Origins 2007 Event Descriptions
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Here are the event descriptions as they have appeared in the 2007 Origins pre-reg and on-site books. Please do not edit this list as this is an archive of what we've done in the past.
The first entry is GAMA's instructions on how they want these entries to be written.
For ease of reading, I've color coded the table thusly:
- GAMA instructions in grey
- Fluxx games (the entire Fluxx family) in blue
- Non-Fluxx card games in purple
- Pyramid games in tan
- Giant games in yellow
- Other stuff just left white
| Event | Feature Text Description | Brief Description |
|---|---|---|
| Event name. Please be concise, as this goes into the Event Charts. For Tournaments, the name of the Game should be used in the Event Name (ex: Pokemon National Qualifier, Flames of War Challenge, etc) | This is a larger description with as much detail as you'd like to include. Please avoid any special characters or any strange formatting. Don't use paragraphs or other formatting here. Just write text please. | A BRIEF description of your event. This is a small description for the event grids. Plain text only. NO formatting or paragraphs at all! This field is limited to 150 characters (about 25 words) Please include all vital data for the event |
| Andy Versus Everybody! | How many of his games can Andy Looney play at once? Let's find out. Pick a Looney Labs game, grab a spot at the "Big Circular Table," get a Flag (which tells Andy it's his turn) and a few extra people (if you need it for the game – like Fluxx or Chrononauts or Aquarius do) and play! See Andy race around like a madman! | Andy Looney, inventor of Fluxx, Chrononauts, and Icehouse pyramids takes on all challengers playing various Looney Labs games! |
| Aquarius Hair-Down | Long hair and tie-dye. Yup... Looney Labs IS that Hippie Gaming Company. Let your inner-hippie out to play and hang out with other long-haired cool people. There is a real reason for this tournament – the person with the longest hair always goes first in the game Aquarius. So, find out who to play against, and compete for a prize! | Who goes first in Aquarius? The person with the longest hair. Come compete for a medallion! Longest hair wins!! |
| Aquarius World Championship | Can you bluff your way to the 7th connection? Dazzlingly colorful, fun to play, and easy to learn, Aquarius plays kind of like dominos, with each player trying to be the first to connect seven panels of a particular element (Earth, Air, Fire, Water, or Ether). Each player has a different goal, but Action cards allow players to trade or scramble the goals, as well as changing the cards on the table, thus keeping the game exciting right up until the very end. And remember – the player with the longest hair goes first! | The groovy card game that's kinda like dominos--only better! Easy to learn, fun for all ages. Medallion awarded to the winner! |
| Are You a Werewolf? | A game of paranoia, deception and mob rule. A great party game! A mind game for 8-15 players per village, in which a vengeful group of villagers must figure out who among them is secretly a werewolf (before it's too late). Each "night" the werewolves eat a villager, and each "day" the surviving villagers attempt to rid the town of werewolves by lynching one of their own. Will the werewolves take down all the villagers? Or will the villagers cleanse their town? Don't worry – you can trust me because I am NOT a werewolf! | A vengeful group of villagers must figure out who among them is secretly a werewolf (before it's too late...) |
| Ask Kristin Anything | Ever wonder what it takes to run a small gaming company of your own? Want to know the "behind the scenes" cool stuff? Curious as to why tie-dye is Kristin's favorite color? This seminar, titled "How to Run a Small Gaming Company" in the past is now just "Ask Kristin Anything." As Business Czar and Mama Rabbit, Kristin knows everything about Looney Labs – and loves to talk about it! Come and hang out in the Lab and chat! | Kristin Looney, Business Czar and CEO of Looney Labs knows a lot of stuff. Come pick her brain! |
| Binary Homeworlds Floating Tournament Finals | Binary Homeworlds is a complex space conquest game played by two players using three Treehouse sets. Competitors in this tournament will square off all weekend in impromptu battles, with the two top scoring players advancing to Sunday's finals. Medallion awarded to the winner. Check with the Tournament Director in the Lab for details. | 2-player Homeworlds – pyramids, strategy and space conquest! Floating tourneys happen all weekend - find someone with a ribbon and play! |
