The Icehouse Handbook Online

You can play lots of games with an Icehouse set. This is the original.

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History of Changes to the Rules for Icehouse

If you learned to play Icehouse from that blue booklet that was included in the first 100 game sets and haven't played much since, you need to be aware of these official changes to the rules.

• No More Walls (March 1992): All rules relating to theoretical boundaries called Walls were dropped from the standard ruleset.
• A Softer Penalty for False Icehouse Calls (July 1998): The penalty for making an incorrect Icehouse call was changed, from giving away one of your attacking pieces to giving away a piece from your stash pad.
• The Timer Becomes Mandatory (June 2001): The once-optional Timer rule became standard at tournaments as long ago as 1991, and it remains the best known solution to the famous stagnation problem. We finally realized it should be an official rule.

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