A simple little photo safari game built on the Treehouse system. The object of The Wilds of Mars is to travel to "the grounds" where animals native to the red planet are bound to be and photograph them. Setup: Each player selects one of the colors from the sets. Two cards are placed face-down next to each other in the middle of the table; these are the...
While out on patrol on Mars, you were caught in a seismic event, trapping you underground and cutting you off from any rescue. Your only hope now is to dig your way out. Luckily, your Mars exploration suit comes with some useful terraforming tools that will help you. But it doesn’t have unlimited energy and you might be buried under too much rock to...
It has been years since colonization! Mars now has an atmosphere and your team is moving full throttle to build cities! Tear-a-Form on Mars is a “Speak-and-Write” variant on the Roll-and-Write genre. In Tear-a-Form on Mars, players are building a utopia on mars! In Tear-a-Form on Mars, each player will be managing two private grids which represent two...
In the year 2071, humanity stands on the brink of a new age, the age of Martian colonization. Mars, the barren crimson jewel of our solar system, teems with untapped potential. Earth's global powers and private corporations have launched an ambitious project : to transform Mars into a second home for humanity. Equipped with advanced technology, in Pioneers...
Marseille Sophistiqué is your guide to one of the most complex families of card games in the world! A 78-card deck, elegantly illustrated and faithful to the sensibility of its 15th century origins, updated with modern gameplay in mind. The Tarocchi family of games is a historical set of point-trick taking games, played in a series of zero-sum hands. Most...
Martello is played on a 6x6 grid board. 36 stones in 6 different colors and 6 different patterns are shuffled and placed on the board before the game begins. The game can be played with 1, 2 or 3 players. While the basic rules are equal for any number of players, the playing area can be different and the winning condition is always different! Movements can...
Martian Backgammon is designed using Icehouse Pieces, and is the Icehouse answer to roll-and move race games. Like its namesake, Martian Backgammon is an abstract strategy game with a significant luck component. Two players compete to be the first to get their pieces off of superimposed U-shaped tracks, while capturing enemy pieces and evading capture...
This was the first appearance of the transparent plastic pyramids that would become known as Icehouse Pyramids or Looney Pyramids. The clear plastic box contains four stashes (blue, green, yellow, red) and rules for Martian Chess, Zarcana, IceTowers, and IceTraders (an early version of Homeworlds). The three booklets (Ice Towers and Ice Traders share one)...