| Chrononauts Preliminary Tournament 1 | Each player becomes a time traveler, with a unique identity and a secret mission. Players travel backwards and forwards through history, visiting the great moments of the past, peeking into the future, collecting up artifacts, coming to grips with the paradoxes of time travel, and of course, changing pivotal events and altering the course of history itself. "Finalist" medallion awarded to the winner of this event. | (Original Chrononauts) Compete with fellow Time Travelers to repair the timeline and collect artifacts! Finals on Saturday at 2PM! |
| Early American Chrononauts Preliminary Tournament 1 | The card game of 19th century time travel. Time travel moves into another century with the celebrated prequel to Chrononauts. Everything you always wanted to do with a time machine: change stuff, collect stuff, save the universe ... now in the 1800's. Like the original, it features a 32-card layout depicting the timeline, which players then alter to fit their requirements. "Finalist" medallion awarded to the winner of this event. | (Early American Chrononauts) Compete with fellow Time Travelers to repair the timeline and collect artifacts! Finals on Saturday at 2PM! |
| EcoFluxx Tournament | The nature game of ever-changing rules. Game play is fast and fun, just like original Fluxx, but with all new, natural Keepers like dirt, leaves, bears and frogs! New "Eats" goals help teach about the food chain, and fun actions like Mass Migration and Extinction, and the new rule Composting help set the tone. Features beautiful nature drawings. Winner of this tournament is awarded a Finalist Medallion and goes onto the Fluxx World Championships, Sunday at Noon. | EcoFluxx, the Nature Game of Ever-Changing Rules! Tournament winner will advance to the Fluxx World Championship, Sunday at Noon. |
| Family Fluxx Tournament | Family Fluxx is the slimmed-down, brightened-up version of the hit card game Fluxx. With simpler Rules, colorful Keepers, and neat new family-oriented Bonuses for kids, parents and grandparents, it's fun for the whole family! Winner of this tournament is awarded a Finalist Medallion and goes onto the Fluxx World Championships, Sunday at Noon. | Fluxx, the Game of Ever-Changing Rules - for families! No experience needed. Winner goes to Fluxx World Championships on Sunday at Noon! |
| Fluxx Espanol Tournament | Come practice your Spanish while playing Fluxx! The colorful new Spanish edition is essentially the same as original Fluxx, but with a slightly different mix, including some special new cards created just for this edition, like La Fiesta and El Reventon! ¡Diversión para toda la familia con Fluxx Español! Winner of this tournament is awarded a Finalist Medallion and goes onto the Fluxx World Championships, Sunday at Noon. | Fluxx, the Game of Ever-Changing Rules – entirely In SPANISH! Working knowledge of either Fluxx or Spanish recommended. Winner of this tournament is awarded a Finalist Medallion and goes onto the Fluxx World Championships, Sunday at Noon. |
| Fluxx Preliminary Tournament 1 | Come celebrate the 10th Anniversary of FLUXX! It's simple – to start, you just Draw 1 and Play 1. Keepers are played down on the table in front of you – Actions get played and then discarded – and New Rules change what you can do. It may become Draw 2, Play 3 – or suddenly you have a Hand Limit. But how do you win? You have to wait for a Goal to be played – and then match that... or change the Goal to match what you already have! It's fun, simple and easy to learn. Come play Original Fluxx, or one of the many other versions we also have to offer! Finalist medallion awarded to the winner. | Fluxx, the Game of Ever-Changing Rules! No prior experience necessary. Winner advances to Fluxx World Championships on Sunday at Noon! |
| Fluxx World Championship | Winners of all the preliminary rounds advance to this World Championship game – along the winner of each of the "Other Versions of Fluxx" tournaments: EcoFluxx, Family Fluxx, Stoner Fluxx and Fluxx Espanol! Claim a spot in this All Fluxx World Championship by winning a prelim. Championship Medallion awarded to the winner! | Winners of the various Fluxx Preliminary Tournaments compete for the title of Fluxx World Champion! |
| Giant IceTowers | It's eight times more fun using Giant Pyramid Pieces: IceTowers is a high-speed game of pyramid stacking, played without turns on any flat surface. Everyone plays at once, by "capping" other pieces with those of their own color. If yours is the top piece on a tower at the end of the game, you get points for the whole tower. As towers grow taller, you'll be able to "mine" pieces out and replay them, or even "split" some towers in two. The game ends when no more plays are possible. | Cap, mine, and split your opponents in the Giant form of this easy-to-learn Treehouse pieces game. |
