What Can I Play?

From IcehouseOrg

If you've come to this page, you've probably got a couple of Treehouse sets, maybe some Martian Coasters, and a desire to go beyond those two games. This page is intended to provide a central, sorted listing of all games on the wiki, so that you can quickly find one that you have sufficient pieces, players, time, and other equipment to play. Select your highest priority or consideration, to see the games that qualify:

Contents 1 Number of Treehouse Sets 1.1 One Set 1.2 Two Sets 1.3 Three Sets 1.4 Four Sets 1.5 Five Sets 1.6 Ten+ Sets 2 Number of Icehouse Stashes 2.1 One Stash per Player 2.2 Single Stash 2.3 Two Stashes 2.4 Three Stashes 2.5 Four Stashes 2.6 Five Stashes 2.7 Six Stashes 2.8 Seven Stashes 2.9 Eight Stashes 2.10 Nine Stashes 2.11 Ten+ Stashes 3 Time to Play 4 Number of Players 5 Other Languages 6 Other Equipment Required 7 Theme and Mechanics 8 Online Play

Number of Treehouse Sets

This section is for the newer players of Icehouse games: those who've purchased Treehouse sets. The more Treehouse sets you have, the more games you can play (as is obvious below). Once you have five matching Treehouse sets, you can play nearly every game on this wiki... but you can only play all of them—or only play with more than four or five players—with five sets of both Xeno and Rainbow Treehouse.

As should be obvious, assume that you can play every game that requires fewer sets than you currently own; designers will only list games in the one sub-section which covers the minimum required number of sets.

Legend

• ¹ = requires that many sets per player.
• ² = requires that many sets each of Rainbow and Xeno (i.e. uses more than four or five colors).
• (PwP) = published in Playing with Pyramids
• (Hypo) = published in Hypothermia
• (I7) = published in ICE-7
• (3H) = published in 3HOUSE
• (GWC) = playable at games.wtanaka.com
• (SDG) = playable at SuperDuperGames
• (IGDC) = winner of an Icehouse Game Design Competition

One Set

Armada, 2-player only1 Atom Smasher Battle Royal Bears, Foxes & Hares Cardinal Connections Crosswalk Drip Fire-Ice-Slime Hailstorm, LONG game (Hypo) IceGolf Ice Age Ice Stackers (solo) IceSickle Ikkozendo

Juxtapose Martian Coaster Chaturanga Martian Coasters Martian Shuffleboard, up to 5 players Martian Trickery Complete Moon Shot Par-Trees-i Pass The Pyramids Penguin Soccer (SDG) Push-Pull Rotationary (Hypo) Spike StarRunners The Sniper

Take It Or Leave It Thin Ice1 (PwP) Tic Tac Doh! (I7) Tic Tac Loop Tree-Halma Treehouse, up to 4 players Trip Away Tugga War Twin Win Venusian Bowling Virus Fight 1 What Blind Ninjas? Zamboni Wars

Two Sets

Alien City Drag Race, 2 players Hunt, 2 to 4 players Ice Stackers, 2 players Landing Zone, 2-5 players. Martian 12s, 2 to 5 players, (IGDC) Martian Chess, up to 3 players (PwP, I7, 3H, SDG)

Martian Gunslinger, up to 4 players Martian Shuffleboard, up to 10 players2 Mundialito Quintazone, 4 to 5 players Stacktors! Limited2 Timberland

Timelock Traction Treehouse, up to 9 players Turning Points ÜberMartian Coasters WreckTangle

Three Sets

Black ICE (3H) Binary Homeworlds (3H) Gridlock, shorter game Ice Stackers, 3 players Martian Chess, up to 5 players (PwP, I7, 3H, SDG)

Martian Tic-Tac-Toe Martian Race, 4 or 5 players Nightmare Pachisi Stacktics

Quintazone, 3 players only Trice Unocitta World War 5 Zark City

Four Sets

Geomancy, 5 players Horde Runners Ice Stackers, 4 players

Infiltrate Martian Chess, up to 6 players (PwP, I7, 3H, SDG)

