![]() There is bound to be some calculated guessing and bluffing involved along the way, which will inevitably lead to hilarious and suprising twists and turns when the correct theories are revealed at the end of the game. This is imporant, as reputation will be converted into victory points at the end of the game.Ī game lasts six rounds, which will not be enough to solve the entire alchemy puzzle. It goes without saying that some of these actions can go horribly wrong, which will negatively influence your reputation. You can forage in the woods to find some more ingredients, transmute some of your ingredients into gold, sell one of your potions to a travelling adventurer, buy yourself an artefact, publish a theory (founded or not), debunk a theory of one of your adversaries, test one of your potions on a student or drink your own concoction and suffer the results personally. ![]() In the first phase of each round, all action cubes need to be placed among eight different action stations. The puzzle-solving in Alchemists is so much more fun though and way more challenging. Sounds complicated ? It is not so bad !Īlchemists is a worker-placement game, combined with the deductive elements of games like Cluedo and Mystery of the Abbey. Based on that result, you can then deduce whether the ingredients' green, red or blue building blocks are either positive or negative and whether they are big or small. You will then get the result straightaway. You put the two ingredients you want to combine in your lab and scan them by using the app on your smart phone or tablet. The free gaming app is not just a gimmick but an integral part of the game.īoth the selling and testing of potions happen in the same way. The game's contents (cards, counters, playing field) are beautiful, high quality and numerous as always. Although in many ways, Alchemists is a typical CGE-game, Kotry's Alchemists means yet another big step in the development of their trademark.Īlchemists takes us on a journey to a time when charlatans filled their days by combining ingredients into (not so) medicinal potions, spreading their crazy theories and debunking the crazy theories of their fellow charlatans.ĬGE is not known for walking away from a challenge, and Alchemists is no exception as they have spared neither cost nor effort to achieve their goals. They seem to have found another great talent in Matúš Kotry. Games like Galaxy Trucker, Dungeon Lords and Tzolkin shine in orignality and are able to combine well thought-out and rich gameplay with fun game mechanics and loads of humour. The Czech game designers from CGE - headed by the brilliant Vlaada Chvátil - have grown quite the reputation over the last few years. Alchemists was all the hype at Spiel, and quite rightly so. Once in a while, there is a board game that finds the right balance across the board.
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