Giant Icehouse

[jazzfish]

Forgot about Thursday night's giant Icehouse game. Mike Sugarbaker brought his 8x foam pieces again this year, and we played a couple games of Giant Icehouse out in the walkway. Then we played tag-team Giant Icehouse, with the stashes on the balcony and one team member dropping pieces down to the other, who would send unwanted pieces back via escalator. Quite cool. And I think I won one of those games. I don't remember.

Comments

Re: So..

[jazzfish]

Uh... not really. Icehouse is a weird strategy game played with little pyramids. It's kind of a sport, since there's an element of manual dexterity involved. Giant Icehouse is definitely a sport, since there's a lot of running back and forth. And catching things, if you're playing two-story Giant Icehouse.

Icehouse

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

a) that links needs an "icehouse", not "Icehouse" (I discovered).

b) so how is Giant Icehouse played? I don't see it mentioned on the page..

Re: Icehouse

[jazzfish]

a) Very odd, since the links from Wunderland all have it capitalised. I think. I'd have to check to be sure, and the site seems to be down at the moment.

b) First, get ahold of a set of giant pieces. Mike Sugarbaker currently owns the only ones in existence, and he won't tell anyone how much he paid for them (guesses are in the upper three digits). Then play Icehouse. Same as normal rules, except crashing is a lot harder, and there's a lot more exercise running back and forth from your stash to wherever the playing action is.

Icehouse is a good game. Gnostica and Zendo are probably better, though... no manual dexterity element.