Browse games/Chessboard
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This is a list of games use a Chessboard.
Name | Description | Min Players | Max Players | Number of colors | Trios per color | Game Mechanics | Status |
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3-High | Cooperatively assemble the five trees without running out of cards. | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | Cooperative | Complete |
A-A-Arctic Kettering | Abstract | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Aeb | Grow your forces and destroy the enemy. | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | None | Playtesting |
Alchemy ICE | Noughts and crosses with randomized "symbols" of five different types. | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Antshouse | Ants running the gauntlet over a pavement while mean kids tries to splat them. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Arena | Roll a D20 to knock down as many pyramids as possible | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Attactics | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | complete? | |
Automaton | This is a Robotic Combat game | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Simultaneous action | Complete |
Battle Royal | A Chesslike game for a TreeHouse set | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 1 | Unknown | complete? |
Battle Zone | 2 | 5 | 3 | Unknown | Complete | ||
Behind Enemy Lines | Multiplayer war based game | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 2 | Roll and move | Initial design |
Blam! | Looking for someone to shove? Strategize in Blam! with two to four elbow-room seekers. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Block ur Friends aka BurF | Inspired by the game Saikoro where board options are removed, in this one it fills | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Blocking, Dice Rolling | Nearly Complete |
Branches & Twigs & Thorns | Players build branching tree structures from a root, trying to always branch from their own pieces, not their opponent's. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Breakthrough | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design | ||
Bridge | A strategy game where you try to connect opposing edges of an 8x8 board. | 2 | 2 | 4 | Movement | Initial design | |
Cardinal Connections | In Cardinal Connections, players try to make more pyramids point towards themselves than toward the other players. | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | Board | Complete |
Carrots and Broccoli | A abstract game about planning a garden | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 per player | Timer, IceDice | Complete |
Chicken Run | A whimsical chicken roundup with overly enthusiastic spectators | 2 | 10 | 1 | Chessboard, Dice | Complete | |
Chivalry | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | ||
Civil-ice-ation | 3 | 6 | 7 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Cryosquare | Dynamic two-player, two-stash connection game played on a chessboard. | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design | |
Crystal Formation | Create crystals formed into trees while trying to influence the development of your opponents nodes. | 2 | 6 | 1 per player | 5 or more | Unknown | Complete |
DNA | Mutate pieces in your gene pool | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Deception | In Deception, players try to get their secret pyramid to the other end of the board while avoiding capture. | 2 | 6 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design | |
Diamond Mine | Collect Diamonds from hidden Veins | 2 | 4 | 6 (2 must be opaque) | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Drag Race | An abstract race game of second guessing in second gear. | 2 | 5 | 2 | Unknown | Complete | |
Erebusicehouse | A darkly-themed game of Life, Death, War, Disease, and Soul collection | 2 | 6 | 5 | Unknown | complete? | |
Extinction | Two races of creatures fight to make the other go extinct. | 2 | 2 | 5 | Capture | Complete | |
Folio | An abstract strategy game for two players inspired by Quarto | 2 | 4 | 2 | Unknown | Complete | |
Force Field Factions | An abstract strategy game loosely inspired by Homeworlds and RAMBots | 2 | 10 | 3 | Unknown | Initial design | |
Geomancy | The Game of Casting and Recasting | 2 | 6 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | complete? |
Gnaqush | Hop to the other end of the board and promote your pieces | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Gridlock | 4 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | ||
Horde Runners | A game of strategy involving theft and two players. | 2 | 4 | 5 | Steal, Run | Complete | |
Hostages | Be the first player to rescue all 5 of your hostages by returning them to your base. | 2 | 2 | 5 | None | Complete | |
Hunt | A hunt in a deadly maze | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | Unknown | Complete |
Ice Draughts | Advanced variant of Draughts | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 3 | Unknown | Playtesting |
Ice Lady | A variant of Turkish checkers, aka Dama, using Icehouse pieces. | 2 | 2 | 4 | Unknown | complete? | |
Ice Storm | 3 | 5 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Ice3 | 1 | 100 | 4 | 5 | Stacking | complete? | |
IceDam | This is a multiplayer variant of IceSickle. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
IceDuel | A miniatures-oriented, arena duel game with an unusual character creation format. | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Color powers | Initial design |
Icebomb Arena | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design | |
Imperial Shuffle | Block your opponent's Emperor from being able to move | 2 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Invaders of Mars | Players take turns fleeing from a powerful alien menace bent on using them as fodder for breeding until only one player is left standing. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player + 1 | 5 for 2 players, 10 for 4 players | Capture, None | Complete |
Kotra | A dice strategy game similar to Backgammon, played on a chessboard. | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | Movement | Complete |
Leech | Capture your opponents' pieces and their score | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | Unknown | Initial design |
MadRobots | An rough initial design | 2 | 8 | 5 | 3 | Programmable Movement | Initial Design |
Martian Chaturaji | Based on a strategy game that predates Chess | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Martian Chess | Colorless simplified chess nevertheless has subtle strategy | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 3 | Colorless | Complete |
