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This is a list of games that are relatively simple and easy to learn.
Description
Players
⠉
Players
⠉
Stashes
Sets
Other Equipment
Game Mechanics
Primary Theme
Status
3-High
Cooperatively assemble the five trees without running out of cards.
Chessboard
Playing cards
Cooperative
Abstract
Complete
A-A-Arctic Kettering
An abstract game of capturing trees on a mutated modular chessboard
Kettering Cards
Chessboard
Modular board
Complete
Aeb
Grow your forces and destroy the enemy.
4
5 Rainbow or Xeno Stashes
Chessboard
Unknown
None
Playtesting
Ambush
A capture game for 2 players with 2 stashes and 4 Martian Coasters.
2
Martian Coasters
Beverage-coaster manipulation
Abstract
Complete
Amoeba
A science themed game with an ever-increasing board size.
1 per player
5
16 Poker Chips per player
Placement
Science
Complete
Apophis
A real-time co-op game of saving the world from an asteroid
5
1
Six-sided die
Playing cards
Timer
5 Counters
Cooperative
Color powers
Space
Complete
Aquarius Rising
Connect your elements to the higher planes
5
4
Aquarius Deck
Placement
Hidden goals
Getting higher
Complete
Ascendancy
A turn-based game of tower building.
1 per player
2 dice
flat surface
Unknown
Playtesting
Atom Smasher
A game of dexterity inspired by billiards, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrom carrom, and marbles
1
1
One token per player
some form of relatively smooth playing surface
Dexterity
Turn-based
Science
Complete
Babylone
A simple and fast brain teaser for 2 players
Stacking
Abstract
Complete
Bag of Ice
A simple push-your-luck game for many different player counts
5
2
Pyramid die
any score-tracking method
Opaque bag
Push-your-luck
None
Unknown
Ballistic Wars
A pure strategy game of knocking down enemy walls
4
toothpick
Unknown
War
Playtesting
Barrakesh Express
Control surface transport on Mars
1 per player
5
Special map board
playing cards
custom goal notes
Set collection
Hidden goals
Martian Trains
Playtesting
Behind Enemy Lines
Multiplayer war based game
2
Chessboard
Six-sided die
Roll and move
War
Initial design
Black ICE
The 3HOUSE game of computer cracking
3
cloth bag
three Treehouse dice or Lightning dice
Discovering codes underneath opaque pyramids
Computer hacking
Complete
Blam!
Looking for someone to shove? Strategize in Blam! with two to four elbow-room seekers.
1 per player
Chessboard
Behavior prediction
Abstract, Strategy, explosions
Complete
Block ur Friends aka BurF
Inspired by the game Saikoro where board options are removed, in this one it fills
4
4
Chess board
Pawns
Blocking
Dice Rolling
Abstract
Nearly Complete
Bowler Rink
Toss a die into the box containing stacks of pyramids. How many can you knock over without ejecting them from the arena?
Pyramid Arcade
or similar box lid
d6 dice
Dexterity
Complete
Breakthrough
2
5
Chessboard
Unknown
Initial design
Bridge
A strategy game where you try to connect opposing edges of an 8x8 board.
2
4
8x8 board
Movement
Abstract
Initial design
Builders of R'lyeh
Constructing the drowned city of Cthulhu
1 per player + 1
5
dice
"floor cards" of various shapes
Stacking
Dexterity
Architecture
Complete
Candy Capture
Earn the most points once all candy pieces are captured
1
Custom board
Custom cards
Candy pieces (M&M's are ideal) or beads
Unknown
Initial design
Capture the Flag
2 or 3 players try to capture an opponent's flag in an ever-shrinking space.
1 per player
5
Poker Chips and/or hex board
Capture
Shrinking Board
Abstract
Initial design
CarboniteDice
A solo variant of IceDice
2
Pyramid die
Color die
Push your luck
Set building
Abstract
Playtesting
Carrots and Broccoli
A abstract game about planning a garden
5
1 per player
Pyramid die
Color die
Chessboard
Timer (optional)
Timer
IceDice
Garden
Complete
Catapults
In Catapults, each player builds a castle and then tries to tear down the castles of the other players.
1 per player
None
Unknown
Action, Medieval
Playtesting
Cathouse
Cathouse, a game for cats.
1
Cat
Unknown
Complete
Centrifice
Centrifice is a hurling match, introducing a new mechanic for stackable Icehouse pieces: Centrificeing (hurling your Icehouse pieces with the help of other Icehouse pieces).
