Stack pyramids and press your luck in our review of Ice Dice from Looney Labs by Daniel Zuccarelli
"Ice Dice is based on the popular Looney Labs "pyramid" games that all use these nesting translucent pyramid pieces that can be stacked onto each other. It comes in a pyramid shaped zip bag that holds all the pieces, a few dice and the instructions.Ice Dice is a simple press your luck game where you don't score anything until you stop playing and busting out means you lose all your progress. The goal is to create 3 similarly colored "trios" which is a large, medium and small pyramid stacked up to kind of look like a tree. You take turns rolling two die, one tells you which color piece to take and the other what size. You'll take turns acquiring and stealing pieces from each other until some one has those 3 stacks of the same color.
One of the really nice and unique things about Ice Dice is that it uses the Looney Labs Treehouse system of pyramids. The company makes the analogy (rightly I think) of comparing the nesting pyramids to a deck of cards, of how using that deck of cards you can play hundreds of different games. The same goes for the Tree House pyramids. So Ice Dice is really just a new game in this system, but is being packed this way because it includes two sets of the pyramids (required for this particular game). But once you have this set it opens up being able to play lots of different games either officially or created by the community.
At 20 bucks it's hard to argue against the value proposition in Ice Dice. It includes 2 games and the components to try out a ton more. It's not going to win any awards for complexity (similar to the Fluxx series, but a good game collection covers all the bases ya know? As a starter or filler game it's perfect, and if you're into it would play well at a bar of as I said earlier downtime at the nerd convention of your choice. "