The ''shufflebuilding'' game Smash Up starts with a simple premise: Take the twenty-card decks of two factions, shuffle them into a forty-card deck, then compete to smash more Bases than your opponents! Each faction brings a different game mechanism into play – pirates move cards, zombies bring cards back from the discard pile, dinosaurs have huge power -- and every combination of factions brings a different play experience. With eight different factions, Smash Up includes dozens of combinations to try. Pirate-Aliens play different than Ninja-Aliens, for instance. Which will you use to smash up your opponents? (And did we mention the dinosaurs have laser beams?)

Some pre-game instruction is available for players not already familiar with game play, compliments of the gaming crew from Roll2Play.