Andy Looney's and John Cooper's game Icehouse ("the 100,000-year-old game from Mars") is a boardless, turnless, abstract strategy game. An Icehouse set has 60 pyramid-shaped game pieces, five each of three sizes in four colors, and additional colors are available. Rules for well over 50 different games played with Icehouse pieces are available on the Web.
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Official site includes games and variant information, testimonials, FAQs, and purchasing.
Pictures of hand-painted xyloid pieces by Andrew "Zarf" Plotkin. Plus valuable tips on painting them.
Rules, strategies, and extras for the original Icehouse game.
A four player variant. Provides instructions.
A game of inductive logic using an Icehouse set. Rules, strategies, variations, philosophy.
Instructions for construction of stones with polymer clay.
Game variant using sentences.
Official site includes games and variant information, testimonials, FAQs, and purchasing.
A game of inductive logic using an Icehouse set. Rules, strategies, variations, philosophy.
A four player variant. Provides instructions.
Instructions for construction of stones with polymer clay.
Rules, strategies, and extras for the original Icehouse game.
Pictures of hand-painted xyloid pieces by Andrew "Zarf" Plotkin. Plus valuable tips on painting them.
Game variant using sentences.
