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A game playable with the Homeworlds Set needs the Homeworlds Set from the Kickstarter Pyramid QuarterQuartet series.
 
Other equipment may be needed, but it could be as little as a dice or a board, of which often a print-ready file is provided.
 
== Contents ==
For the sake of completeness, a Homeworlds Set contains 12 trios in 4 colors (3 trios per color). Standard, the colors are: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue.
 
== Combos ==
Many games that need one or two stashes can also be played with the Homewolrds Set, by realizing that each player can play with a combo of 2 colors, so that each player can use up to 6 trios in their combo.
 
In 2-person games that require more than 3 trios per player, the following combos occur in pairs:
 
* Red-Yellow = Shell; Green-Blue = Ocean
* Red-Green = Christmas; Yellow-Blue: Goodyear
* Red-Blue = USA; Yellow-Green = Brazil
 
== Grayscale Set ==
If you are interested in assembling a minimalistic Grayscale Homeworlds Set, consider the following colors in your set, shown with correspondences:
 
* Red -> Black (the color of Death or Darth Vader)
* Yellow -> Transparent (closest to Yellow)
* Green -> White (the color of new beginnings)
* Blue -> Silver (the color of money)
 
With Looney Labs' current product line, you'd need to get 3 Nomids Sets (for the colors Black, Transparent, and White), and a Martian Chess Silver Edition Set (for Silver).
 
The combos that can be generated with this minimalistic set have the following names:
 
* Black-Transparent = Hot ; White-Silver = Cool (as being absorbing light vs. reflecting)
* Black-White = Yin-Yang; Transparent-Silver = Mirror
* Black-Silver = Ash; Transparent-White = Snow/Ice
 
== Link ==
CubeMan69. ''Play More Games with the Homeworlds Set.'' Aug 2023. Contains 23 games + variants (not all here on the wiki, yet). Available from lulu.com in softcover and hardcover.
* [https://tinyurl.com/HW-Play-More Play More Games with the Homeworlds Set] (free PDF)