Browse games/Four colors
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This is a list of games that require four colors of pyramids to play.
For more 4-player games, see also Browse games/Colors per player
Name | Description | Min Players | Max Players | Trios per color | Other Equipment | Status |
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Aeb | Grow your forces and destroy the enemy. | 2 | 4 | 5 | chess board | Playtesting |
Arena | Roll a D20 to knock down as many pyramids as possible | 2 | 4 | 5 | chessboard, D8s, D6s, coins | Complete |
Automaton | This is a Robotic Combat game | 2 | 4 | 5 | Chessboard, a unique token for each player, a 3x5 card (or like implement) for each Automaton) | Complete |
Ballistic Wars | A pure strategy game of knocking down enemy walls | 3 | 6 | 5 | toothpick | Playtesting |
Barsoomian Jetan | Fantasy chess on Barsoom (Mars) | 2 | 4 | 10x10 grid board | Complete | |
Battle of the Body Snatchers | Capture more villagers and enemy aliens than your opponent. | 2 | 5 | 6x5 board | Complete | |
Binary Homeworlds | A 2-player variant of the standard Homeworlds game | 2 | 3 | None | Complete | |
Block ur Friends aka BurF | Inspired by the game Saikoro where board options are removed, in this one it fills | 2 | 4 | 4 | Chess board, Pawns | Nearly Complete |
Boundary | Transfer pyramids to the other world. | 2 | 1 | 6x6 board, 2 stones in each of 2 colors | Complete | |
Capstone | In Capstone, players try to build stacks that match their secret goal stacks. | 2 | 5 | a stash pad, a bag to draw pyramids from, shields | Complete | |
Capture The Card | Use Icehouse pieces and strategy to capture cards. | 2 | 5 | a deck of cards including two Jokers | Initial design | |
CoverFire | A war-game with programmed movement | 2 | 1 | 6x6 grid | Initial design | |
Crystal Traders | Trade crystals with people from other worlds | 3 | 6 | 5 | timer | Playtesting |
The Crystal in my Pocket | A collaborative fiction game | 3 | 8 | 5 | Initial design | |
DNA | Mutate pieces in your gene pool | 2 | 4 | 5 | chessboard | Complete |
Dog Eat Dog | An abstract game of strategy and luck for 2 or more players | 2 | 8 | 5 | six-sided dice | complete? |
Dragon's Hoard | Be the hero who escapes the dungeon with the most treasure before sunset. | 1 | 4 | 5+ up to 10 | piecepack, 2 opaque bags | Complete |
EOF | Players use icehouse pieces to make patterns in a data stream. | 2 | 4 | 5 | Shields, bag, BOF, EOF markers | Playtesting |
Egyptian Solitaire | This is a solitaire puzzle game. Imagine a game of Peg Solitaire getting combined with a Rubik's Cube. | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3x4 grid of squares | Complete |
Evacuate | Get your Stacktor clans out of burning nightclubs before your rival/s manage/s to do the same. | 2 | 4 | 5, 4 for a 2-player game | custom board | Playtesting |
Folio | An abstract strategy game for two players inspired by Quarto | 2 | 2 | Chessboard | Complete | |
Gala | a.k.a. Farmer's Chess | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 x 10 grid board | Complete |
Generator | Be the first player with a power coupling on each of the other nodes. | 2 | 4 | 5 | GRYB board, GRYB dice | Complete |
Gnaqush | Hop to the other end of the board and promote your pieces | 2 | 4 | 5 | chessboard, tiles | Complete |
Gridlock | 4 | 5 | chessboard | Complete | ||
Hailstorm | a very random betting game | 2 | 10 | 5 | large flat surface, opaque container | Complete |
HamstersOnIce | You're in a hamster ball in a huge ice arena | 2 | 4 | 4 | Hex tiles, hex paper | Initial design |
Homeworlds | A strategy game of starships, transformation, and negotiation | 2 | 6 | 5 | Homeworld markers (optional), good/evil markers (optional) | Complete |
Homeworlds Settlers | Players vie for resources on a conquered Homeworld. | 2 | 3 | Homeworlds Settlers Board | Complete | |
Horde Runners | A game of strategy involving theft and two players. | 2 | 5 | One Chessboard, one six-sided die. | Complete | |
Ice Arena | Ice Arena is a tactical arena combat game. | 2 | 4 | 5 | dice, tokens, hex board | Initial design |
Ice Etin's Cave | 4 | 5 | Playtesting | |||
Ice Fishing | 2 | 4 | 5 | Opaque container, screens | Complete | |
Ice House Bowling | A game using IceHouse pieces for bowling. | 2 | 100 | 1 | blank sheet of paper for scores, 2 six-sided dice | Initial design |
Ice Ice Baby | 2 | 4 | 5 | Numbered cards | Initial design | |
Ice Market | A real-time trading game | 3 | 6 | 5 | poker deck, pen, paper, timer | Complete |
Ice Race | Race opponents to the end! | 4 | 1 | 1 six-sided die, 1 Treehouse die | Initial design | |
Ice Solo | A solitaire game. | 1 | 5 | Complete | ||
Ice Soo Sorry | Based on the board game "Sorry" | 2 | 4 | 5 | Sorry board, poker deck | Playtesting |
Ice3 | 1 | 100 | 5 | chessboard | complete? | |
IceDuel | A miniatures-oriented, arena duel game with an unusual character creation format. | 2 | 4 | 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) | Initial design |
IceTraders | Starships battle for Good and Evil | 2 | 6 | 5 | playing surface | complete? |
Iceberg | Guess correctly and be rewarded | 2 | 5 | Initial design | ||
