draw Chicken tiles from the draw pile, and switch them out for Chickens in your Yard. When you have a fully matching Army, you win! But don’t be too obvious about which Chicken you’re matching—your opponents can use special actions or even throw an Egg to try to guess your Leader, and if they’re right, you’re out! -description from publisher

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2
Play time
30 min
Age
8+
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Credits

Designers

2
Greg Preslicka Heidi Preslicka

Artists

1
Robert Brown

Publishers

1
ThinkFun

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