Existing Games

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There are hundreds of Icehouse games available. This page lists all of those games which are deemed ready to play by their designers. The published games and winners of the Icehouse Game Design Contest are generally of highest quality, so they make good starting points.

Want a new game to play, but have specific requirements on time, players, or equipment? See What Can I Play? for lists of games organized by various requirements.

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Published Games

These games have appeared as professional game products of some kind (all published by Looney Labs thus far), in Looney publications like Hypothermia or prominently on the website, on add-in cards or inserts to other products, etc. Many of these games have become classics in the world of Icehouse games.

Armada
Binary Homeworlds
two player variant of Homeworlds
Black ICE
Blockade
Branches & Twigs & Thorns
redevelopment of Martian Go
CrackeD Ice
Gnostica
redevelopment of Zarcana
Gridlock
Hailstorm
Homeworlds
redevelopment of IceTraders
Icehouse
original game for which the pieces were created and named
IceSickle
IceTowers
IceTraders
developed into Homeworlds
Igloo
Martian Backgammon
Martian Chess
Martian Coasters
Martian Go
developed into Branches & Twigs & Thorns
Martian Mud Wrestling
Nothing Beats a Large
Pikemen
RAMbots
Rotationary
StarRunners
Thin Ice
Tic Tac Doh!
Treehouse
Trice
Twin Win
Volcano
lends its name to the Volcano board used in many other games
World War 5
Zagami
Zarcana
developed into Gnostica
Zark City
Zendo

Award-winning Games

Ice Awards

These games are the winners of the Ice Awards.

AwardWinnerFinalists
2010QuicksandCrosswalk, Stack Control

IGDC

These games are the winners of the Icehouse Game Design Competition.

IGDCFirst PlaceSecond PlaceThird Place
Spring, 2009ApophisLanding Zone3-High
Summer, 2008AmbushLoggerAlbiorix
Winter, 2008Martian 12sWreckTangleTimelock
Summer, 2007PylonSubdivisionZamboni Wars
Spring, 2005TorpedoCold Spell & Spectra
Winter, 2005HextrisBlam!A-A-Artic Kettering
Autumn, 2004UndercutE, TGOMCIce Palace
Summer 2004SprawlMissile CommandTurning Points
Note: The winners in 2004 and 2005 were published in Hypothermia #16 in Summer 2005 and are archived permanently on the former contest web site (replaced by coordinating the IGDC here at the wiki).

Community Games

(Or EisHausVolksSpielen, as Andy likes to say.)

A-A-Arctic Kettering
Alchemy ICE
Alien City
Antshouse
Arena
Atom Smasher
Battle Zone
Bears, Foxes & Hares
Breakthrough
Chaos
Crosswalk
Dectana
DNA
Drag Race
Drip
Edges
Efni
Enantiomerfolk
Epicycle
Extinction
Fire-Ice-Slime
Flags (5 rainbow colors)
Focus
Forts
Foxtrot, in Spanish.
Geomancy
Gnaqush
Gridlock
High Ground
Ice Age
Iceberg
Icebomb Arena
IceDam
Ice Dao
Ice Fishing
Ice Fu
IceGolf
Icehouse Null Game, The
Icehouse Plant Game, The
Ice Ice Baby
Ice Market
Ice Palace
Ice Pirates
Ice Points
Ice Solo
Ice Soo Sorry
Ice Stackers
Ice Stalks
Igloo
Ikkozendo
Influence
Intersect
King o' the Castle
Kotra
La Columna de Trajano, in Spanish.
La Linterna de Lisí­crates, in Spanish.
Landing Zone
Leaning Towers
Limn
Lonely Ice
Martian BattleSpires
Martian Boggle
Martian Bowling
Martian Chaturaji
Martian Chaturanga
Martian Checkers
Martian Frisby
Martian Greenhouse
Martian Hold'em
Martian Life
Martian Race
Martian Risk
Martian Shogi
Martian Stratego
Martian Tic-Tac-Toe
Moon Shot
Moscow Ice
Mundialito, in English & Spanish.
Nightmare Pachisi
Pantopia
Pass The Pyramids
Penguin Soccer
Pentamid
Pointsettia
Precary-Ice
Push-Pull
Quintazone
Quinto
Ratones Colorados, in Spanish.
RGB
Scrambled Volcano
Share and Share Alike
Simple Life or Death
Sinister Homeworlds
Skurdir
Snowblind
Sorcerer's Apprentice
Spellcycles
Spicklehead
StarRunners
Synapse-Ice
Torres de Asedio, in Spanish.
Transformartian
Trice
Turtler
UberMartian Coasters
Unocitta
Venusian Bowling
Virus Fight
What Blind Ninjas?
Zugzwang

There are many Games Under Development too. If you're feeling adventurous, help perform a vital service to budding designers by playtesting a new game.

Not Originally Icehouse Games

Games such as these weren't originally designed for Icehouse pieces can be played with Icehouse pieces. There is also a list of such games at BoardGameGeek.com.

Babylone
Civil-ice-ation
Chess
Hold'em
Mandala
Terrace 6x6
Three Musketeers
Tic Tac Loop
Transformation
Cover Up
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