User:Logotu/Volcano (game)

Volcano is a strategy game played using icehouse pieces.

Equipment
Icehouse pieces, and optionally, a volcano board.

Icehouse Pieces
five trios each of five different colors of stackable icehouse pieces (either five different monochrome stashes or five same treehouse sets), plus five small pieces of a different color to serve as the caps. Ideally the pyramids should be transparent, save for the caps (just because it is easier to see what is going on). At one time, Looney Labs sold specially-purposed 'volcano caps', five small-sized pyramids in opaque gray (gray pieces can still be purchased from their website as a complete stash). Five treehouse sets can be combined with a pink treehouse set to have five transparent colors and one opaque color.

Volcano board
A board is optional, as the pieces can be set up on a tabletop in a five by five square, but having a movable board does allow the players to move it and turn it around to get a better look. A home-made volcano board can be printed, painted, or drawn onto cardstock, cloth, wood, etc; plastic volcano boards with raised borders between the squares to keep the pieces from sliding are sold by Loooney Labs. The board can also be used for other icehouse games, such as: Martian Backgammon, Blockade, IceSickle.

Play
The complete rules are available free online at wunderland.com as well as in the Playing With Pyramids book and the Ice-7 rule pack. The player who has been closest to molten lava goes first.

Scoring
one-color trees are worth seven points, multi-color trees are five points, and each other piece is one point each