Où Est le Poulet?

The core idea is identical and we've never pretended otherwise. Someone puts on a giant chicken costume, hides in a pub or bar inside an agreed boundary, and everyone else goes looking. Chicken Rush was built by people who'd been playing Où est le Poulet for years.

In the original you get a boundary and the occasional cryptic clue in a group chat. Chicken Rush shows every player a circle on a live map that shrinks as the game goes on, tightening around the Chicken's hiding spot. It turns aimless wandering into a closing net.

The original is purely a search — you either find them or you don't. Chicken Rush adds up to 20 challenges that teams complete and submit as photos or videos. The Chicken scores them from their hiding spot, so there's a live leaderboard and a reason to keep playing even if another team finds them first.

Power-ups appear at Nests on the map. An Egg Strike drops points on any team caught in the blast radius; a Radar reveals every team's position for 60 seconds. It makes the game a competition between teams rather than a straight race to a pub.

This is the single biggest problem with the original. Teams that never find the Chicken just… don't. They give up and end the night somewhere else, having had a worse time than everyone else. Chicken Rush's shrinking circle guarantees the whole group converges on the same venue — so the game finishes with everybody in one room, together.

Où est le Poulet leans on somebody knowing the area well enough to set fair boundaries and pick a findable pub. Take it somewhere nobody knows — especially another country — and it falls apart. Chicken Rush works in any walkable city because the map, the boundary and the shrinking circle do that job for you.

A great tradition, and nothing stops you keeping it. Chicken Rush simply doesn't depend on it — which matters when it's a work event and the company is picking up the tab.