Alchemist

It’s a contest of cubes and numbers! Define a recipe of 1-5 cubes and you’re awarded 2 cubes (according to the square where you define it) and you’re awarded 1-10 VP (according to your choice of the numbers 1-10 that remain). Henceforth anyone who duplicates that recipe gets the same 2 cubes and the same VP while paying you 1 cube from your recipe -- but you can never duplicate your own recipe. Except for the 1 cube paid to the originator of the recipe, cubes used making recipes are out of the game, and the game ends when there are only two colors left in the general supply.

That’s the basic scramble for points, plus an end-game bonus for the player who had the most success getting his secret cube color out of the game.

AWARDS & HONORS
2007 Spiel des Jahres Recommended.
2007 Spiel der Spiele Hit für Familien Recommended.

Components:
160 Ingredient cubes (8mm wooden, 32 each Ingredient color: blue = Mushrooms, yellow = Spiders, green = Dragon’s Blood, orange = Troll Eyes, gray = Bird Legs.
30 Seal Stones (15mm dia. X 8mm thick wooden disks, 6 each Player color - red, purple, black, white, brown).
5 Player screens (paperboard, in player colors).
5 Scoring chips (16x20mm cardboard, double-sided blue 50/100).
10 Potion value tiles (16x16mm, yellow, numbered 1-10).
5 School Ingredient cards (cardboard, 32x45mm, one per Ingredient.
1 Oracle bag (black cotton drawstring).
1 Game board (20.5”x14.25”).
Rule sheet (English, 4 p.).

2-5

029877057511

Mayfair Games

45

2007

10+

2018-06-21 11:56:36

~$11.91

2024-08-09

2018-06-21 11:56:36