Looney Labs included the kitchen sink in Pyramid Arcade

 I recently made what I feel is one of my most indulgent game purchases in years, Looney Labs Pyramid Arcade. I had been interested in it ever since I saw the Kickstarter back in 2016.

After a regular deck of cards, the Looney Pyramids are my favorite game system. (Dominoes and the Decktet are pretty awesome too) I started playing with pyramids back when they were still called Icehouse (Get off my yard, you young whipper snappers! The gaming table’s in the house! Catan’s waiting for you)

And the reason why I didn’t get Pyramid Arcade right off the bat was, well, I basically owned almost everything that was in and could cobble together the rest. I had already bought at least one cache of every color that Looney Labs had made and I did back the Kickstarter at a level to get the new one.

However, if there is one flaw in the system (and this is a very subjective flaw), it is that the pyramids don’t really stand alone. Almost every game requires some additional components. A board, some cards of some , dice, etc. I don’t consider this to be a legitimate failing. Yes, you can play hundreds of games with just a deck of cards but purity of gam system definition doesn’t actually affect function.

Even more than I had originally believed, Pyramid Arcade collects everything and the kitchen sink in one box. It includes ten different boards (I’m counting double sided boards as two boards), nine dice, two decks of cards, a drawstring bag and a chunky player token.

And yeah, years before the Pyramid Arcade came out, I put together in my own pyramid kit. But Looney Lab made a better one. 

So, while it’s easy to argue that I didn’t need to buy Pyramid Arcade (and even easier to argue you don’t need to buy any games lol), it’s going to be fun to have it around