Browse games/Simple complexity

This is a list of games that are relatively simple and easy to learn.

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
Ambush	A capture game for 2 players with 2 stashes and 4 Martian Coasters.		2	2	5	Beverage-coaster manipulation	Complete
Amoeba	A science themed game with an ever-increasing board size.	2	6	1 per player	5	Placement	Complete
Apophis	A real-time co-op game of saving the world from an asteroid	1	4	5	1	Cooperative, Color powers	Complete
Aquarius Rising	Connect your elements to the higher planes	2	5	5	4	Placement, Hidden goals	Complete
Around & Around	Treehouse game where players race to the Safe House	2	4	1 per player	1	Unknown	Unknown
Ascendancy	A turn-based game of tower building.	2	5	1 per player	5	Unknown	Playtesting
Atom Smasher	A game of dexterity inspired by billiards, carrom, and marbles	2	100	1	1	Dexterity, Turn-based	Complete
Babylone	A simple and fast brain teaser for 2 players		2	4	3	Stacking	Complete
Bag of Ice	A simple push-your-luck game for many different player counts	2	12	5	2	Push-your-luck	Unknown
Ballistic Wars	A pure strategy game of knocking down enemy walls	3	6	4	5	Unknown	Playtesting
Barrakesh Express	Control surface transport on Mars	2	4	1 per player	5	Set collection, Hidden goals	Playtesting
Behind Enemy Lines	Multiplayer war based game	2	4	1 per player	2	Roll and move	Initial design
Black ICE	The 3HOUSE game of computer cracking		2	5	3	Discovering codes underneath opaque pyramids	Complete
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
Bowler Rink	Toss a die into the box containing stacks of pyramids. How many can you knock over without ejecting them from the arena?	2	10	1 per player	3	Dexterity	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
Builders of R'lyeh	Constructing the drowned city of Cthulhu	1	5	1 per player + 1	5	Stacking, Dexterity	Complete
Candy Capture	Earn the most points once all candy pieces are captured		2	5	1	Unknown	Initial design
Capture the Flag	2 or 3 players try to capture an opponent's flag in an ever-shrinking space.	2	3	1 per player	5	Capture, Shrinking Board	Initial design
CarboniteDice	A solo variant of IceDice		1	5	2	Push your luck, Set building	Playtesting
Carrots and Broccoli	A abstract game about planning a garden	2	4	5	1 per player	Timer, IceDice	Complete
Catapults	In Catapults, each player builds a castle and then tries to tear down the castles of the other players.	1	10	1 per player	5	Unknown	Playtesting
Cathouse	Cathouse, a game for cats.		1	1	5	Unknown	Complete
Centrifice	Centrifice is a hurling match, introducing a new mechanic for stackable Icehouse pieces: Centrificeing (hurling your Icehouse pieces with the help of other Icehouse pieces).	1	100	1	5	Dexterity, Centrificeing	Playtesting
Chain Reaction	Fire 'particles' at 'atoms' and direct the chain reaction to let you capture pieces	2	6	6	5	Stacking, Placement	Playtesting
Chivalry	Be the first player to jump two queens off the opposing side of the board.		2	2	5	Unknown	Complete
The Closest Ghost	A simple game played with pieces of candy		2	3	3	Unknown	Complete
Coaster Chess	Martian Chess meets Martian Coasters	2	4	1	4	Unknown	Playtesting
Color Claim	Build stacks with your claimed color on top to score points.		2	5	2	Capturing	Complete
Color Wheel	Try to connect all same colored pyramids before time runs out!	1	5	10	3	Cooperative, Puzzle	Complete
Colorblind	A color mixing logic game		2	9 (one opaque)	1	Deduction	Nearly Complete
Colorful Clues	A deduction game where players try to guess the missing colors	2	4	10	1	Stacking, Guessing	Complete
Coup	Take over a small country	3	5	1	5	Unknown	Initial design
Cover Up	Cover up your opponent's options and get 4-in-a-row		2	2	5	Unknown	Complete
CrackeD Ice	Don't tip the ice floe!	3	5	1 per player	5	Dexterity, Balance	Complete
Crossroads	A game of placing pyramids and tracing paths	3	5	5	1	Placement, Path Tracing	Nearly Complete
Crosswalk			2	5	1	Stacking, Blocking	Complete
Crystal Traders	Trade crystals with people from other worlds	3	6	4	5	Unknown	Playtesting
Dash	Be the first to finish.	2	5	5	1	Unknown	Initial design
Depict	Can you get your friends to guess the secret word using only pyramids?	2	10	3	5	Unknown	Initial design
Der Marsigelwettkampf	A prickly pyramid game	2	13	1 per player	1	Stacking, Freeform board	Complete
Diamond Mine	Collect Diamonds from hidden Veins	2	4	6 (2 must be opaque)	5	Unknown	Complete
Dodger	Catch the Fugitive in an ever changing landscape.	2	10	3	5	Stacking, Jumping, Placing, Moving	Initial design
Dog Eat Dog	An abstract game of strategy and luck for 2 or more players	2	8	4	5	Unknown	Unknown
Drag Race	An abstract race game of second guessing in second gear.		2	5	2	Bluffing	Complete
Dragonflock	Dragons intimidate each other and lay waste to hapless towns		2	2	3	Stacking, Capture	Unknown
Drip	A stacking game using Icehouse pieces		2	1	5	Unknown	Complete