Martian Race, 3 or 4 players

Five Sets

Alchemy ICE Alien City (SDG) Ambush Antshouse Automaton Blam! (SDG) Branches & Twigs & Thorns (PwP, SDG) Breakthrough CrackeD Ice (Hypo) DNA Focus Forts Geomancy, 2 to 4 players Gnaqush Gnostica, up to 5 players (PwP, Hypo) Gridlock Hailstorm (Hypo) Hexano High Rise Homeworlds (PwP, I7, SDG) How Pretty Is That? Limited Ice Fu Ice Ice Baby Ice Market Ice Soo Sorry Ice Stackers, 5 players Icebomb Arena, up to 5 players

IceDam Icehouse, up to 5 players (PwP, I7) Icehouse Plant Game IceTowers, up to 5 players (PwP, I7) IceTraders Igloo Imperial Shuffle Influence Intersect Leaning Towers, up to 4 players Limn, up to 5 players Mandala Martian Backgammon (PwP) Martian Boggle Martian Chaturaji Martian Chaturanga Martian Mancala Martian Mud Wrestling (PwP) Martian Race, 2 or 3 players Martian Risk, up to 5 players Martian Shogi Moscow Ice Middleman Olympus Mons Pach-Ice-i

Pantopia Pentamid Pikemen (PwP, SDG) Precary-Ice, up to 2 players Pylon (IGDC) Quintazone, 2 players only Quinto RAMbots (PwP) RAMbots Factory RGB Share and Share Alike Simple Life or Death, up to 5 players Snowblind Sprawl, up to 5 players (IGDC, SDG) Subdivision Synapse-Ice Volcano, with Volcano caps (PwP, I7, GWC, SDG) Torpedo, up to 5 players (IGDC) Transformartian Triumvirate Turtler Undercut (IGDC) Zagami (PwP) Zarcana, up to 5 players Zendo (PwP, Hypo, I7, SDG)

Ten+ Sets

Battle Zone Blockade Chaos Chaos Checkers Crystal City Catan Deception E, the Game of Martian Chinese Checkers Gnostica, up to 6 players (PwP, Hypo) Hexano-Duel How Pretty Is That? Complete Ice Palace

Ice Pirates Ice Stalks Icebomb Arena, up to 10 players IceTowers, up to 6 players (PwP, I7) Leaning Towers, up to 9 players Leaning Towers plus gray, up to 10 players Limn, up to 10 players Martian Risk, up to 10 players Martian Stratego

Mega Hexano Missile Command Precary-Ice, up to 5 players Simple Life or Death, up to 10 players Spectra Sprawl, up to 8 players (IGDC, SDG) Stacktors! Complete Mega Volcano (PwP, I7, SDG) Zarcana, up to 10 players

Number of Icehouse Stashes

This section is for the older players of Icehouse games: those who've purchased monochrome Icehouse stashes.

As should be obvious, assume that you can play every game that requires fewer stashes than you currently own; designers will only list games in the one sub-section which covers the minimum required number of stashes.

Legend

• (PwP) = published in Playing with Pyramids
• (Hypo) = published in Hypothermia
• (I7) = published in ICE-7
• (3H) = published in 3HOUSE
• (GWC) = playable at games.wtanaka.com
• (SDG) = playable at SuperDuperGames
• (IGDC) = winner of an Icehouse Game Design Competition

One Stash per Player

Ambush Antshouse Armada Two-Player; or Multiplayer (PwP) Blam! (SDG) Branches & Twigs & Thorns (PwP, SDG) CrackeD Ice (Hypo) Forts Geomancy Gnaqush Gnostica (PwP, Hypo) Gridlock Ice Palace plus 2 opaque stashes Ice Pirates plus 2 opaque stashes Ice Points plus 1 deck of cards Ice Soo Sorry

Icebomb Arena IceDam Icehouse (PwP, I7) Icehouse Plant Game IceTowers (PwP, I7) Leaning Towers plus 1 stash Limn Martian Gunslinger plus 1 stash Martian Risk Martian Shuffleboard Moscow Ice Pantopia Par-Trees-i Penguin Soccer (SDG)

Pikemen (PwP, SDG) Quintazone Simple Life or Death The Sniper plus 1 stash Sprawl (IGDC, SDG) Stacktics Subdivision (SDG) Thin Ice (PwP) Torpedo (IGDC) Tree-Halma ÜberMartian Coasters (6-10 players) Zamboni Wars Zarcana

Single Stash

Cardinal Connections Drip IceGolf Ice Age IceSickle (PwP) Ikkozendo Limited

Moon Shot Pass The Pyramids Push-Pull Rotationary (Hypo) Spike StarRunners

Tic Tac Doh! (I7) Treehouse, up to 4 players Trip Away Tugga War Venusian Bowling What Blind Ninjas?

