Browse games/Paper and pencil
This is a list of games that require paper and pencil, typically to keep score but occasionally they are used in more inventive ways.
Name | Description | Min Players | Max Players | Number of colors | Trios per color | Game Mechanics | Status |
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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 |
Crossroads | A game of placing pyramids and tracing paths | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | Placement, Path Tracing | Nearly Complete |
HamstersOnIce | You're in a hamster ball in a huge ice arena | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Unknown | Initial design |
Ice House Bowling | A game using IceHouse pieces for bowling. | 2 | 100 | 4 | 1 | Unknown | Initial design |
Ice Market | A real-time trading game | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
IceDungeons | Quest through the world with your guide, and lots of paper | 5 | Unknown | Unknown | |||
IceTraders | Starships battle for Good and Evil | 2 | 6 | 4 | 5 | Board game | Unknown |
Influenza | An Icehouse influence game where different bacteria fight over creating the greatest infections | 3 | 4 | 1 per player + 1 | 5 | Unknown | Unknown |
Kumbha | Aquarius for IceHouse | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | Unknown | Playtesting |
Leaning Towers | Build Out Build Up | 2 | 10 | 1 per player + 1 | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Limn | A Balderdash-style bluffing game | 4 | 10 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Playtesting |
Sky Rise | A game of hidden agendas and tower construction | 2 | 5 | 5 or 6 | 3 | Hidden goals, Tower building, Shared pieces | 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 | |
Spellcycles | Cast complex spells on other players and gain prestige. | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Stacktors! | A role-playing game system using pyramids. | 2 | 100 | 12 | 10 | Tactics, Comparison | Playtesting |
Take It Or Leave It | A "Press Your Luck" style Treehouse game | 2 | 6 | 5 | 1 | Press your luck, Drawing from a bag | Unknown |
TrackAngel | Deduce the location of your opponent's secret submarine on a chessboard | 2 | 1 | 2 | Unknown | Initial design | |
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 |