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{{Under Development|Playtesting}}
 
{{Infobox_Game|
subject_name=IceFrogs|
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min_players=2 |
max_players=3 |
stashes=21 orper 3player |
sets=5 |
other_equip=Poker Chips |
setup_time=1 minute or less4 minutes|
playing_time=5-15 minutes |
complexity=Low |
strategy=Medium |
random_chance=None |
mechanicsgame_mechanics= Jumping, Stacking|
theme=Abstract|
release_year=2008|
game_status=Complete|
footnotes=|
BGG_Link= [http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/39886 39886IceFrogs]
}}
 
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=== Setup ===
Lay out the 37 poker chips per the diagram. The light green circles are the start spaces. Pick a player to go first. (The tallest, flip a coin, highest roll on a die, whatever.) ''Images for the boards are rough, nicer images to come later.''
[[Image:IceFrogs setup 2 players.svg|thumb|none|600px|''<big>Setup for 2 players</big>'']]
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|[[Image:IceFrogs setup 3 players.svg|thumb|none|600px|''<big>Setup for 23 players:</big>'']]
=== Game Play ===
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/spearjr/games/Icehouse/board_rough.jpg
 
| Setup for 3 players:
Pick a player to go first. (The tallest, flip a coin, highest roll on a die, whatever.)
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/spearjr/games/Icehouse/board_rough_for3.jpg
 
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Each turn, a player may
 
1) move a pyramid that is already on the board, or
 
2) place a new pyramid from their supply on their start space and then move this new pyramid.
 
Each turn a player may move a pyramid already on the board or place a new pyramid from their supply on their start space and then move this new pyramid. If they have no pyramids in their supply, they must move a pyramid on the board. A piece may not be left on the start space.
 
====Movement====
A pyramid may be moved one space to an adjacent space. The space it lands on may be empty or may contain a pyramid of equal or greater size as the top (or only) piece in a stack. A pyramid cannot be placed on top of a smaller pyramid.
 
[[Image:Ice Frogs move adjacent rules05.-01.svg|thumb|none|600px|''<big>The purple pyramid here can move to an empty space or it can stack on top of the large blue pyramid or medium purple pyramid. It is not allowed to stack on top of the 1-pip blue pyramid because pyramids cannot land on pieces smaller than themselves.</big>'']]
 
A pyramid may also jump over one space containing one or more pyramids, so long as the top pyramid in the stack is of equal or smaller size. A pyramid may not jump over a pyramid larger than itself. A pyramid can jump in any of the six directions and can move to the start space, so long as it doesn't end the turn there.
=== Game Play ===
 
[[Image:Ice Frogs jump allowed yes-and-no-01.svg|thumb|none|600px|''<big>This purple pyramid may not jump over the medium blue pyramid to the right because the medium pyramid is bigger than it. But it can jump over the stack on the left, because the piece on the top of that stack is the same size or smaller than the jumping pyramid.</big>'']]
Each turn a player may move a pyramid already on the board or place a new pyramid from their supply on their start space and then move this new pyramid. If they have no pyramids in their supply, they must move a pyramid on the board. A piece may not be left on the start space.
 
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[[Image:Ice Frogs jump yes allowed-02.svg|thumb|none|600px|''<big>This blue pyramid may jump over the small purple, the medium blue, and then the stack topped with the medium purple. It is not forced to keep jumping during this journey; it has the option of stopping any of the green dots shown on the poker chips.</big>'']]A pyramid can land on top of a piece of equal or greater size. A pyramid cannot land on top of a piece smaller than itself.[[Image:Ice Frogs jump not allowed03.svg|thumb|none|600px|''<big>In this same situation, if there were a small piece on the ending space, the blue pyramid would be able to jump the first two hops, but could not jump over the large-and-medium stack because doing so would cause it to land on a piece smaller than itself.</big>'']]If this space a pyramids lands on is occupied, the player's turn is over.[[Image:Ice Frogs jump not allowed04.svg|thumb|none|600px|''<big>In this same situation, if there were a large piece on the third hop, the blue pyramid would be able to land on the large piece. Doing so would end its movement because landing on an occupied space always ends your movement, so it could not jump over the medium blue pyramid to its right.</big>'']]
A player may choose to place their pyramid on top of a pyramid of equal or greater size. It is not allowed to place a pyramid on top of a smaller pyramid. From one space, a pyramid may move over one other occupied space to land on the space after the occupied one. If this space was occupied, the player's turn is over. If this space was empty, the pyramid may move again to jump over another pyramid or be placed on top of an adjacent pyramid.
 
Only the top most pyramid in a stack may be moved. With this it is possible to trap an opponent's pyramid on a space.
 
=== Game End ===
The game is won by the first player to move a pyramid into their opponent's start space.
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=== License ===
http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/88x31.png <br>This work is distributed by [[User:spearjr|Jason Spears]] & [[Erik Oosterwal]] under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License].