Fluxx
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If you're anything like us, you probably can't be bothered learning the rules to anything. The minute we get our hands on a new plaything we just want to start playing. Modern living makes you impatient. And let's face it, rules are boring. Like the saying goes: 'Any fool can make a rule'.
This is particularly true of card games. We're usually asleep by the time the explanation is over. Suggest a game that people are unfamiliar with and the normal response is a groan, followed by 'but I don't know how to play that one!' Maybe that's why Fluxx and it's environmental cousin, Eco Fluxx, have drawn us so quickly and completely into their anarchic clutches.
This truly original card game (for 2-6 players) starts with just one instruction: draw one card, play one card. From there on, the rules and goals of the game constantly change as you play new cards. Eco Fluxx mixes things up even further with tree-hugging nature and conservation game elements. Topsy-turvy? Wild absolutely it's!
There are four types of card in Fluxx: Keepers, Goals, New Rules and Actions. We hate to state the obvious but we will anyway: Keepers must be kept for later use, Goal cards change the goal/whimsical objective of the game, New Rules cards change or add to the rules, and Action Cards allow players to... hang on, do we really need to go on? It's frickin’ obvious what the cards do, isn't it? And that's exactly what makes playing Fluxx such a pleasure. It's fast-paced, fun and totally unpredictable. It's also a game that has to be played to be appreciated - words can't do it justice.
The simple, quirky and, above all, random nature of Fluxx make it incredibly playable, and it has that all-important one-more-round-factor in spades. If you can play Slapjack you can play Fluxx. If you can't, may we suggest you step away from the computer - yes it is a computer, not a futuristic microwave - and return that dunce cap to your head. Dummies aren't permitted here. And that is a rule!
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How to play:
- Start by shuffling the deck and deal 3 cards to each player.
- Place the 'Basic Rules' card (the card with the white back) in the center of the table.
- Draw 1 card per turn.
- Play 1 card per turn.
- No hand limit.
- No Keeper limit.
- Leave the 'Basic Rules' card on the table even when the rules on this card are replaced by 'New Rule' cards.
Please note:
- Contains 84 cards and instructions.
- 2 to 6 players.
- Ages 8 and up.
- 2 to 30 minutes playing time.
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Firebox.com Flash Video Player
Fluxx 3.0
Here is a video of my fiancé setting up our very first game of Fluxx! It is a totally brilliant game and by the end of the night we were experts!!!
Louise Spencer, Manchester, UK
- 31st Jan 2005
Video URL:
http://www.firebox.com/video/339
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This is one of the best ways to spend a tenner ever! Got my son this for xmas and actually succeeded in getting him to stop playing his PSP for a few hours! We are totally addicted, it's such a fab game. Buy one, you won't regret it, every game is different.
Jackie, Near Hull - Dec '06 |
Got a deck for Donna's birthday, gave them to her a week early because I wanted to play it!! Score stands at 10-1 to me at the moment, she's well rubbish!! :-).
David & Donna, Surrey - Sep '06 |
Isn't it amazing how something so small can be so satisfying? Only been playing for a couple of days but feel like a master already. Everyone I've introduced is hooked. Now all we need is for Firebox to start selling Fluxx blanx so we can make the game even more extreme.
Laura, Seaford - East Sussex - Jan '06 |
Had version 2, got version 3. Now play with a double deck. Best game ever.. and I've won in under 30 seconds.. Got 'play 3', 'All you need is love' and the 'love' keeper in my first go :)
Dot, Exeter (originally from west mids) - Nov '04 |
I got introduced to this by some friends about 2 years ago, and went well out of my way to get a pack! Now (as I could do with a new set so that I can leave my old set at home and carry one around) I can get hold of them far more easily.
If you want to waste anything from 2 minutes (yes I played a game in two minutes flat once!) to 2 hours (you can keep this going as long as you like - but that often isn't as much fun), then this is money well spent.
Enjoy, and remember, when all else fails, draw one card, play one card.
Quizzle, London - Nov '04 |
I've been playing this since v1.0 and it just keeps on getting better and as a result I now have a pack of each version :)
Andrew, Manchester - Oct '04 |
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