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IceTowers

#9386BGG ↗

1999 · 2-5 players · 10min · weight 1.88 · 287 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
9386
Name
IceTowers
Year
1999
Rank
9522
Min players
2
Max players
5
Playing time
10
Min playtime
10
Max playtime
10
Avg weight
1.875
Num weights
40
Bayes avg
5.5972
Average
6.36394
Users rated
287
Num owned
463
Wanting
14
Wishing
34
Num comments
143
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (2)
Set CollectionTile Placement
Categories (2)
Abstract StrategyReal-time
Description (862 chars)

Icetowers is a real-time simultaneous play game for 2-5 players involving stacking smaller pyramids on top of larger ones to control them. With the Icetowers set, you can play nearly any of the Icehouse games. (The color scheme of the Icetowers set -- purple, white, clear, and pale blue -- may cause some mild confusion for players reading rules that refer to red, yellow, and green pyramids.) Icetowers is an actual boxed game using Icehouse Pieces. It was sold for a while by Looney Labs but is currently discontinued. Rules for IceTowers were included in Icehouse: The Martian Chess Set, in a shared booklet with Ice Traders (a predecessor to Homeworlds). It is also included in Pyramid Arcade. It was listed for 3-5 players earlier (e.g. in Playing With Pyramids) but now seems officially for 2-5 (e.g at http://www.looneylabs.com/rules/icetowers )

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.