Civil-ice-ation is a civilization building game played using Icehouse pieces and common household game components. Players attempt to finish the game with the most "Civilization Points" by developing their civilization. The components needed to play this game are: - 8 stashes of Icehouse pieces in red, orange, yellow, green, purple, blue, clear, and black. - A chessboard - An opaque bag or similar object - 52 card deck of standard playing cards - Tokens (glass beads or poker chips, etc.) - Player pawns - An 8-sided die - A 4-sided die Civil-ice-ation was designed by Peter Johansen.