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Set a course for the final frontier with Star Trek Fluxx! Featuring Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and the rest of the original series crew, you'll take command of the Enterprise, and face Creepers like Klingons, Romulans, and the terrifying Doomsday Machine. You might even find yourself playing Fizzbin or Venting the Warp Core to explore new worlds and collect the Keepers needed for victory! Star Trek Fluxx will take you where no card game has gone before!

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Star Trek Fluxx

Set a course for the final frontier with Star Trek Fluxx! Featuring Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and the rest of the original series crew, you’ll take command of the Enterprise, and face Creepers like Klingons, Romulans, and the terrifying Doomsday Machine. You might even find yourself playing Fizzbin or Venting the Warp Core to explore new worlds and collect the Keepers needed for victory! Star Trek Fluxx will take you where no card game has gone before!

2-6 Players  |  10-40 min  |  Ages 8-Adult

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Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx

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• Dynamic gameplay that adapts as you play
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Fluxx - Star Trek The Next Generation

Fluxx is a card game in which the cards themselves determine the current rules of the game. By playing cards, you change numerous aspects of the game: how to draw cards, how to play cards, and even how to win.

At the start of the game, each player holds three cards and on a turn a player draws one card, then plays one card. By playing cards, you can put new rules into play that change numerous aspects of the game: how many cards to draw or play, how many cards you can hold in hand or keep on the table in front of you, and (most importantly) how to win the game. There are many editions, themed siblings, and promo cards available.

Now you can beam yourself aboard the Enterprise-D for a game of Star Trek: The Next Generation Fluxx ! Join Picard, Riker, Data, and the rest of the TNG crew to gather the Keepers you need for victory — but don't let Creepers like Q or the Borg keep you from your mission! With new cards like "Darmok" and the "Rule of Acquisition", this version of Fluxx will take you into the 24th century!

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SHIPPING CLASS

We will do our best to always select the shipping class that you have chosen, occasionally changes will need to be made and we will reach out if there is an issue we can't resolve. If we do ship by another method than what was selected it's because we believe the package will get to you faster and in a more secure manner.

SHIPPING TIME

Delivery speed after we drop your package into the mail system is the responsibility of the mail carrier. Once the carrier has picked up your order, all shipping times are estimated. A lot can happen through out the world that can impede and disrupt delivery of the mail.

POSTAL TRACKING

All our packages have tracking included, once it is marked as delivered at your address we have completed our obligation as you have received the package. Any issues are to be handled between you and the shipping carrier or delivery service.

SIGNATURE CONFIRMATION

On occasion we will deem it necessary to add signature confirmation and additional insurance on a package. We reserve the right to do so and do so at our own expense.

You will receive an email from us when your order is fulfilled with your tracking number.

Pre-Order Items

Preorder items are not yet available and the listed quantities reflect advanced-ordered items from manufacturers and distributors. The quantity available and "in stock" are estimates using the quantities we expect to receive for the noted release date. Due to the nature of unreleased products, we will always do our best to deliver preorder items as expected, but there is no guarantee that we will always receive full allocations from distributors/manufacturers.

All items on an order will ship when all preorder items release. If you purchase non-preorder items in addition to pre-order items, the non-preorder items will ship alongside the preorder items. We do not break up orders into multiple shipments. All items will ship at once when all items become available for sale.

Image, contents, and release date are subject to change. All preorder items will have the most current information of which we have been made aware.

Return Policy

Our policy lasts 30 days. If 30 days have gone by since your purchase, unfortunately we can’t offer you a refund or exchange.

To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. It must also be in the original packaging.

Several types of goods are exempt from being returned. Trading Card Game sealed products (such as booster boxes, booster packs, etc) are unable to be returned in any instance. Perishable goods such as food, flowers, newspapers or magazines cannot be returned. We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases.

Additional non-returnable items:

• * Gift cards
• * Downloadable software products

There are certain situations where only partial refunds are granted: (if applicable)

• * Book with obvious signs of use
• * CD, DVD, VHS tape, software, video game, cassette tape, or vinyl record that has been opened.
• * Any item not in its original condition, is damaged or missing parts for reasons not due to our error.
• * Any item that is returned more than 30 days after delivery

To complete your return, we require a receipt or proof of purchase.

Please do not send your purchase back to the manufacturer.

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Once your return is received and inspected, we will send you an email to notify you that we have received your returned item. We will also notify you of the approval or rejection of your refund.

If you are approved, then your refund will be processed, and a credit will automatically be applied to your credit card or original method of payment, within a certain amount of days.

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If you haven’t received a refund yet, first check your bank account again. Then contact your credit card company, it may take some time before your refund is officially posted.

Next contact your bank. There is often some processing time before a refund is posted. If you’ve done all of this and you still have not received your refund yet, please contact us at [email protected].

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Only regular priced items may be refunded, unfortunately sale items cannot be refunded.

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We only replace items if they are defective or damaged. If you need to exchange it for the same item, send us an email at [email protected] and send your item to: 400 Grand Blvd, Kansas City, MO, 64106, United States.

If the item was marked as a gift when purchased and shipped directly to you, you’ll receive a gift credit for the value of your return. Once the returned item is received, a gift certificate will be mailed to you.

If the item wasn’t marked as a gift when purchased, or the gift giver had the order shipped to themselves to give to you later, we will send a refund to the gift giver and he will find out about your return.

To return your product, please contact us by email at [email protected]

You will be responsible for paying for your own shipping costs for returning your item. Shipping costs are non-refundable. If you receive a refund, the cost of return shipping will be deducted from your refund.

Depending on where you live, the time it may take for your exchanged product to reach you, may vary.

If you are shipping an item over $75, you should consider using a trackable shipping service or purchasing shipping insurance. We don’t guarantee that we will receive your returned item.

Looney Labs FAQ

Everything you ever wanted to know about looney labs games (almost), all fluxx faq.

These are questions common to almost all versions of Fluxx. Questions about basic drawing, playing, winning conditions, and some specific cards found in almost all versions. For questions less generic, check the FAQ for the Fluxx version you’re playing.

If you don’t see your question answered among these, please email us at: [email protected]

Q: When playing with multiple decks, what happens if a New Rule is played which is identical to one already in play?

