Browse games/Five stashes or sets

This is a list of games that require either five monochrome stashes or five Rainbow/Xeno sets to play.

Note: in most cases, the terms of "5 monochrome stashes" and "5 Rainbow sets" are interchangeable. Occasionally five specific colors are required - typically the rainbow colors of Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Black. However, you can usually get around the restriction by substituting other colors as you see fit.

Name	Description	Min Players	Max Players	Other Equipment	Game Mechanics	Status
Aeb	Grow your forces and destroy the enemy.	2	4	Chessboard	Unknown	Playtesting
Alchemy ICE	Noughts and crosses with randomized "symbols" of five different types.	2	6	Chessboard, Opaque bag	Stacking, Capture, Tile placement	Complete
Amoeba	A science themed game with an ever-increasing board size.	2	6	16 Poker Chips per player	Placement	Complete
Apophis	A real-time co-op game of saving the world from an asteroid	1	4	Six-sided die, Playing cards, Timer, 5 Counters	Cooperative, Color powers	Complete
Bag of Ice	A simple push-your-luck game for many different player counts	2	12	Pyramid die, any score-tracking method, Opaque bag	Push-your-luck	Unknown
Barrakesh Express	Control surface transport on Mars	2	4	Special map board, playing cards, custom goal notes	Set collection, Hidden goals	Playtesting
Blockade	3D race game		2	Volcano board, 4 colored dice	Roll-and-move	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	Chessboard, tokens, coins	Unknown	Complete
Branches & Twigs & Thorns (Polish)	Gra strategiczna, gracze zapełniają plansze swoimi piramidami.	2	4	szachownica, znaczniki	Zapełnianie planszy, Dokładanie piramidek	Complete
Breakthrough	Capture pieces as you move your pyramids across the board.		2	Chessboard	Unknown	Initial design
Capture the Flag	2 or 3 players try to capture an opponent's flag in an ever-shrinking space.	2	3	Poker Chips and/or hex board	Capture, Shrinking Board	Initial design
Cardinal Connections	In Cardinal Connections, players try to make more pyramids point towards themselves than toward the other players.	2	4	Chessboard	Board	Complete
Carrots and Broccoli	A abstract game about planning a garden	2	4	Pyramid die, Color die, Chessboard, Timer (optional)	Timer, IceDice	Complete
Chaos Checkers	A twist on checkers where the pieces constantly gain new abilities		2	3 dice bags, 1 set of Volcano Caps	Turn-based, Strategic placement	Unknown
CrackeD ICE (Polish)	Gra zręcznościowa, stąpając po lodzie należy uważać, by się nie załamał.	2	5	płyta CD, dodatkowa duża piramidka	Dokładanie piramidek, Gra zręcznościowa	Complete
CrackeD Ice	Don't tip the ice floe!	3	5	an old CD; one extra large pyramid	Dexterity, Balance	Complete
Crystal Caverns	RPG played on a playing card dungeon map	1	5	Treehouse Dice, Counters	Board	Unknown
Crystal Formation	Create crystals formed into trees while trying to influence the development of your opponents nodes.	2	6	Chessboard	Stacking, Placement	Complete
Crystal Wars	Wargame played on Martian Coasters	2	4	Dice or Counters	Board	Playtesting
Depict	Can you get your friends to guess the secret word using only pyramids?	2	10		Unknown	Initial design
E, the Game of Martian Chinese Checkers		2	6	hex board	Unknown	Complete
Evacuate	Get your Stacktor clans out of burning nightclubs before your rival/s manage/s to do the same.	2	4	custom board	Stacking, Placement	Playtesting
Game of Princes	The two sons of the king play a racing game to one another’s carpets with help of their servitors		2		Piece movement	Initial design
Gorean Kaissa	Fantasy chess on the planet Gor		2	10x10 grid board	Chess	Complete
Hexano	A variant of Volcano played on a 3x3 hexagonal board instead of a 5x5 square one		2	hexagonal board (PDF available)	Eruption	Playtesting
Hextris	An abstract connection game of moving, swapping, and removing	2	3	hex board (19 cells or spots)	Placement, Movement	Unknown
Houses of Thoth	Erecting Pyramids on Tarot cards, and vice versa	2	5	Tarot deck	Accumulation, Construction	Playtesting
Hunt	A hunt in a deadly maze	2	4	optional chessboard	Unknown	Complete
Ice Caps			2	Volcano Board	Unknown	Initial design
