Browse games/Two colors
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This is a list of games that require two colors of pyramids to play.
For more 2-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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A-A-Arctic Kettering | Abstract | 2 | 5 | Kettering Cards, chessboard | Complete | |
Accelerator | Scientists compete to get the most particles out of an accelerator | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 Cosmic Coaster, 1 Martian Coaster per player (optional) | Initial design |
Albiorix | A chess-like game without captures | 2 | 5 | volcano board | Complete | |
Alheimur | An Icehouse space exploration game that uses an Aquarius deck. | 2 | 8 | 5 | Aquarius deck, 3d6 | Playtesting |
Ambush | A capture game for 2 players with 2 stashes and 4 Martian Coasters. | 2 | 5 | Martian Coasters | Complete | |
Attactics | 2 | 4 | 5 | Chessboard | complete? | |
Breakthrough | 2 | 5 | Chessboard | Initial design | ||
Bridge | A strategy game where you try to connect opposing edges of an 8x8 board. | 2 | 4 | 8x8 board | Initial design | |
Capture the Card | Use Icehouse pieces and strategy to capture cards. | 2 | 4 | a deck of cards including two Jokers | complete? | |
Chivalry | 2 | 5 | Chessboard | Complete | ||
Continuum | Use pyramids and a poker deck to get your trees to exchange places | 2 | 2 | 1 | playing cards | Playtesting |
Cover Up | Cover up your opponent's options and get 4-in-a-row | 2 | 5 | volcano board | Complete | |
Cryosquare | Dynamic two-player, two-stash connection game played on a chessboard. | 2 | 5 | 8x8 board | Initial design | |
Crystal Habit | A game of mineralogy. Create crystal composites of different sizes and composition. | 2 | 5 | 3 to 5 | Initial design | |
Dragonflock | Dragons intimidate each other and lay waste to hapless towns | 2 | 3 | Volcano board | complete? | |
Edges | Edges is an abstract strategy game of placement for two, played on the 31 edges (not squares or points) of a three by four rectangular grid representing the canal network. | 2 | 5 | 4x3 board, each space about 2"x2" | Complete | |
Extinction | Two races of creatures fight to make the other go extinct. | 2 | 5 | chessboard | Complete | |
Fuji-san | 2 | 5 | Custom board | Complete | ||
Hexachess | Chess on a hexagonal board. | 2 | 3 | 5 | Poker Chips | Initial design |
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 | 1 Martian Coaster, 9 small six-sided dice | complete? | |
Hostages | Be the first player to rescue all 5 of your hostages by returning them to your base. | 2 | 5 | chess board | Complete | |
Ice Dao | Ice Dao is a quick little abstract strategy game for two players. | 2 | 2 | 5x5 board | Complete | |
Ice Fu | There can be only one | 2 | 5 | opaque container | complete? | |
Ice Lady | A variant of Turkish checkers, aka Dama, using Icehouse pieces. | 2 | 4 | Chessboard | complete? | |
IceFrogs | Players jump their pyramids across the board in an attempt to get a piece into their opponent's start space. | 2 | 3 | 5 | Poker Chips | Complete |
Infiltrate | Build an army and fight your way through the enemy's lines. | 2 | 4 | Mega-Volcano board | Complete | |
Intersect | placement and simultaneous capture | 2 | 5 | some playing cards | Complete | |
Kaeru | Jumping from waterlily to waterlily, your frogs try to eat the prey they like the most | 2 | 1 | 1 Aquarius deck | Complete | |
King o' the Castle | A strategy game where players try to invade one another's castles | 2 | 4 | coin or disc | Playtesting | |
King of the Sinking Iceberg | Jump and capture small caps on a shrinking board | 2 | 5 | none | Initial design | |
Kotra | A dice strategy game similar to Backgammon, played on a chessboard. | 2 | 4 | 5 | A chessboard, two d4 dice | Complete |
Krump | A chess-like game where your movement options increase as the game progresses. | 2 | 5 | Mega-Volcano board, Playing Cards | Complete | |
Lava Flows | A quick strategy game that rewards clever tactics and a sharp memory | 2 | 3 | 3x3 grid | Complete | |
Ley Lines of Mars | Place pyramids on the surface of Mars to claim mystic dominance | 2 | 5 | Martian Coasters, Volcano caps | Playtesting | |