Q: can we play fluxx with more than six people if we did, should we combine decks so there are enough cards, q: when a keeper/creeper (or rule) says i can do something if i discard or move something, can i do that as a free action or do i have to do it based on some other card, like an action or rule that lets me do these things, q: what should we do if our deck contains a goal that is literally impossible because one or more of the keepers required is not in it, q: if i have a keeper which says i get some benefit from discarding or moving it, can i take that benefit if i’m forced to do that for some reason, like a keeper limit, q: some new rule cards say “takes instant effect.” don’t all new rules take instant effect does that mean that they can be played as soon as drawn, q: is there any time-limit for how long someone can take on their turn, q: can i still win if several turns have gone by, as long as the goal is still in play, q: i got a new fluxx version, and it has few/zero creepers. why aren’t they there, q: what happens if i draw 3, play 2 of them, and get draw 2 and use em, q: must you complete an action before using an optional free action allowed by a rule what about keeper powers, q: if during your draw phase, the draw pile runs out, can you play a card that requires use of the discard pile before reshuffling it to finish drawing, q: if i’m required to play all my cards, and i have several goals, one of which will make my opponent win, can i play them all at once, so the one that makes them win is buried, q: how can i easily separate two different fluxx decks if i’ve mixed them, q: if some action causes everyone to draw cards, but there’s a hand limit in play, should the non-active players draw up to above the limit, and then discard, or only draw up to the limit, q: is there a limit to how many new rules can be in play at once, q: in one of the fluxx videos, andy wins after playing a few cards, but shouldn’t he have had to satisfy the play all rule before he could win, q: if i have two goals which i must play,* one of which makes my opponent win, can i play both at once with the one that makes them win buried, to prevent their win, q: does a hand limit mean “hold the limit number, unless you already have fewer cards, in which case hold that lower number”, q: what happens if two players simultaneously meet the current win conditions in fluxx is it a tie, q: i played a card but forgot to draw the correct number at the start of my turn, picked my card up, drew the correct number, and played a different card (still in my turn). is that a legal move, q: if i play draw 2 & use ‘em and one of the cards causes me to win, but the other negates it, can i win, q: how should one handle duplicate keepers with powers, if, for example, we want to play with a double-sized deck, q: is it even possible to strategize in a game like fluxx, q: what exactly does “in play” mean, q: when i play take another turn, when do i get to do that can i draw immediately, q: what the heck is this “metarule” thing sometimes mentioned i’ve never seen one…, q: if a card lets me do something “once per turn” and i take it out of play, and then somehow put it back into play, is that ability refreshed, q: do the keepers necessary to meet the goal have to be in play, q: if there is a rule (or keeper) in play that adds to the draw/play, and then i increase the draw/play, does that added draw/play count against the new draw/play total, q: limit cards say that the player whose turn it is should discard at the end of their turn. does that mean the limit card is discarded as soon as all other players have complied, q: can we combine multiple decks of fluxx, q: if the person before me plays a hand or keeper limit card as the last card in their turn, is it instantly my turn, so i can ignore the hand limit, q: can i pile up my keepers in play in a stack, or do i have to lay them out so they are clearly displayed, q: many cards state you can do something “on your turn”. when does one’s turn officially begin and end for these purposes, q: we think we broke the game. are we doing it wrong, q: how do i choose a random card from my own hand, q: what is the name of a card is it the text on the side in the color rectangle, or the bolded black text in the middle above the line, q: if i play a new rule or keeper that’s not a draw or play, but increases my draw or play, do i do that immediately, q: if you play trash something (or trash a keeper), can you choose not to trash something, q: if play all is in effect, and my last play is trade hands, do i play all those new cards i got in the hand traded to me, q: if i play an action or use a “free action” that lets me draw cards, and then i increase the draw rule, do i still get to draw extra for the draw rule increase, q: does the total effect of playing a card have to be resolved before checking for win conditions, or could someone win partway through, q: do you have to complete an action before it goes on the discard pile, or does it go on the discard pile at the start of the action, q: when a card says to “pick up your hand and continue with your turn” does that mean that it didn’t count as one of my plays, q: if i play draw 2 and use em, and increase the draw rule, but then get rid of it with the other card, do i get to draw extra, q: what happens when you are required to draw more cards in the middle of performing an action like draw 3 play 2, q: how do i trade or rotate hands, or discard & draw, in the middle of draw 3 play 2 or draw 2 & use em (or fizzbin, or goal bonanza), q: when i play draw 2 and use em, or draw 3 play 2 (or fizzbin or use goal bonanza), can i look at my set aside hand, q: what happens if i play draw 3 play 2 with no draw or discard pile do i redraw it as part of executing it, q: for cards that let you do something “once per turn”, does that mean once per your turn, or once per each turn in the game, q: to change the goal, do i just stack a new goal on top of the old one, q: suppose during my turn my “draw count” goes down 1, then up 1. do i draw an additional card, q: can anyone look through the discard pile at any time, q: the hand limit and keeper limit cards seem like sort of a downer. what is their advantage why would we ever want play them, q: are players required to show how many cards they have in their hand, q: what happens if both the draw pile and the discard pile run out, q: do i have to observe the current draw rule entirely before i can play any cards, q: when a draw or play rule is played, do i get to immediately draw or play the number on the new rule, q: what if two people simultaneously meet the win condition/s, q: what if i can’t play anything on my turn in fluxx, q: what if the play rules force me to play a card that makes someone else win, q: if i play a bunch of goals in succession, and don’t notice that i won and kept playing goals, do i still get to win.

A: In the vast majority of cases, when a duplicate Rule is played, it simply replaces the previous one, yet causes no change. For example, if Draw 2 is in play, and someone plays another Draw 2, it would replace the old one, and the old one would go into the discard pile, and the Draw would remain at 2 cards per turn.

Functionally, this would have identical results to playing your Draw 2 directly into the discard, and leaving the old one in play. You could choose to execute it that way, but it is important to remember that it is NOT a discard: it counts as one of your Plays, it just doesn’t make any change to the game state. For this reason, we recommend going through the formality of removing the old copy to the discard pile, and playing your new version to the table – at least at first, while you’re still getting used to the concept.

EXCEPTIONS to this would be if you played a new copy of Let’s Keep Doing That or Double Agenda, since these Rules have other cards associated with them which, when you play the new copy, would give the opportunity to change the associated cards.

• Let’s Keep Doing That (LKDT) Put the old copy and its associated Action into the discard pile, and play your new LKDT. Then look through the discard for whatever Action you’d like to associate with your new play. Yes, you may choose to attach the same Action that was there before if you want.

• Double Agenda … (ruling TBD)

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A: We do say 2-6 players on the box, but there’s no reason seven couldn’t play! We’ve seen even larger groups play Fluxx with no problem. It just means there’s a bit longer wait for your turn to come around, and it’s a little harder to squeeze everyone around the same table.

However, combining decks isn’t really necessary as far as increasing the number of players. Yes, combining different versions does give you more cards, but that’s not really needed – one deck is plenty big even for eight. Instead, combining decks makes things more complex, and also makes the game longer. While it can certainly be done , that’s not necessarily what you’re looking for, and we don’t suggest it for new players.

Some cards say things like “If you discard one of your Keepers, you can move this Creeper to another player,” or “You can discard an opponents Keeper, but you have to move your own Keeper to them,” or “If you discard X cards from your hand, you can draw some more cards and play them immediately.” Do those moves or discards need to be caused by an Action or Rule, or are they part of the card’s stated function?

A: You do not need some other means of moving or discarding the cards in question in order to utilize the function stated. The movement or discard is part of the function itself. Usually there is some benefit, and the move or discard is part of the “cost” or “sacrifice.” It would be far too limited if these moves or discards had to occur organically through some other mechanism in the game.

See also: If a Creeper says I can get rid of it if I “discard a Keeper.” Does this mean voluntary discard… And also: If I have a Keeper which says I get some benefit from discarding or moving it…

…For example, if we’re missing a Keeper* or if we have added some promo or expansion cards that don’t quite fit. Should we take those Goals out of the deck, or leave them in even though they can’t be met?

A: You should inform all players about the issue before the game begins, but then absolutely include those cards. So what if they’re impossible? They are still useful cards that are part of the game and help tell that game’s story. You can still play those cards defensively, i.e. using them to change the Goal when an opponent has half of what they need. Also, changing the Goal to something impossible is basically equivalent to returning to the state of there being no Goal at all. Lastly, many versions of Fluxx contain cards that make alternate use of Goals, such as Goal Mill, Goal Bonanza, and Discard & Draw. Again, just make sure everyone knows what’s up.

* If your deck has a Keeper that’s gone missing or gotten damaged, we do replace such cards for free. Just email us at [email protected] and explain your situation.

If there’s some other condition besides a missing Keeper which you think makes a Goal impossible to meet, please feel free to ask us about it by emailing us at [email protected]

A: No. Keepers which give you some benefit for discarding or giving them away are supposed to be a cost to gain the benefit. If you are forced to move or discard, it won’t count as your sacrifice. For example, if you discard one of your Keepers because of a Keeper Limit, you don’t get to gain the benefit of the sacrifice. That’s an independent penalty.

However, if it’s your turn , and you are going to have to discard Keepers at the end of your turn anyhow, it would certainly behoove you to decide to use that power during your turn, so that it’s not wasted by the Limit.

If it’s not your turn , however, you can’t take that benefit if you discard because of a Limit. These benefits for moving/discarding a Keeper are like other Free Actions and, while they are “free” they can only be used on your turn.

See also: When a Keeper/Creeper (or Rule) says I can do something if I discard or move something, can I do that as a Free Action or… And also: If a Creeper says I can get rid of it if I “discard a Keeper.” Does this mean voluntary discard…

A: No, it doesn’t mean they can be played as soon as drawn. You are absolutely right. All New Rules take instant effect.

The way this phrase came to be on only some New Rule cards is this: some other rules have helpful little subtitles about what sorts of Rules they replace, or a reminder that they’re Free Actions, and we wanted to have something consistent in that location on the layout so that all New Rules would have a similar feel. So we picked that “Takes instant effect,” although it doesn’t really mean anything more than what is true for all rules, as you’ve pointed out.

So it’s a little silly, but we hope at least that explanation makes it make more sense!

A: There’s no time-limit on how long someone may take for their turn, but annoying the other players by taking forever to make decisions may make them decide they don’t want to play with you very often. In other words, the only time limit is the tolerance of your fellow gamers.