Edges	An abstract placement game played on the edges (not squares or points) of a grid representing the Martian canal network.		2	2	5	Unknown	Complete
Elemental Towers	A solitaire game played with an Aquarius deck		1	5	3	Unknown	Complete
Epicycle	Exchange your pieces for those in a circle. Avoid getting 3 pieces of the same size.		2	1	5	Behavior prediction	Complete
Fire-Ice-Slime	A very fast and simple, 2-player, 1 Treehouse game, similar to Rock-Scissors-Paper.		2	5	1	Color Powers	Complete
Folio	An abstract strategy game for two players inspired by Quarto		2	4	2	Unknown	Complete
Forts	A game of building and tearing down.	2	4	1 per player	5	Unknown	Complete
Freeze Tag	Pyramids race to the other side, trying not to get frozen along the way.	2	4	1 per player	2	Volcano Board, Equipment/Dice	Complete
Fuji-san			2	2	5	Unknown	Complete
Game of Princes	The two sons of the king play a racing game to one another’s carpets with help of their servitors		2	5	5	Piece movement	Initial design
Geodeto	Planet Earth is full of beautiful and interesting places.	2	6	6	1	Unknown	Complete
Giants and Dwarves	Single Stash Game being translated into Treehouse	2	3	1	5	Unknown	Unknown
Give or Take		2	10	1	1 per player (3 minimum)	Set collection, Trading	Complete
Gleebs and Grues	Absorb your enemies while trying not to be eaten by a grue.		2	5	1	Placement, Capturing	Complete
Gnaqush	Hop to the other end of the board and promote your pieces	2	4	1 per player	5	Unknown	Complete
Green Hijinks	A luck-free variant of Pink Hijinks		2	1	3	Pattern formation	Complete
Hailstorm	a very random betting game	2	10	4+	5	Dexterity	Complete
Hexachess	Chess for 2 to 3 players on a hexagonal board.	2	3	1 per player	5	Capture	Initial design
Hexano-Duel	A more strategic variant of Volcano played with 9 stashes on a hexagonal board		2	9	5	Volcano	Unknown
Hextris	An abstract connection game of moving, swapping, and removing	2	3	1 per player	5	Placement, Movement	Unknown
High Rise	A game of trying to build the biggest towers in order to control the most valuable properties on a Martian Coasters square		2	2	2	Unknown	Unknown
How Pretty Is That?	Players take turns making trees and placing them on a mega-volcano board	1	99	6+	5	Unknown	Unknown
Hunt	A hunt in a deadly maze	2	4	5	2	Unknown	Complete
I Have Color	A color based children's word game.	2	12	5	1 or 2	Abstract, Draw	Complete
Ice Age	Mastodons vs the Hunters		2	1	5	Unknown	Unknown
Ice Boule	Play the dexterity game Boule with your Icehouse pieces, using the Centrifice-mechanic.	1	10	1 per player + 1	5	Unknown	Playtesting
Ice Draughts	Advanced variant of Draughts	2	4	1 per player	3	Unknown	Playtesting
Ice Fishing		2	4	4	5	Unknown	Complete
Ice House Bowling	A game using IceHouse pieces for bowling.	2	100	4	1	Unknown	Initial design
Ice Lady	A variant of Turkish checkers, aka Dama, using Icehouse pieces.		2	2	4	Unknown	Unknown
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 Miners	A 2-player game of underground survival inspired by Settlers of Catan.		2	5	5	Resource management, Building	Initial design
Ice Points	An entirely luck driven card battle over a bank of pyramid points.	5	8	1 per player	5	Unknown	Initial design
Ice Race	Race opponents on a track using traditional and Treehouse dice.	2	4	4	1	Unknown	Initial design
Ice Stackers	A dexterous stacking race game.	2	6	5	1 per player	Unknown	Complete
Ice Tiddly Winks	A quick dexterity game with simultaneous play	1	6	1 per player	5	Dexterity	Complete
Ice-Turn	Pyramid version of Q-Turn.	2	4	5	1	Stacking, Race	Complete
Ice3		1	100	4	5	Stacking	Unknown
IceCream	A two player game that requires no playing surface.		2	3	4	Unknown	Unknown
IceCubed	A game utilizing IceDice components and a Mega-Volcano board: Players are randomly given opportunities for movement, attack, and supply to the board while also presented the opportunity to seek revenge and wreak havoc on their opponents.	2	4	5	1 per player + 1	Board, Equipment/Dice, Shared Pieces	Playtesting
IceDam	This is a multiplayer variant of IceSickle.	2	4	1 per player	5	IceSickle	Complete
IceFrogs	Players jump their pyramids across the board in an attempt to get a piece into their opponent's start space.	2	3	1 per player	5	Stacking, Jumping	Complete
IceFu	There can be only one		2	2	5	Unknown	Unknown
IceGolf	Icehouse Golf, using a stash tube as the club	1	100	1 per player or fewer	1+	Dexterity	Complete
IceSickle	IceSickle is a bit similar to checkers, but was originally inspired by solitaire peg jumping games		2	1	5	Placement, Jumping	Complete
IceToids	Explore a board made of print-and-play cards.	2	4	1 per player	3	Area control	Complete
Icehouse Baseball	A baseball simulation.		2	1	4	Unknown	Initial design
Icehouse Null Game	The Game of Playing with Pyramids	1	100	0	0	Unknown	Unknown
Iceminers	Collect Gems from hidden Veins	2	4	6 (1 opaque)	5	Unknown	Complete
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