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Playing With Pyramids

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ137662009 ↗
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Playing With Pyramids is a 2002 book published by Looney Labs.

Contents

Playing With Pyramids is a book in which a collection features rules for 12 diverse abstract games using Icehouse pieces, ranging from logic and dexterity challenges to roll‑and‑move play, many created by fans and expanded online.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Playing, Pyramids and Open-knowledge can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Playing With Pyramids” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.