We’d suppose this applies to… almost any game, though what is considered a reasonable amount of time for a turn probably varies from game to game. As long as you are within what is considered average for that game, you’re probably fine.

A: There’s no limit to how long a Goal is valid, except how long it remains in play. You don’t have to realize it right away in order to win.

The only exceptions to this are in certain cases in Math Fluxx .

A: Creepers are not one of the core card types. We consider them to be more advanced, and certainly not all decks have them. For versions which will be sold in the mass market, we have consistently chosen not to include Creepers. It’s also why we chose to remove Creepers when we went from Fluxx 4.0 to Fluxx 5.0: we wanted to make the “base version” a good introduction to the Fluxx concept, and Creepers are “extra” if you will. If you have a 5.0 deck and want to add back in the Creepers from 4.0, the Creeper Pack does exactly that.

Even if a version DOES include Creepers, the number that might be in a deck varies wildly, from the heavily Creeper-laden Zombie Fluxx, to Pirate, which only has two: Scurvy and Shackles. Here’s a chart that shows how many of which kinds of cards each version has:

Fluxx Complexity Factors

If you’re interested in increasing the number of Creepers in your deck, we do have a few promo cards/packs which include Creepers that you might like to check out (some of these, like the Horror in Clay, are promos which work _with_ Creepers).

http://store.looneylabs.com/webstore?ext=F&search=CreeperPromo

Be sure to click through and read the descriptions of these, as not all are compatible with every version. The Alliance, for example, is designed to go with Firefly. The Creeper Pack, while mostly designed to go with regular Fluxx 5.0 can be put in other decks, if you remove a couple of the Goals.

A: The way this works looks like this:

1: You have your hand, and decide to play Draw 3 Play 2 of them (D3P2) (You put D3P2 on the table, since technically it’s not yet in the discard pile)

2: You set your main hand aside, and draw three cards, creating a temporary sub-hand, or “mini-hand.” One of them is Draw 2 & Use ‘Em (D2UE) and you decide to play that for your first of the two plays. (You put D2UE on the table, with the other, since technically it’s not in the discard pile yet either)

3: You set aside your mini-hand from D3P2, which is just two cards. They do not get combined with your main hand.

4: You draw 2 cards and use them in whatever order you wish, and then D2UE goes in the discard since it’s finished.

5: You then pick up your 2-card mini-hand, and finish D3P2, by playing your second card and discarding the last one. D3P2 is now completed and goes in the discard pile.

6: Then you pick up your main hand again, and continue your turn (assuming you have any plays left, of course).

There are a few other cards which can cause situations like this, where you are playing a mini-hand (or sub-hand) with a main hand set aside: Fizzbin and Goal Bonanza. Naturally, this means that they could also be involved in a “nested sub-hand” situation as described here, and hopefully you can extrapolate from this example how that would work.

A: Yes, you must complete your compound Action (Draw Two and Use ‘Em, Draw 3 Play 2 of Them, Fizzbin, or Team Up) before you opt to take any optional Free Actions allowed by the Rules.

And, just to preemptively respond about Keeper powers as well, Andy rules that those should also be held until after any compound Action is resolved.

Example: If you could win with the current Goal if you had a Crew Member you don’t have, and you Draw 2 and Use ‘Em, receiving the Captain and some new Goal, you can play the Keeper The Captain (who’s special power lets you steal a Crew Member), but you can’t use his power before you complete the compound Action by playing the second card: the new Goal that you can’t win with. Them’s the breaks sometimes.

A: If you’re asking if you can interrupt the completion of your Draw phase to play a card that requires the discard pile, and the answer would be no. You need to complete your Draw phase before playing anything. In this example, let’s say the draw pile contained two cards, and it was Draw 3. You’d have to draw those two cards, reshuffle the discard pile, and draw your last card. Then, and only then, could you start playing cards from your hand.

If, however, you’d completed your Draw phase, and it ran the draw pile out exactly you should technically not reshuffle the discard pile until someone needs to draw more. So if there were three cards in the draw pile, and it was Draw 3, and you drew three cards, the discard pile should technically be left in place until you, or the next person needs to draw again. In that case there would still be a discard pile for you to use with various card plays on your turn.

A: No. Any time a goal is played, it provides a chance for someone to win with those conditions. No matter how briefly that Goal is in play, it counts, and if someone meets the conditions in that instant, they win.

A: Each version of Fluxx has some distinguishing feature. It’s almost always the font at the top of the card, but on some very early decks, we did fun things with the color stripe. Here’s an example of two of the “same” card from Star Trek (TNG) and Star Trek (TOS) Fluxx versions:

A: All players should draw the number of cards indicated, and then discard down if they are over the current Hand Limit.

As described in the New Rule section of the rule sheet, when playing a New Rule it says “If it contradicts a New Rule already in play, discard the old rule.” This is mostly in cases of Draw, Play, and Limit cards, which, of course, directly contradict Rules of the same category. We generally try to include helpful reminders on those cards about what they replace.

All other New Rules… well, most don’t have anything they directly contradict (though there are a few exceptions*) and they are simply added to the collection of New Rules in play, potentially building up to quite a few different things to keep track of. You don’t have to memorize them all – they’re all out there to see – but obviously this can get quite difficult to take in, especially for newer players, which is precisely why we include cards which reduce the number of New Rules in play, like Rules Reset, Trash A New Rule, Let’s Simplify, etc…

*Notable exceptions include the ruling that 1,2,5 and Inflation contradict (and would therefore replace) each other.

A: Play All is not like an Action card which needs to be resolved before considering win conditions. It is “resolved” by changing the rules of the game. You play it, the rules change, and it’s done. Now it’s just in effect. After that Andy is just taking his turn, following the current rules, playing each card, and considering, after each play, whether he’s met the win conditions.

If you’re asking whether he can win in the middle of his turn, the answer is simply: yes. After all, he could win in the middle of someone else’s turn, too, if the cards play out right.

* Either due to Draw 2 and Use ‘Em, or having a Play Rule higher than the number of cards in your hand.

A: No. Any time a Goal is played, it provides a chance for someone to win with those conditions. No matter how briefly that Goal is in play, it counts, and if someone meets the conditions in that instant, they win.

A: Yes, It’s not a quota that you must draw up to in order to meet, it’s simply a cap on the number of cards you’re allowed to hold.

A: There generally aren’t really ever ties in Fluxx, because of this simple, elegant rule:

If two players simultaneously meet any win conditions, the game continues until there is a clear winner.

Usually the Goal simply changes, and the multiple people in question are simply no longer meeting win conditions at all, though there are other ways the situation can change.

A: Well, a lot of this depends on how the rest of the gaming group feels about this. I think we would be pretty lenient, especially if you realized it relatively quickly, so that it didn’t affect the game that much. We’d certainly allow you to draw up to the correct amount. It’s that little “take-back” that’s going to be controversial.

For example, if what you’ve played significantly impacts the game and the other players (like maybe making everyone discard a bunch of cards or something) then you realized that you wanted to take that play back, we might rule that while you DO get to draw up to what you should have drawn, you need to stick with that first play, and not change it. In the vast majority of cases, however, we’d be inclined to let someone have a rapid single-card “undo”, assuming your request was fast and the undo was relatively easy.

Again, it’s going to depend a lot on how the other players feel about it — and you should check with them as soon as you realize your error, and ASK if it’s okay with everyone that you take your play back, draw correctly to realize your full options, and then choose your play. You don’t want anybody getting bent out of shape AFTER they see that your revised card choice affects them negatively, when your first didn’t.

A: You can absolutely win. You just have to play the card that makes you win as the FIRST card. At that point, you just win, and you’re not required to play the other card you drew for Draw 2 & Use Em, since the game is now over.

The situation would be similar if your conundrum was in the middle of Draw 3 Play 2, though this issue is less likely to confuse people, since it’s pretty clear that they have (slightly) more options. Fizzbin or Goal Bonanza can also create a similar situation.

…for example, if we wanted to mix two Batman Fluxx decks and there are two BatComputers in play… or even just putting in multiples of a promo card, like the Ugly Sweater. And how should duplicate New Rules be handled?

A: Well it might seem like a basic question but I don’t think we’ve ever really answered it before. The truth is, we prefer each Fluxx as a standalone experience and don’t really encourage combining decks. We certainly don’t recommend combining multiple copies of the same deck. In almost all cases, each card in a Fluxx deck is unique.

