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Designed By	Andrew Looney John Cooper
Art By
Published By	IcehouseGames Looney Labs
Year Published	1991
# of Players:	2 − 4
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 4 players Recommended with 4 players (1 voter) [poll]
Playing Time	20 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	8 and up
User Suggested Ages	(no votes yet) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (3 voters) [poll]
Category	Abstract Strategy Game System Real-time
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Primary Name	Icehouse
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Families	Icehouse Pyramid Games

	Description Edit \| History

This is the game that introduced Icehouse Pieces.

This game doesn't use turns, or rounds, or anything else to break up the action. Players place their pieces as quickly or slowly as they like, in attacking or defending positions. Only when everyone's used up all their pieces is the game scored, with people getting points for their safe defenders and successful attackers.

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Playing With Pyramids

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3	General Any strategy games using Icehouse (Treehouse) stashes?	2009-06-02	Joeyeti	5
1	Rules Questions and Answers	2009-04-22	RSkifton	0
1	Variants Several Variations	2009-04-22	RSkifton	0
0	Strategy IceHouse Strategy	2009-04-22	RSkifton	0
0	Rules Basic Rules	2009-04-19	RSkifton	1
2	General How many sets?	2009-03-14	BloodyJack	4
0	General Taxonomy dead?	2008-09-15	MurWiz	1
13	Reviews The Empty City - Reviewing a Game and a Book	2008-08-09	maka	7
0	General Putting pyramids back in their tubes	2008-06-11	NobodysSon	9
2	General What to do with IceHouse wiki?	2008-03-26	Orph	4

	Recommendations

Strong Recommendations
Volcano	Aquarius	Cosmic Coasters

Standard Recommendations
IceTowers	Nanofictionary	Homeworlds	Zendo
Gnostica	Q-Turn	Treehouse	Cosmic Wimpout
Piecepack	Girl Genius: The Works

Weak Recommendations
Martian Coasters	The Very Clever Pipe Game	Button Men	RAMbots
Chrononauts	Martian Chess	Martian Backgammon	The Big Idea
Lord of the Fries	Brawl	Pikemen	Devil Bunny Needs a Ham
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Ice House Rules

A brief run through of the rules of IceHouse

RSkifton

2009-04-22

Printing with Pyramids

This is an svg file that allows one to print out really cool Icehouse diagrams! Compressed with 7 zip Made with Incscape

Erulisse

2009-04-11

Make Your Own IceHouse Pieces

Print, cut, fold and glue. Makes a stash of eighteen (six each) using two sheets of paper, use colored paper for best results. Stackable and nestable!!!

TotalMark

2008-10-13

US4936585

US patent number US4936585

LankyEngineer

2008-06-08

Make your own Icebox!

Artwork I used to create my Icebox that holds the equipment to play games with Icehouse pieces.

SiskNY

2008-04-30

Player aid cards for various IceHouse games.

Homemade player aid cards for multiple IceHouse games. Mini/Mega-Volcano, RAMbots, Zagami, Pikemen, Martian Backgammon, Branches & Twigs & Thorns, CrackeD Ice.

Orph

2006-01-31

us006352262.pdf

U.S. Patent 6,352,262 (IceTowers)

CDRodeffer

2003-09-03

us004936585.pdf

U.S. Patent 4,936,585

CDRodeffer

2003-09-03

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Board Game Rank:	801
Num Ratings:	377
Average Rating:	6.82
Standard Deviation:	1.79
Num Views:	32913
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Avg. Game Weight:	2.6
Fans:	4

Personal Comments:	192
Users Owning:	732
Users Wanting:	59
Users Trading:	15
Has Parts For Trade:	5
Want Parts In Trade:	9
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Total Plays:	429
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Patent 4,936,585 on Icehouse (published 1990)	http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4936585.html	2007-06-04
The Icehouse (the game) Handbook online. Rules, tips and more	http://www.wunderland.com/icehouse/IcehouseTOC.htm...	2006-10-10
SLICK: The Sortable List of Icehouse's Cool Kindred	http://www.icehousegames.com/SLICK.html	2006-07-19
The first community of Icehouse in Spain (http://www.labsk.net)	http://icehouse.labsk.net	2006-06-12
Unofficial Icehouse Wiki	http://icehousegames.org/wiki/	2005-04-27
Ice House Games (includes Taxonomy)	http://home.earthlink.net/~guardcaptain/IceGames.h...	2005-03-09
Ice Game Design Competition	http://icehousegames.com/contest/	2005-02-05
GamerDad Unplugged Review	http://www.gamerdad.com/modules.php?op=modload&nam...	2004-10-13
Origami Icehouse Pieces	http://www.iglou.com/biladams/IceHouse/	2004-05-05
Icehouse overview	http://www.looneylabs.com/OurStores/product.html?P...	2004-01-26

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