From the makers of
Fluxx and
Aquarius, Icehouse is a set of game pieces featured in the book
The Empty City by
Andrew Looney. The full text of the story can be found at:
http://www.wunderland.com/icehouse/emptycity.html
There are four colors of pieces, classically: red, green, blue, and yellow. The pieces come in 3 sizes: small, medium, and large. A full set of Icehouse will have 60 pieces, 15 of each color, and 5 of each size for each color.
Just as with any other set of game pieces, Icehouse pieces can be used in a number of games:
- Ice Towers - A high speed game of pyramid stacking
- Zarcana - A game of strategy played on a world of Tarot cards
- Martin Chess - A chess like strategy game in which location (rather than color) determines ownership.
- Ice Traders - A space opera game
- Trice - Three player game of control of mystic symbols
- Focus - An Icehouse and Magic: the Gathering hybrid
- Igloo - A turned based boardless strategy game of connectivity
- DNA - A game of mutation
- Gridlock - Form chains on a chess board, harder than it sounds
- Pantopia - Another territorial game for Icehouse and two decks of Aquarius
- Ice Chess - Its chess, with pyramids.
- Martian Go - A turn based strategy game starting from the root
Andrew Looney has a patent for Icehouse: #4936585