Browse games/Five sets

This is a list of games that require five Rainbow sets to play.

See also Browse games/Five stashes for more games

	Designer	Description	Players⠉	Players⠉	Sets	Other Equipment	Game Mechanics	Primary Theme	Status
Abiegnus	Matthew Rogers	Rosicrucian Volcano			5 (Rainbow only)	Volcano board 5 ELBs color die	Eruption Divination	Mystical	Complete
Aeb	Nick D'Andrea	Grow your forces and destroy the enemy.			5 Rainbow or Xeno Stashes	chess board	None	None	Playtesting
Alheimur	Glenn Overby	An Icehouse space exploration game that uses an Aquarius deck.			5	Aquarius deck 3d6	None	Space	Playtesting
Amoeba	By: Erik Oosterwal	A science themed game with an ever-increasing board size.			5	16 Poker Chips per player	None Placement	Science	Complete
Barrakesh Express	Matthew Rogers	Control surface transport on Mars			5	Special map board playing cards custom goal notes	Set collection Hidden goals	Martian Trains	Playtesting
Blockade	Kristin Looney	3D race game			5	Volcano board 4 colored dice	Unknown	Abstract	Complete
Branches & Twigs & Thorns	Andrew Plotkin	Players build branching tree structures from a root, trying to always branch from their own pieces, not their opponent's.			5	Chessboard two pairs of markers	Unknown	Horticulture	Complete
Branches & Twigs & Thorns (Polish)	Zaprojektował Andrew Plotkin	Gra strategiczna, gracze zapełniają plansze swoimi piramidami.			5	szachownica znaczniki	Zapełnianie planszy Dokładanie piramidek	Temat abstrakcyjny	Complete
Breakthrough	Ken Leyhe				5	Chessboard	Unknown		Initial design
Builders of R'lyeh	Matthew Rogers	Constructing the drowned city of Cthulhu			5	dice "floor cards" of various shapes	Stacking Dexterity	Architecture	Complete
Capture the Flag	Erik Oosterwal	2 or 3 players try to capture an opponent's flag in an ever-shrinking space.			5	Poker Chips and/or hex board	Capture Shrinking Board	Abstract	Initial design
Cardinal Connections	Christopher Hickman	In Cardinal Connections, players try to make more pyramids point towards themselves than toward the other players.			5	Chessboard	Board	Abstract	Complete
Chaos Checkers	Blake Cetnar	A twist on checkers where the pieces constantly gain new abilities			5	3 dice bags 1 set of Volcano Caps	Turn-based Strategic placement	Strategy	Unknown
CrackeD ICE (Polish)	Zaprojektował Andrew Plotkin Daniel Efran Elliott Evans	Gra zręcznościowa, stąpając po lodzie należy uważać, by się nie załamał.			5	płyta CD dodatkowa duża piramidka	Dokładanie piramidek Gra zręcznościowa	Temat abstrakcyjny	Complete
CrackeD Ice	Andrew Plotkin Daniel Efran Elliott Evans Eeyore	Don't tip the ice floe!			5	an old CD; one extra large pyramid	Dexterity Balance	Ice	Complete
Crystal Formation	Paul Blake	Create crystals formed into trees while trying to influence the development of your opponents nodes.			5 or more	Chessboard	Unknown	Stacking, placement	Complete
Depict	Kat Costa	Can you get your friends to guess the secret word using only pyramids?			5		Unknown		Initial design
E, the Game of Martian Chinese Checkers	Carol Townsend				5	hex board	Unknown		Complete
Efni	Glenn Overby	Use pyramids to win Fluxx goals			5 or less (depending on number of players)	Fluxx deck	Set collection Hidden information	Fluxx	Complete
Evacuate	Gregory Lattanzio	Get your Stacktor clans out of burning nightclubs before your rival/s manage/s to do the same.			5, 4 for a 2-player game	custom board	Stacking Placement	Martian	Playtesting
Game of Princes	Julien Griffon	The two sons of the king play a racing game to one another’s carpets with help of their servitors			5		Piece movement	Kid’s game	Initial design
Gnostica	John Cooper Kory Heath Kristin Matherly Jacob Davenport	Gnostica, an updated version of Zarcana, involves capturing territory on an evolving board made up of Tarot cards.			5	deck of Tarot cards	Modular board Card game	Mystical	Complete
Gorean Kaissa	Made pyramidalCarthoris Pyramidos John Norman	Fantasy chess on the planet Gor			5	10x10 grid board	Chess	Chess	Complete
Hextris	David J. Bush	Abstract			5	hex board (19 cells or spots)	Placement Movement		Unknown
Houses of Thoth	Matthew Rogers	Erecting Pyramids on Tarot cards, and vice versa			5	Tarot deck	Accumulation Construction	Mystical	Playtesting
Ice Merchants	Joseph Cochran Jay Delanoy Markus Haymaker Adam Kopcenski	Venus is a hot place: The Place for the "in" crowd, party central for the solar system, and a tourist trap par excellance. There's just one problem. It's a HOT place...			5	deck of Tarot cards with numbers	Unknown	Trading	Unknown
