Browse games/Chessboard

This is a list of games use a Chessboard.

Name	Description	Min Players	Max Players	Number of colors	Trios per color	Game Mechanics	Status
3-High	Cooperatively assemble the five trees without running out of cards.	1	4	5	1	Cooperative	Complete
A-A-Arctic Kettering	An abstract game of capturing trees on a mutated modular chessboard		2	1 per player	5	Modular board	Complete
Aeb	Grow your forces and destroy the enemy.	2	4	4	5	Unknown	Playtesting
Agents of M.A.R.S.	A game of altering the board state to fulfill your secret objective and mess with your opponent's presumed objective		2	3	5	Unknown	Complete
Alchemy ICE	Noughts and crosses with randomized "symbols" of five different types.	2	6	5	5	Stacking, Capture, Tile placement	Complete
Antshouse	Ants running the gauntlet over a pavement while mean kids tries to splat them.	2	4	1 per player	5	Unknown	Complete
Arena	Roll a D20 to knock down as many pyramids as possible	2	4	4	5	Unknown	Complete
Attactics		2	4	2	5	Unknown	Unknown
Automaton	This is a Robotic Combat game	2	4	4	5	Simultaneous action	Complete
Battle Royal	A Chesslike game for a TreeHouse set	2	4	1 per player	1	Unknown	Unknown
Battle Zone			2	5	3	Unknown	Complete
Behind Enemy Lines	Multiplayer war based game	2	4	1 per player	2	Roll and move	Initial design
Blam!	Looking for someone to shove? Strategize in Blam! with two to four elbow-room seekers.	2	4	1 per player	5	Behavior prediction	Complete
Block ur Friends aka BurF	Inspired by the game Saikoro where board options are removed, in this one it fills	2	4	4	4	Blocking, Dice Rolling	Nearly Complete
Branches & Twigs & Thorns	Players build branching tree structures from a root, trying to always branch from their own pieces, not their opponent's.	2	4	1 per player	5	Unknown	Complete
Breakthrough	Capture pieces as you move your pyramids across the board.		2	2	5	Unknown	Initial design
Bridge	A strategy game where you try to connect opposing edges of an 8x8 board.		2	2	4	Movement	Initial design
Cardinal Connections	In Cardinal Connections, players try to make more pyramids point towards themselves than toward the other players.	2	4	1	5	Board	Complete
Carrots and Broccoli	A abstract game about planning a garden	2	4	5	1 per player	Timer, IceDice	Complete
Chicken Run	A whimsical chicken roundup with overly enthusiastic spectators		2	10	1	Equipment/Chessboard, Equipment/Dice	Complete
Chivalry	Be the first player to jump two queens off the opposing side of the board.		2	2	5	Unknown	Complete
Civil-ice-ation		3	6	7	5	Unknown	Complete
The Crossing	Chinese Checkers variant. Be the first to get your pieces to the opposite corner.	2	4	2	3	Move, Jump	Complete
Cryosquare	Dynamic two-player, two-stash connection game played on a chessboard.		2	2	5	Connection	Initial design
Crystal Formation	Create crystals formed into trees while trying to influence the development of your opponents nodes.	2	6	1 per player	5 or more	Stacking, Placement	Complete
DNA	Mutate pieces in your gene pool	2	4	4	5	Unknown	Complete
Deception	In Deception, players try to get their secret pyramid to the other end of the board while avoiding capture.		2	6	5	Unknown	Initial design
Diamond Mine	Collect Diamonds from hidden Veins	2	4	6 (2 must be opaque)	5	Unknown	Complete
Drag Race	An abstract race game of second guessing in second gear.		2	5	2	Bluffing	Complete
Erebusicehouse	A darkly-themed game of Life, Death, War, Disease, and Soul collection		2	6	5	Unknown	Unknown
Extinction	Two races of creatures fight to make the other go extinct.		2	2	5	Capture	Complete
Folio	An abstract strategy game for two players inspired by Quarto		2	4	2	Unknown	Complete
Force Field Factions	An abstract strategy game loosely inspired by Homeworlds and RAMBots		2	10	3	Unknown	Initial design
