Clucking Cross

Clucking Cross is an arcade-flavoured crossing game from Coin Machine Gaming, built around one very determined chicken and one extremely busy road. It sits in the provider's parlor category, so there are no reels or paylines here, just a starting area, a 24-lane highway and a finishing area on the far side.

The chicken looks thoroughly unimpressed by the traffic situation, which feels like the correct attitude to take.

Bets, Payouts & Rules

A round is a sequence of hops. The chicken begins in the starting area, then moves lane by lane along the highway, and each lane shows the multiplier attached to reaching it.

• Tapping play for the first time moves the chicken onto the first lane.
• From there, the chicken advances either by tapping play again or by selecting the multiplier displayed in the next lane.
• Every jump to a new lane carries a chance that a car connects with the chicken, which ends the round immediately.
• The current win is displayed below the chicken and reflects the multiplier of the lane it currently occupies.
• Cash out is available at any point during an active round, collecting the current win and closing the round.
• Once the chicken reaches the finishing area, the hopping stops.

There is no gamble step and no separate bonus feature layer, so the crossing itself is the whole game.

Features & Bonus Rounds

If you enjoy this style of one-decision-at-a-time play, it sits alongside other crash casino games in format and pace.

Risk Level

The Risk Level control lets you choose how the highway behaves. There are four settings, and the option can only be changed while the game is idle, not mid-crossing.

• EASY
• MEDIUM
• HARD
• HARDCORE

Switching setting changes both the multipliers shown across the lanes and the difficulty of getting past them. HARDCORE is where the chicken's expression stops being comedic and starts looking like a formal complaint.

Outcomes on each hop are random, so no setting makes the crossing predictable. The Risk Level simply defines the shape of the highway you are looking at.

Taste & Feel

This is deliberately uncomplicated stuff: one button, one bird, twenty-four lanes of cartoon traffic. Bright colours, big shapes and a grumpy little walk cycle do most of the storytelling.

Sessions are short and self-contained. Each hop is a small decision, each lane is a small landmark.

Take it lane by lane, or stop wherever suits you.

If the format appeals, you might also like a look at Big Bass Crash and Money Plane among our other online instant win games.