Ice Palace	A game of simple mechanics but complex interactions where players compete to win “hands” and ultimately control the construction of the Ice Palace.	3	6	A smooth surface; an opaque bag, a marker	Placement, Pyramid draw	Complete
Ice Points	An entirely luck driven card battle over a bank of pyramid points.	5	8	Playing cards	Unknown	Initial design
Ice Stackers	A dexterous stacking race game.	2	6	A single coin	Unknown	Complete
Ice Tiddly Winks	A quick dexterity game with simultaneous play	1	6	Good size playing surface	Dexterity	Complete
IceDice	Players roll dice to select pieces, but roll the same color twice and lose everything you gained this turn!	2	4	Pyramid die, Color die	Set collection, Push your luck	Complete
IceDuel	A miniatures-oriented, arena duel game with an unusual character creation format.	2	4	an 8-sided die, Chessboards, pawns, tokens, Tarot deck	Color powers	Initial design
IceHanoi	A solo game of trying to turn nests into trees		1		Unknown	Initial design
IceTowers	Control the most valuable towers	2	6		Stacking pyramids, Turnless	Complete
IceTowers (Polish)	Kontrola najcenniejszych wież	2	4	brak	Czas rzeczywisty, Układanie w stosy	Complete
Igloo	A turn-based version of Icehouse, with only one color worth points by the end.		2		Unknown	Complete
Ikkozendo	A Zendo variant with a limited number of pyramids and players	2	100	2 colors of marking stones (1 of each)	Turn-based, Inductive logic	Complete
Imperial Shuffle	Block your opponent's Emperor from being able to move		2	custom board of partial chessboard	Unknown	Complete
Influenza	An Icehouse influence game where different bacteria fight over creating the greatest infections	3	4	pencil and paper	Unknown	Unknown
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	Volcano board for 2 players, Chessboard for 4 players	Capture	Complete
Leech	Capture your opponents' pieces and their score	2	4	Chessboard and 1 card for each color	Unknown	Initial design
Mandala	A deceptively simple game of set collection	2	5	unique token per player	Set collection, Perfect information	Complete
Martian BattleSpires	Martian BattleSpires is a game of domination by advantage.		2	A volcano board would be handy but not required.	Stacking, Capturing	Playtesting
Martian Flood	Players score points by building ships & towers that survive the floods	3	4	One standard deck of playing cards, three six-sided dice	Unknown	Playtesting
Martian Go	Players build branching tree structures from a root in this predecessor to Branches & Twigs & Thorns.	2	4	Chessboard, four markers	Tile placement	Complete
Martian Pachinko	A Martian pachinko game for two		2	Marking stones, Opaque bag	Unknown	Initial design
Martian Quilting	Assembling pyramidal pieces	2	6	4x4 board, "needle" token	Unknown	Unknown
Martian Tanks	Skill based based with pyramids	2	10	poker chips	Unknown	Unknown
Martian Trickery	A trick-taking game where you earn pyramids by winning tricks	3	4	One deck of standard playing cards and a way to keep score	Push your luck, Trick taking	Initial design
Middleman	Maneuver around a cramped board to reunite your pieces		2	board	Movement, N/A	Complete
Munch	Ancient space monsters roam the galaxy, munching worlds and each other.	2	4	6x6 board	Placement, Capturing	Complete
Nile	Use your workers to build the great pyramids of Egypt		2	Chessboard, 3 six-sided dice, 5-6 "Favor" tokens	Unknown	Complete
Override	A two-player game where pieces are individually owned but mutually controlled	2	2	5x5 grid	Placement, Perfect information	Complete
Pantopia	Pantopia is a game of territorial struggle, shifting fortune, and elemental magic.	2	5	two Aquarius decks	Unknown	Unknown
Pentamid Twist	Get five pieces in a row on a set of Martian Coasters.		2	set of Martian Coasters	Placement, Dynamic board	Complete
Pikemen (Polish)	Broń swoje jednostki przed szarżującymi pikinierami!	2	4	szachownica	Eliminacja elementów przeciwnika	Complete
Plutonian Poker	Poker (sort-of) but with more stacking and pyramids. Played with 2 or more people.	2	6		Stacking	Complete
Power Tower	Build high towers by taking over pieces from other towers.	2	4	None	Unknown	Unknown
Protozoa	Create the most successful multi-celled colony creature	2	4	chessboard	Placement	Unknown
PyraGRYB		2	4	GRYB board and GRYB dice	Unknown	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	favor tokens, stones (in 2 to 4 different colors), chessboard	Stacking, Placement	Unknown