Mixing two Batman decks together creates numerous illogical situations. Sure, there’s the question you’ve asked directly, about two BatComputers, but there will also be two Batmans, two Bruce Waynes, etc. Given that you have to discard Bruce if Batman shows up, then it would seem impossible to have two Batmans in play at once as well. And so on. The deck becomes too big to shuffle as well. We just can’t see a good reason to combine two of the same deck — if you want to play with a big crowd, you’re better off splitting into two smaller groups each playing their own game with their own deck.

That said: Nothing is forbidden. Fluxx is a very accommodating system. There’s no rule against having two copies of the same Keeper, unless you add one as a house rule. The Batman/Bruce Wayne restriction is one example of such a rule. So, unless there’s a New Rule or other fine print requiring some action, redundant Keepers can happily co-exist. As for ability stacking, again, barring a New (or Meta) Rule that provides restrictions, each redundant Keeper would have its full ability.

See also When combining decks, how should I treat redundant New Rules? See also <

A: Here at Looney Labs we acknowledge that there is a lot of randomness in Fluxx, what with the rules changing all the time, and simply by dint of it being a card game, and not knowing what will come up on your draw.

We’d all agree that it isn’t worth it to try to pursue a long-term strategy – conditions will change too quickly for early plans to come to fruition. We prefer to say that Fluxx is tactical , rather than strategic. See what rules are in play, what you have in your hand for this turn, and try to optimize your chances of winning… or minimize others’ chances.

Here is a document Andy wrote up about how to improve your chances of winning in Fluxx. It’s a little out-of date in its references to specific cards (like War, Death, & Taxes, which have been changed into Creepers, and are not currently in the basic game, for example) but the bulk of the tips are still solid:

Strategies For Winning At Fluxx

A: “In Play” always means, for all cards: laying on the table with it’s face showing – not in the draw pile, or the discard pile, and not in someone’s hand, not face down, not hiding under some other card.

Keep in mind that, for Creepers, you’re not allowed to hold them in your hand, so if they’re not in play, they’re either in the draw pile or the discard pile (or they may be covered by some other card, like a Keeper which effectively nullifies them rendering them as if they were not in play. The Elder Sign in Cthulhu Fluxx can cover (nullify) one Creeper in this way, as can Batman Cuffs.

A: The Action Take Another Turn triggers another turn which begins when your current turn is completely finished , so, no, you don’t get to immediately draw your second turn cards and combine your second turn plays with your remaining first turn plays. In fact, you also have to comply with any Keeper or Hand Limits which are in play at the end of your first turn before drawing for your second turn.

You might want to leave this card sitting out until your first turn is completely finished, then put it in the discard when you start your second turn.

A: Only a few MetaRules occur in the entire Fluxx system. Here’s how they work: a MetaRule is like a standing house rule that all players can decide to use for the duration of the entire game. These have an orange stripe, and the Basic Rules card that comes with every deck was deemed to fall in this category. Usually only one or two would ever be included in a given deck, since they essentially represent alternate ways the game can be played. Here is a run-down of those that have ever existed, both in and out of print.

Time Limit (Martian Fluxx, More Rules Pack): Play until a hidden timer runs out, and see who’s closest to winning Cult Clash (Cthulhu Fluxx): Specifies a definitive winner for Cthulhu Fluxx if an Ungoal ends the game (good for tournaments) Fluxx Dice (Fluxx Dice expansion): Starts the game with the Dice Override Rule in play as the default state Goal Foundry (Goal Foundry expansion pack): Like Goal Mill made permanent Math Rules (Math Fluxx 2.0): If you fulfill a Goal without using Math, you do not win the game; instead, you draw 3 cards, and discard the Goal from play Keep Going (Math Fluxx 2.0, More Rules Pack): Meeting a Goal does not win you the game, instead you collect it and keep playing Learning Mode (Anatomy Fluxx): One of the two educational Rules (Knowledge Bonus or Name That Organ) must be in play at all times. 5 Card Mission (DS9 Fluxx, Bridge Pack): You may discard 4 Goals to draw 5 new cards which must be used immediately, in any order Jumanji! (Jumanji Fluxx): Your win is not official until you shout “Jumanji!” No More Lives (Jumanji Fluxx): This MetaRule comes into play when the draw pile runs out; after that point, eliminations are permanent Combined Decks (Archer Expansion, More Rules Pack): Gives guidelines for combining multiple decks Drinking Rules (Drinking Fluxx): Outlines the rules for drinking

Out of print:

Rules Escalation (early printings of Fluxx 4.0): Increases Basic Rules Draw & Play # when the discard pile is shuffled No Creepers (later printings of Fluxx 4.0): Designates a game played without the four Creepers in the deck Plan B (Math Fluxx 1.0): Requires there be one form of mathematical win available at all times Plan C (Math Fluxx 1.0): Makes all forms of mathematical wins available at all times as the ONLY way to win the game.

You might have heard of a handful of others because when Andy invented the card type, he discussed it in one of his blog posts , where he proposed some possible sample MetaRules, which were shown as graphics, but have never actually been printed.

A: If the card says you can only do something once on your turn, it doesn’t matter if the card goes away and comes back again. If you’ve already used it, you’ve already used it. We don’t consider this much of a “memory condition” since you should naturally be able to remember what you have or have not done on your turn, just as you’d remember how many cards you’ve played. If you’re having trouble with a complicated turn, hopefully the other players will help keep you on track as well.

In other words, if the winning keeper is still in my hand can I instantly play it and win, even though it’s not my turn.

A: To anyone playing with most of our older versions, this must sound like a silly question, but in newer versions we’ve made the cards a lot less wordy, and we must have pared down the text on the cards a little too far… while forgetting to put this information on the rules sheet! We’re not sure which versions may have this omission, but if it’s not clear from the cards or rules:

Yes, the Keepers mentioned on the Goal must be in play in front of you for you to win. You can’t just play them at any time, you have to use actual plays on your turn to put them down.

We will be making sure in all future versions that if it’s not on the Goal card itself, it’s in the rules somewhere.

The situation was there was a Rule in place that required us to draw an extra card and play an extra card. On the second play, a draw 4 rule was implemented, which increased the Draw from 1 to 4. There was a disagreement as to whether the extra draw counted towards the new Draw total. Should I have gotten to draw 3 extra, as if I’d increased from 1 to 4, or would it only be 2 extra, since I’d drawn 1 plus the extra draw?

A: Essentially, when you have a Rule in play that changes the draw and play by a formula (you get 1 extra draw and 1 extra play per turn, for example) that formula is still in effect on the increased Draw.

If you had Draw 1 and increased to Draw 4, then you draw 3 more cards. If you had Draw 1 (+ 1) and increased to Draw 4 (+ 1), then you draw 3 more cards. You can see how that formulaic increase does not affect the number of cards you’ll get to draw on an increase of the base Draw Rule.

See also what happens when you play the special Rule first: What happens if I play a Rule or Keeper that’s not a Draw or a Play, but increases…

A: No, it’s not the Hand/Keeper Limit card which is discarded at the end of the active player’s turn. The Rule stays in effect like any other unless it is specifically replaced or discarded with an Action. The discarding which happens at the end of the active player’s turn is the active player discarding down to the Limit themselves.

Since Limits only apply when it’s NOT your turn, the non-active players discard down to the limit as soon as the card is played, while the active player does not have to discard until the end of their turn – since at the end of their turn, they cease to be the active player.

(The card says: If the deck contains cards from multiple versions of Fluxx, a Goal from each version can be in play simultaneously. Goals only replace Goals from the same version. (Promo and expansion cards collectively count as their own version.) You win if you meet any Goal currently in play. Double Agenda creates one additional “slot” that can be filled with any type of Goal.)

Beyond that, keep in mind that, although we have deliberately designed all Fluxx versions to have the same back so you can mix and match cards, particularly promo cards, not all versions “play well together”. For example, in Martian Fluxx, most of the Creepers are Humans. What do you do when you mix a different deck where there are Keepers who are Humans? Are they Creepers now? You’ll have to decide how to handle that.

Also take a look at all of the specialized Rules and Actions to see if there are any which might interact in unplayable ways, and consider which Rules might replace each other as “contradictory.” See if there are Keepers which might “count as” Keepers in the other deck. Create whatever house rules you deem necessary, and, as you should always do with house rules, make sure everyone knows the tweaks before you begin playing.

