Browse games/Opaque bag

This is a list of games that use an opaque bag (or two) for randomizing the pyramids in some way.

Name	Description	Min Players	Max Players	Number of colors	Trios per color	Game Mechanics	Status
Alchemy ICE	Noughts and crosses with randomized "symbols" of five different types.	2	6	5	5	Stacking, Capture, Tile placement	Complete
Bag of Ice	A simple push-your-luck game for many different player counts	2	12	5	2	Push-your-luck	Unknown
Black ICE	The 3HOUSE game of computer cracking		2	5	3	Discovering codes underneath opaque pyramids	Complete
Bottoms Up	A stacking game with color powers for 4 to 6 players	4	6	6	5	Unknown	Playtesting
Capstone	In Capstone, players try to build stacks that match their secret goal stacks.		2	4	5	Stacking, Hidden information	Complete
Chaos Checkers	A twist on checkers where the pieces constantly gain new abilities		2	10	5	Turn-based, Strategic placement	Unknown
Civil-ice-ation		3	6	7	5	Unknown	Complete
Cliff Mining	Use your deduction skills to work out what's in the cliff	3	5	1 per player + 1	2	Hidden Information, Deduction	Playtesting
Colorful Clues	A deduction game where players try to guess the missing colors	2	4	10	1	Stacking, Guessing	Complete
Dragon's Hoard	Be the hero who escapes the dungeon with the most treasure before sunset.	1	4	4-9	5	RPG	Complete
EOF	Players use icehouse pieces to make patterns in a data stream.	2	4	4	5	Unknown	Playtesting
Freimaurerei	Conduct lodge-based conspiracies during the European Enlightenment		2	10	5	Hidden goals, Resource management	Complete
Gemini	A quick game of luck and strategy		2	4-6	5	Unknown	Playtesting
Hailstorm	a very random betting game	2	10	4+	5	Dexterity	Complete
Hivemind	A real-time cooperative game with no communication	2	4	9	1	Cooperative, Real-time, Communication limits	Complete
I Have Color	A color based children's word game.	2	12	5	1 or 2	Abstract, Draw	Complete
Ice Colony	A game of trying to build up your colony and take control of a variety of terrain and eliminate your opponent.	2	4	10	5	Direct conflict, Elimination	Nearly Complete
Ice Fishing		2	4	4	5	Unknown	Complete
Ice Merchants	Venus is a hot place: The Place for the "in" crowd, party central for the solar system, and a tourist trap par excellance. There's just one problem. It's a HOT place...		4	5	5	Unknown	Unknown
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	1 per player + 2	5	Placement, Pyramid draw	Complete
Interstellar Conquest	Be the first alien race to set up four colonies in your opponents star systems.	2	8	1 per player	5	Unknown	Complete
Kumbha	Aquarius for IceHouse	2	5	5	3	Unknown	Playtesting
Landrush	Compete to own the land worth the greatest value.	2	5	1 per player	5	Unknown	Unknown
Magma	Jumpy patience on a Volcano board	1	2	5+	5	Puzzle, Jumping, Flow	Unknown
Martian 12s	The Martian version of Blackjack, played in casinos all over Mars!	2	5	5	2	Press your luck, Gambling	Complete
Martian Boggle	Move pyramids around a letter grid to spell words		2	2	5	Unknown	Complete
Martian Colonists	A resource gathering race, vaguely inspired by Settlers of Catan and a set of dice that match the colours of Icehouse pyramids	2	8	1 per player + 1	5	Resource management, Dice rolling	Initial design
Martian Miners	Be the first mining company to construct two mines on the dark side of Mars.	2	4	1 per player	5	Unknown	Unknown
Martian Pachinko	A Martian pachinko game for two		2	5	5	Unknown	Initial design
MartianWhist	Resolving a trick in Martian Whist		2	5	2	Perfect information, Trick-taking	Playtesting
Polymer Chains	Create Big Molecules at Home	2	10	1 per player + 1	5	Unknown	Initial design
Powerhouse	Collect exactly five pyramids in one size but five different colors.	2	5	5	3	Semi-random draw	Complete
Pyramids in my pocket	A variation on Drip, in which a player tries to guess which pyramids the other has hidden in his pocket.		2	3	2	Stacking	Complete
RAMbots Factory	A variant of RAMbots where the factory floor moves and changes orientation and adds various board elements to interact with.	2	4	10	1 per player + 1	Unknown	Unknown
Rummy Towers	Rummy towers is a rummy game using pyramids instead of tiles or cards.	2	4	5	4	Stacking, Set collection	Initial design
Scrambled Volcano	variation of Volcano published by Looney Labs	2	5	5	5	Unknown	Complete
Snowblind	How do you win a game if you have more control over your opponents’ pieces than your own?		4	4	5	Unknown	Complete
Sorcerer's Apprentice			2	6	2, 5 ideally	Unknown	Complete
Spectra	A game of color theory	2	6	8	5	Unknown	Unknown
Spectrum	A "currency" exchange game	2	4	12	5	Resource management	Initial design
Spy vs Spy	Collect all the pieces of the Thingamajig, avoid the other spy and the police, and get out alive!		2	10	3	Strategic placement	Unknown
Take It Or Leave It	A "Press Your Luck" style Treehouse game	2	6	5	1	Press your luck, Drawing from a bag	Unknown
The Unnamed Archaeologist	A game of digging up bones	2	5	6	5	Unknown	Complete
ThreeStone	Try to build stacks that match your secret goal stacks.		2	5	3	Stacking, Hidden information	Initial design
Toripoka	A set-collecting, bluffing card game based loosely on Three Card Poker.		2	5	1	Capture, Hand management	Complete
Transformartian	Create grid formations with colored pyramids	2	4	5	5	Unknown	Complete
Undercut	In Undercut, players try to bid low to get pieces with the lowest value.	3	5	5	5	Unknown	Complete
Zoning Out	Solo game of urban zoning under constraints	1	99	5	3	Unknown	Complete