Pyrinoes	Dominoes, with extra pyramids		2	A set of double-6 dominoes, a bit of space and something to keep score	Placement	Complete
Quicksand	A strategy game where you try to capture your opponent's pieces on a board that is in constant flux.		2	4 Martian Coasters	Placement, Capture, Board Rotation	Complete
Quicksand (Polish)	Gra strategiczna, w której plansza nieustannie się zmienia, a celem jest zdobywanie piramidek przeciwnika.		2	4 Martian Coasters	Umieszczanie i zbijanie piramidek, Obracanie plansz	Complete
RGB	In RGB, stacks of Icehouse pieces reproduce and try to kill each other's children		2	Chessboard	Chesslike	Complete
Ricochet Pyramids	Simultaneous real-time searching for the shortest solution to move a robot to a goal.	2	8	Chessboard, Timer	Movement, Puzzle	Complete
Rosicrucian Chess	occult chess variant a.k.a. Enochian Chess	2	4	conventional die (optional), Chessboard	Divination, Chess	Complete
Scrambled Volcano	variation of Volcano published by Looney Labs	2	5	Volcano caps, Volcano board, Opaque bag	Unknown	Complete
Small Flags	Twin Win-like game - move upper pyramid to fit your goals	2	4	3x3 board	Pattern matching	Complete
Space Monkeys	Space monkeys have come to Earth and are trying to get home!	2	2	Chessboard	Unknown	Unknown
Spectra	A game of color theory	2	6	Opaque bag	Unknown	Unknown
Stack Control	Capture and eliminate enemy pyramids so that you control the most stacks.	2	5	Chessboard	Unknown	Complete
Stack Control (Polish)	Gra strategiczna, gracze budują wieże z unikalnych elementów.	2	5	szachownica	Eliminacja elementów przeciwnika, Przemieszczanie stosów	Complete
Super Death Ray	Use fighter ships, thievery, super death rays, and a clone army to destroy your opponent's inter-planetary empire.	2	3	Turn Token, 5 White Volcano Caps (for 3-Player Games)	Freeform board, Color powers	Playtesting
Supercalifragilisticano	Square Volcano beyond "Mega"	1	5	Volcano caps, 7x7 board (optional)	Eruption	Complete
Synapse-Ice	An adaptation of the paper-and-pencil game Synapse'		2		Unknown	Complete
Synapse-Ice (Polish)	Zapełnianie planszy piramidkami		2	plansza 6x5	Zapełnianie planszy	Complete
Take It Or Leave It	A "Press Your Luck" style Treehouse game	2	6	Opaque bag, Dealer chip, Pencil and paper	Press your luck, Drawing from a bag	Unknown
The Unnamed Archaeologist	A game of digging up bones	2	5	Opaque cloth bag, Color die, Pyramid die	Unknown	Complete
Timberland	Treehouse meets Volcano; tipping and hopping shared pieces for points	2	4	Volcano board, 2 Treehouse dice	Unknown	Complete
Tower War	Draft a deck, then try to wage a war without making the tower collapse.		2	Playing cards	Dexterity, Drafting	Complete
Tree House Rush	Around to the finish.	2	4	1 die	Unknown	Initial design
Undercut	In Undercut, players try to bid low to get pieces with the lowest value.	3	5	1 marker per player, 1 or 3 bags to draw pieces from, pen and paper	Unknown	Complete
Virus Fight	A game of combat between two ever changing computer programs	2	5	5x5 or 6x6 Board, optional play-aids and hollow pawns/volcano caps/TH set of different type (as long as all the others are equal).	Unknown	Complete
Virus Fight (Spanish)	Un juego de combate entre virus informáticos	2	5	Tablero de 5x5 o 6x6. Ficheros de ayuda opcionales y peones huecos/pirámides pequeñas de otros colores no usados/Volcano Caps.	Unknown	Complete
Volcano (variants)	Lava flows for points as the volcano erupts!	1	4	Volcano board, Volcano caps	Set collection, Eruption	Unknown
Volcano Race	Volcano meets Mancala		2	Volcano board, Volcano caps	Unknown	Complete
What Blind Ninjas?	A game of moving silently and striking carefully	2	4	4x8 grid per player (half a chess board)	Unknown	Complete
X Spectrum	Combine and Conquer		2	Chess Board	Unknown	Playtesting
Zagami	Martian microbial life tries to survive and thrive on an asteroid		4	chessboard	Unknown	Complete
Zarcana	territorial control on a board of Tarot cards, with CCG-like card effects	2	4	deck of Tarot cards or playing cards	Unknown	Complete
Zendo	Players achieve satori when they discover the secret rule that explains which koans have the elusive Buddha-nature	3	7	marking stones (~20 in each of 3 colors)	Unknown	Complete