A: Until everyone observes the Limit Rule as the last play, that turn is not over, so no, you do not get a pass on the Hand Limit just because it was played as the last card of the person before you.

A: While it is not specified in the rules, the intention is that all Keepers and Creepers under your control should be visible to your opponents at all times unless there is some specific situation that lets you stack or hide them. In general, if a Keeper or Creeper is hidden under another card, it is as though it does not exist on the table, and a player may only stack Keepers/Creepers in certain very specific situations.

For example, in Martian Fluxx, you are allowed to hide your Pathetic Humans (Creepers) under your Abduction Chamber (Keeper). They are effectively “not showing on the table” and do not prevent you from winning (though you can release them at any time to meet a win condition).

There is a similar card in Pirate Fluxx that lets you hide your “booty” Keepers under your Treasure Map. They don’t count towards the Keeper limit, and this protects them from being Plundered, (a special Rule in Pirate Fluxx) but if someone uses Steal a Keeper to take your map, they also take the booty you’ve hidden under it.

In Cthulhu Fluxx, one may hide one Creeper under the Elder Sign card, which neutralizes it, much like the Abduction Chamber does for Pathetic Humans, but for only one Creeper.

There may be other cards which allow similar situations, but unless you have any of these special cards that allow you to hide a Keeper or Creeper in front of you, all your Keepers and Creepers need to be showing. If space is an issue, you can overlap them so the name stripe is showing, but you may not simply hide them from the other players.

Many New Rule cards allow for the opportunity to optionally do something “once per turn”. Many Keepers also have special abilities which can be invoked “once per turn”. Is there an official start and end to one’s turn? How do we know when a person’s turn is over unless they specifically state it?

A: A player may utilize any optional Free Plays as early as before their first Draw to after their last Play. Yes, officially a person’s turn is not over until they have taken, or declined to take, any optional Free Actions available to them, but it’s easy to forget one of these opportunities and let the next person start their turn.

Once the next person has started their turn, your turn is officially over, and you have lost the opportunity to use those. You can’t force them to undo cards they’ve drawn, played, or utilized. For very nitpicky players, using an official turn token can be useful. Your turn ends when you pass the token to the next player.

(However, we would rule that if you were playing with a Turn Token, and were lax about remembering to pass it, it’s up to you to enforce not letting the next person start their turn before they’ve received the Token. In other words, if you’re going to be rigid about the Turn Token, you have to actually remember to pass it. Otherwise, you fall back on the good old “Once the next person has started their turn, it’s too late…)

Keep in mind that if you forget to take a Free Action, it’s not the other players’ responsibility to remind you. Someone could be nice and remind you but they don’t have to. They might even pointedly ask “So are you done with your turn?” without specifically reminding you, though you might realize the significance, and double-check your opportunities…

Here’s a great chart with an official description Order of events in a Fluxx turn .

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A: A good rule of thumb for any game is that if you find that you have several possible interpretations of a rule, the one that breaks the game is probably NOT the correct way to play.

Note that if you only see ONE way to play a card, and it seems broken, please do search our FAQ for known errata or clarifications*, or contact us. It could be a typo, or a new interaction that we have not considered.

*The fastest way is to search on the name of the card you’re having a problem with.

A: There are two main ways to do this:

1) By holding up your cards with the backs towards another player, and having them choose a card.

2) If you don’t want to do that, you can hold your cards face down in front of you, mix them up, and choose a card yourself.

A: Both pieces of text are considered to be part of “The Title” for purposes of something like looking for the word “it” in the title, if you’re wondering about the Knights Who Say “Ni!” in Monty Python Fluxx. That said, the official title is the one on the stripe.

A: Rules that increase your Draw or Play based on a formula (Doom, or what Keepers or Creepers are in play in front of you or elsewhere) as well as Keepers that change the way the rules work for you personally, should be treated as you would an increase in the actual Draw or Play Rules, so the total number of draws or plays you get on your turn increases:

If you had Draw 1 and played a card that made it Draw 1 (+1), then it’s just like you have gone from Draw 1 to Draw 2, and you draw 1. If you had Draw 4 and played a card that made it Draw 4 (+1), then it’s just like you have gone from Draw 4 to Draw 5, and you draw 1.

Likewise, if such a card is already in play, increasing the Draw rule results in the exact same draw increase as though the formula were not in place. See If there’s a Rule (or Keeper) in play that adds to the Draw…

Contrast this with Actions that give you extra draws on a one-time basis. If I play an Action or use a “Free Action” that lets me draw cards…

…For example, if you’re the only one with Keepers, or the only thing on the table is your opponent’s Creeper…can you choose to do nothing?

A: No, you cannot trash nothing. If you play Trash Something and there’s something available to trash, you must trash it, even if it’s your opponent’s Creeper. Likewise, if you play Trash a Keeper, and you’re the only one with Keepers, you must trash one of your own.

My opponent argued that because this was my “final” play (last card in my original hand), I was done playing all, and would not be able to play all of the new cards from the hand I’d just traded for.

A: You’ll be happy to know that you were correct, not your opponent. After the Trade Hands is completed, you now have cards in your hand, and the Play All rule says you keep playing as long as you have cards in your hand, so your turn doesn’t end, you just keep going.

A: Yes. The draws caused by cards that have one-time effects (actual Action cards, or “Free Actions” granted by New Rules in play) are not to be considered part of your Draw (they are “extra”) so they don’t count towards how much you have Drawn.

Common examples include Jackpot, Mystery Play, Draw 3 Play 2, Recycling, but there are so many, we have given up on tagging and listing them all.

So, for example, if the rules are currently Draw 2, Play 2, and a player decides to play the Action Jackpot, which lets them draw three extra cards, then they increase the Draw rule to Draw 4, they still get to draw 2 extra cards. Though it may appear that they have drawn a total of 5 cards during their turn, the 3 cards they drew because of Jackpot do not count against the required Draw for their turn. They’ve only officially drawn 2, and now need to draw 2 more to bring their total to 4, as per the Draw rule increase.

Likewise, if someone utilizes the Free Action Recycling, allowing them to discard a Keeper in play to draw extra cards, those extra cards are not counted as part of the quantity of cards they have “drawn on their turn” as required by the official Draw rule.

Contrast this with Rules discussed in the question linked below which are formulaic modifiers to the actual Draw (or Play) count itself. See also If I play a New Rule that’s not a Draw or Play, but increases the Draw or Play…

There are a lot of cards where, unless all steps are considered to be simultaneous, there could be timing issues.

A: A good rule of thumb is that most things resulting from a single card play in Fluxx (and many other Looney Labs games) are considered to happen simultaneously, so if there are timing issues, assume that things take place all at once, and then consider the outcome. There are a exceptions to this, but you’ll notice they follow a pattern: Draw 3 Play 2 of Them, and Draw 2 and Use Em result in actual secondary card plays, and you could win after one of those sub-plays, and Take Another Turn, since that’s a delayed thing that also results in secondary card plays (your entire second turn).

But for things like exchanging, or redistributing Keepers or Creepers, those are considered to happen all in one instant. As stated before, if you’re bumping into an issue which could go one way if it’s simultaneous, or another way if it’s not, it should almost certainly simultaneous.

See also: We think we broke the game…

A: The intention is that you do what it says and THEN put it on the discard pile. While in practice it often happens that you just place the card on the discard pile and do what it says, it’s very important for some Actions that the one you’re using NOT be in the pile, so even it you DO decide to place it there right away, you must understand that, technically, it’s not actually in there until you’re done using the Action.

For example, if you played Draw 3 Play 2, and pulled Let’s Do That Again as one of your three cards, the Draw 3 Play 2 is not technically in the discard pile to be pulled until after you complete those two plays plus discard. Otherwise it would create a loop that would totally break the game.

Andy says, “In an ideal, imaginary world, I’d like the Action you’re using to sort of hover in the air upright before you, slowly rotating for all to see. Then when the Action has been completed, it would gracefully settle itself onto the discard pile.” Obviously, we’re not going to be implementing that technology any time soon, but picturing this might help you to remember how Actions are supposed to work, even if you do decide to shortcut it to the pile for convenience.

