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Preparing for a trip to the Grand Canyon, the designers wanted games that were light, fun, and travel friendly. To save weight and space, they put them all in one deck.
The Flex Deck combines:
traditional playing cards (suit and rank in top left corner)
double-9 dominoes (middle of card)
letter/word games (letter in bottom left corner)
The main goal of Flex Deck is to let the owners play with it any way they want. Their website was a place where people could post rules to games they have invented for the deck.
The deck includes rules to one omnibus game, Pick How You Play. In each round, players play either All Fives Dominoes, or Rummy, and the first to 200 points wins. Between each round, players play a word game where each makes a crossword from their hand of 15 cards, with the player using the most cards choosing whether to play dominoes or rummy for the next round.
—user summary
- Good for generating random hex encounters
- Useful as a tool in conjunction with other games
- Designed by Philip Reed, described as 'one of the hardest working dudes in the business'
- Not a game in itself, requires a system
- Morborg
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card-based generation — Uses cards to generate hexes and keyed encounters.
- random encounters — Designed for generating random hex encounters.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- This is one of the best tools for hex crawling that I know of.
- It just works so effortlessly.
- This little snap box here has everything that you would need to have a little solo hex crawl.
- So just a really really neat little pocket uh hex crawl.
- This isn't a game in and of itself. You will need a game. You will need a system.
- This is one of my favorite subgenres of the tabletop hobby.
References (from this video)
- Appealing card art and tactile components
- Brings a different vibe to the unboxing lineup
- No detailed rule set shown in the video
- Foxy creatures and deck-building vibes
- Card-based design with a playful theme
- Foxy Deck
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deck Building — Assemble a deck to perform actions and gain points.
- deck-building — Assemble a deck to perform actions and gain points.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- the most boring unboxings on the planet Earth
- Ooh, it's the new Cities Cities USA
- This is one I'm very much looking forward to actually
- I remember hearing about this game
- I'm very excited about this one