Two Stashes

Ambush Atom Smasher Breakthrough Hextris, 2 players (IGDC) Ice Fu Infiltrate Intersect Martian Backgammon (PwP) Martian Boggle Martian Chaturanga Martian Chess, up to 3 players (PwP, I7, 3H, SDG)

Martian Mancala (plus two tokens) Martian Mud Wrestling (PwP) Martian Race, 2 players Martian Tic-Tac-Toe Martian Trickery Limited Middleman Mundialito Olympus Mons Pach-Ice-i Pentamid

Precary-Ice1 Pylon (IGDC) Synapse-Ice Tic Tac Loop Timelock Treehouse, up to 9 players Triumvirate Turning Points Turtler UberMartian Coasters

Three Stashes

Alien City (SDG) Crosswalk Hextris, up to 3 players (IGDC)

Martian Chess, up to 5 players (PwP, I7, 3H, SDG) Martian Mancala Martian Race, 3 players

Trice

Four Stashes

Automaton Binary Homeworlds (3H) DNA Hailstorm (Hypo) Hexano, with Volcano caps Homeworlds (PwP, I7, SDG) Ice Ice Baby Ice Market IceTraders

Igloo Ikkozendo Complete Imperial Shuffle Mandala Martian Chaturaji Martian Chess, up to 6 players (PwP, I7, 3H, SDG) Martian Coaster Chaturanga Martian Coasters

Martian Race, 4 players Martian Shogi Nightmare Pachisi RAMbots (PwP) RGB Share and Share Alike Snowblind Zagami (PwP) Zendo (PwP, Hypo, I7, SDG)

Five Stashes

Alchemy ICE Black ICE (3H) Focus Hexano

Influence Martian Race, 5 players Quinto Take It Or Leave It

Transformartian Twin Win Undercut (IGDC) Volcano, with Volcano Caps (PwP, I7, GWC, SDG)

Six Stashes

Blockade Crystal City Catan Deception, 2 must be opaque

E, the Game of Martian Chinese Checkers How Pretty Is That? Limited Martian Stratego, 2 must be opaque

Spectra, 2 must be opaque Volcano (PwP, I7, GWC, SDG)

Seven Stashes

Ice Stalks

Eight Stashes

Mega Volcano, with Volcano Caps

Nine Stashes

Hexano-Duel

Mega Hexano

Mega Volcano

Ten+ Stashes

Battle Zone Chaos

How Pretty Is That? Complete Missile Command

Stacktors! Complete

Time to Play

Many Icehouse games can be played in a matter of minutes.

Some require around a half hour; and others can take an hour or more.

Still others have no set limit and could, theoretically, be played indefinitely or until the players want to quit.

Number of Players

Choose the number of players you have on hand to play:

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
play group size varies often

Other Languages

French

German

Spanish

Slovak

Esperanto

Other Equipment Required

Choose what other equipment with which you want to play:

Boards	Cards	Game Pieces
Chess (8x8) Volcano (5x5) Mega-Volcano (6x6) Custom Hex	Standard Deck Tarot Deck Aquarius Deck Uno Cards	Dice Martian Coasters

Got older, solid pyramids? You can still play any of the these games.

Theme and Mechanics

Choose a common theme, styles of play, or general rule mechanics:

Theme	Style	Mechanics
Abstract Martian Mystical Real Estate Robots Space Sports	Combat Dexterity Placement Programming Race Roleplaying Solitaire	Capture Color Powers Freeform Board Stacking Turnless

Online Play

Online implementations of various games at:

• BoardSpace
• games.wtanaka.com
• SuperDuperGames - turn based PbW
• Volity - real-time