Aquarius The groovy card game that's kinda like dominos (only better)! http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Aquarius/ Card game 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 100 (1999) Testimonials: Game play designed by: Andrew Looney Game appearance designed by: Andrew Looney Published by: Looney Laboratories, Inc. 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 http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Chrononauts/ Card game 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: "Best Traditional Card Game of 2000" Games 100 (2002) Testimonials: 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. I really like this game for one's ability to alter history. Cosmic Coasters The Teleportation Combat Game http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/CosmicCoasters/ Board Game 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: "Best Abstract Board Game of 2002" Testimonials: 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. Played a few times, but it didn't grab me. Fluxx The card game with ever-changing rules http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Fluxx/ Card game 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: Top five best new games of 1999 Games 100 (2001) Testimonials: 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. This is one of my favorite card games of all time. Icehouse Colorful pyramids you can play cool games with http://www.wunderland.com/icehouse/ Board game 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: "Best Abstract Board Game of 2000" Games 100 (2001) Testimonials: 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. 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, http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Proton/ Pocket board game 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. I have it but haven't played it yet. Q-Turn The little wooden nickel game http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Qturn/ Board game 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. I have it but haven't played it yet.