Geomancy	The Game of Casting and Recasting	2	6	1 per player	5	Throwing	Unknown
Gnaqush	Hop to the other end of the board and promote your pieces	2	4	1 per player	5	Unknown	Complete
Gridlock			4	4	5	Unknown	Complete
Horde Runners	A game of strategy involving theft and two players.		2	4	5	Steal, Run	Complete
Hostages	Be the first player to rescue all 5 of your hostages by returning them to your base.		2	2	5	Unknown	Complete
Hunt	A hunt in a deadly maze	2	4	5	2	Unknown	Complete
Ice Draughts	Advanced variant of Draughts	2	4	1 per player	3	Unknown	Playtesting
Ice Lady	A variant of Turkish checkers, aka Dama, using Icehouse pieces.		2	2	4	Unknown	Unknown
Ice Storm		3	5	1 per player	5	Unknown	Complete
Ice3		1	100	4	5	Stacking	Unknown
IceDam	This is a multiplayer variant of IceSickle.	2	4	1 per player	5	IceSickle	Complete
IceDuel	A miniatures-oriented, arena duel game with an unusual character creation format.	2	4	4	5	Color powers	Initial design
Icebomb Arena		4	5	4	5	Unknown	Initial design
Imperial Shuffle	Block your opponent's Emperor from being able to move		2	4	5	Unknown	Complete
Invaders of Mars	Players take turns fleeing from a powerful alien menace bent on using them as fodder for breeding until only one player is left standing.	2	4	1 per player + 1	5 for 2 players, 10 for 4 players	Capture	Complete
Kotra	A dice strategy game similar to Backgammon, played on a chessboard.	2	4	2	5	Movement	Complete
Leech	Capture your opponents' pieces and their score	2	4	5	2	Unknown	Initial design
MadRobots	A rough initial design	2	8	5	3	Programmable Movement	Initial Design
Martian Chaturaji	A four-player partnership variant of Martian Chaturanga.	2	4	4	5	Unknown	Complete
Martian Chess	Colorless simplified chess nevertheless has subtle strategy	2	4	1 per player	3	Colorless, Positional	Complete
Martian Go	Players build branching tree structures from a root in this predecessor to Branches & Twigs & Thorns.	2	4	1 per player	5	Tile placement	Complete
Martian Gunslinger	An abstract Western theme boardgame with a checkerboard	2	4	5	2	Set collection, Resource management, Direct conflict	Nearly Complete
Martian Life		2	4	1 per player	5	Unknown	Complete
Martian Mids	wreak havoc with Martian Mids	2	4	4	5	Unknown	Unknown
Martian Race	Be the first to have your family go up in the rocket and down in history!	2	5	1 per player	5	Unknown	Complete
Martian Shogi	Chess/shogi variant with pyramids.		2	4	5	Capture, Promotion	Complete
Martian Stratego	Pieces with hidden powers battle one another		2	6	5	Hidden information	Complete
Martian Tic-Tac-Toe	Tic-Tac-Toe with Icehouse pieces		2	2	3	Placement	Complete
Martianopolis 500	Zip around the track to the finish.	2	4	1 per player	1	Unknown	Playtesting
Martianopoly	"Chop down trees, erect buildings, make money."	2	4	3	5	Alignment	Complete
Mind Control	A chess-like game with stacking and mind control		2	2	4	Stacking	Complete
Moscow Ice	This is Chinese checkers for pyramids with some twists.	2	4	1 per player	4	Jumping	Complete
Nile	Use your workers to build the great pyramids of Egypt		2	5	5	Unknown	Complete
Nimbus	A multiplayer combinatorial game with an icy association to the game Nim.	2	10	5	3	Placement, Capture	Playtesting
Olympus Mons	A chess-like game where captured pieces are worth their pip-value		2	4	5	Unknown	Initial design
Outgrow	Each player represents a fungal colony, trying to outgrow the other colonies in the limited space available.		2	4	5	Territorial acquisition	Initial design
Penguin Soccer	A Slide-fest for 2 players		2	3	1	Movement	Complete
Penguin Soccer (French)	Un festival de glisse pour 2 joueurs		2	5	1	Board	Complete
Pikemen	Defend your pieces from jousting pikemen!	2	4	1 per player	5 (fewer with more players)	Unknown	Complete
