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Zombie Fluxx | 
| Brand: Looney Labs
Category: Toy
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $8.90
as of 3/10/2010 04:29 MST details
You Save: $11.09 (55%)
New (32) from $8.90
Seller: Best Dang Games
Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 1634
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 10 - 99 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 3.1 x 0.7 x 4.6
MPN: LOO033
Model: 4102545
ISBN: 1929780664
EAN: 9781929780662
ASIN: 1929780664
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| | Zombies horror spoof of the award-winning Fluxx game | | | For 2 or more players | | | 100 card deck in a colorful double-deck tuck box | | | Great party game | | | Card game |
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Product Description
Zombie Fluxx takes the award-winning card game Fluxx and cranks up the fun with a Zombie uprising.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 17
 Great Game! February 10, 2010
mattywils (Lancaster, PA USA)
This card game is great. It takes some getting used to the rules but once you've got it, it's a lot of fun. It is based off of the original Fluxx game but with a sweet twist. Don't worry though, it isn't graphic or gruesome. Good for teens and older I'd say.
Addicting February 3, 2010
A. Lee (New London, CT United States)
My 7 (almost 8) year old son LOVES this game!
And whenever we bring the game along to a get together, at least one person asks where to buy it (and they more often than not, pick it up).
I highly recommend this for any card and board game players.
Great Game January 17, 2010
A. Easter
I bought this game because my husband loves Zombies. I knew nothing about how to play this game. This game is very fast and the rules are always changing. I think the best way to learn a new game is just to play. At first it's a little confusing, but overall it's a very fun game. We really like it. We want to try some other versions to see if they're just as fun.
 Frustratingly random August 7, 2009
George Blichar (Lansing, MI USA)
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
Unpredictability.
That is the basic concept behind ANY game of Fluxx, despite the version you end up playing. The rules, goals, and variables are constantly changing, to give every player a chance at winning. Sounds fun, right? "I really have a chance of winning this thing, no matter what I do and who doesn't like zombies?"
Honestly, this game almost made me hate zombies. "uuuuughhhhhhhhh..." (there is a rule where you need to make a zombie noise)
Gameplay
You start with 5 cards, but if any of your initial cards are zombies, you place those in front of you and draw enough to bring you back up to 5. The initial rules are "Draw 1, Play 1" from the deck in the middle, but this never gets around the table, because someone always changes the rule to draw or play more. You follow the current rules (i.e.: Draw 4, play ALL), all in hopes of completing the goal that someone needs to play a Goal card to find out.
There are 5 types of cards in the game, allowing different things to happen at every turn; Action, Goal, New Rule, Keeper, and Creepers(Zombies). Actions allow you to do random things like "choose a player to steal cards from" or "gather up all the Keepers and Creepers and shuffle them, and deal them out again, randomly". Goals change the goal and can even let the Zombies win. New Rules change how the entire game is played. If one card, say Draw 5, is played, it negates the last "Draw #" card that was in play. Same thing applies to the "Hand Limit" and "Play" cards. Keepers are good things you play in order to complete the goal while Creepers are usually Zombies you need to kill before you can win. You can kill off your Zombies, depending on if you have an effective Keeper. There are different types of zombies that do different things when you kill them, and certain Goals allow you to win with them.
Someone wins when their Keeper/Creeper combo meets the Goal stipulations.
Cons
This game is WAY TOO random. There is really no strategy or purpose to speak of because everything you are working towards could easily be scrapped in the very next turn. The Action I mentioned above, with the Keeper/Creeper roundup, ALWAYS gets played to groans. You just can't anticipate anything and it is ridiculously frustrating to lose any ground you feel like you might have made. There is never really any tension that you might win because usually someone randomly plays a Goal and instantly wins from what they just picked up.
The timing can never be gauged. You could conceivably win the game on your first turn which, happily, would defeat the purpose of playing in the first place. Conversely, you can be sitting there with some people having 20 cards in their hand, trying to read every one of them, and everyone groaning because the stupid game won't end. I think that game we played, the Zombies ended up winning too. It was NOT fun, but a waste of time.
Pros
Some people just love Zombies, Monty Python, Christianity, Judaism, or whatever other themes they have for Fluxx. I guess you can have fun on that front, but like I mentioned at the beginning, this version made me start to hate zombies... then I read myself some of The Walking Dead and felt better... ahem...
Sticking to the Pros, the "Moan like a Zombie" rule is at least entertaining for a bit. This rule makes you moan like a Zombie anytime you pick a Zombie. There are things like this in the Monty Python version, singing songs or talking in a silly accent. Smirks happen, given the weak or strong moans some people give.
If you just enjoy random, unpredictable games, this is definitely one.
Final Thoughts
I won't sugar coat it for you; I hate this game. It is endearing for maybe 10 minutes until you realize there is no rhyme or reason to it and you are wasting your time trying to find any. I have played this about 4 or 5 times with my friends and I refuse to play it any more at this point. The frustration felt when nothing you do makes a bit of difference is terrible.
I can't say if the random "I win" moments that happen are like being sucker punched or a bit of happiness that the game is finally over. The second to last time we played, people in the group actually said, "let's play again, maybe the next game will be better." I'm sorry, but every game sucked.
Maybe some kids will like this, but just stay away from ANY Fluxx.
Great game! May 9, 2009
Jonathan Lane (Saratoga Springs, NY)
This is a great game that is different each time you play. It's even fun with only two people playing, but more is better. If you like zombies, I highly recommend it!
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