# What was the name of this late 70s toy?

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**Created:** [February 13, 2001, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-name-of-this-late-70s-toy/54356 "2001-02-13T20:21:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![moodtobestewed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@moodtobestewed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moodtobestewed)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-name-of-this-late-70s-toy/54356/1 "2001-02-13T20:21:28Z")

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When I was a kid, circa late 1970s, I had this battery operated toy where you went head to head against a chicken in tic-tac-toe and a few other games. The chicken was in a bubble-like enclosure, and to simulate its “thinking” over moves, it kinda turn side to side and made plucking sounds. Unfortunately, there was a bug in the primitive programing, and sometimes the chicken would just twitch around and never make a move. Pretty hilarious, and I always looked forward to this snafu as a kid.

What was the name of this toy? I’ve been trying the search engines and looking on Ebay, but I cannot find it.

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**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-name-of-this-late-70s-toy/54356/2 "2001-02-13T20:43:19Z")

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Hey! I saw something in a flea market once that fits that description pretty close: Eight by ten inch red plastic thing with a tic-tac-toe board in the middle with a chicken in a plastic bubble on the opposite end. Each segment of the game board had a red and green LED’s (they diddn’t work").

The thing I saw was called “Cluck-Tac-Toe”.

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**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-name-of-this-late-70s-toy/54356/3 "2001-02-13T21:26:22Z")

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Don’t remember the toy, but I remember the arcade game. They had a live chicken behind glass; you could play tic-tac-toe against her. The chicken kicked my ass every time.

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**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-name-of-this-late-70s-toy/54356/4 "2001-02-13T21:28:47Z")

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Quick update:

Although my memory says “Cluck-Tac-Toe” my SO claims it was “Chick-Tac-Toe”.