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Proton by Looney Labs
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This is a 1 or 2 player game made out of one of those little plastic things where you usually have to slide tiles around until you have a picture. The very idea of a two player game in this format is pretty cool, and the game itself is pretty good too. It *looks* like you'd never end but the strategy in such a little thing is actually fairly significant. It's a fun, very portable, game for two players.
Updated Feb 11, 2007
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Aquarius by Looney Labs
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2 people recommended this item
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This 2-5 player card game is striking from the moment you take it out of the box, possibly before. It plays vaguely like dominoes, requiring you to play cards by matching one of five elements that appear on the the cards, like matching the numbers on dominoes. You win by forming a chain of seven matching elements. But unlike dominoes, there are also a range of action cards that let you swap goals with other players, move cards that have already been played, or perform a small range of other similar tricks. The production values are high and the game is a pleasure to play. It's ideal for people that don't want to have to memorize heaps of stuff about the game.
Updated Feb 7, 2007
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Classics by Aphex Twin
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I'm a relatively recent convert to Aphex Twin, knowing his works mostly through the music videos by Chris Cunningham. This album was one of three I bought to "catch up" with Richard David James' music. While the style can be disconcerting, it is a refreshing change from the predictable pap of the top 20. This album contains the tracks; Digeridoo, Flaphead, Phloam, Isopropanol, Polynomial-C, Tamphex, Phlange Phace, Dodeccaheedron, Analogue Bubblebath 1, Metapharstic and We Have Arrived. See link for full details.
Updated Feb 7, 2007
Fluxx Blanxx
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Anyone that's enjoyed Fluxx for more than a few weeks, often for more than a few hours, thinks up new cards. With these packs of blanks, you can make those cards a reality. The pack contains 12 blanks: 5 Goals, 3 Keepers, 2 New Rules, 2 Actions, plus some bonus stuff. All the cards have the proper Fluxx backs, so they mix in with the standard cards. I made an expansion based on the solar system using three packs of blanks, but you're limited only by your imagination. You could make cards with your friends' names on. Perhaps you have to sing "I'm a little teapot" to play a card. Maybe you create one card that forces a player to use a blank and create a new card. The possibilities are endless.
Updated Jan 9, 2007
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Early American Chrononauts
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It's a time travel card game, with an Early American history flavour. (I guess that would be "flavor".) As in Chrononauts, you play a time traveller whose world is just a little different to the "real" one. You can alter the timeline by changing key events and then guilding the flow-on effects in order to re-create the timeline you came from and return home. Or you can follow your mission and collect notable artifacts from different times. Or you can just patch the paradoxes other people create. Warn Secessionist leaders of impending arrests and Maryland secedes. Prevent Union soldiers from finding Special Order 191 and the Confederacy advances. Do both and the South wins the Civil War. Or maybe you'd rather travel off elsewhere and collect Marie Antoinette's Cake, or Napoleon's Napoleon. It can be combined with Chrononauts to create a massive ÜberChrononauts game. Or you can play cut-down games either in small groups or solo.
Updated Jan 9, 2007
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Chrononauts
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It's a time travel card game. You play a time traveller whose world is just a little different to the "real" one. You can alter the timeline by changing key events and then guilding the flow-on effects in order to re-create the timeline you came from and return home. Or you can follow your mission and collect notable artifacts from different times. Or you can just patch the paradoxes other people create. Save the Titanic, only to have it explode 17 years later. Sabotage the Manhattan Project and cause World War 3 -- ultimately allowing the evolution of sentient cockroaches. Collect a live brontosaurus from 149 Million BC (her name is Emily). It can be expanded with the small "Lost Identities" pack and it can also be combined with Early American Chrononauts to create a massive ÜberChrononauts game. Or you can play cut-down games either in small groups or solo.
Updated Jan 9, 2007
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Order of the Stick Adventure Game: Dungeon of Dorukan: APE Games
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I got this as a gift for xmas '06. I'm a big fan of new and unusual games, as well as webcomics. I hadn't read Order of the Stick prior to receiving the game, but the comic is hilarious. The game is just as funny too. Cards inside include such jems as "Deep-Seated Emotional Problems", "Goblinthwacker", "Cure Assorted Wounds", "Evan's Spiked Tentacles of Forced Intrusion", "That Thing with the Eyes", "Dragon from the Front of the Box", "Ghoul (or possibly a Ghast)", "A Room with a Motivational Poster", "Echo Room, Echo Room, Echo Room, Echo Room, Echo Room, Echo Room, Echo Room, Echo Rooom" and "The Room that Never Appeared in the Comic".
The game follows what's essentially the first main story arc of the comic. Up to six players take on the role of the main characters from the comic and explore a dungeon that gets created randomly each time it's played. I haven't had the opportunity to do much more than unpack it and do a trial setup but my friends and I are itching to find the time to play a full game.
Updated Dec 27, 2006
Martian Coasters by Looney Labs
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It's a boardgame where the "board" is a set of four coasters. It's an expansion to Treehouse. For an extra buck you can order the "2006 Holiday Gift" to expand it to a 5-player game. It's just so cool.
Updated Dec 26, 2006
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Treehouse - a basic ICEHOUSE game from Looney Labs
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A simple little abstract game that lends itself to many variants and expansions. Available in two different sets of colours. I got both, plus the Martian Coasters expansion, giving me 2-9 player Treehouse and 2-5 player Martian coasters (when you include the 2006 promo fifth coaster). And that's just the beginning
Updated Dec 26, 2006
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Fluxx by Looney Labs
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Wonderful card game, great for parties. Easy to learn, hard to master -- but enough chaos such that new players aren't necessarily disadvantaged. Available in a range of themes, plus you can get extra cards to mix into the deck.
Updated Dec 17, 2006
