Who the fuck arms a chicken?

It arose out of playing “Movie Tennis”, a two-sided game where you name an actor, and then go back and forth naming movies they’re in until one side can’t return anymore. That’s not a bad warmup for Baco Bits, actually. The other thing it stems from is the whole “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” game, which we always found annoying - especially other people’s excitement for it.

So the gameplay is as follows, with example play in parenthesis: Each round starts off with someone naming a movie (Good Will Hunting). Then the next person names an actor in that movie, and then a different movie they’re in (Ben Affleck in Dogma), which now goes to the next player, and so on (Alan Rickman in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves; then Kevin Costner in Silverado; then Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon; etc.).

Two ways to score: 1) stump the next person, who then says “Challenge” - and then you need to say another actor in that movie to get a point (so no steering the game into completely obscure movies that you haven’t even seen, or are that familiar with); or the much more complicated 2) if you can link the round to a movie that Kevin Bacon was in, you get the point.

So if, in the example, rather than saying (Ben Affleck in Chasing Amy) you could say (Minnie Driver in Sleepers with Kevin Bacon) and win the point. This makes serving the next person much more difficult, as you’re navigating Kevin Bacon’s resume like a minefield. No Tom Hanks (Apollo 13), no Tom Cruise (A Few Good Men), no Meryl Streep (The River Wild). Much to avoid in serving to he next player, but ample opportunity for you to link back to Bacon on your own turn, if you can swing it - that was always tremendously satisfying to do.

Score by spelling out Bacon.