| Giant Martian Chess | It's eight times the fun of using Giant Pyramid Pieces to play this game that is like Chess, using similar mechanics. However, Martian Chess uses some different features than Chess: control of pieces is determined by location rather than color and it is playable with more than two players For seasoned chess players, Martian Chess has subtle paradigm shifts that offer convention-challenging lessons. Easy to learn, and fun to master – especially Giant Sized! | Chess-like strategy game in which location not color determines which pieces you may move. Played with Giant Treehouse Pyramids. |
| Giant Martian Coasters | Giant Martian Coasters is a set of four colorful 36" coasters, each featuring a small gameboard. Playing a game of Giant Martian Coasters requires a Giant Treehouse set and a standard six-sided die. Each player has three pyramids of one color, which are distributed around the set of four coasters. The object is to move all of one's pyramids onto the coaster/gameboard of matching color and into a nested stack on the center of that board. This is an All Play event – come, learn, play – have lots of fun. | The newest drink-mat game from Looney Labs - it's a race game with movable game boards - all Giant Sized! |
| Giant RAMBots | Imagine a grid-style arena in which several armored,laser-equipped RAMbots, controlled by remote programmers, attempt to tag a series of shifting beacons, in a particular order, before this is done by any of the other RAMbots. To control your RAMbot, you will prepare a secret program: a series of up to 5 coded instructions. During each round, all players' programs are run at once, in a precedence-driven, interwoven sequence. It's all done with a classic 4 color Icehouse set on a standard chessboard, along with some little privacy screens to hide your programming work behind. Medallion awarded to the winner. | A programing-style strategy game using Giant Treehouse pieces and a chessboard. |
| Giant Treehouse – Preliminary | Treehouse is the exciting new pyramid game designed by Andrew Looney. Each player rolls the custom die to determine if they will TIP, SWAP, DIG, AIM, or HOP their Tree of three pyramids while they try to make them match the configuration of the shared goal called The House. Roll a WILD and you can change your own Tree or The House! Played on the floor with Giant Pyramids, and 2 giant dice, Giant Treehouse is fun for the whole family! This event is a Preliminary round: winner of this event is awarded a Finalist Medallion and advances to the standard size tabletop Treehouse World Championships! | Giant pyramids, strategy and one lucky die! 8 times the size means 64 times the fun! |
| Giant Volcano | Volcano is a clever, puzzle-style game in which players move "caps" around on top of a group of volcanoes, triggering eruptions which cause colored streams of lava to flow out across the playing field. The object of the game is to capture as many pieces as possible, with bonus points awarded for special combinations. Each player attempts to accumulate the highest score and then bring the game to a close before another player has a chance to steal the lead away | Giant pyramids, strategy and erupting lava! |
| Giant Zendo | Zendo is a game of inductive logic in which the Master creates a rule and the Students attempt to discover it by building and studying arrangements of pyramids. The first student to correctly state the rule wins. | Origins Award winner! The Giant-sized game with the Buddha-nature--can you guess the rule before the other students? |
| Gnostica Tournament | Gnostica is a dynamic-landscape strategy war game played using an Icehouse set and a deck of tarot cards. Based on the Icehouse classic Zarcana (see Zarcana tournament description), Gnostica was totally redesigned, starting with just the core mechanics, to be a more aggressive and faster-moving battle than the more random and quirky game which inspired it (and which some people still prefer). Medallion awarded to the winner. | A territorial strategy game played with Treehouse pieces on a landscape of Tarot cards. Medallion awarded to the winner! |
| IceTowers Tournament | IceTowers is a high-speed game of pyramid stacking, played without turns on any flat surface. Everyone plays at once, by "capping" other pieces with those of their own color. If yours is the top piece on a tower at the end of the game, you get points for the whole tower. As towers grow taller, you'll be able to "mine" pieces out and replay them, or even "split" some towers in two. The game ends when no more plays are possible. | IceTowers is a high-speed, no-turns game of pyramid stacking, using Treehouse pyramids. Simple to learn, medallion awarded to the winner! |
