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2009 Ranked #6,664

Piou Piou

This children’s card game has players lay eggs, hatch chicks, and protect them from foxes to build a flock. Countercards can stop theft, but the first player to raise three chicks wins.

Children's Animals Card Game Set Collection Animals: Chickens

Players

2-5

Play time

Not listed

Age

5+

Complexity

1.04/5

Rating

6.60

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Panic in the hen house, the fox is on the prowl and the eggs have not yet hatched ...

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Panic in the hen house, the fox is on the prowl and the eggs have not yet hatched ... [back of the box] When it is his turn to play, the player chooses : to throw a card into the pot or to carry out one of the game actions : -Lay an egg (by presenting the 3 cards - hen, rooster, nest, the player may take an egg card). He places it in front of him, egg side up. -Give birth to a chick (the player presents 2 "hen" cards whilst imitating a hen's cry.) Turns over one of his "eggs" to make a newborn chick appear. -Take an egg from another player (the player presents a "fox" card to an advesary, and ask him for an "egg" card (not a chick). The adversary may counter-attack by presenting 2 "rooster" cards. The winner is the first to manage to get 3 chicks.

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Play and group

Players
2–5
Best with
2–5
Play time
10 min
Age
5+
Complexity
1.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Thierry Chapeau

Artists

1
Frédéric Pillot

Publishers

1
Djeco

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