Exactly two cards say “then pick up your hand and continue with your turn”: Draw 3 Play 2, and Draw 2 And Use Em. We have a player who thinks that because those cards say to continue with your turn, those Action cards are a free play, and they still have a play left, even if it’s Play 1.

Since there are 20 other Action cards that do not say “continue with your turn”, he cannot be convinced that these two Action cards are the same as the others (in that they are not free plays).

A: The reason that those two cards say, “…then pick your hand up and continue with your turn,” is that those two cards require you to “Set your hand aside.”

The point that needs to be made to this player is that, just because you “continue with your turn” does not mean you have any plays left. Sometimes you do, and sometimes you don’t. If it is only Play 1, then you used your Play to play that Action.

“Continuing with your turn” means –>evaluating the current rules and seeing what you might have left to do. Sometimes you might have nothing left you can do, and your turn is over.

One thing that should be kept in mind is that all of the cards played as a result of one of those actions counts as a single play. These cards both say that, and this might be the better evidence for your argument, that, while they only count as ONE play, they do count as one PLAY (no more, but also no LESS than one play!)

Hope this is helpful. The reason these are the only two cards that have this wording is because of the way they ask you to set your hand aside, and they need to tell you that when you’re done PLAYING that Action, you do get to pick up you hand again. Luckily, they also have the caveat about how many plays that Action counts as.

For example, if the current rule is draw 1, and the card “draw 2 and use ’em” is played, and the cards drawn are a Draw 4 (New Rule) and Let’s Simplify (Action). The player then plays the new rule card followed by the action to simplify, and removes the new rule; does the player draw the addition cards as per the new rule? We were not sure if having set aside one’s hand would mean that you couldn’t draw those extra cards until the “mini hand” was resolved.

A: You’d resolve the increased draw as soon as it was played, whether your hand is set aside or not. In other words, if you started with Draw 1, and, within the mini-hand played Draw 4, you’d draw 3 more cards, and put them in your set-aside main hand. Then you’d play the Let’s Simplify, and the Draw 4 card would go away.

Note that this ruling will also apply to Draw 3 Play 2 of Them (D3P2), Fizzbin, and when executing Goal Bonanza.

For example, suppose we are at Draw 1 and I play Draw 5 as the first of my Draw 3 Play 2 cards. I’d need to immediately Draw more cards, right? So Where do they go? Should I put the extra cards in my original hand or in the side hand I’m using for the “Draw 3 Play 2” card?

A: New cards would be added to your set-aside hand in this case. Since you’d already drawn 1 new card at the start of your turn, you’d need to Draw 4 more and add them to your set-aside hand. It’s OK to look at them as you do — in fact, you need to, since you’d need to play and redraw any Creepers that came up in those 4 cards.

Similarly, if you played Jackpot! you’d add the new cards to your set-aside hand, and if you played Discard and Draw, it would be your set aside hand that you’d throw away and replace. If you played Rotate Hands, it would be your set-aside hand that you rotated.

Note that this ruling will also apply to Draw 2 and Use ‘Em (D2UE) and Fizzbin, as well as when executing Goal Bonanza.

Suppose I play Draw 2 and Use ‘Em (D2UE) and the first of the cards I play is Draw 3 Play 2 (D3P2). From the second D3P2 set of cards, I play Trade or Rotate Hands. Which of my three “hands” would I trade – my D3P2 hand, my D2UE hand, or the original hand with which I began the turn?

A: For anything played as part of one of those Actions (D3P2, D2UE, or Fizzbin, or when executing Goal Bonanza) any things referring to “your hand” mean your set-aside “main” hand. So, you would trade or rotate your original hand away (or discard it, if playing Discard & Draw) – the one you set aside at the start of the first set-your-hand-aside Action. The hand you receive through trade or rotation, or from redrawing after discarding it, would then become your new set-aside hand, dormant until all of the D3P2/D2UE/Fizzbin/Goal Bonanza cards are fully processed.

A: Yes, you are allowed to LOOK at your hand, to consult it to see what your best play is from the cards drawn from the action. Your hand is not invisible, it’s just inaccessible.

The main reason we have people set their hand aside is so that they don’t think those Action cards mean they can draw cards, add them to their hand, then play any two cards from their hand (and discard, depending on which Action you’re talking about). So feel free to pick up your set-aside hand and look at it, just keep the cards drawn for the Action separate.

A: You would draw as many as you can and make do with what you have at that point, even if that makes it “Draw 0 Play 2 of them.” If you don’t get your full value for the card because of the situation, maybe it’s not a good idea to play that card at this time.

The important point is that you would not redraw the Action played as one of the cards for the Action. The Action card does not become part of the discard pile until after the Action has been fully resolved. (I find it helpful to imagine that the Action card hovers in the air above the discard pile while the Action is happening, perhaps spinning slowly in space so that it can be seen by all, then gently settling down onto the discard pile afterwards.)

Note that this ruling will also apply to Draw 2 and Use ‘Em (D2UE) and Fizzbin. Neither the original action, nor the cards executed from your temporary hand are in the discard pile until the whole Action is completed.

A: All powers that can be used “once per turn” are only available to you when it’s your turn.

A: As the rule sheet states in the section describing the different types of cards: “To play a Goal, place it face up in the middle of the table, discarding the previous Goal, if any.”

You’re not supposed to just stack up the Goals on the table. The old ones should always go in the discard. That said, it happens quite frequently that people play a little “lazy” and stack them for a couple of turns, and then suddenly someone remembers that those should be in the discard, and cleans it all up.

There are very few cards in Fluxx that allow or require you to pull a Goal out of the trash or for which the exact order of discard matters, but there are a few, so you should just get in the habit of making sure you discard the old Goal whenever a new one is played.

A: Okay, so let’s say we’re at Draw 1. Then you increase to Draw 4. So you draw three extra cards, so that –> on your turn, you have Drawn a total of four cards. Then, maybe you decrease to Draw 2. You can’t “Undraw” so you just keep your cards. Now imagine that the Draw rule goes up to 3. Draw 3 means that –>you must have Drawn (at least) 3 cards on your turn. Have you done that? Why yes! In fact, you’ve Drawn 4. So you don’t get to Draw extra.

…or only when they play Let’s Do That Again, which seems to be the only place that allowance is stated.

A: Anyone may look through the discard pile at any time.

Here is our logic: If you could only look through the discard pile if you had played the card, then you’d never be able to check to see whether there was anything worth playing in there, so you might totally waste what is a potentially great card.

So, let’s say you’re only allowed to look if you’re planning to play it. Then it would only allowed if you had the card in hand, then you’d have to prove it to everyone, by showing it, potentially, which isn’t terribly fair.

In short, it’s just as the card says: “Anyone may look through the discard pile at any time,” and “anyone” means “anyone,” not just the person with the card, and “any time” means “any time,” not just when you play it.

We weren’t sure how best to play with them, so we’ve been leaving them out of the game…

A:It’s true that the Hand and Keeper Limit cards can be sort of a downer, but sometimes you want to be able to limit your opponent if they seem to be getting way ahead of you in one or the other of those things. In that way, they are “game balancing” cards that help level the playing field, keeping one person from having a vast advantage over the other/s.

In addition the Hand Limit cards can be nice if your hand size is getting so huge you can barely hold it or mentally process it all. I’ve seen many a brand new player put down a Hand Limit card with a sigh of relief, just to get their hand down to something they can look at all in one go. It’s similar to playing Rules Reset or Let’s Simplify when you have six or eight different Rules out on the table. Yes, having lots of rules is fun, but sometimes it’s nice to have fewer.

On a more strategic note, beyond just overall game balance, there are times you can make sneaky combo plays where you impose a Limit on your turn, so that your opponent/s need/s to comply, but then manage to get rid of it before the end of the turn (with Trash a New Rule, or Let’s Simplify, or even Rules Reset).

Since Limits only apply to you when it’s NOT your turn (you have to comply when your turn ends if they are still in play) this means that your opponent/s will have to discard cards or Keepers, and you won’t. Now, you might still consider this a “downer”, but in any game there are things you do to get yourself ahead of the competition.

Finally, we are glad that you felt free to simply leave them out if you find that you don’t enjoy them. That is always an option for you. It’s your game, it’s your house, and you can have “house rules” (as long as everyone understands them at the start of the game and there are no unpleasant midgame surprises for those who are used to playing the game the way it comes out of the box).