Icebomb Arena | 4 | 5 | 5 | Chessboard | Initial design | |
Icehouse Plant Game | Grow your pieces toward the sun | 3 | 4 | 5 | string, pennies | Playtesting |
Iceships | An idea, not a game yet | 4 | 5 | Initial Design | ||
Igloo | Four colors, but only one will be worth points by the end. | 2 | 5 | Complete | ||
Imperial Shuffle | Block your opponent's Emperor from being able to move | 2 | 5 | custom board of partial chessboard | Complete | |
Limn | A Balderdash-style bluffing game | 4 | 10 | 5 | writing paper, scissors | Playtesting |
Lonely Ice | A solitaire game of attack. | 1 | 5 | deck of playing cards | Complete | |
Martian Bowling | A dexterity game with random setup | 2 | 6 | 5 | Complete | |
Martian Chaturaji | Based on a strategy game that predates Chess | 2 | 4 | 5 | stones, D4s, chessboard | Complete |
Martian Greenhouse | Solitaire game of breeding different species | 1 | 5 | Initial design | ||
Martian Mids | wreak havoc with Martian Mids | 2 | 4 | 5 | Mid Cards, a die, chessboard, colored glass beads | complete? |
Martian Shogi | Chess/shogi variant with pyramids. | 2 | 5 | chessboard | Complete | |
Martian Treasure Hunt | Players compete to have the most valuable pile of treasure at the end of the game. | 2 | 4 | 4 | piecepack set | Complete |
Mundialito | abstract strategy board game for Icehouse of movement and attainment | 2 | 2 | Martian Coasters, 2 different tokens for balls | Complete | |
Nightmare Pachisi | A multitrack linear wargame | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7x7 board, D4s | Playtesting |
Nonub Ish | 4 | 5 | 52 Card-like objects, colored markers | complete? | ||
Olympus Mons | A chess-like game where captured pieces are worth their pip-value | 2 | 5 | chessboard | Initial design | |
Outgrow | Each player represents a fungal colony, trying to outgrow the other colonies in the limited space available. | 2 | 5 | Chessboard | Initial design | |
Paint the Line | Try to build the largest groups out of captured pyramids. | 2 | 3 | 2x63x6 boards | Complete | |
Petal Battle | Two groups of insects battle for control of a flower | 2 | 3 | Daisy board | Complete | |
Pointsettia | Players compete to place their pieces. | 2 | 4 | complete? | ||
Precary-Ice | A dexterity game like Jenga | 2 | 5 | 5 | D6 | 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 | 1 per player + 1 | Chessboard, screens to hide programs, small pieces from extra stash (optional) | Complete |
RAMbots (Polish) | Gracze potajemnie programują ruchy swoich robotów. | 2 | 4 | 1 na gracza + 1 | szachownica | Complete |
RGB | In RGB, stacks of Icehouse pieces reproduce and try to kill each other's children | 2 | 5 | chessboard | Complete | |
Robot House | Robot House is a tactical arena game inspired by Meatbot Massacre. | 2 | 4 | 5 | dice, tokens, hex board | Initial design |
Shapeshifter Wars | Transform your shapeshifters into the perfect army to defeat the enemy. | 2 | 4 | Volcano board | Complete | |
Share and Share Alike | A game of shifting loyalties | 4 | 5 | A poker deck, a six-sided die, custom board, play tracker sheets, pens for each player | Complete | |
Snowblind | How do you win a game if you have more control over your opponents’ pieces than your own? | 4 | 5 | 4x3 grid, opaque bag, paper, pencil | Complete | |
Snowman Meltdown | Icehouse/piecepack hybrid snowman fight held on a comet. | 2 | 4 | 4 | piecepack set | Complete |
Stawvs | An abstract strategy game similar to Amazons with Volcano scoring. | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8x8 chessboard; 3 caps or rings per player | Complete |
Temple of Masks | A game about the Mayans | 2 | 4 | 5 | Mega Hexano board | Playtesting |
Terrafex | Players use icehouse pieces to grow forests, build mountains, start fires and melt glaciers. | 2 | 5 | Terrafex board | Playtesting | |
Trip Away | Be the first player with no pieces in front of you | 2 | 4 | 1 | Treehouse die | Complete |
TubeTanks | A war-game with programmed movement | 2 | 1 | 3x6 grid | Initial design | |
Turning Points | Pyramids spin like interconnected gears as each new piece is added | 1 | 6 | 1 | Complete | |
Uibadi | Battle your opponents. | 2 | 4 | Complete | ||
Vankor Wars | A game of revolution and city takeover | 2 | 4 | 5 | Board, 3d6 | complete? |
Volcano Island | Be the most dominant tribe on the Island after the volcano has had its say | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 piecepack sets | Complete |
WarpShips | A freeform-board spaceship maneuvering game | 2 | 4 | 3 | pyramid die, Starship Captain tin | Complete |
Whack Chess | Chess with stacking pyramids and a dynamic board | 2 | 4 | chessboard wedges, dice | complete? | |
Zagami | Martian microbial life tries to survive and thrive on an asteroid | 4 | 5 | chessboard | Complete | |
Zendo | Players achieve satori when they discover the secret rule that explains which koans have the elusive Buddha-nature | 3 | 7 | 5 | marking stones (~20 in each of 3 colors) | Complete |
Ziggurat | A push-and-shove race around and up the sides of a pyramid. | 2 | 4 | 3 | A chessboard or Ziggurat board; two d8 or one d6 | Playtesting |
Zugzwang | An icehouse game inspired by chess | 2 | 6 | Chessboard | complete? |