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Crossy Road

2014 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Crossy Road is an action game released on 20 November 2014. It was developed and published for iOS by Australian video game developer Hipster Whale and originally yodo1 for Android. The name and concept of the game play on the riddle joke "Why did the chicken cross the road?" It has been described as endless runner version of the 1981 video game Frogger. After June 2017, the publisher for the Android version of Crossy Road was changed from yodo1 to Hipster Whale.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Crossy Road” as 2014 video game. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 1981, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Crossy, Road and video can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 2014 video game. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2014, 1981 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Crossy Road” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.