Chickapig

Herd chicken-pig hybrids home in a straight-line puzzle where cow poop is a legitimate strategy.

👥 2–4 players⏱ approx. 60 min🪄 Rules in 5 min6+

★ 5.7 · BGG #7,405

Who it's for

Families wanting a step beyond gateway games and abstract strategy fans who enjoy a light obstruction puzzle.

Not for you if…

You want deep strategic complexity, since Chickapig stays light and puzzly rather than heavy or cerebral.

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Vibe's take

puzzly, silly, tactical, light, family-friendly

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About this game

Chickapig sounds like a joke and plays like a genuinely sharp abstract game, herd your six chicken-pig hybrids straight across the board to your pen while a die tells you how far you may travel in one direction. The real game is obstruction: hay bales, a wandering cow and, yes, cow poop get dropped in rivals' paths to force detours and pile-ups. It rewards spatial thinking closer to a sliding-block puzzle than a race, wrapped in a theme silly enough that kids buy in immediately. Co-created by musician Dave Matthews with designer Brian Calhoun, it is proof a farmyard pun can still hide a proper strategy game.

Straight-line herding puzzleHay bales and cow poop obstaclesCo-created by Dave Matthews

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from $24

from $24 · Amazon.com BGG