A: The number of cards in each player’s hand is supposed to be open information, so, while a player may wish to obfuscate how many cards they have, by stacking them, or trying to minimize their appearance, if directly questioned, they should give an accurate answer.

They may feel free to try to discourage you from taking or utilizing their cards, of course: “Yeah, I have a big hand, but my cards all suck…” for example. That’s allowed – it’s just opinion, of course.

Suppose it’s a Draw 5, Play 1 type of situation and no one plays a Hand Limit or a multiple Play rule. Eventually everyone has a big hand and the draw pile runs out. The discard pile gets reshuffled and reused, but suppose the situation continues until there are no cards left to be drawn. What happens? Do you just skip the draw phase of your turn till your next turn comes up where you can draw enough cards for the ‘draw requirement’? or draw what you can now and proceed to your turn?

A: Draw what you can and continue. In general, if the rules command you to do something impossible, then you just do as much as you can, and move on. If the rule says Play 3 and you only have 2 cards, then you Play 2 and stop. Similarly, if the rule says Draw 4 and there are only 3 cards for you to draw (even after reshuffling) then you draw 3 cards and proceed with the Play phase.

So yes, if the Draw pile and the Discard pile are both empty for someone, you just continue with some people not getting any new cards during their Draw phase. Now, some cards might enter the discard pile during a person’s turn, but they don’t get to immediately Draw those available cards retroactively. You don’t assess whether the discard pile needs to be reshuffled until there is an actual need for someone to Draw. Mind you, you’ll all find yourselves drawing things someone else just played for a while, but you might not choose to use them right away.

In such a situation everyone will be holding massive hands of cards so there should be plenty you can Play, even if you’re not drawing any. At some point someone will play a Hand Limit and suddenly there will be plenty of cards to shuffle again. (This is why every version of Fluxx has Hand Limits.)

A: Yes, on all turns you are supposed to observe the Draw rule before the Play rule, though it sometimes happens, if you change the Draw rule during your turn, that you may have to draw additional cards in the middle of your turn.

(Unless you have a Meta Rule that says otherwise.)

Note: Many of the Meta-Rules discussed in the linked article don’t actually exist. In particular, the one which would apply here, Quota Style Turn Order does not exist. Neither does Early Limit Compliance.

Or is it dependent on how many I have already drawn or played during my turn?

A: Rules take effect immediately, and the wording on Draw/Play Rules states that you should “Draw/Play [x] cards per turn.” Therefore, if you have already played 3 cards on your turn so far, and the rule is (now) Play 4, then you can only play one more card. The count does not start from the point the card is played, since the number of cards played is per complete turn.

Here’s another example which may be useful: If “Play All” is in effect and you play 6 cards, and then play the card “Play 3,” your turn simply ends, since you have already played 3 and have no more remaining plays in your turn.

Draw rules are similar, in that you count the total number you have drawn on your turn, so if you start with “Draw 3” and then play the card “Draw 4” you only get to draw one additional card, since Draw rules specify “so that you have drawn [x] cards on your turn.” When you increase the Draw rule, you only draw the difference. If you decrease it on your turn, however, you don’t have to “Un-draw.” You just get to keep the excess cards you drew when the Draw rule was higher.

This could happen with Double Agenda in effect. For example, in a 2-player game, if the goals are Star Gazing and Time is Money. Player A has The Eye and Time in play while Player B has The Cosmos and Money. Player A plays Exchange Keepers and exchanges The Eye for Money. Is the game over, with two winners, or must it continue until one and only one player has a winning condition?

This could also happen with 10 Cards In Hand

A: You would keep playing until only one player currently meets the win condition.

for example, if I have the first turn of the game, and my hand has, after drawing (hypothetically): Trash a Keeper Let’s Simplify Mix it all Up Empty The Trash

It seems like none of these can be “played”, so do I just discard a card, and the turn moves to the next player?

A: One of our fans pointed out to us that a wonderful quality about Fluxx is that there are never cards that you “cannot play”. They thought this was great because even the youngest player could pick a card from their hand, and never be told “oh, you can’t play that.” Of course, that card might not actually DO anything when they play it, but it’s still a perfectly valid play, and that person has not made an error by attempting to play an unplayable card. It’s very inclusive.

So there’s that: all cards are playable, even if they don’t do anything on your turn. Secondly, you are never allowed to “pass” on your play requirement, or discard cards, unless you are reducing your hand size as required by a Hand Limit (and this only happens when it’s not your turn, or at the end of your turn, after you’ve executed all of your plays.)

It’s true that what ends up happening when you play an Action card that has no effect LOOKS A LOT like discarding it, since you “do what it says, then put it in the discard pile”. So you do what it says, nothing happens, and then it goes in on the discard pile. But it’s an important distinction, because of the rule against discarding or “passing” instead of playing: sometimes you may be forced to play a card even though it might make someone else win.

do I have to play it or can it be “discarded” and considered a play?

A: No. You cannot discard a card just because you don’t like it; you can discard only when the rules specifically say you can. If you are forced to play a card and you have only one card, then you must play that card.

After the fact, the other players noticed and pointed out that I “could have won” if I’d noticed, but since I kept on playing, we all decided that I’d missed my opportunity. Should I actually have won?

A: We would rule that you won. In Fluxx it is not required that you notice and claim victory. The conditions existed such that there was a winner. Everyone knows it happened; no-one is actually contesting that the win conditions WERE in fact met.

Just because it took a little while for the winner to realize, does not negate that fact: there is a winner and the game is over.

Now, having realized it belatedly, I’d say that if the consensus between ALL the players (including the winning player) is to keep playing anyhow, and ignore that, that’s up to them. But officially, were it a tournament, for example, we’d count that as a win.

Now, if the conditions happened so long ago in the game that people can’t quite recall what happened, and the win is uncertain, that’s another case. Then I’d say you’d have to keep playing. I guess if they’d never pointed it out to you, then the win conditions would have faded into obscurity. But I’d call deliberate non-acknowledgement of someone else’s win cheating.

Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx Card Game Review and Rules

By: Author Eric Mortensen

Posted on December 2, 2020

Categories Board Games , Card , Reviews

Anyone familiar with Looney Labs is probably familiar with the company for its most popular game Fluxx. For those not familiar with the game, Fluxx is basically the game of ever changing rules as each card that is played can drastically change the game. Created back in 1997 Fluxx has had many different versions created over the years that have utilized a lot of different themes. Back in 2018 Looney Labs acquired the license for Star Trek and released a version for the original series as well as Next Generation. Last year Looney Labs continued by releasing Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Fluxx . Now this year the company has released a Fluxx for the fourth main series in the franchise Star Trek: Voyager which is what I am looking at today. Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx doesn’t drastically change the Fluxx formula, but it retains the constantly changing enjoyable gameplay that fans of the franchise should really enjoy.

How to Play Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx

• Place the Basic Rules card in the middle of the table.
• Shuffle the deck and deal three cards to each player. If anyone is dealt a Creeper they will place it in front of themselves and will be dealt another card to replace the card in their hand. The rest of the deck becomes the draw pile.
• The dealer or a player chosen at random will start the game. Play will then proceed clockwise.

Playing the Game

Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx is a game whose rules will regularly be changing. The basic outline of each turn though is as follows:

• Draw a number of cards based on the current rule.
• Play a number of cards based on the current rule. Players can play cards even if they have no effect on the game. A player has to play the number of cards required by the current rule even if the card will win the game for another player.
• Discard cards to comply with any limit rules in place. A player can wait until the end of their turn to comply with a limit. If a limit card is played though, all of the players other than the current player have to discard cards immediately to comply with the limit.

Any special actions that come from New Rules, Keepers or other cards can be performed at any point during one of these steps.

Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx features a number of different cards which have different impacts on the gameplay.

New Rule cards will change the rules that players will follow in the game. To begin the game the players will draw one card and play one card. New Rule cards can change how many cards players will draw or play, impose limits on hand size or keepers, give players additional actions that they can take on their turn, or add other rules that players must follow.

This player has played a New Rule card. Players will now draw two cards at the beginning of their turn.

When a New Rule card is played you will check the other New Rule cards that are in play. If the new card contradicts a card already in play, the previous card is discarded.

Any New Rule cards that are played will immediately go into effect which means that the current player will have to comply with them. For example if a card forces a player to draw more cards than they did at the beginning of their turn, they will have to draw the extra required cards after playing the New Rule card.