Lunar Invaders | Interlunar teleportation death struggle! | 2 | 3 | moon boards (Cosmic Coasters), dice | Complete | |
Magneto | It´s all about opposites. | 2 | 5 | 5x5 board | complete? | |
Malice | Malice. Get some. | 2 | 3 | Playtesting | ||
Martian Backgammon | A Martian take on Backgammon | 2 | 5 | imaginary board, 3 tokens, 2 six-sided dice | Complete | |
Martian Boggle | Move pyramids around a letter grid to spell words | 2 | 5 | Miniature Scrabble set, opaque bag, D4s, Volcano board | Complete | |
Martian Chaturanga | Based on a strategy game that predates Chess | 2 | 5 | stones, D4s, Volcano board | Complete | |
Martian Checkers | Pieces jump and immediately capture | 2 | 3 | Playtesting | ||
Martian Frisby | A race game on a narrow board where players try to block each other and get the roll that will propel their pieces into the required nested configuration. | 2 | 2 | Dice, A 2x8 board | Complete | |
Martian Life | 2 | 4 | 5 | chessboard | Complete | |
Martian Mud Wrestling | A simple game of sinking in the mud | 2 | 5 | Volcano board | Complete | |
Martian Push | 2House Game being translated into Treehouse | 2 | 5 | or 3x3 Martian coasters (2 sets), 9x9 grid board | Initial design | |
Martian Senet | A race through the Martian underworld | 2 | 4 | Martian Coasters, dice | complete? | |
Martian Tic-Tac-Toe | Tic-Tac-Toe with Icehouse pieces | 2 | 3 | Three-by-three grid (or part of a chessboard) | Complete | |
Middleman | Maneuver around a cramped board to reunite your pieces | 2 | 5 | board | Complete | |
Mind Control | I | 2 | 4 | Chessboard | Complete | |
Oshugo | A somewhat quick penny-flipping game | 2 | 1 | Pennies | Initial design | |
Override | A two-player game where pieces are individually owned but mutually controlled | 2 | 5 | 5x5 grid | Complete | |
Pach-Ice-i | Get all your pieces to your opponent's start | 2 | 5 | Board as described, three d8 dice | Complete | |
Pentamid | Get five pieces in a row | 2 | 4 | Volcano board | Complete | |
Pentamid Twist | Get five pieces in a row | 2 | 5 | set of Martian Coasters | Complete | |
Poptrix | Launch new pyramids, destroy enemy pyramids, and control the board. | 2 | 5 | 6x5 board | Complete | |
Pylon | A 2-player abstract strategy game of placement and stacking. | 2 | 5 | a 5x6 rectangular board | Complete | |
PyraGRYB | 2 | 4 | 5 | GRYB board, GRYB dice | Complete | |
Quicksand | A strategy game where you try to capture your opponent's pieces on a board that is in constant flux. | 2 | 5 | 4 Martian Coasters | Complete | |
Quicksand (Polish) | Gra strategiczna, w której plansza nieustannie się zmienia, a celem jest zdobywanie piramidek przeciwnika. | 2 | 5 | 4 Martian Coasters | Complete | |
Solace | patience puzzle for one | 1 | 5 | none | complete? | |
Stack Chess | 2 | 5 | Chessboard | complete? | ||
Stacktics | A 3House game for 2 players. The goal is to capture half of your opponents' force (by pip count) before he can do the same to you. | 2 | 3 | Volcano board | Nearly Complete | |
Synapse-Ice | An adaptation of the paper-and-pencil game Synapse' | 2 | 5 | Complete | ||
Synapse-Ice (Polish) | Zapełnianie planszy piramidkami | 2 | 5 | plansza 6x5 | Complete | |
Tic Tac Loop | Tic Tac Toe on a changing board | 2 | 1 | Complete | ||
Tower War | Draft a deck, then try to wage a war without making the tower collapse. | 2 | 5 | playing cards | Complete | |
Tresurion | An Icehouse space battles system | 2 | 5 | 1d20, 1d10, 15x25 (or larger) board | complete? | |
Triumvirate | Capture at least two trees' worth of opponent's pieces | 2 | 5 | Chessboard | complete? | |
Turtler | Help your turtle navigate a busy 6-lane freeway | 2 | 4 | 5 | chessboard, D6 | Complete |
Volcano Race | Volcano Race: Played by Martian children everywhere! | 2 | 5 | 2 small pyramids of a neutral color, (preferably) a Volcano board. | Complete | |
Wardrobes | 2 | 5 | 7x7 board | Initial design | ||
Ways of the Towering Tribesmen | Two barbaric tribes at war | 2 | 5 | Volcano board | complete? | |
Ziggurat Demolition Throwdown | A game of angry magic for pyramids and the Decktet | 2 | 5 | 2 | http://www.decktet.com Decktet | Playtesting |