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Ice Palace
Ice Palace
by (Web published) (2004)
Player Count
3 to 6

Player Ages
12+

Playing Time
1 hour, 30 minutes
Categories
  • Abstract Strategy
  • City Building
  • Designers
  • Geoff Hanna
  • Mechanisms
  • Trick-taking
  • Commodity Speculation
  • Hand Management
  • Family
  • Looney Pyramids
  • Rating: 7/10 from 1 users

    Description

    To play the game one needs:

    • An opaque bag or hat for blindly drawing pieces
    • A turn marker or token

    Ice Palace is divided into two fundamental, repeating phases:

    In the first phase, players alternate playing pieces from their six-piece hands into a temporary structure designated "the yard", subject to three restrictions;
    • Pieces on any color may be placed on top of another provided the new pyramid is larger than any of the pyramids in the stack
    • A new stack can be started orthogonally adjacent to a previous stack provided the top pyramids are the same color
    • Black pieces match no colors, and white pieces match all colors
    The player who is last able to play into the yard wins the hand. They then proceed to the second phase, building the ice palace. During the ice palace phase, the winning player takes all the pieces from the yard and adds them onto the ice palace structure, subject to three restrictions:
    • A pyramid can only be placed on top of a larger pyramid
    • Orthogonally adjacent new stacks can only be formed provided the topmost pyramids of both are the same color
    • All pieces from the yard must be added to the ice palace

    Players then draw back up to 6 pieces in their hand and the yard-building phase begins anew. Play continues in this manner until a player draws the last piece from the bag, at which point the game ends and is scored.

    Players get points for every pyramid in a stack (in the ice palace) which has a piece of their color as the topmost pyramid.

    Ice Palace was designed by Geoff Hanna. The rules are available online.

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