Icehouse (sorta)

I said in a previous post I was going to review the game 'Icehouse' and games using icehouse peices. Well I halfway told the truth. I have never read all the rules of 'Icehouse' and therefor never played the game. I did buy the 'Zendo' game which is a boxed set with 4 stashes of Icehouse pieces and some extra stuff. Here is the scoop Icehouse is a game invented by Andrew Looney of Looney Labs. It has definite Martian and Ice overtones. But Icehouse is more than a game it is a game system. The original Game was called Icehouse and played with pyramid shaped pieces. An enormous number of other games have been invented using those same pieces. There is a game design competition annually for games using these peices. This year's winner was Torpedo a variant of the original Icehouse game you can find the rules here. You can find other games at IcehouseGames.com and IcehouseGames.org. The former is the official company site and the latter is a wiki of players interested in game design. Below are pictures of games in progress.