At this point in the game there have been four New Rule cards played. On each turn players will draw two cards and play three cards. At the end of their turn the players will have to discard Keepers from in front of them if they have more than three. Finally the players can choose to discard one of the Keepers from in front of themselves in order to draw three cards.

Keepers are used by players in order to win the game. When you play a Keeper card you will place it face up in front of you. It will stay there until either a card is played to discard/move it or you decide to discard it due to a Keeper Limit. Some Keeper cards will have a special ability that you can activate on your turn.

This player has played the Kathryn Janeway card. The card will count towards any Goal card that features the card. The player will also get to steal one Crew Member from another player each turn.

Some of the Keepers will also feature a special icon.

Any Keeper with the above symbol is considered a Starfleet Officer for the text on some of the cards.

Any Keeper with this symbol is considered Equipment which can malfunction.

Goal cards give players the objective of the game. In order to win the game a player needs to fulfill all of the requirements on the current Goal card.

Whenever a new Goal card is played, the previous Goal card is discarded.

With this Goal card in place, in order to win the game a player will need the Seven of Nine and The Borg cards in front of them in order to win the game.

When an Action card is played you will follow the instructions on the card. After completing the instructions the Action card will be discarded.

When a player plays this action card they will discard their entire hand and draw the same number of cards from the draw pile.

Creepers act similar to Keepers, but are usually bad for a player as they will usually prevent you from winning the game.

Whenever a player draw a Creeper card they must play it out in front of themselves immediately. This includes the cards you are dealt at the beginning of the game. Playing one of these cards does not count as one of the cards that you have to play during your turn. To replace any Creeper cards that you are forced to play, you will draw new cards for your hand.

When The Borg card is drawn it will immediately be placed out in front of the player that drew it. It will attach to a Keeper in front of the player. The card will prevent the player from winning the game unless the current Goal card features The Borg.

Some Creeper cards feature the symbol shown below. Any Creeper with this symbol will be attached to one of your Keepers. If you don’t have any Keepers currently, the Creeper will attach to the first Keeper placed in front of you. When a Creeper is attached to a Keeper it will stay with it until it is removed from the game.

Surprise cards can be played at any time even during another player’s turn. Each Surprise card has two different actions on it. Which action you will perform depends on whether you played it during your own turn or another player’s turn.

Surprise cards can also be played to cancel out other Surprise cards.

This player has played a Surprise card. If they played it on another player’s turn they will place the Keeper that was just played in front of themselves instead of the current player. If they played it during their own turn they will get to steal a Keeper from another player.

End of Game

When one of the players meet the conditions of the current Goal card they will immediately win the game even if it isn’t their turn. If two or more players win at the same time, the game will continue until there is only one winner remaining.

The current Goal card in the board game requires players to have the Kathryn Janeway and Holodeck Keeper cards. This player has both of these Keeper cards so they will win the game.

My Thoughts on Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx

Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx is basically exactly what I expected it to be. I have played quite a few different Fluxx games in the past and thus are pretty familiar with the franchise. For the most part I wouldn’t say that Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx drastically differs from any other game in the franchise. The game doesn’t add any new types of cards and the basic rules haven’t changed. Really the only differences in the game have to deal with the theme and the individual cards. The cards are obviously built around the Star Trek: Voyager theme and thus have some unique cards that relate to the series. Because of this your opinion of the game is unlikely to differ from other games in the franchise. If you don’t really care for Fluxx I don’t see that changing with Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx. Those who enjoy Fluxx though and are also fans of Star Trek: Voyager will likely really enjoy their time with the game.

Really the only difference between Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx and most other Fluxx games is the cards themselves. I don’t have a card breakdown of all of the other versions of Fluxx, but Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx seems to have more flexibility than a lot of the other games from the series that I have played. The game has a few new cards that can be pretty powerful if used at the right time. Some of these cards can feel a little overpowered at times, but those who like manipulating the card abilities to change things quickly will probably appreciate this fact. In particular I was surprised by the number of Keepers that also have a special ability in the game. I would say that around half of the Keepers in the game have a special ability that you can activate. This means that players have more things that they can manipulate in order to change the rules in their own favor. Players who like to play cards that play off one another will probably like the mixture of cards in Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx.

So this leaves me with the people who have never played a Fluxx game before. The easiest way of describing Fluxx is to say that it is a game where the rules are constantly changing. The basic objective of the game is to play Keepers in front of you that match the current goal. This seems quite easy, but how you get to that point is what makes the game. Almost every card you play in the game will have an impact on the game. Outside of drawing and playing at least one card on your turn, the rest of the rules can change at any time. You could end up drawing or playing more cards, having limits on the number of cards that you can have, or even having other unique actions that you can take on your turn.

Fluxx is a game that people have differing opinions on. Some people love the franchise while others aren’t fans. The biggest complaint that most people have with the game is that it relies on a lot of luck. Despite being a fan of the franchise, I agree that the game relies on quite a bit of luck. What cards you end up drawing will determine whether you can win the game. Even if you have the perfect strategy you won’t be able to overcome crummy card draw luck. The game can feel kind of random at times as the play of one card can totally change all of the players’ standings in the game. You could be on the verge of winning and then another player can swoop in and steal victory from your grasp.

Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx does rely on a lot of luck, but I think it has more strategy than a lot of people give it. You can only use the cards that you are dealt, but how you use those cards can have a bigger impact on the game than you would expect. The key to doing well in the game is figuring out how you can manipulate the various card abilities to benefit your own position in the game. You have to think ahead, but also be willing to adapt on the fly depending on what cards you draw. In many cases you will have to chain together a group of cards in order to get the Keepers and Goal cards you need out in the same turn so the other players can’t mess with your strategy. The players who are best at coming up with chains of cards are the most likely to succeed in the game. I personally find it to be quite satisfying when I am able to chain together several cards in order to suddenly win the game.

I think Fluxx’s other biggest strength is that the game is also quite easy to play. The basic rules of the game are really simple as you just draw and play cards. The most difficult thing about the game is that the rules are constantly changing. For first time players this may take a little time to get used to. The various rules that you can implement in the game though are usually quite straightforward where you don’t have to worry about not understanding what a particular rule does in the game. I think the game could be taught to most first time players within just a couple minutes.

As for length I would say that it really depends. A player could theoretically win the game on their very first turn (highly unlikely) or it could take quite a bit of time as players keep messing with each other’s plans. In most cases these are outliers though. I would say that the typical game is likely to take around 15-20 minutes unless a player has really good luck or the players have bad luck. This makes the game a great filler game for when you either need something to break up more complex games or you only want a quick game that you can finish quickly.

Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx’s components are on par with what you would typically expect from the Fluxx franchise. While I am not as familiar with Star Trek: Voyager as most of the other shows in the series, the game seems to do a good job utilizing the theme. Some of the card abilities are based around events from the show. I also thought the cards’ artwork was also quite good. The style is similar to most other Fluxx games, and I think it looks nice. The card design is also straightforward where it is easy to tell what type of card each is and what ability it has in the game. Like the rest of the Fluxx series the game also comes in a small box where it doesn’t take up a lot of room which allows you to easily transport the game.

Should You Buy Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx?

In many ways Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx is pretty much what I expected it to be. The cards themselves have some new abilities and the game in general seems to have more special abilities than a lot of versions of the game. That is pretty much the only difference with the game though. Thus your opinion of the game is likely to depend on your opinion of Fluxx in general. The game does rely on quite a bit of luck like all Fluxx games. I still enjoyed the game though as there is some strategy to how you decide to use your cards together. The gameplay is quite easy to play and usually plays pretty quickly. It may not revolutionize the Fluxx franchise, but I enjoyed playing Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx as it maintains that chaotic always changing gameplay that I have always enjoyed about the Fluxx franchise.

Since it shares so much in common with most other Fluxx games, if you have never really cared for Fluxx I don’t see that changing with Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx. Those who enjoy Fluxx though and are a fan of Star Trek: Voyager should really enjoy their time with the game. Those not familiar with Fluxx should enjoy the game if they like the theme and think the ever changing gameplay sounds interesting.

We would like to thank Looney Labs for the review copy of Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx used for this review. Other than receiving the review copy we at Geeky Hobbies received no other compensation. Receiving the review copy had no impact on the content of this review or the final score.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation™ Fluxx Card List

This makes a total of 100 cards in the box. A  rulesheet  is also included.