Take away Birthday card

[DField82]

They justify it with a quote from the game creator saying you can literally make holidays up. Sportsmanship is irrelevant, they say.

Write to the publisher and plead your case that they should tell BGA to do what you want. Or buy the rights to the game, then you can force BGA to do whatever you want. This has devolved into pointless ranting because the implementation isn't going to change unless one of those two things happens.

Why would I do that? BGA has implemented the game rules correctly.

Players are also free to misuse the card if they want.

I'd just like them to admit that deliberately not following the rules as written on the card is known as "breaking the rules", also sometimes called "cheating".

[tubiroman]

Well.. I'm tired of playing with people that misuse this card... I know that it's possible simply to have an option to disable it or not... The game Space Base has this option for one of the cards so why would it not be possible in this game ?

[Meeplelowda]

The game Space Base has this option for one of the cards so why would it not be possible in this game ?

It's obviously "possible" from a technical standpoint. Any changes to the rules of a game (including removing cards) have to be approved by the rights owner of the game, as it was for Space Base (and for overpowered birds in Wingspan, etc.). If you read the rest of this thread (specifically page 6) you will see that the rights owners are fine with how Fluxx is implemented on BGA.

[RandomUN]

Just got accused of "cheating" for picking holiday, despite naming the holiday, in arena

[RandomUN]

For reference, and something apparently a LOT of people need to read, accept, and move on (from the official Looney Labs FAQ on this card specifically, https://faq.looneylabs.com/question/1074):

Q: For Today’s Special, does it have to be a holiday you celebrate yourself, or could it be any recognized holiday?
A: We would rule that any legitimate holiday you can think of should work. No making stuff up…”Yeah, it’s National Elevator Day! That’s the ticket!…” unless it really is National Elevator Day.* You don’t have to specifically celebrate that holiday yourself.

It may be a good idea to apply a house rule about “no looking up today’s date during the game to see what holiday it might be.” I think in our house, we’d probably rule that you could use the internet to verify, but not search for a holiday mid-game. But that would be up to your gaming group.

IN FACT, you could even choose to look up any possible holiday BEFORE the game, so everybody knows (and agrees on) exactly what “special day” it is if that card comes up for them. “Well, we’re about to play Holiday Fluxx, and, just so everybody knows, it happens to be International Day of the Nacho, so, if everybody agrees, that will be what counts for the card Today’s Special!”

Perhaps the most important part of this FAQ is that deciding what is and is not a valid “special day” is something you and your gaming group should agree on BEFORE you start playing. It’s more important that you AGREE than that you be CORRECT about what counts, and that agreement needs to be established before the game starts, not when the card comes up in play.

For example, if you can’t agree what counts as “a holiday” in the broader sense, then you could alternate which way you will play. One game, before you start, agree that you will use one person’s definition/rules. Another game, before you start, agree that you will use another person’s definition/rules.

* There does NOT appear to be a National Elevator Day, but there IS a National Talk in an Elevator Day. It is on the last Friday in July and nobody seems to know where it came from, though you can find it on numerous sites that list silly daily “holidays.”