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Ideas for Fluxx

I was looking over Steffan O' Sullivan's Fluxx Fixes page recently, checking out his ideas for new cards. I couldn't figure out the rationale behind his suggested new Goal cards, so I worked up a list of all the Keepers in the game, and counted how many Goals they were part of and what extra things they could do:

KeeperGoalsExtras
Bread1--
Chocolate3--
Coffee1--
Cookies2--
Death3--
Doughnuts1--
Love2Single-Keeper Goal
Milk2--
Money2Bonus, Single-Keeper Goal
Peace2Single-Keeper Goal
Taxes1Bonus, Spoils Money's Single-Keeper Goal
Television1--
The Brain2Bonus, Single-Keeper Goal
The Eye2--
The Moon2--
The Pyramid1--
The Rocket1--
The Sun1--
The Toaster2--
Time1Bonus
War1Spoils Peace's Single-Keeper Goal

So, Chocolate and Death each contribute to two goals (one of them shared: Death by Chocolate), making them very valuable. I don't know why Steffan says The Eye is valuable; maybe he meant to write The Brain. Anyway, I don't like the new Goals he suggests. Your Brain is Toast and Tolstoy make two already powerful cards (The Brain and Peace) even more useful. Instead, I've designed some new goals that use the underutilized Keepers:

Bakery
The player with both Bread and Doughnuts on the table wins.
Coffee Break
The player with both Time and Coffee on the table wins.
The Revolution Will Be Televised
The player who has both War and Television on the table wins.
The Stars Are Right
The player who has both The Rocket and The Pyramid on the table wins.
Sundial
The player who has both Time and The Sun on the table wins.
TV License
The player who has both Taxes and Television on the table wins.

With these six new Goals, there are no more Keepers that are used by only one Goal. Time joins Death and Chocolate as a three-Goal Keeper.

I've also added Steffan's Too Many Keepers New Rule card to my deck, and I've made up Draw 2, Play 2, a single New Rule card that affects both Draw and Play. This leaves me with three blank cards to fiddle with.

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