Turn over a Challenge Card, then secretly bid high if you think you can nail it or bid low to avoid it. So when I saw this flipping game I wasn’t put off by the fact that the components you are flipping look like adult toys.

You will be up and running with new players within minutes, and people will be focusing on trying to do something relatively easy with a bit of plastic but that gives huge pleasure when you succeed right away.

But beware, if they fail it then their opposing team will get to turn over one of their character cards for free. At the start of the game your scoring cards depict your flipper in black and white and every time you win a challenge you flip over a card to it’s colour side – the first person to fully colour their cards wins! Every time you complete a challenge you win a letter, once you collect enough cards to create your Chicken or Dog you win the game! You then turn over your challenge card and will secretly bid on if you think you will achieve it or not – this decides if you bid high or low.

Once all of the betting cards have been used, just draw four new ones, but remember to keep them secret from the other team. The challenge might be really difficult so you might want to bid low, but you also might want to save certain numbers for future rounds or try and force a flip off! The art in the game is sparse and actually makes the comparisons to sex toys even more apparent with it’s stylised take on the flippers. At the start of the game your scoring cards depict your flipper in black and white and every time you win a challenge you flip over a card to it’s colour side - the first person to fully colour their cards wins!

If the team manage to win the challenge, they get to turn over one of their character cards, simple right? Whichever team does this the quickest chooses whether to take on the challenge or pass it to the other team (in one-vs-one games each player has to do two flips before they choose).

It's the perfect game to get out at the end of a long day, that anyone can have a try at, that will almost certainly guarantee laughs. Big Potato Games are fairly good at taking concepts and building games around them and Chicken vs Hotdog is one of their best.

Maybe I just have dirty minded friends but everyone I’ve shown the game components too, particularly the Hotdog, is surprised by the ‘Family Action Game’ tagline. Now, on the count of three, both teams reveal their bet, and whoever placed the highest card wins the right to take on the challenge. When playing in a team, you cannot choose who attempts the challenges, you have to simply take it in turns.