Ice Miners	Tanis Kint	A 2-player game of underground survival. A Settlers of Catan inspired game.			5	1 d6	Resource Management Building	Underground Survival	Initial design
Ice Palace	Geoff Hanna	A game of simple mechanics but complex interactions where players compete to win “hands” and ultimately control the construction of the Ice Palace.			5 for 3 players (+1/additional player)	A smooth surface; an opaque bag a marker	Placement Pyramid draw	Palace building	Complete
Ice Points	Startrek	A fun game where you try to get the most points by the end of the game.			5	A deck of regular playing cards.	Unknown		Initial design
Ice Solo	Kristin Materly New variantRyan McGuire	A solitaire game.			5		Unknown		Complete
Ice Tiddly Winks	Karl von Laudermann	A quick dexterity game with simultaneous play			5	Good size playing surface	Dexterity		Complete
IceDuel	Jonathan Leistiko	A miniatures-oriented, arena duel game with an unusual character creation format.			5	a chessboard plus one more per player a unique pawn for each player 4 tokens for each player an 8-sided die a tarot deck (or a poker deck)	Color powers	Dimensional travel	Initial design
IceHanoi		A solo game of trying to turn nests into trees			5		Unknown		Initial design
IceTowers	Andrew Looney 1999	Control the most valuable towers			5	playing surface	Stacking pyramids Turnless	Tower building	Complete
IceTowers (Polish)	1999 Zaprojektował Andrew Looney	Kontrola najcenniejszych wież			5	brak	Czas rzeczywisty Układanie w stosy	Budowanie wież	Complete
Iceland Volcano	Kristin Looney for Volcano Jan Divecky for Iceland Volcano variant	Lava flows for points as the volcano erupts!			5	Volcano board	Unknown	Volcano	Complete
Igloo	Andy Looney	Four colors, but only one will be worth points by the end.			5		Unknown		Complete
Imperial Shuffle	Thomas R. Brendel	Block your opponent's Emperor from being able to move			5	custom board of partial chessboard	Unknown	Abstract	Complete
Influenza	Joss Ives	An Icehouse influence game where different bacteria fight over creating the greatest infections			5	pencil and paper	Unknown	Bacteria	Unknown
Invaders of Mars	Liam Bryan Marcella Florence Erskin Meldrew	Players take turns fleeing from a powerful alien menace bent on using them as fodder for breeding until only one player is left standing.			5 for 2 players, 10 for 4 players	Volcano board for 2 players chessboard for 4 players	None Capture	Martian	Complete
Magma	Matthew Rogers	Jumpy patience on a Volcano board			5+	Volcano board opaque bag	Puzzle Jumping	Volcano	Unknown
Mandala	Original game designReiner Knizia Adapted for Icehouse piecesKory Heath	A deceptively simple game of set collection			5	unique token per player	Set collection Perfect information	Mandala	Complete
Martian BattleSpires	GameBrain42	Martian BattleSpires is a game of domination by advantage.			5	A volcano board would be handy but not required.	Unknown	???	Playtesting
Martian Canals	Dennis D Duquette	A placement and capture game of Martian stone circles and pyramids.			5 for up to 5 players, 10 for 6 to 10 players	A 7x13 board 5 Gaming Stones per player in that player's color 3 Fudge Dice	Placement Capture	Martian	Complete
Martian Flood	Adam McDougall	Players score points by building ships & towers that survive the floods			5	One standard deck of playing cards three six-sided dice	Unknown	At sea / Flooding	Playtesting
Martian Go	Andrew Plotkin	Players build branching tree structures from a root, trying to always branch from their own pieces, not their opponent's.			5	Chessboard four markers	Unknown	Horticulture	Complete
Martian Pachinko	JonPrud	A Martian pachinko game for two			5	Marking stones in 2 colors Opaque bag	Unknown	Todo	Initial design
Martian Quilting	Lynn Gary Wong	Assembling pyramidal pieces			5	4x4 board "needle" token	Unknown		Unknown
Middleman	Thomas Brendel	Maneuver around a cramped board to reunite your pieces			5	board	Movement N/A	Abstract	Complete
Munch	Robert Dudley	Ancient space monsters roam the galaxy, munching worlds and each other.			5 Rainbow (+1 Xeno for 3-4 players)	6x6 board	Placement Capturing	Space	Complete
Nile	Zach Hoekstra	Use your workers to build the great pyramids of Egypt			5	Chessboard 3 six-sided dice 5-6 "Favor" tokens	Unknown	Egyptian	Complete
Nonub Ish	Nick D'Andrea				5	52 Card-like objects colored markers	Unknown	-	Unknown
Override	Kat Costa	A two-player game where pieces are individually owned but mutually controlled			5	5x5 grid	Placement Perfect information	Abstract	Complete
Pantopia	Kory Heath	Pantopia is a game of territorial struggle, shifting fortune, and elemental magic.			5	two Aquarius decks	Unknown	Mystical	Unknown
