Looney Labs Icehouse Mailing list Archive

[Spencer Cappallo <tsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I'm new to the mailing-list scene, so forgive me if this is clutter 
in your inbox.

I've noticed that two, common and cheap, card games are uniquely suited 
for use with icehouse pieces. Namely, Phase 10 and Uno. Both have 
numbered cards in each of the  four Rainbow colours. Uno is a game most 
people have at least one deck of sitting around. And Phase 10 is pretty 
cheap and common these days, too. I'm sorry if I'm not the first person 
to point this out, but I thought I'd mention anyway.

Furthermore, I've found that by taking cards out of two decks of one of 
these games you can make a small binary (or three-person) Homeworlds 
deck -- for those days when even pyramids are too bulky to carry about. 
If you orient all the stars in a third direction not used by either 
opponent's ships, it works pretty well. I find I prefer the Phase10 
cards to the Uno cards as their orientation seems clearer to me.

Thanks!