Introduction to Chicken Heist Board Game
Chicken Heist board game is a very good game and one of our favorite new games. This is a bank heist themed game where you play as the chickens. You win the game by being the last one standing, or escaping with the most money. The loot cards consist of cash which is worth 1 million dollars, gold which is worth 2 million dollars, and diamonds which is worth 3 million dollars. This game combines a mix of hand management, player elimination, and push your luck mechanics.
Game Overview
The game contains: A getaway driver card; each round you put a loot card under it and if you are the last player who did not get caught or run away or you played your run card during the decision phase when the second driver signal event card was revealed you get all the loot under this card. Additionally, there are Event cards, Action cards, and Decision cards, and a variety of different chickens. The chicken cards include; the Pirate Chicken, Angel Chicken, Viking Chicken, Jester Chicken, Business Chicken, Alchemist Chicken, Wizard Chicken, Cyborg Chicken, Knight Chicken, Samurai Chicken, Devil Chicken, and finally Iron Chicken.
Actions
During the turn phase players take their turn completing one of these actions.
- Rob: Draw 1 card from the loot pile.
- Lookout: Look at any facedown event on the board once you’re done looking at the card put it back face down on the board.
- Resupply: You draw 2 action cards from the deck.
- Tinker: You swap the positions of 2 event cards, however, you cannot look at the cards you swapped.
- You can activate your character ability, however, if your character has a passive ability you don’t need to activate it for it to be in play.
During The operation phase players can do this action. Play 1 action card in order until either they have no more cards or until they all pass.
During The decision Phase players can do this action. Players pick a decision card between stay, run, and hide. If you lost your hide card; you will not have that option for the rest of the game during the decision phase.
Experience
Our family had an amazing experience playing the Chicken Heist Game. We have played this game 6 times, and it was different every time. We really liked the variety of chickens combined with the random event cards. We enjoy playing competitive push your luck games so this is a must for our collection.
Final Thoughts
Overall this is a 4.4 out of 5 board game. The push your luck aspect is amazing because of the event cards. There are just so many different strategies to win in this game. This is an amazing filler game for when you want to play short and easy games.
Aaron Motts
This is a cute chicken game. I would buy this game if it was sold at my location.