Pentamid Twist	Jeff Zeitlin	Get five pieces in a row			5	set of Martian Coasters	Placement Dynamic board	Abstract	Complete
Pikemen (Polish)	Zaprojektował Jacob Davenport	Broń swoje jednostki przed szarżującymi pikinierami!			5	szachownica	Eliminacja elementów przeciwnika	Pikinierzy	Complete
Power Tower	Olle Johansson	Build high towers by taking over pieces from other towers.			5	None	Unknown	Stackable icehouse pieces	Unknown
Protozoa	Kerin Schiesser	Create the most successful multi-celled colony creature			5	chessboard	Placement	Life	Unknown
PyraGRYB	Kim David Barnhart				5	GRYB board and GRYB dice	Unknown	Abstract	Complete
Pyramid Scheme	Travis Larchuk	Build pyramids, attack your enemy, and earn Ra’s favor by being the first to gather the correct number of favor tokens.			5	favor tokens stones (in 2 to 4 different colors) chessboard	Stacking Placement	Egypt	Unknown
Quicksand	Erik Oosterwal	A strategy game where you try to capture your opponent's pieces on a board that is in constant flux.			5	4 Martian Coasters	Placement Capture Board Rotation	Abstract	Complete
Quicksand (Polish)	Zaprojektował Erik Oosterwal	Gra strategiczna, w której plansza nieustannie się zmienia, a celem jest zdobywanie piramidek przeciwnika.			5	4 Martian Coasters	Umieszczanie i zbijanie piramidek Obracanie plansz	Temat abstrakcyjny	Complete
Quintazone-Chaser	Matthew Rogers	Further play to follow on a game of Quintazone			5 (fewer with more players)	Aquarius deck (newer version is better) unique token for each player Color die	Race Capture		Complete
RGB	Mike Sugarbaker	In RGB, stacks of Icehouse pieces reproduce and try to kill each other's children			5	Chessboard	Chesslike	Gladitorial combat	Complete
Ricochet Pyramids	By: Russ Williams	Simultaneous real-time searching for the shortest solution to move a robot to a goal.			5	8x8 chessboard; timer	Movement Puzzle	Robots	Complete
Scrambled Volcano	Jim Dunaway Jim Dunaway	Variation of Volcano published by Looney Labs			5	Volcano caps Volcano board opaque bag	Unknown	Abstract,Abstract	Complete
Space Monkeys	Chris Goodwin	Space monkeys have come to Earth and are trying to get home!			5	Chessboard	Unknown	Space, monkeys	Unknown
Spectra	The Labor Shed	A game of color theory			5	A cloth bag	Unknown	Icehouse	Unknown
Stack Control	Robert Dudley	Capture and eliminate enemy pyramids so that you control the most stacks.			5	Chess Board	Unknown	Abstract	Complete
Stack Control (Polish)	Zaprojektował Robert Dudley	Gra strategiczna, gracze budują wieże z unikalnych elementów.			5	szachownica	Eliminacja elementów przeciwnika Przemieszczanie stosów	Temat abstrakcyjny	Complete
Stawvs	Russ Williams	An abstract strategy game similar to Amazons with Volcano scoring.			5	8x8 chessboard; 3 caps or rings per player	Movement Removal	None	Complete
Supercalifragilisticano	Matthew Rogers (after but ignorant of Cerulean's suggestion)	Square Volcano beyond "Mega"			5	Volcano caps 7x7 board (optional)	Eruption	Volcano	Complete
Synapse-Ice	Joseph Kisenwether	An adaptation of the paper-and-pencil game Synapse'			5		Unknown	Abstract	Complete
Synapse-Ice (Polish)	2005 Zaprojektował Joseph Kisenwether	Zapełnianie planszy piramidkami			5	plansza 6x5	Zapełnianie planszy		Complete
The Unnamed Archaeologist	Kevin Lintz	A game of digging up bones			5	Opaque cloth bag Color die Pyramid die	Unknown	Science	Complete
Tower War	Robert Dudley	Draft a deck, then try to wage a war without making the tower collapse.			5	playing cards	Dexterity Drafting	None	Complete
Volcano (variants)	Kristin Looney	Lava flows for points as the volcano erupts!			5 (plus caps)	Volcano board caps	Set collection Eruption	Volcano	Unknown
Volcano Race	GameBrain42	Volcano Race: Played by Martian children everywhere!			5	2 small pyramids of a neutral color and (preferably) a Volcano board.	Unknown	Mancala	Complete
Ways of the Towering Tribesmen	Jonah Ostroff	Two barbaric tribes at war			5	Volcano board	Interposition		Unknown
What Blind Ninjas?	Payton Swick Matthew Chmielewski	A game of moving silently and striking carefully			5	4x8 grid per player (half a chess board)	Unknown	Combat	Complete
Zagami	Kory Heath	Martian microbial life tries to survive and thrive on an asteroid			5	chessboard	Unknown	Microbes	Complete
Zarcana	John Cooper	Territorial control on a board of cards Tarot, with CCG-like card effects			5	deck of Tarot cards or playing cards	Unknown	War, Mystical	Complete
Zendo	Kory Heath	Players achieve satori when they discover the secret rule that explains which koans have the elusive Buddha-nature			5	marking stones (~20 in each of 3 colors)	Unknown	Zen buddhism	Complete