Trying to create friendly urls

[partdigital]

Ok, so here's what I'm trying to do.

I'm creating a game website which is organized by folders.

The main sections sections exist on the main directory.
example: public_html/about/

The game sections exist in a games directory
example: public_html/games/worldofwarcraft

Using mod rewrite I've been able to go to the games directory without having to type in "games" in the url.

example:
www.domain.com/worldofwarcraft/ goes to www.domain.com/games/worldofwarcraft/

Now, when I go to the home page I want it to redirect to public_html/home/ but instead it's being redirected to public_html/games/home/ where it obviously returns an error.

Here is my code:
Code:

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Options + FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond $1 !^(games|layout|about|contact|affiliate_program) RewriteRule ^(.*) games/$1 [L]

Did you guys have any suggestions on how to do this?

[richardk]

When the user visiting example.com should they be visibly redirected to example.com/home/?

Try

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^$ /home/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond $1 !^(games|layout|about|contact|affiliate_program|home)(/.*)?$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /games/$1 [L]