| Intertemporal Chrononauts World Championships | How good are you at time travel? The Intertemporal Chrononauts Championship is played as UberChrononauts - both Original Chrononauts and EAC are put together in a time-vortexing race to the finish. Before this round, you only had to master a small section of history – now you must control hundreds of years of history to win! Gather lots of loot, patch lots of paradoxes, and get back HOME! You must have won one of the preliminary tournaments to be eligible for this game. Champion Medallion goes to the winner! | Be the World Champion Time Traveller! Must have won a prelim earlier to quailfy. |
| Intro to Icehouse 101: Basics and Beginnings | Icehouse is the game that spawned all other pyramid games (and Looney Labs as a whole), and yet it still stands out as one of the most complex and difficult-to-grok of the games in the Icehouse system. It's pure abstract strategy, a game of simple attacks and defenses, but it's played without turns on a free-form surface and requires both hand-eye coordination and good diplomatic skills. The best way to grasp the nuances of playing Icehouse is to see the game in action, so don't miss this opportunity to learn from the experts. | Learn the basics of Icehouse from a 3-time IIT winner. No experience needed! |
| Intro to Icehouse 201: Strategy and Tactics | Icehouse is the game that spawned all other pyramid games (and Looney Labs as a whole), and yet it still stands out as one of the most complex and difficult-to-grok of the games in the Icehouse system. It's pure abstract strategy, a game of simple attacks and defenses, but it's played without turns on a free-form surface and requires both hand-eye coordination and good diplomatic skills. The best way to grasp the nuances of playing Icehouse is to see the game in action, so don't miss this opportunity to learn from the experts. | Learn the basics of Icehouse strategy from a 3-time IIT winner. No experience needed! |
| Looney For Learning | Teacher Rabbits love sharing Looney Labs games – with their students, other teachers – just about anyone. Our seminar last year was packed, and we didn't have enough time to play any of the games we brought – so we're doubling the time and number of seminars. Come learn how Chrononauts, EcoFluxx, Treehouse and all the other Looney Labs games can fit into YOUR classroom, learn to play the games from the experts, and have time to chat about your unique teaching environment. Traditional teachers and homeschoolers alike will be there to share their strategies and lesson plans with you. Come to learn, stay to play! | Looney Labs games are great for educators--our Teacher Rabbits will show you why, discussing classroom use of Chrononauts, Fluxx, Aquarius, and more! |
| Martian Chess Tournament | This game plays similarly to Chess, using similar mechanics. However, Martian Chess uses some different features than Chess: control of pieces is determined by location rather than color and it is playable with more than two players For seasoned chess players, Martian Chess has subtle paradigm shifts that offer convention-challenging lessons. Stop by the lab before the tournament for a quick demo – easy to learn, and fun to master! Medallion awarded to the Winner! | Chess-like strategy game in which location rather than color determines which pieces you may move. Played with Treehouse Pyramids. |
| Martian Coasters Preliminary Tournament 1 | Martian Coasters is a set of four colorful 4" drink coasters, each featuring a small gameboard. Playing a game of Martian Coasters requires a Treehouse set and a standard six-sided die. Each player has three pyramids of one color, which are distributed around the set of four coasters. The object is to move all of one's pyramids onto the coaster/gameboard of matching color and into a nested stack on the center of that board. Finalist Medallion awarded to the winner! | The newest drink-mat game from Looney Labs - it's a race with moveable game boards. Drop by the lab for a demo before the tourney! |
| Martian Hold'em Tournament | Everyone loves Texas Hold'em, but what if no one brought along that big heavy box of poker chips? It's not a problem if you've got an Icehouse set! We call it Martian Hold'em and it's just like the Texas version except with pyramids instead of chips. When you buy-in, you get a stash of 15 Icehouse pieces, five each with values as follows: Small =1, Medium = 5, Large = 25. We play tournament-style, so when you go all-in and end up losing, you're out. Winner takes all, which in this case is prestige and a lovely medallion. | No-Limit Texas Hold'em using Treehouse pieces for score-keeping. Medallion awarded to the winner!
