The Quacks Of Quedlinburg Game

In this game, you become Quack doctors, brewing wondrous and definitely
genuine potions to charm the masses, cure ills, and most importantly get
rich. Of course, when times are hard, you may need to fill it up with
rat tails, but what they don't know...

The main mechanics at play are focused around bag building, and deciding
how far to push your luck. Each round you will draw ingredients from
your bag and add them to your cauldron player board, starting at the
middle and spiralling outwards. Each ingredient is numbered 1-4, and
that's how many spaces the ingredient moves around the cauldron. Your
bag starts with lots of white ingredients in and one green and one
orange. The trick is that if the total value of the white ingredients
totals more than seven, your cauldron explodes, and you bust.

The further around the cauldron you get, the more victory points and
spending power you receive. You can choose to buy up to two new
ingredients of different colours at the end of the round. Not only do
they not explode your cauldron, but they also give you access to special
powers. These powers are colour-specific but for each colour, there are
four different powers, with you choosing one each game or going with the
suggested set-ups.

If you explode, you cannot choose to use your money and take victory
points, but must instead take only one. The powers of the ingredients
give you plenty of options for avoiding explosions by mitigating the
dreaded white ingredients but this is a luck-based game and sometimes
you are just going to draw all your white ingredients in a row.

Quacks of Quedlinburg has tons of variety, a great catch-up mechanic and
is just plain old fun. Thanks to the ingredient powers, there is plenty
of variety. The Herb Witches and The Alchemists expansions add even
more. With new powers, new ingredients and the titular characters
themselves.

Player Count: 2-4

Time: 45 Minutes

Age: 10+

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