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[missdaredevil]

They play chicken and a wild game of Truth or Dare.
What is the game of chicken?

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[christina_nguyen]

Game of chicken
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The game of chicken (also referred to as playing chicken) is a "game" in which two players engage in an activity that will result in serious harm unless one of them backs down. It is commonly applied to the use of motor vehicles whereby each drives a vehicle of some sort towards the other, and the first to swerve loses and is humiliated as the "chicken". (An example of this can be seen in the movie Rebel Without a Cause, in which two characters drive towards a cliff.) In practice, this sort of game, if played at all, is most likely to be played amongst adolescents or aggressive young men, though it is not at all popular. The principle of the game is to create pressure until one person backs down.

The phrase game of chicken may also be used as a metaphor for a situation where two parties engage in a showdown where they have nothing to gain, and only pride stops them from backing down. Bertrand Russell famously compared the game of chicken to nuclear brinkmanship, a method of negotiation in which each party delays making concessions until the deadline is imminent. The psychological pressure may force a negotiator to concede to avoid a negative outcome. It can be a very dangerous tactic; if neither party "swerves", a "crash" is certain to occur.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_chicken