Arrange your cards to tell the best story as judged by a jury of your peers. Medallion awarded to the Winner! |
| Nanofictionary Tournament | The card game of telling tiny stories. Where are we? Who is there? What's going on? And how is it all going to end? These are the crucial questions each player answers, choosing from the cards they're dealt to tell a very short story. Players combine and recombine Settings, Characters, Problems and Resolutions to create the best story they can, while other players mix things up with wacky Action cards. Everyone votes for their favorites, including onlookers, and the winner is the player whose story garners the most points! Two great stories from the 2006 tournament are on YouTube – check it out to see what a top NanoStory is like! | Arrange your cards to tell the best story as judged by a jury of your peers. Winner goes on to the Championship, Noon on Sunday! |
| Pikeman Tournament | Another game for an Icehouse set and a chessboard, also played kind of like Chess. In Pikemen, pieces are warriors with long spears known as "Pikes." Each turn a Pikeman may charge in the direction he is pointing and then reorient his pike in a different direction, including straight up for defense. The player who captures a number of enemy Pikemen first wins. Medallion awarded to the winner! | A chess-like game using Treehouse pieces. Simple rules, yet surprisingly complex strategy. |
| Quantum Fluxx | Come play Looney Labs' flagship game – gone wild. Every version of Fluxx currently in print will be mixed together to form one HUGE deck. It doesn't matter what language your cards are in – if you've got the winning combination, you're the victor! A cheat sheet will be provided for those not fluent in both Spanish and German, but you'll have to know what most of the cards do in English. The craziness of this game is only surpassed by the GM who it thought up. | ALL (yes, all) the current versions of Fluxx, no matter subject or language, all mixed together in one giant game. |
| Rabbit Crafts | Come and be crafty in The Lab. Bring your own crafts (knitting, needlepoint, scherenschnitte...) to work on while chatting with other crafters, or participate in one of the crafts we have on hand. Plenty of stuff for all ages to do, from coloring pages to more detailed-oriented crafts. Stop by and see what's in the Craft-Box o' Fun today! | Let your creative self shine with the fun folks from Looney Labs |
| Rabbits in the Kids Room | Our Rabbits go where the gamers are – and the smallest gamers have their own ROOM! So a couple of our best Demo Rabbits will come to the Kid's Track Room and show you and your family how to play some of our best Giant Pyramid games! GAMA owns a stash of Giant Pyramids, we can show you what to play. Giant Ice Towers and Giant Treehouse will be the most popular, but if you're wanting to learn another Pyramid game, just ask the Rabbits! Parents and kids are encouraged to come to the Kids Room to learn these great family games together! | Come play with Rabbits and Giant Pyramids in the Kids Room – Must be shorter than a full Treehouse stash to play! Parents welcome!! |
| RAMbots Tournament | Imagine a grid-style arena in which several armored,laser-equipped RAMbots, controlled by remote programmers, attempt to tag a series of shifting beacons, in a particular order, before this is done by any of the other RAMbots. To control your RAMbot, you will prepare a secret program: a series of up to 5 coded instructions. During each round, all players' programs are run at once, in a precedence-driven, interwoven sequence. It's all done with a classic 4 color Icehouse set on a standard chessboard, along with some little privacy screens to hide your programming work behind. Medallion awarded to the winner. | A programing-style strategy game using Treehouse pieces and a chessboard. Medallion awarded to the winner! |
| Stoner Fluxx Tournament | Stoner Fluxx is more than just a weed-themed version of the hit game Fluxx. It's a call for an end to the Unconstitutional War on Drugs, a celebration of what the word Freedom really means, and, yes, a game about smoking pot and getting the munchies with your friends. But just as marijuana should be regulated and taxed like alcohol, it also isn't for children, so this event will be held late at night and is restricted to adults only. Winner receives a medallion and advances to the Fluxx World Championships on Sunday. | Adults only! The Game about Weed, Freedom, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Winner advances to the Fluxx World Championship, Sunday at Noon! |
| The Big Experiment | The Big Experiment is a corner of Origins where you can hang out and play Looney Labs Games with Mad Lab Rabbits from all over the world. One low admission cost (the Big Experiment Ribbon) allows you to take part in everything going on in The Lab (D233-234) from Tournaments to Crafts and Seminars to playing with Giant Pyramids! Hang out and learn a new game or twelve, have a ton of fun, and maybe take home a prize! Medallions awarded to Tournament finalists and winners. Fun for the whole family – come check it out! | Join Looney Labs' "Big Experiment" as we celebrate 10 Years of Fluxx! With one ribbon you can hang out in The Lab and play in all games and tourneys. |
