Fluxx: The Board Game lives up to its card game namesake as this board game is all about change: changing goals, changing rules, and changing tiles on the board.

Players begin the game with their three pieces in the center of a 3x3 grid of tiles, with each tile divided into four spaces and each space showing an icon of some type (chocolate, sun, cookies, etc.) or an octagon or a portal. Players each begin with three cards in hand, and the overall goal of the game is to collect 3-6 goal cards, with the exact number possibly changing during play.

On a turn, a player takes one card, plays one card, then moves one space, with all of those values being subject to change during gameplay; depending on what is currently allowed by the rules, you can also use movement points to rotate or move tiles in the play area. If you have a piece on each icon shown on the topmost goal card in play, you get that card and are that much closer to winning. Players can also claim goal cards they have in hand by, again, putting their pieces on the appropriate icons. Other cards in the game let players change the rules, the game board, the ownership of player pieces, and so on.