Browse games/Playing cards

This is a list of games use a deck of regular Playing cards.

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
Apophis	A real-time co-op game of saving the world from an asteroid	1	4	5	1	Cooperative, Color powers	Complete
Atom Smasher	A game of dexterity inspired by billiards, carrom, and marbles	2	100	1	1	Dexterity, Turn-based	Complete
Barrakesh Express	Control surface transport on Mars	2	4	1 per player	5	Set collection, Hidden goals	Playtesting
Capture The Card	Use Icehouse pieces and strategy to capture cards.		2	4	5	Unknown	Unknown
Capture the Card	Use Icehouse pieces and strategy to capture a royal flush.		2	2	4	Strategic movement	Unknown
Cascades	A two-player mountaineering race.		2	3	2	Movement, Cards	Playtesting
Civil-ice-ation		3	6	7	5	Unknown	Complete
Conquest of Mars	abstract wargame using pyramids, cards, and dice	2	4	5	3	Dice combat, Poker hands	Playtesting
Continuum	Use pyramids and a poker deck to get your trees to exchange places		2	2	1	Unknown	Playtesting
Diamond Mine	Collect Diamonds from hidden Veins	2	4	6 (2 must be opaque)	5	Unknown	Complete
European War	A variation on Andy Looney's World War 5.	2	4	5	3	Unknown	Complete
Freimaurerei	Conduct lodge-based conspiracies during the European Enlightenment		2	10	5	Hidden goals, Resource management	Complete
Gridiron	A simple little photo safari game.	2	4	5	2	Unknown	Unknown
High Ground	A game of strategy and luck that uses playing cards as the board and pyramids as the pieces a la Gnostica.	2	4	1 per player	2	Playing card game board	Playtesting
Ice Etin's Cave			4	4	5	Unknown	Playtesting
Ice Points	An entirely luck driven card battle over a bank of pyramid points.	5	8	1 per player	5	Unknown	Initial design
Ice Tiddly Winks	A quick dexterity game with simultaneous play	1	6	1 per player	5	Dexterity	Complete
Intersect	placement and simultaneous capture		2	2	5	Placement, Simultaneous action	Complete
Krump	A chess-like game where your movement options increase as the game progresses.		2	2	5	Unknown	Complete
Leaning Towers	Build Out Build Up	2	10	1 per player + 1	5	Unknown	Complete
Logistics	A game of Logistics in progress		2	5	4	Capture, Perfect information	Playtesting
Lonely Ice	A solitaire game of attack.		1	4	5	Unknown	Complete
Martian Flood	Players score points by building ships & towers that survive the floods	3	4	1 per player	5	Unknown	Playtesting
Martian Gunslinger	An abstract Western theme boardgame with a checkerboard	2	4	5	2	Set collection, Resource management, Direct conflict	Nearly Complete
Martian Poker	Icehouse Additions to an Earthling Standard	2	6	1 per person	5	Unknown	Playtesting
Martian Trickery	A trick-taking game where you earn pyramids by winning tricks	3	4	5	1	Push your luck, Trick taking	Initial design
Martianopolis 500	Zip around the track to the finish.	2	4	1 per player	1	Unknown	Playtesting
Race to the Top	A combination of several non-pyramid games.	3	10	5	5	Unknown	Initial design
Simple Life or Death		2	10	1 per player	5	Unknown	Unknown
Sky Rise	A game of hidden agendas and tower construction	2	5	5 or 6	3	Hidden goals, Tower building, Shared pieces	Complete
The Sniper	Survive an abduction by outwitting The Sniper		4	5	1	Unknown	Initial design
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
Thin Ice	Grow your fragile ice crystal until it shatters	2	10	1 per player	5	Unknown	Complete
Toripoka	A set-collecting, bluffing card game based loosely on Three Card Poker.		2	5	1	Capture, Hand management	Complete
Tour de Pyramide	a bicycle race simulation set in the French mountains	1	6	5 to 10	1 to 5	Unknown	Complete
Tower War	Draft a deck, then try to wage a war without making the tower collapse.		2	2	5	Dexterity, Drafting	Complete
The Wilds of Mars	A simple little photo safari game.	2	4	5	2	Movement, Hand management	Complete
Zarcana	territorial control on a board of Tarot cards, with CCG-like card effects	2	4	1 per player	5	Unknown	Complete
Zark City	A 3HOUSE reduction of Zarcana, using playing cards	2	5	1 per player	3	Modular board, Hand & stash management	Complete
Zoink!	A game of chance by stealing and regaining pieces.	2	6	1 per player	5	Strategic collection	Initial design