1
Dexterity
Centrificeing
Competition, Dexterity
Playtesting
Chain Reaction
Fire 'particles' at 'atoms' and direct the chain reaction to let you capture pieces
6
Volcano board
Stacking
Placement
Science
Playtesting
Chivalry
2
Chessboard
Unknown
Complete
The Closest Ghost
A simple game played with pieces of candy
Unknown
Complete
Coaster Chess
Martian Chess meets Martian Coasters
1
4 Martian Coasters
Unknown
Martian
Playtesting
Color Claim
Build stacks with your claimed color on top to score points.
2
6x5 board
Capturing
None
Complete
Color Wheel
Try to connect all same colored pyramids before time runs out!
Wheel board
Cooperative
Puzzle
Abstract
Complete
Colorblind
A color mixing logic game
9 (one opaque)
2 (One Rainbow, One Xeno)
A six-sided die per player
Deduction
Puzzle
Nearly Complete
Colorful Clues
A deduction game where players try to guess the missing colors
10
2 (1 Rainbow and 1 Xeno)
pen&paper
Opaque bag
Stacking
Guessing
Deduction, Color Guessing
Complete
Coup
Take over a small country
1
2 decks of cards
jokers
tokens
Unknown
Government
Initial design
Cover Up
Cover up your opponent's options and get 4-in-a-row
volcano board
Unknown
Complete
CrackeD Ice
Don't tip the ice floe!
1 per player
5
an old CD; one extra large pyramid
Dexterity
Balance
Ice
Complete
Crossroads
A game of placing pyramids and tracing paths
1
Paper
colored markers or crayons
string
Placement
Path Tracing
None
Nearly Complete
Crosswalk
1
1 Six-sided die
Stacking
Blocking
Complete
Crystal Traders
Trade crystals with people from other worlds
4
timer
Unknown
Trading
Playtesting
Dash
Be the first to finish.
1
Custom board
Custom cards
Unknown
Initial design
Depict
Can you get your friends to guess the secret word using only pyramids?
3
5
Unknown
Initial design
Der Marsigelwettkampf
A prickly pyramid game
1 per player
1
1 six-sided die
Stacking
Freeform board
Abstract
Complete
Diamond Mine
Collect Diamonds from hidden Veins
6 (2 must be opaque)
Chessboard
Playing cards
Unknown
Gem Collecting
Complete
Dodger
Catch the Fugitive in an ever changing landscape.
3
Unknown
Catch the Thief
Initial design
Dog Eat Dog
An abstract game of strategy and luck for 2 or more players
4
six-sided dice
Unknown
Unknown
Drag Race
An abstract race game of second guessing in second gear.
2
Chessboard
screen
Unknown
Racing
Complete
Dragonflock
Dragons intimidate each other and lay waste to hapless towns
2
3
Volcano board
Stacking
Capture
Dragons
Unknown
Drip
A stacking game using Icehouse pieces
1
Treehouse plastic tube
Unknown
A simple stack until you can't game
Complete
Edges
An abstract placement game played on the edges (not squares or points) of a grid representing the Martian canal network.
2
4x3 board
each space about 2"x2"
Unknown
Mars
Complete
Elemental Towers
A solitaire game played with an Aquarius deck
Aquarius Deck
Unknown
Complete
Epicycle
Exchange your pieces for those in a circle. Avoid getting 3 pieces of the same size.
1
1
none
Unknown
Abstract, Strategy
Complete
Fire-Ice-Slime
A very fast and simple, 2-player, 1 Treehouse game, similar to Rock-Scissors-Paper.
1
Unknown
Ice theme
Complete
Folio
An abstract strategy game for two players inspired by Quarto
4
2
Chessboard
Unknown
Complete
Forts
A game of building and tearing down.
1 per player
one six-sided die
Unknown
Complete
Freeze Tag
Pyramids race to the other side, trying not to get frozen along the way.
1 per player
2
Pyramid die
a 5x5 grid (a Volcano board is perfect)
Volcano Board
Equipment/Dice
Playground
Complete
Fuji-san
2
Custom board
Unknown
Complete
Game of Princes
The two sons of the king play a racing game to one another’s carpets with help of their servitors
5
5
Piece movement
Kid’s game
Initial design
Geodeto
Planet Earth is full of beautiful and interesting places.
6
1
Pyramideto cards
Unknown
Complete
Giants and Dwarves
Single Stash Game being translated into Treehouse
1
Martian Coasters or Mega Volcano Board
dice
Unknown
Unknown
Give or Take
1
1
Pyramid die
Set collection
Trading
Abstract
Complete
Gleebs and Grues
Absorb your enemies while trying not to be eaten by a grue.
1
4x4 board
Placement
Capturing
Aliens
Complete
Gnaqush
Hop to the other end of the board and promote your pieces
1 stash per player
chessboard
tiles
Unknown
Complete
Green Hijinks
A luck-free variant of Pink Hijinks
1
3
3x3 grid
Pattern formation
Abstract
Complete
Hailstorm
A very random betting game
4+
large flat surface
Opaque bag
Dexterity
Abstract
Complete
Hexachess
Chess for 2 to 3 players on a hexagonal board.
