By skyforbes 
How a cutesy bird, some slick multipliers, and a flood of clone apps turned into 2025’s most persuasive online-gambling trap — and why you should close the tab before it plucks your last rupee.
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It started with a 2 a.m. video call
Last Sunday my phone lit up in the middle of the night. Arjun — a college buddy now working days at a design studio in Mumbai — was on the screen, eyes red and voice shaking. He’d just blown $650 in under ten minutes on a cartoon chicken that promised “easy money” if he cashed out at the right moment. He wasn’t looking for pity; he wanted an answer: “Is this Chicken Road thing even legal? Can I get my money back?” Watching a grown man ugly-cry over an orange bird convinced me to dig deeper — and what I found should make you slam the coop door before this game pecks through your savings too.
Quick synopsis for the skimmers
- Chicken Road is a “crash”-style real-money gambling game published by InOut Games on 4 April 2024.
- It advertises a 98 % RTP and “up to 2 000×” multipliers, but wins that large are statistically rarer than drawing four aces in…