Monty Python Fluxx FAQ

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Here are some Frequently Asked Questions about Monty Python Fluxx. See also the official Fluxx FAQ page as well as the rabbit wiki Fluxx FAQ file for more answers to Fluxx questions.

• Q: What happens if the Goal is The Cheese Shop and someone plays the Action Bring Out Your Dead?
  • A: When the Cheese Shop is the Goal, you win if you alone have nothing at all (no Keepers, no Creepers, and no cards in your hand). Meanwhile, the Bring Out Your Dead Action allows all players to discard any of their Keepers, Creepers, or cards in their hand. Together these cards create an interesting situation. If one player chooses to discard all their stuff, they will become eligible to win, but if anyone else jumps on the bandwagon, no one will win. Since everyone gets the option at once, all players must declare what they are discarding, or not, before anyone can claim a victory with the Cheese Shop Goal. Once the dust settles, i.e. once all cards that are being discarded have been gathered up and are being shuffled, you can claim victory if you alone threw everything away. Similarly, if you notice just one other player quietly discarding all their stuff, you should probably do the same thing... either that, or point out the danger to others, in hopes of getting someone else to dump their holdings in order to avoid losing.

• Q: Is there a turn order to observe if the Goal is The Cheese Shop and someone plays the Action Bring Out Your Dead?
  • A: No, there's no turn order, it's more like the closing of an auction. As in other Fluxx situations, everything that happens must effectively happen simultaneously, so it's open season on tossing in your cards, until such time as the person who played it starts the re-shuffle, at which point the option closes. If you've got competitive players watching for this situation, you might need to invoke a "Going once... going twice... shuffling!" procedure.

• Q: Can you win with The Cheese Shop in the middle of taking the Get On With It! option?
  • A: No. The option to discard your entire hand carries a requirement that you immediately draw replacement cards. You must obey the entire sentence. The two events happen in a sequence, but both must happen before anything else can be resolved.

• Q: Suppose the The Cheese Shop is the Goal and I have no Keepers, one Creeper,  "Look on the Bright Side of Life" or "Silver Lining" in my hand, and have already drawn the draw amount and have one play left. The Cheese Shop says that I win if I have no Keepers, no Creepers, and no cards in hand but when I play the 'Creepers do not prevent you from winning' rule do I win?
  • A: No. The Silver Lining-type rule lifts the victory-inhibition function of the Creeper generally, but it doesn't make the Creeper non-existent, and the spirit of the Cheese Shop Goal is that you win if you alone possess absolutely nothing.

• Q: The Keeper card The Animator says that it "Counts as The Finger of God if the real Finger of God is not on the table." Does this mean that it counts as the Finger of God in name only (i.e. for the purposes of filling any Goals requiring the Finger), or does The Animator also gain the Creeper-smiting powers of the Finger?
  • A: Yes, the Animator can smite Creepers if the Finger of God is not on the table, since that's something the Finger of God can do and if something counts as another card then it has all the same properties as that other card -- even if it doesn't actually say so on the card that counts as the other card. (It's like a transitive property thing.)

• Q: If the Animator counts as the Finger of God, can it count as both at the same time in order to fulfill the goal The Meaning of Life??
  • A: No. While God Himself may be omnipresent, nothing else can be in two places at once. Since the card shows two things being required, you need to have both slots filled. While the Animator can take the place of the Finger on other Goals, you need him to be himself when the Goal is the Meaning of Life, and he can't do that if he's off on the other side of the card being the Finger of God. (To clear this up on future editions, we should probably change the Animator's fine print from "Counts as..." to "Can count instead as...")

• Q: If Double Agenda is on the table, and both Goals require a Creeper (eg. Rabbits of DOOM and He Bravely Ran Away), can you win by fulfilling both Goals?
  • A: No. The 3-Headed Giant you need to win with He Bravely Ran Away prevents you from winning with Rabbits of DOOM, while the Killer Rabbit you need for that prevents you from winning with He Bravely Ran Away.

• Q: Draw 2 and I Just Want To Sing! are on the table. I draw 2, sing a new Python song to draw 2 more, and play Draw 3. Do I get to draw a 3rd card or not?
  • A: Yes.

• Q: With Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink can you bluff and draw a card, or do you have to prove you know "what is meant"?
  • A: Well, that all depends on how good a job of bluffing you do, doesn't it?

• Q: Can you use the Finger of God's Ability to avoid actions such as Steal a Keeper?
  • A: No. Once someone plays the action Steal a Keeper, it's too late for you to interrupt what they're doing with out-of-turn Smiting behavior. They must be allowed to finish the action before anything else can happen.

• Q: What is the name of a card? is it the text on the side in the color rectangle, or the bolded black text in the middle above the line?
  • A: Both pieces of text are considered to be part of "The Title" for purposes of something like looking for the word "it" in the title. That said, the official title is the one on the stripe.

• Q: In a game with two players with The Cheese Shop as the goal, player 1 plays Bring Out Your Dead at the end of her turn and both players discard their hands and all of their keepers and creepers. Does then Player 1 win when Player 2 draws at the beginning of his turn?
  • A: Yes!

• Q: Does using a special option listed on a Keeper count as a Play, or is it a Free Action? For example, Excalibur lets you move a Creeper to another player... is that considered a "Play"?
  • A: No, special options provided by Keepers are Free Actions, not Plays.