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-'''Chicken''', also called '''buzzer chicken''' or '''playing (against) the packet''', is a game-within-a-game. In this game, players recognize the most obvious answer from a clue or set of clues and then must decide whether or not to buzz.
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-Games of chicken are very common at tournaments where the difficulty is highly variable or at tournaments with a critical mass of [[Hose|hoses]], [[transparency|transparent]] questions, or just plain bad questions. In most [[good quizbowl|good]] tournaments, a team can change its strategy to become more aggressive or more passive depending on how hard or easy the questions appear to be - games of chicken occur when there is no clear indicator on how a team should adapt.
-[[Jerry Vinokurov]] is known to have exclaimed, "[[The packet wins again!]]" after losing battles with the packet through games of chicken, regardless of the final outcome.
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