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Icehouse pieces, or icehouse pyramids, Treehouse pieces and official Looney Pyramids, are nestable and stackable pyramid-shaped gaming pieces and a game system. The game system was invented by Andrew Looney and John Cooper in 1987, originally for use in the game of Icehouse. ==History== Andrew Looney in 1987 penned a sci-fi short story, "Ice House", that included a game called Icehouse, an ancient Martian game. Readers of the short story requested to learn how to play the game. Thus actual rules were invented for Icehouse, then plastic pyramid pieces were made to play the game. The first commercially available set were solid non-stackable pyramids released in 1989 with only 100 set made. The pieces were made from resin in his apartment which upset the landlord. After several years, Looney shut down Icehouse Games, Inc. and soon started another gaming company, Looney Laboratories, 1996.〔 Additional games beyond Icehouse were created including Martian Chess, Zendo, and Homeworlds.〔 Looney then created the IceTower game which used stacking pyramids leading to a change in the pyramid pieces' specification for stacking.〔 In 2001, Icehouse: The Martian Chess Set won the Origins Award for ''Best Abstract Board Game of 2000''. In 2004, the Zendo boxed set won ''Best Abstract Board Game of 2003'', In 2007, Treehouse won the Origins Award for ''Best Board Game of 2006''. while in 2005 the set won the Mensa Select Game Award. Looney Labs relaunched the Icehouse pieces as "Looney Pyramids" with new packaging in its IceDice set in June 2011 followed by Pink Hijinks in December 2012. By 2013, the IcehouseGames.org website listed 400 games playable with icehouse pyramids.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Icehouse pieces」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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