If among your Keepers on the table you have the Cookies, it would be nice to get Milk, too, in case the Goal says Milk and Cookies. There are 21 different Keepers, and they can pair up in several ways to meet any of 21 different goals. If you had Milk and Chocolate as Keepers, you'd hope the Goal, Chocolate Milk, gets played. Ah, but maybe not if one of the 18 different Action cards comes up that says "Trade hands" or "Exchange keepers".

The 23 different Rule cards affect how many you draw on a play, how many you can play out or keep in your hand (discarding any surplus), and some wonderfully zany variations. You could have as many as 10 different rules operating at the same time, or lose them all when someone plays the Reset card. One blank card is included, in case you come up with a new rule of your own to add.

Of all our meta-games with changing rules (see also Lemma and Proteus), Fluxx is the most lighthearted and fun. Much more fun than Uno, and quicker, too. Take a Fluxx deck with you, wherever you go.

Fluxx 3.0, with all-new cards replacing about 25% of the earlier deck, is out of print, though we still have a small supply. It's being replaced by the even more advanced Fluxx 3.1. Over a quarter million decks of Fluxx have been sold as of year-end 2005. Way to go, Looneys!

Every Keeper has more than one function. Here are just a few of them:

Looney Labs are extremely inventive and prolific and have added several new versions of Fluxx to their repertoire. We offer their new EcoFluxx and FamilyFluxx as well. Visit their website for the full story.