| Treehouse Floating Tournament Finals | Treehouse is the exciting new pyramid game designed by Andrew Looney. Each player rolls the custom die to determine if they will TIP, SWAP, DIG, AIM, or HOP their Tree of three pyramids while they try to make them match the configuration of the shared goal called The House. Roll a WILD and you can change your own Tree or The House! There are two ways you can compete to win a Treehouse Medallion – play in this Floating tournament, or play in the regular tabletop Treehouse tournament. Check with the Tournament Director in The Lab for details! Medallion awarded to the winner! | 2-player Treehouse – pyramids, strategy and one lucky die! Floating tourneys happen all weekend - find someone with a ribbon and play! |
| Treehouse Preliminary Tournament 1 | Treehouse is the exciting new pyramid game designed by Andrew Looney. Each player rolls the custom die to determine if they will TIP, SWAP, DIG, AIM, or HOP their Tree of three pyramids while they try to make them match the configuration of the shared goal called The House. Roll a WILD and you can change your own Tree or The House! There are two ways you can compete to win a Treehouse Medallion – play in this tournament, or play in the Floating Treehouse tournament. Check with the Tournament Director in The Lab for details! | Can you be the first to match the House's pattern? Drop by the Lab for a demo before the tournament! Finals are Saturday at Noon |
| Treehouse World Tabletop Championship Finals | The winners of the four Treehouse preliminaries – two Standard and two Giant - will compete in the ultimate Treehouse showdown | Can you be the first to match the House's pattern? Drop by the Lab for a demo before the tournament! Finals are Saturday at Noon |
| Volcano Floating Tournament Finals | Volcano is a clever, puzzle-style game in which players move "caps" around on top of a group of volcanoes, triggering eruptions which cause colored streams of lava to flow out across the playing field. The object of the game is to capture as many pieces as possible, with bonus points awarded for special combinations. Each player attempts to accumulate the highest score and then bring the game to a close before another player has a chance to steal the lead away. Medallion awarded to the winner! | 2-player Volcano – pyramids, strategy and erupting lava! Floating tourneys happen all weekend - find someone with a ribbon and play! |
| XVIII International Icehouse Tournament Finals | Icehouse is the game that spawned all other pyramid games (and Looney Labs as a whole), and yet it still stands out as one of the most complex and difficult-to-grok of the games in the Icehouse system. It's pure abstract strategy, a game of simple attacks and defenses, but it's played without turns on a free-form surface and requires both hand-eye coordination and good diplomatic skills. Now in its 18th year, this tournament attracts the most dedicated and hard-core Icehouse players, but all are welcomed. Six medallions awarded. | Eighteenth International Icehouse Tournament, for the original game designed for Treehouse pieces. Come play with the best! |
| XVIII International Icehouse Tournament Prelimnaries | Icehouse is the game that spawned all other pyramid games (and Looney Labs as a whole), and yet it still stands out as one of the most complex and difficult-to-grok of the games in the Icehouse system. It's pure abstract strategy, a game of simple attacks and defenses, but it's played without turns on a free-form surface and requires both hand-eye coordination and good diplomatic skills. Now in its 18th year, this tournament attracts the most dedicated and hard-core Icehouse players, but all are welcomed. Six medallions awarded. | Eighteenth International Icehouse Tournament, for the original game designed for Treehouse pieces. Come play with the best! |
| Zarcana Tournament | Zarcana is a game of war, journeys, growth, life, and death. Icehouse pieces are your minions, spreading out across a world composed of tarot cards. You move these minions across the board, trying to occupy valuable cards. The board can change, grow and shrink, so be prepared to defend your holdings, invade enemy territory, and colonize new lands. You will also have a hand of cards, drawn from the tarot deck. Each card has a power, and you can make use of the cards you occupy on the board in addition to the cards in your hand. Use them wisely. Whoever occupies the most valuable set of cards on the board will be the winner, when the end of the game is finally declared. | A territorial war game played on a landscape of Tarot cards, using Treehouse pieces. Medallion awarded to the winner! |
| Zendo World Championship | Zendo is a game of inductive logic in which the Master creates a rule and the Students attempt to discover it by building and studying arrangements of pyramids. The first student to correctly state the rule wins. | Origins Award winner! The game with the Buddha-nature--can you guess the rule before the other students? Medallion awarded to the winner! |
