Chrononauts
by Looney Labs
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: Looney LabsBrand: Looney Labs
Product features:
- In Chrononauts, each player becomes a time traveler, with a unique identity and a secret mission.
- During the game, players travel backwards and forwards through history, doing all those things people have always dreamed of using a time machine to do
- Visit the great moments of the past, peek into the future, collect up impossible artifacts and priceless works of art (at the moment just before history records their destruction), come to grips with the paradoxes of time travel, and of course, change pivotal events and alter the course of history itself.
- It's all packed into a fast and easy Fluxx-style card game that will take you to the beginning of time and back again.
- Expansions:* Chrononauts: Lost Identities, * several promo cards. Awards:* 2000: Origins Award for Best Traditional Card Game.
Toys and Games Reviews of Chrononauts
Customer Review: I love this game!
Summary: 5 Stars
I got this game for my fiancee for Christmas last year and we love it! I've played it many times and it never gets old. I love the historical references of the timeline cards and the things that you can do to change them. Killing Hitler is always fun! The game is easy to learn and easy to play. Individual games are quick too, 15 minutes or less with two people, so it's a nice game to play when you don't have a whole lot of time. It is also serious when it says it can be played with two people. So many games say they are appropriate with two players but really aren't - this one's the real deal.
In the game, you are a time traveler. In your timeline, things happened a certain way, but they have been changed. Your goal is to alter the timeline so that it matches your timeline so you can go back home. As you travel, you also collect artifacts from the past and future. If you succeed in either altering the timeline sufficiently to get home or completing your mission (collecting all the necessary artifacts) before your opponants, you win.
Play is simple. You set up the timeline cards in choronological order and every person gets a random Misson and ID card. The ID card has a list of three timeline events that must be correctly displayed in order for you to win. Two of the events are things you need to change from the original timeline and one is one that has to stay the same. You use Reverse Fate cards to flip the timeline cards over and change history (alter the timeline). Any change results in a ripple effect that changes one to several other cards in the timeline. You may then play additional cards on the reversed cards to further change the past.
The game is quick, fun, and easy. It's a little pricy and the cards wear out a little faster than they might, but I still think it's worth it. There are additional add ons to the game as well that expand the mission and ID card possibilites as well as a whole separate set called "Early American" that can be played separately or together with the original Chrononauts. I have all the add ons and it really adds to the fun!
Description of Chrononauts
In Chrononauts, each player becomes a time traveler, with a unique identity and a secret mission. During the game, players travel backwards and forwards through history, doing all those things people have always dreamed of using a time machine to do: Visiting the great moments of the past, peeking into the future, collecting up impossible artifacts and priceless works of art (at the moment just before history records their destruction), coming to grips with the paradoxes of time travel, and of course, changing pivotal events and altering the course of history itself. How would the timeline be different if Lincoln and JFK had not been assassinated? And is that the version of reality that you came from originally... the one you must return to in order to win? It's all packed into a fast and easy Fluxx-style card game that will take you to the beginning of time and back again. Prequel:* Early American Chrononauts - can be played together in a combined game. Expansions:* Chrononauts: Lost Identities, * several promo cards. Awards:* 2000: Origins Award for Best Traditional Card Game.Card Games Toys
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