Directory of Icehouse Resources

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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.

Resources in This Category

• Gallery of Icehouse Pieces

  http://www.eblong.com/zarf/icehouse.html
  Pictures of hand-painted xyloid pieces by Andrew "Zarf" Plotkin. Plus valuable tips on painting them.

• Icehouse

  http://wunderland.com/icehouse/
  Official site includes games and variant information, testimonials, FAQs, and purchasing.

• Icehouse Handbook

  http://www.wunderland.com/icehouse/IcehouseTOC.html
  Rules, strategies, and extras for the original Icehouse game.

• IcehouseGames.org

  http://icehousegames.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
  A wiki for posting games, creating new games, and discussion of the game.

• The Martian Chessboard Section

  http://ee0r.com/tri-chess/
  A four player variant. Provides instructions.

• Zarcana

  http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Ginohn/games/Arcana/rules.htm
  A board game played with Icehouse pieces and tarot cards.

• Zendo

  http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Kory/Games/Zendo/index.html
  A game of inductive logic using an Icehouse set. Rules, strategies, variations, philosophy.

• Zendo Stones

  http://www.eblong.com/zarf/zendo-stones.html
  Instructions for construction of stones with polymer clay.

• Zendobun

  http://www.aq.org/~kevin/zendobun/
  Game variant using sentences.

 

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