1 per player
Poker chips
Capture
Initial design
Hexano-Duel
A more strategic variant of Volcano played with 9 stashes on a hexagonal board
9
hexagonal board (PDF available)
Volcano
Abstract
Unknown
Hextris
An abstract connection game of moving, swapping, and removing
1 per player
5
hex board (19 cells or spots)
Placement
Movement
Unknown
High Rise
A game of trying to build the biggest towers in order to control the most valuable properties on a Martian Coasters square
2
2
9 small six-sided dice
1 Martian Coaster
Unknown
Strategy
Unknown
How Pretty Is That?
Players take turns making trees and placing them on a mega-volcano board
6+
Mega-Volcano board
Unknown
Abstract
Unknown
Hunt
A hunt in a deadly maze
5
2
optional chessboard
Unknown
Abstract
Complete
I Have Color
A color based children's word game.
1 or 2
An opaque bag or box
Abstract
Draw
Educational
Complete
Ice Age
Mastodons vs the Hunters
1
nickels and pennies;
Volcano board
Unknown
Hunting
Unknown
Ice Boule
Play the dexterity game Boule with your Icehouse pieces, using the Centrifice-mechanic.
1 per player + 1
None
Unknown
Competition, Boule
Playtesting
Ice Draughts
Advanced variant of Draughts
1 per player
3
Chessboard or Chess Wedges
Unknown
Draughts
Playtesting
Ice Fishing
4
Opaque container and screens
Unknown
Fishing
Complete
Ice House Bowling
A game using IceHouse pieces for bowling.
4
1
2 six-sided dice
blank sheet of paper for scores
Unknown
Get the high score!
Initial design
Ice Lady
A variant of Turkish checkers, aka Dama, using Icehouse pieces.
2
Chessboard
Unknown
Stackable icehouse pieces
Unknown
Ice Merchants
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
A 2-player game of underground survival inspired by
Settlers of Catan
.
1d6
Resource management
Building
Underground survival
Initial design
Ice Points
An entirely luck driven card battle over a bank of pyramid points.
1 per player
5
Playing cards
Unknown
Initial design
Ice Race
Race opponents on a track using traditional and Treehouse dice.
1
1 six-sided die and 1 Treehouse die
Unknown
Race
Initial design
Ice Stackers
A dexterous stacking race game.
5
1 per player
A single coin
Unknown
Race Stacking
Complete
Ice Tiddly Winks
A quick dexterity game with simultaneous play
1 per player
5
Good size playing surface
Dexterity
Complete
Ice-Turn
Pyramid version of Q-Turn.
1
1 Q-Turn set
Goal tiles
Treehouse die
1d6
Stacking
Race
Unknown
Ice3
4
Chessboard
Stacking
Unknown
IceCream
A two player game that requires no playing surface.
3
4
None.
Unknown
Abstract/Ice Cream Cones
Unknown
IceCubed
A game utilizing IceDice components and a Mega-Volcano board: Players are randomly given opportunities for movement, attack, and supply to the board while also presented the opportunity to seek revenge and wreak havoc on their opponents.
5
1 per player + 1
Mega-Volcano board
ELBS (up to 2 sets)
Pyramid die
Color die
Unknown
None
Playtesting
IceDam
This is a multiplayer variant of IceSickle.
1 per player
Chessboard
IceSickle
Abstract
Complete
IceFrogs
Players jump their pyramids across the board in an attempt to get a piece into their opponent's start space.
1 per player
Poker Chips
Stacking
Jumping
Abstract
Complete
IceFu
There can be only one
2
opaque container
Unknown
Martial arts
Unknown
IceGolf
Icehouse Golf, using a stash tube as the club
Martian Coasters
(optional)
Treehouse tube
Dexterity
Golf
Complete
IceSickle
IceSickle is a bit similar to checkers, but was originally inspired by solitaire peg jumping games
1
Volcano board
Placement
Jumping
Abstract
Complete
IceToids
Explore a board made of print-and-play cards.
Special tiles
Area control
Complete
Icehouse Baseball
A baseball simulation.
six-sided die
Custom board
Custom cards
Unknown
Sports
Initial design
Icehouse Null Game
The Game of Playing with Pyramids
0
0
none
Unknown
Null
Unknown
Iceminers
Collect Gems from hidden Veins
6 (1 opaque)
Martian coasters (including black)
6 sided die
Unknown
Gem Collecting
Complete
Infiltrate
Build an army and fight your way through the enemy's lines.
2
4
Mega-Volcano board
Unknown
Abstract
Complete
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