About Looney Dejarik
Looney Dejarik is the Looney Labs Holiday Gift for 2025: a two-player abstract game by Andrew Looney for the round board of Dejarik, the holographic game from the films. Looney Labs bought a real-life Dejarik set, did not care for its rules, so Andy wrote his own. Combat is decided by piece size, a luck bonus from chance cubes, and position.
You do not need the official set. The PDF includes a printable board, and the pieces can be Lego towers, Looney Pyramids or chess pieces. It suits two players who like short abstract games with a little luck, from teenagers to adults.
How to play in one minute
- Print the board. Each player takes 4 pieces of increasing size in their colour (red or blue); the largest is the Leader.
- Roll one chance cube: the colour that comes up goes first.
- On your turn, move one (sometimes two) of your pieces and possibly attack an enemy piece.
- Resolve an attack by comparing piece size, plus a luck bonus from the chance cubes and a position bonus.
- Win by capturing the enemy Leader, or by capturing all three of their other pieces.
What’s in the PDF
- 3 pages on US Letter: background, equipment lists for the official and DIY versions, the rules and a printable game board.
- DIY options: red and blue pieces (Lego, pyramids) with painted dice, or black and white chess pieces with Othello discs as two-sided dice.
In the PDF
- rules
- printable circular game board
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