Protozoa	Create the most successful multi-celled colony creature	2	4	1 per player	5	Placement	Unknown
PyLiPo		3	5	3 to 4	2	Movement, Creative Writing	Unknown
Pyramaze	Players race to reach their goals on a randomly created board where they can swap the rules of movement throughout the game.	2	4	6	5	Unknown	Complete
Pyramid Ball	A game of sports and programmable movement		2	5	3	Programmable Movement	Complete
Pyramid Scheme	Build pyramids, attack your enemy, and earn Ra’s favor by being the first to gather the correct number of favor tokens.	2	4	1 per player	5	Stacking, Placement	Unknown
RAMbots	In RAMbots, players design secret programs which are executed in an order determined by precedence, to control robots that are fighting to become the first to tag all of the goals.	2	4	4	1 per player + 1	Color powers, Programming	Complete
RGB	In RGB, stacks of Icehouse pieces reproduce and try to kill each other's children		2	4	5	Chesslike	Complete
Rat Patrol	A precursor to the game Turtler	2	6	5	1	Unknown	Initial design
Ricochet Pyramids	Simultaneous real-time searching for the shortest solution to move a robot to a goal.	2	8	3	5	Movement, Puzzle	Complete
Rosicrucian Chess	occult chess variant a.k.a. Enochian Chess	2	4	5	4	Divination, Chess	Complete
Sandbox	A fast-paced, multiplayer game with a 'Treasure Hunter' theme that is played on a checker board.	3	100	4	2	Stacking, Capture	Unknown
Shield Bashers	In Shield Bashers, spaceships battle through interaction of hidden shields.	2	6	1 per player + 3	5	Unknown	Initial design
Sorcerer's Apprentice			2	6	2, 5 ideally	Unknown	Complete
Space Monkeys	Space monkeys have come to Earth and are trying to get home!	2	2	1 per player	5	Unknown	Unknown
Spellcycles	Cast complex spells on other players and gain prestige.	2	5	6	5	Unknown	Complete
Sphinx's Paw	Escape from monsters beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza	2	4	5	1	Race	Playtesting
Sprawl	Competitive city building	3	8	1 per player	5	Building, Attacking	Complete
Stack Chess			2	2	5	Unknown	Unknown
Stack Control	Capture and eliminate enemy pyramids so that you control the most stacks.	2	5	5	5	Unknown	Complete
Stacktrices	A game of fighting enacted within a digital matrix		2	5	4	Unknown	Complete
Stawvs	An abstract strategy game similar to Amazons with Volcano scoring.	2	4	4	5	Movement, Removal	Complete
Subdivision	A real estate development game	2	4	1 per player	5	Placement	Complete
Tactonix	A geological Combination Game	2	4	1 per player + 1	2	Unknown	Complete
Tink	A four-in-a-row game with a twist	2	4	1 per player	5	Placement, Four-in-a-row	Unknown
TrackAngel	Deduce the location of your opponent's secret submarine on a chessboard		2	1	2	Unknown	Initial design
Triumvirate	Capture at least two trees' worth of opponent's pieces		2	2	5	Unknown	Unknown
Turtler	Help your turtle navigate a busy 6-lane freeway	2	4	2	5	Unknown	Complete
Töframenn	A fantasy strategy game where wizards, experts in a variety of elemental arts (represented by nine colors), face off in a battle of good verses evil.		2	9	1	Unknown	Unknown
Walk Like an Egyptian	Walk like an Egyptian by racing back and forth across a chessboard with checkers-like movement.	2	4	1 per player	1	Race	Complete
Whack Chess	Chess with stacking pyramids and a dynamic board		2	4	5	Chess, Dynamic board	Unknown
What Blind Ninjas?	A game of moving silently and striking carefully	2	4	1 per player	5	Unknown	Complete
WreckTangle	A chess-like multiplayer game using a Treehouse die.	2	4	1 per player	2	Move and capture	Complete
Zagami	Martian microbial life tries to survive and thrive on an asteroid		4	4	5	Unknown	Complete
Ziggurat	A push-and-shove race around and up the sides of a pyramid.	2	4	4	3	Blocking, Roll and move	Playtesting
Zugzwang	An icehouse game inspired by chess		2	4	6	Unknown	Unknown