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Mixtum is not actually a game, though it uses a board and spinners. The three spinners correspond to three rings of pictograms. Spin the spinners and use the three corresponding symbols to invent, discuss, or get inspired.
Though this gives you around 32,000 possible combinations, I can’t help but wonder why they simply don’t make it a deck of cards, which would be far cheaper to produce and yield many, many more combinations (as is, items in the same ring will never occur together).
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Thanks for the post!
We are happy to agree with you, and are already planning the deck of cards for the MIXTUM symbols, releasing in 2012, for the reasons you mentioned above. We will keep the community updated about the deck.
The board version is designed with surrealism in mind. Each ring of symbols are categorized in such a way, so no matter what 3 symbols you spin, they are always as dissimilar as possible – creating more weird combinations and less predictable outcomes…