Martian Go | Players build branching tree structures from a root, trying to always branch from their own pieces, not their opponent's. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Martian Gunslinger | An abstract Western theme boardgame with a checkerboard | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | Set collection, Direct conflict, Resource management | Nearly Complete |
Martian Life | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Martian Mids | wreak havoc with Martian Mids | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | complete? |
Martian Race | Be the first to have your family go up in the rocket and down in history! | 2 | 5 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Martian Shogi | Chess/shogi variant with pyramids. | 2 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Martian Stratego | Pieces with hidden powers battle one another | 2 | 6 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Martian Tic-Tac-Toe | Tic-Tac-Toe with Icehouse pieces | 2 | 2 | 3 | Placement | Complete | |
Martianopolis 500 | Zip around the track to the finish. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 1 | Unknown | Playtesting |
Martianopoly | "Chop down trees, erect buildings, make money." | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | Alignment | Complete |
Mind Control | I | 2 | 2 | 4 | Unknown | Complete | |
Moscow Ice | This is Chinese checkers for pyramids with some twists. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 4 | Unknown | Complete |
Nile | Use your workers to build the great pyramids of Egypt | 2 | 5 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Nimbus | A multiplayer combinatorial game with an icy association to the game Nim. | 2 | 10 | 5 | 3 | Placement, Capture | Playtesting |
Olympus Mons | A chess-like game where captured pieces are worth their pip-value | 2 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design | |
Outgrow | Each player represents a fungal colony, trying to outgrow the other colonies in the limited space available. | 2 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design | |
Penguin Soccer | A Slide-fest for 2 players | 2 | 3 | 1 | Unknown | Complete | |
Penguin Soccer (French) | Un festival de glisse pour 2 joueurs | 2 | 5 | 1 | Unknown | Complete | |
Pikemen | Defend your pieces from jousting pikemen! | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 5 (fewer with more players) | Unknown | Complete |
Protozoa | Create the most successful multi-celled colony creature | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 5 | Placement | complete? |
PyLiPo | 3 | 5 | 3 to 4 | 2 | Movement, Creative Writing | complete? | |
Pyramaze | Players race to reach their goals in this game that includes a randomly created board and the players' ability to swap the rules of movement throughout the game. | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Pyramid Ball | A game of sports and programmable movement | 2 | 5 | 3 | Programmable Movement | Complete | |
Pyramid Scheme | Build pyramids, attack your enemy, and earn Ra’s favor by being the first to gather the correct number of favor tokens. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 5 | Placement, Stacking | complete? |
RAMbots | In RAMbots, players design secret programs which are executed in an order determined by precedence, to control robots that are fighting to become the first to tag all of the goals. | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 per player + 1 | Color powers, Programming | Complete |
RGB | In RGB, stacks of Icehouse pieces reproduce and try to kill each other's children | 2 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Rat Patrol | A precursor to the game Turtler | 2 | 6 | 5 | 1 | Unknown | Initial design |
Ricochet Pyramids | Simultaneous real-time searching for the shortest solution to move a robot to a goal. | 2 | 8 | 3 | 5 | Movement, Puzzle | Complete |
Rosicrucian Chess | occult chess variant a.k.a. Enochian Chess | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | Chess, Divination | Complete |
Shield Bashers | In Shield Bashers, spaceships battle through interaction of hidden shields. | 2 | 6 | 1 per player + 3 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design |
Sorcerer's Apprentice | 2 | 6 | 2, 5 ideally | Unknown | Complete | ||
Spellcycles | Cast complex spells on other players and gain prestige. | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | Unknown | Complete |
Sphinx's Paw | Escape from monsters beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | Race | Playtesting |
Sprawl | Competitive city building | 3 | 8 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Stack Chess | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | complete? | ||
Stacktrices | A game of fighting enacted within a digital matrix | 2 | 5 | 4 | Unknown | Complete | |
Stawvs | An abstract strategy game similar to Amazons with Volcano scoring. | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Movement, Removal | Complete |
Subdivision | A Real Estate Development Game | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Tactonix | A geological Combination Game | 2 | 4 | 1 per player + 1 | 2 | Unknown | Complete |
TrackAngel | Deduce the location of your opponent's secret submarine on a chessboard | 2 | 1 | 2 | Unknown | Initial design | |
Triumvirate | Capture at least two trees' worth of opponent's pieces | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | complete? | |
Turtler | Help your turtle navigate a busy 6-lane freeway | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Töframenn | A fantasy strategy game where wizards, experts in a variety of elemental arts (represented by nine colors), face off in a battle of good verses evil. | 2 | 9 | 1 | Unknown | complete? | |
Walk Like an Egyptian | Walk like an egyptian by racing back and forth across a chess board with your pyramid. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 1 | Unknown | Complete |
Whack Chess | Chess with stacking pyramids and a dynamic board | 2 | 4 | 4 | Chess, Dynamic board | complete? | |
What Blind Ninjas? | A game of moving silently and striking carefully | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
WreckTangle | Abstract Strategy Game | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 2 | Unknown | Complete |
Zagami | Martian microbial life tries to survive and thrive on an asteroid | 4 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Ziggurat | A push-and-shove race around and up the sides of a pyramid. | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Roll and move, Blocking | Playtesting |
Zugzwang | An icehouse game inspired by chess | 2 | 4 | 6 | Unknown | complete? |