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Chicken Lines is a single player game where the player tries to get 5 or more chickens of the same breed (color) in a line to free them from the game board before all spaces (chicken roosts) on the board are occupied. New chickens are added to the board three at a time. The game features an 8x8 game board, 9 breeds of chickens, and 10 super chickens, each with a unique power to help the player free space or create chicken lines.

The game features two variants depending on the platform: Chicken Lines can be played as an application on Facebook with additional features and sub-games and stand alone game for iPad or iPhone.

Chicken Lines V1 (1998)
The original Chicken Lines game was designed in 1998 by Nenad Hrnjak as a freeware game:



Chicken Lines V2 (2003)
A second version was released for PC by NebitNebit.com in 2003, and had over 250.000 downloads. Both versions (v1 and v2) where played on a 10x10 game board with 8 different kinds of chickens and 4 special chickens: Pilot, Ghost, Boxer and Joker:

This version is still downloadable from http://www.nebitnebit.com/chick/clinesgame.htm

Current Version
The latest version of the game (released 2011), features an 8x8 game board with 9 types of chicken, each one given a breed name, and 10 Super Chickens:



Object of Game
The object of the game is simple: the player tries to make as many chicken lines as possible before the game board is full of chickens. Making lines or combinations of lines will earn points for the player trying to get the highest possible score.

Game Start
At the start of each game, the player can choose up to 4 Super Chickens that will help the player get out of tight spots by freeing space on the board or help create chicken lines. Each super chicken has its own unique power. In addition, the player can choose a Super Starter Chicken (Master Cluck) that lets the player start the game with a x2 score multiplier. More multipliers can be earned as game play progress (maximum multiplier is x15).

Basic Game Play
Game play begins with three chickens randomly placed on the chicken coop game board, an 8x8 grid where each cell is a chicken roost. 4 chicken coop doors are also randomly deployed on the board and act as obstacles.

The player clicks on a chicken to select it and then clicks on a free space to move it to the new position. The path must be free of obstacles (other chickens or chicken coop doors). After each move, 3 more chickens are added to the board, unless a chicken line is created, in which case the move is “free” and no new birds are added. The player can also use “chicken swap” which lets you exchange the position of two adjacent birds. The player can make two chicken swaps or one chicken swap and one move before 3 new birds are added to the board.

When 5 or more birds of the same color are placed in a line (vertically, horizontally or diagonally) the chickens are removed from the board and the player earns points depending on the number of birds in the line. It is possible to clear multiple lines with a single move, earning more points.

Game Score Multipliers
Players can also earn game point multipliers. First the player must clear two chicken lines back to back. A new multiplier is then made available and added to the game board, randomly assigned  to one of the next up chickens. If the player makes a line including the chicken holding the multiplier, the multiplier is awarded and any points made for subsequent chicken lines are multiplied by the current factor. Players can earn up to a x15 multiplier. The current multiplier is displayed by the super chicken Master Cluck in the upper left-hand corner of the game board.

Super Chickens
The player can use super chicken powers at any point during the game. The player can select up to 4 (out of 9) different super chickens plus an x2 Master Cluck multiplier to use in each game. Each super chicken has a predefined number of times it can be used during the game. The number of instances depends on the power of the super chicken. The number of instances available or remaining is displayed below the super chicken on the game board. Super chickens include:


 * Sonic – Sonic lets the player jump a chicken to any free roost on the board or swap the places of any two chickens on the board (ignoring any obstacles).
 * La Niña – La Niña lets the player pluck a selected chicken off the board, clearing the path for your next move.
 * Rhode Island Red – Rhode Island Red will clear a row of chickens with a little chicken tap routine, freeing up space.
 * EZ’Lectricity – EZ’Lectricity shoots bolts of lightning north, south, east and west, clearing a column and a row of birds.
 * Zombryo – Zombryo spreads a temporary zombie plague, affecting a random number of chickens that are then cleared from the board.
 * Whack Wand – Whacky Wand randomly repositions all chickens (except the selected chicken) on the board.
 * Poultrygeist – Poultrygeist turns a selected chicken into a ghost that scares all the immediately adjacent chickens away.
 * Penny Coop Keeper – Penny Coop Keeper holds several keys that can open chicken coop doors revealing super chicken surprises that will use their super powers. But if the surprise is a duck, nothing will happen.
 * Yoker – Yoker turns a chicken on the game board to an egg which can be used as a multi-colored joker and can be a substitute when forming chicken lines.
 * Master Cluck – Master Cluck is the tenth super chicken but he keeps track of the player’s score multipliers and is not used directly on the game board.

Game Variants
Chicken Lines can be played as an application on Facebook or downloaded for play on iPad and iPhone. Depending on the platform the game offers different features and functions.

Chicken Lines on Facebook
This version of the game is a standard version of the game, however it includes additional features made for social networking. The basic game is played on an 8x8 grid. The player can choose up to 4 super chickens and an x2 Master Cluck multiplier. To use super chickens a player must expend “golden seeds”.

In addition to Game Points (main score), the player can earn Golden Seeds and Experience Points (XP) through game play. XP points are awarded for each line or combination of chicken lines cleared from the board. Golden seeds can be earned by creating a chicken line including a roost (cell of the grid) holding a golden seed. Golden seeds are randomly assigned to roosts on the board whenever a chicken line is made. A maximum of 3 golden seeds can be on the board at any given time. The player can also purchase “golden seeds” using Facebook credits.

As an application on Facebook, this version of the game also features sub-games and features, including:


 * 10x10 Hatch & Match, a bonus game where players can match super chicken heroes to friends to help them earn a bonus super chicken. The player first earns game points to hatch eggs revealing super chicken heroes. Once hatched the super chickens can be matched to friends (if they have accepted participation in the application on Facebook). Friends try to get 5 or more votes for a super chicken before the week is over. The chicken with the highest number of votes (over 5) can then be used as a bonus bird for game play for the remainder of the week.
 * Egg-Wrapped Gifts, where players can send super chickens as egg-wrapped gifts to friends for use in game play. Using golden seeds, a player can purchase a super chicken and special egg-wrapping to send to a friend as a gift. Friends, that have accepted participation in the game on Facebook, can then receive the egg-wrapped gift. To discover which chicken has been sent and use the super chicken in a game, the player must first hatch the egg using XP points which can be earned through game play.

Chicken Lines on iPad
This is the standard version of the Chicken Lines game. The player can selected up to 4 super chickens to start each game, but must earn Master Cluck multipliers through game play (the game starts with a x1 multiplier).

Chicken Lines on iPhone
This version is a scaled version of the iPad game, tailored to fit the iPhone screen. The game board is smaller, featuring a 4x4 grid or 5x5 grid where, depending on the grid, the player must get 3 or more or 4 or more chicken in a line, respectively. The player can select up to 2 super chickens (rather than 4) at the start of each game. The number of chicken breeds used is also reduced, 5 rather than 9, and the breeds are randomly selected at the start of each game.

Game Story
The story of the game centers around Plumedini and his traveling circus of super chickens. Plumedini is a famous magician who travels the globe visiting farms setting chickens free using his magic chicken coop board. But getting chickens in a line is no easy task, and requires the help of the player and his band of super chickens to get the birds in order.



The game story has been extended to include biographical details of each super chicken, each one having its own tale. The tales (as collected in Plumedini’s Weird Tales of Super Chicken Freaks) is the fruit of information gathered from Plumedini himself by the fictitious author Cob Watson (actual author Brady Woodson). Each super chicken is the alter ego of an “ordinary” bird coming from one of the breeds: