Aquarius The groovy card game that's kinda like dominos (only better)! Official site: http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Aquarius/ Type of game: Card game Product description: 60 full color playing cards 2-5 players, ages 8 and up $10

Summary:Aquarius features three types of cards: Elements, Goals, and Actions. Element cards are played kind of like dominos, with each player trying to win by connecting seven panels of one particular element. Goal cards determine which element each player is going after, and Action cards allow players to shake up the action in five different ways. The game is fast, fun, colorful, and easy to learn.

Reviews: Gamers.com Games Magazine Knights of the Dinner Table Awards: Games Magazine: Games 100 (1999) Testimonials: I'm writing to let you all know how much we love Aquarius. We spent a few days camping (with family) and the game was a real hit. Each morning, as we sat around discussing what we planned to do that day, the kids would all remind us that we had to play Aquarius again that night. When we left, we had to pry their fingers from the box to get the game back. My significant other, Russ, has a son who is very hard to entertain. An example of daily life with this child... "Well, you're bored. What would you like to do?" "Practically nothing." Now the answer is, "Play Aquarius!!" He's eleven, and for the first time in three years he's shown an interest in something! Of course, most of our adult friends are just as hooked. To think, I spent my last ten dollars of 'con' money (Origins) to get this game... BEST MONEY I'VE EVER SPENT ON ANY GAME!!!!!! Ruth Young I had played Aquarius with my sister-in-law this summer and desperately have tried to find you all ever since! We had a 3-way tie to see who went first among Wendy, her husband, and me - we all have mid-back length hair. BethAnne - Santa Monica, CA While we were away in Oregon, we had one of the girls from church feed our cats and hang out at the house. As an experiment I left a deck of Aquarius cards sitting on our dining room table (with no explanation). She liked the game so much that she took it away to college and sent us an apology note offering to return the game. We told her to keep it. I wouldn't be surprised if you get some orders from Savannah soon. Dave - Bowie, MD Game play designed by: Andrew Looney Game appearance designed by: Andrew Looney Published by: Looney Laboratories, Inc. My comments: This is a really groovy game. I used to be able to explain it in less than 60 seconds. Chrononauts The Card Game of Time Travel Official site: http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Chrononauts/ Type of game: Card game Product description: 136 full-color playing cards and a rulebook, in a thick tuck box. 1-6 players, ages 11 and up $20

Summary:In Chrononauts, each player becomes a time traveler, with a unique identity and a secret mission. During the game, players travel backwards and forwards through history, doing all those things people have always dreamed of using a time machine to do: Visiting the great moments of the past, peeking into the future, collecting up impossible artifacts and priceless works of art (at the moment just before history records their destruction), coming to grips with the paradoxes of time travel, and of course, changing pivotal events and altering the course of history itself. How would the timeline be different if Lincoln and JFK had not been assassinated? And is that the version of reality that you came from originally... the one you must return to in order to win? It's all packed into a fast and easy Fluxx-style card game that will take you to the beginning of time and back again.

Reviews: Counter Magazine Games Magazine Dungeon Crawler Magazine Awards: Origins Award (AAGAD): "Best Traditional Card Game of 2000" Games Magazine: Games 100 (2002) Testimonials: The box to Chrononauts asks, 'So, you want to be a Time Traveler, eh?'. I have another query: 'Is this game fun to play?' My reply? An emphatic Y-E-S! Marty Goldberger, in a review that appeared in the Gamers Alliance Fall 2001 Report The Chrononauts card game is ingenious. The game play is highly addictive, as is illustrated by the sizable local following after only three weeks. It is constantly asked for for demonstration and actual play, and competition can be quite fierce. Christopher Just wanted to drop a line to let you guys know how much me and my circle of gaming pals are enjoying Chrononauts! I live in Northern California, but happened across a deck at the Wizards of the Coast store at the Beverly Center in LA a couple of weeks ago. Man! Ever since I got back, people don't want to stop playing! I've turned over 2 dozen people onto this game and they are scouring the nine counties looking for their own decks. Keep up the outstanding game designs! Marc, of Mill Valley, CA Game play designed by: Andrew Looney Game appearance designed by: Andrew Looney Additional appearance designed by: Alison Frane Produced by: Kristin Looney Published by: Looney Laboratories, Inc. My comments: I really like this game for one's ability to alter history. Cosmic Coasters The Teleportation Combat Game Official site: http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/CosmicCoasters/ Type of game: Board Game Product description: Contains 4 coasters featuring NASA images of the major moons of Jupiter (Ganymeade, Io, Callisto, and Europa). Each coaster features a gameboard on the moon side and complete rules on the back. Each player needs a fleet of seven matching tokens (for example, pennies or dimes). 2 players (variations for 3 or more) $5

Summary:The problem with teleportation is that it's a one-way trip. You've transported a ship to an enemy planet -- now what? Their teleport pad is under tight control. Looks like you'll have to overwhelm them with sheer numbers and do battle to the death to even send a single ship back home. You'll need cunning, and a good dose of luck to get through this alive -- and don't forget that special power you have up your sleeve... Sound complicated? Not to worry. You can always just use their entire planet as a place to put your drink.

Reviews: The Games Journal OgreCave.com RPG Action Pyramid: The Best in Gaming Awards: Origins Award (AAGAD): "Best Abstract Board Game of 2002" Testimonials: [Cosmic Coasters] is really a game for anyone. I introduced some friends who rarely play games of any sort to it, and they fell in love with it instantly, refusing to stop playing until they had won. The kind of game you could play at a bar with pretzels and beer nuts, Cosmic Coasters makes for the perfect coffee-table game. It's a great little game and worth the small price. Derek Guder, in Games Unplugged issue #11 Like Button Men, Cosmic Coasters skimps on "game", but makes up for it with "novelty": "yeah it's not the greatest game of all time ... but it's on beer coasters!!" For that reason alone I foresee myself playing Cosmic Coasters as often as any other of my recent purchases. And that's not too shabby for a game that costs about the same as the beer you'll set atop it. Matthew Baldwin, in a review of Cosmic Coasters posted to the Games Journal I thought the idea was elegantly simple and very interesting, but wasn't quite sure how it would play. So in addition to lots of games of Chrononauts, Fluxx, and Aquarius, I got to play several games of Cosmic Coasters. I LOVE IT!!! I got several of my friends who happen to be Chrononauts fans interested in the game, and most of them have said they will buy it once it is available. Most notably I discovered that when you are playing that many games of Rock Paper Scissors in a row the game becomes very psychological and strategic; I used Rock 5 times in a row hoping my opponent would crack before me. The game is much deeper than it looks from the surface. I give it an A." Sam Game play designed by: Andrew Looney Game appearance designed by: Andrew Looney Additional appearance designed by: Alison Frane, NASA stock photography Produced by: Kristin Looney Published by: Looney Laboratories, Inc. My comments: Played a few times, but it didn't grab me. Fluxx The card game with ever-changing rules Official site: http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Fluxx/ Type of game: Card game Product description: 84 playing cards 2-6 players, ages 8 and up $10

Summary:There are 4 kinds of cards in Fluxx: Keepers - You put these out on the table in front of you when you play them.Goals - When someone plays a goal, it stays in the center of the table until a new goal takes its place. To win, you simply need to do whatever the goal says. Most of the time, the goal requires you to have a couple of particular Keepers on the table in front of you. As soon as any player achieves the current goal, that player wins!New Rules - This is where the fun really starts. When the game begins, the only rules are that you draw 1 card per turn and play 1 card per turn. But when you play a New Rule, these rules are either changed or added to. New Rules change the number of cards drawn and played per turn as well as the number of cards you are allowed to hold in your hand, the number of Keepers you can have, bonuses for players who have particular Keepers, and more.Actions - These are 1 time use cards that let you do fun stuff like stealing someone else's Keeper, getting rid of a rule you don't like, drawing more cards, and so on.

Reviews: Gamers.com Epinions - Angela Knight RPGnet Awards: Mensa Select - Top five best new games of 1999 Games Magazine: Games 100 (2001) Testimonials: I love Fluxx. It's just the best darned card game I've played. Rolfe - Albuquerque, NM I work for a day care program that is run in the elementary schools of the North Penn School District. At my school, Fluxx has become an epidemic. William - Lansdale, PA If the Berkeley Area Gaming Roto-Salon were to have an official game, Fluxx would be it. It may take us three quarters of an hour to agree what food to order, but we can whip up a game of Fluxx in a New York Minute! Eric - Albany, CA Related links: Fluxx Blanxx Home Brewers New Card Suggestion Page Fluxx Keeper T-shirts Game play designed by: Andrew Looney Game appearance designed by: Andrew Looney Published by: Looney Laboratories, Inc. My comments: This is one of my favorite card games of all time. Icehouse Colorful pyramids you can play cool games with Official site: http://www.wunderland.com/icehouse/ Type of game: Board game Product description: Icehouse is not a game per se, but a game system. Please see the summary below for more information. 2 or more players (depending on the game chosen), ages 12 and up $8 (per stash)

Summary:Over 100 games can be played with Icehouse pieces. The Icehouse game system has many elements which can be purchased separately or in various combinations: Plastic Pyramids - 15 game pieces sold by the color in individual "stash" tubes.Playing with Pyramids - A handbook for Icehouse, featuring rules for a dozen games.Paper Pyramids - The inexpensive cardstock starter set.Chessboard Bandana - A go-anywhere chessboard for Icehouse games that require one.Giant Cardboard Pyramids - They're 8 times bigger than usual!Complete Boxed Sets - The Martian Chess Set edition is now sold out; Fifth Edition is not yet available.Black Ice - A 2 color expansion set which is NO LONGER AVAILABLE.

Reviews: Pyramid: The Best in Gaming Gamers.com Awards: Origins Award (AAGAD): "Best Abstract Board Game of 2000" Games Magazine: Games 100 (2001) Testimonials: My plastic Icehouse pieces are the single most valuable gaming components I own. Kevan Davis, one of the authors of the Dvorak "Time Machine" deck Zendo was the hit of my 11-year-old daughter Jenny's birthday sleepover. Five 10-12 year old girls played Zendo until too late, and got up to play before and through breakfast (which is why there is maple syrup on some of my Icehouse pieces!). Peter Aronson I read a review long ago, and recently did a Google search on abstract games, and found Icehouse. It's excellent (I've made some paper stashes), and makes me think the reviewer was very dull, as he "didn't get it". Congrats on changing the face of abstract gaming for the next 100 years! Aaron of Naperville, Illinois Related links: Sortable List of Icehouse's Cool Kindred The Unofficial Icehouse Web Pages Game play designed by: Andrew Looney, John Cooper and others Game appearance designed by: Andy Looney Published by: Looney Laboratories, Inc. My comments: Zendo is my favorite Icehouse game, but there are many I haven't yet tried. Proton The retro-futuristic, self-contained, abstract strategy PocketBoardGame for 1 or 2 players, Official site: http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Proton/ Type of game: Pocket board game Product description: Compact hand-sized board of 15 sliding tiles 1-2 players $5

Summary:Proton is a retro-futuristic, self-contained, abstract strategy PocketBoardGame* for 1 or 2 players. It features an innovative design that utilizes existing manufacturing technologies, and is therefore very inexpensive, costing just $5 a unit. The 15 sliding tiles make up a dynamic gameboard which makes each game different. The game is so easy to learn that all of the rules, plus instructions for solitaire activities, appear on the back of the comfortably hand-sized plastic unit. Lightweight and compact, Proton is the perfect go-anywhere board game. You can take it to the movies, the airport, or the great outdoors, and never lose any of the game pieces. Most games of Proton take about 5 minutes, so you can play it while standing in line or waiting for food in a restaurant. And if a game gets interrupted, you can put it in your pocket and resume it again (or not) with ease.

Reviews: Contagious Dreams Game play designed by: Andrew Looney Game appearance designed by: Andrew Looney Published by: Looney Laboratories, Inc. My comments: I have it but haven't played it yet. Q-Turn The little wooden nickel game Official site: http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Qturn/Default.html Type of game: Board game Product description: 16 wooden nickels, 4 tokens, rules, and plastic tube 2-4 players, ages 8 and up $10

Summary:Q-Turn is a fast and unpredictable little game played on a dynamic board made up of 16 wooden nickels. The game is packaged very efficiently, in a small clear plastic tube, along with a rules sheet and four small flat tokens. Q-Turn is thus highly portable, and can be played on any flat surface, from the lunch counter to an airline tray table. The game is played by randomizing the disks and placing them face down on the table in a 4x4 pattern. Tokens are placed at the corners, with the goal being to move your token to the opposite corner and back again before your opponents. As the tokens move across the board, disks are flipped over, revealing arrows that indicate which way a token may move next. Each type of disk allows a different special action, rotating one or all of the disks a quarter turn, thus changing the available paths across the board. A quarter-turn here, and a quarter-turn there, and soon everyone may be headed off in the wrong direction!

Reviews: The San Fernando Valley Gamers Game play designed by: Andrew Looney Game appearance designed by: Andrew Looney Published by: Looney Laboratories, Inc. My comments: I have it but haven't played it yet.