Gibsons Chicken Out Card Game for Kids | Encourages counting skills | Bright, colourful & fun travel card game Games

Great card game. Our kids loved it and even ended up playing it at a New Year's Eve party with friends. Great for mental maths skills too.

Lovely little box , attractive cards and there my positive comments stop. It has 8 sides of instructions. I read it and re read it and I started getting confused, why do games for children have to have be so complicated, by the time that you have read the cards the children are board and the cards are scattered. Won't be playing it.

This card game is for 2-6 players and is aimed at children aged 7+. The card game comes with 50x chicken cards, 10x fox cards and four rules cards. The basic aim of the game is to be the first one to run out of cards. You have to try to get to 21 but, beware; should you go above 21 you go bust and must pick up all the cards played so far and add them to your pile. Also, if you get a fox card, they may hinder (or help) your chances of reaching the magic number.So, you shuffle the cards and deal them out between the players, who have to leave them in a pile, face down. You play two cards and see what they add up to (so, if you have a 9 and a 7, then you have 16). The next player adds their top card to the pile and then adds that on. If it’s a chicken card with a black number, you add that on. If it’s a chicken card with a red number, and the total is more than 21, you can subtract this, and avoid going bust. The Fox cards have different instructions; including doubling the count, or taking the count back to 0. If you go bust, you have the pile of cards and start again. If you get to 21 exactly, then you can discard those cards and then start again. If you fear you might add to the pile and make more than 21, then you can ‘Chicken Out,’ which means you take the cards and start again. You then start the new series of cards.I like this game a lot. It is great to improve mental maths skills and is ideal for travelling, or rainy days. It took us a few games to get the hang of it, but now my own children play it a lot. I have simplified the rules, when playing it with younger members of the family, so that the red and black cards are the same and there is no subtraction. However, for children aged 7+ it is a really fun game, and doesn’t take too long to play.

My two young grandchildren love this card game.

Great

We had a great afternoon playing this with my grandson at a garden party. Alas, this is England, and we've discovered they're not waterproof. Also, the 4 year old is a sore loser.

Gibsons Chicken Out card game is a fun game although a little complicated to understand in the beginning. To me it is slightly reminisce of the adult card game Pontoon also known as 21s and Blackjack.This pack of cards contains 50 x chicken cards, 10 x fox cards and 4 x rule cards. The idea of this game is that the first person to run out of cards in their bid to reach 21 is the winner.This card game is for between two and six players and should suit anyone who is over the age of seven.To play this game you first need to shuffle and deal the cards between the players. Each player leaves his pile of cards face down on the table. The player whose turn it is first plays two cards from the top of his pile and sees what they add up to.The next player adds the top card from his pile to the played cards and sees what they add up to ... If the card played is a chicken with a black number the player must add the number of that card to the already played total. However if the card is a chicken with a red number the player can subtract this number from the total played which will hopefully prevent the player from going over 21 and going bust.This is all pretty much straight forward unless a fox card is played, this is where this game gets interesting and a lot more fun ... each fox card gives the player a number task such as raising the count to twenty, doubling the count and sending the count back to zero etc.All in all, this card game is actually fun and an enjoyable couple of hours can easily be taken in playing this game. It is also quite educational in the practice of adding and subtracting numbers.

A fun family card game. We enjoyed playing it. However, it REALLY IS for children of age 7+ (unlike some toys/games which are labelled for older ages but in practice are clearly fine for the tiny ones too). This did not work for the four year old... the rest of us had fun although it took a little while to get the hang of how to play.