The Rebirth of ‘Zendo’
‘Zendo’ has been around for a while: it was one of the games you could play with Looney Pyramids back when they were called Icehouse Pyramids. Now it’s back, with some awesome new pieces.
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Reaping the Rewards: Looney Labs’ ‘Pyramid Arcade’
Reaping the Rewards is a series looking at finished products from crowdfunding campaigns. Today’s topic: ‘Pyramid Arcade,’ which was funded by Looney Labs on Kickstarter in May this year.
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Kickstarter Tabletop Alert: ‘Pyramid Arcade’
Today, Looney Labs is launching a Kickstarter campaign for ‘Pyramid Arcade,’ a revamped box set set of games featuring their famous Looney Pyramids (originally known as Icehouse pieces).
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Review: ‘Retro Loonacy’
‘Retro Loonacy’ is a beautifully illustrated, easy to learn, fast-paced free-for-all matching game from the creators of ‘Fluxx.’
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Gaming This Christmas With Holiday Fluxx
Looking for a last minute stocking stuffer? Looney Labs have done it again with Holiday Fluxx.
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Introducing the Fluxx Theme Song by The Doubleclicks
To celebrate the fifth edition of Fluxx (coming soon), Looney Labs teamed up with The Doubleclicks for a theme song!
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How Ecological! A Review of EcoFluxx
EcoFluxx is one of the many games in Looney Labs’ line of Fluxx card games. GeekMom Melanie wonders, is it worth buying another Fluxx game?
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There’s Nothing Regular About the Latest Release of Fluxx
The crazy-popular card game, Fluxx, gets a new version. This time the theme is tied to the silly and surreal Regular Show from Cartoon Network.
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Loonacy: Quick, Easy, and a Bit Loony
Looney Labs, the creators of the wacky card game Fluxx, wants to mix things up a bit. In Loonacy, there’s basically one simple rule that doesn’t ever change, but everyone plays at once. The game is quick and simple, and so’s this review!
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Fluxx: The Card Game Gets a Board
Looney Labs has been changing the rules on gamers with variations of Fluxx. This year, they have taken it up a notch with Fluxx: The Board Game.
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Review: Monster Fluxx–A Spooky New Addition to the Fluxx Family
The ever-changing Fluxx game series takes a creepy edge just in time for fall.
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Fluxx: The Board Game
Fluxx, first published in 1997, is a card game in which the cards you play change the rules of the game, from the number of cards you draw and play to the goal of the game itself. Now Looney Labs has a new take on the game—Fluxx: The Board Game.
Continue ReadingLooney Pyramids Are Back
In the late 1980s, Andrew Looney was writing a sci-fi story that included an ancient Martian game called Icehouse. The game in the story became more and more detailed, and eventually Icehouse — and the little plastic pyramids to play …
Continue ReadingGeekGirlCon is This Weekend…See You There?
Be still my heart! There is actually a convention for us girls now! It’s in Seattle, so those of you on the East Coast have a ways to trek it (haha, I made a geek funny), but there is indeed …
Continue ReadingGeekGirlCon is This Weekend…See You There?
Be still my heart! There is actually a convention for us girls now! It’s in Seattle, so those of you on the East Coast have a ways to trek it (haha, I made a geek funny), but there is indeed a convention made “just for her” and it’s called GeekGirlCon! That said, I’m dragging my […]
Continue ReadingFall Fun With Looney Labs
What do you do on your anniversary when you suddenly find yourself with a babysitter on a week night, a few extra hours and cash in hand? Why you sit in Starbucks, drink cider and check out two new games from Looney Labs, that’s what! My love of the card game Fluxx is certainly no […]
Continue ReadingGeekDad Game Review: Seven Dragons From Looney Labs
Overview: Seven Dragons, the latest card game from Looney Labs, is a quick dominoes-style card game that has you matching up colored dragons in a race to get seven cards connected before the other players. As you might expect from …
Continue ReadingHere There Be Dragons: Looney Labs’ Seven Dragons Game
Since rumors of the Pottermore website began, my husband has been daydreaming. An off hand comment by me that I might be interested in playing a Potter MMO has him fantasizing about all night gaming sessions side by side. With that in mind …
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Here There Be Dragons: Looney Labs’ Seven Dragons Game
Since rumors of the Pottermore website began, my husband has been daydreaming. An off hand comment by me that I might be interested in playing a Potter MMO, has him fantasizing about all night gaming sessions side by side. With that in mind we’re going old school and pulling out the card games to get back into […]
Continue ReadingPirate Fluxx Is Mutinous Fun
Overview: A new Fluxx flavor from Looney Labs hits the shelves this month, this time featuring everyone’s favorite hook-handed anti-heroes. (And, no, I don’t mean Buster from “Arrested Development.”) Pirate Fluxx has all new pirate-themed keepers and goals, a few …
Continue ReadingThe Return of EcoFluxx and Family Fluxx
Two popular flavors of Fluxx are back: EcoFluxx and Family Fluxx, both originally released in 2005, have gotten a facelift and are set to be released next Friday, March 5. Looney Labs sent me a copy of each to try …
Continue ReadingChrononauts v. 1.4 Plus The Gore Years Expansion
What would you do with your very own time machine? Go back and forth in time, collect a few artifacts, make some changes to history that will result in a better present for you … same as everyone, right? But …
Continue ReadingGrab Your Tin Foil Hats, Martian Fluxx Is Coming!
Playing Fluxx is very simple: you draw a card, and then you play a card, just like it says on the “Basic Rules” card in the middle of the table. How do you win? Well, you can’t. Until somebody plays …
Continue ReadingThe Age of Aquarius: Preschool and Up
Who would have thought that combining dominoes with flower-child graphics would make such an appealing game? Looney Labs is releasing a 10th Anniversary edition of Aquarius, their groovy domino-like card game. I got a chance to test-drive the new edition, …
Continue ReadingCool New Game Asks: Are You the Traitor?
Looney Labs (founded by Andy and Kristin Looney—their real names) is the company responsible for a couple of my favorite non-traditional games: Treehouse consists of little plastic pyramids which have spawned a variety of different games (maybe I’ll dedicate a …
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