Rick's Rec Room

More and more families and groups of friends are searching for ways to get together and spend an enjoyable and often inexpensive day at play. Rick's Rec Room will explore many options for doing just that. Included will be board games, card games, miniatures and maybe eve a bit of role playing. Comments and suggestions will be welcome. The articles will be four parts information and one part opinion. Please stop by and explore this gaming world.

"Fluxx" is true to its name That’s what this game is about. "Fluxx" is all about change. The rules change as you play. Included in those changes are things like the number of cards drawn, the number of cards in a player's hand, how many cards a player can play and even the goal that will lead to victory.....more>>

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  Appeal of "Gloom" is clear
  It is hard to see exactly what makes the card game "Gloom" especially unique. It is hard to see because it’s transparent. The cards in Gloom have a transparent quality that makes it easy for one card to modify another without it causing an exercise in mathematics. This can occasionally make the cards a bit more difficult than normal to shuffle.

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  'Castle Panic' brings tension to the table
  Tension is an element not easy to create in a board game. To do it without speeding up a game is even more difficult. But Castle Panic is a new game that provides a wring-your-hands kind of worry, fret and yes, Panic that few games even approximate.

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  'Small World' contains endless possibilities
  "Small World" is a game in which a variety of races, 14 in fact, are trying to live in a world that is much too small. The only solution is for the races to expand and take over other parts of the world, previously inhabited by other races.

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  ‘Dominion’ presents a unique take on card games
  Rarely has a board game exploded on the scene with quite the force of “Dominion.”But then the game has really used some hybrid elements to create something unique. It isn’t a board game at all in the sense that there is noboard. “Dominion” is played with 500 cards that represent different abilities and goals. In that way it is a bit like a card game.
  

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