How do you win a game if you have more control over your opponents pieces than your own? Figure out the answer in Snowblind, a quasi-strategic Icehouse game for 4 players.Object: To maximize your score and minimize your opponents scores by putting pieces in taller and smaller stacks, respectively.You Need:* Four Icehouse stashes of different colors. * An opaque bag (or other opaque container). * A 4x3 grid. A Volcano board or chess board with some squares blocked off works just fine. * Some paper and a pencil for tallying scores at the end of the game.On your turn, take a piece out of the bag and put it on the board. When you put a piece on the board, it must point upward. Pieces are played by these rules:* Any piece may be placed in a vacant space. * A smaller piece may be 'engulfed' by a larger piece if the smaller piece is resting directly on the board. * A piece of smaller or equal size may be placed on another piece of equal or greater size.Once you have placed a piece, play passes to the left. The game ends when all pieces have been played. After this, all the stacks are scored. Stacks have a value equal to the point value of the pieces in the stack, multiplied by the number of pieces in the stack. Points are tallied separately by color. A piece that is 'engulfed' is scored by the color thats engulfing it, not by the 'owner' of the engulfed piece. Engulfed pieces do not count for being in a stack.The player with the highest total at the end of the game wins.Several variants to the rules are also available on the website.Home Page: http://www.invisible-city.com/play/174/snowblind - BoardGameGeek