Potion House
Potion House Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Game Contents
- 1 Magic Wand
- 4 Storage lids
- 5 Bag cards (each card has 4 spaces for Potion tokens)
- 40 Ingredient cards
- 40 Ingredient tokens
- 40 Potion tokens (20 with a 2 and 3 side, and 20 with a 4 and 5 side)
Object of the Game
To become the best apprentice and win the game, you must find all the ingredients stored away in her workshop to concoct your potions and fill your sorcerer bag.
Setup
- Take out all the Ingredient cards and Ingredient tokens, as well as the Potion tokens, Bag cards and magic wand. Place the box in the middle of the table.
- Place the Potion tokens next to the box.
- Shuffle all the Ingredient cards together and place these in a pile, face down, near the box.
- Shuffle the Ingredient tokens together and randomly place 10 of these in each storage space after removing their lids. When you have finished, remember to place the lids back on each storage space.
- Give each sorcerer a Bag card. Extra Bag cards will not be used.
- The last person to have watched a film about sorcery will play first. They are the active sorcerer and they take the magic wand. In clockwise turns, each sorcerer takes 2-5 Ingredient cards of their choosing. They check what is on the cards and place these in front of them, face down. They need these ingredients to concoct potions. The more ingredients required to concoct potions, the harder it is to make but the more points it is worth.
Important: Every time you have to take 2-5 cards, you must say how many cards you are going to take before drawing any.
The game can start!
How to Play
The game is played in clockwise turns. On your turn, take the magic wand and choose from the two following options:
Search the Attic OR Concoct a potion
1. Search the Attic
You can search for the highest possible number of ingredients corresponding to your cards by looking in one of the 4 storage spaces of the attic.
While searching, you must follow Nécrochu's 5 rules:
- You can only look inside one storage space by lifting its lid.
- You can move Ingredient tokens around but you must only use one finger to do so.
- The other sorcerers can look at the contents of the storage once you open it but they can't touch the Ingredient tokens.
- You cannot stop other sorcerers from seeing the Ingredients.
- You must place the lid back on the storage space once you are finished searching inside.
NOTE: Ingredient tokens cannot leave their storage space throughout the whole game.
2. Concoct a potion
When you think you know where all the Ingredient tokens shown on all your Ingredient cards are stored, you can start making your potion.
- Turn over all your Ingredient cards so they are face up.
- Using your magic wand, you must indicate which storage space you think contains one of the Ingredients on your cards.
- Place the matching Ingredient card next to this storage space.
Restart steps 2 and 3 for each of the other Ingredient cards for your potion.
Once all your Ingredient cards have been placed next to their corresponding storage spaces you can check if your potion will work.
For each storage space that you placed at least one Ingredient next to, open the storage space and check if the Ingredients are in fact present.
If the Ingredient you were looking for is indeed in the storage space you were checking, close this storage space again and move onto the following Ingredient.
Be careful, if you make any mistakes then you should stop searching as the potion will not work.
REMINDER: Ingredient tokens should not be removed from their storage space.
If all the Ingredients have been found then you have successfully made your potion:
- Take the Potion token which matches the number of Ingredients used to make your potion and place it on one of the empty spaces on your Bag card.
- Place the Ingredient cards that you have just used in a 'discard' pile, face up, next to the draw pile.
If the 4 spaces on your Bag card are not yet full, draw 2-5 new Ingredient cards.
If you made a mistake your potion will not work! Place all your Ingredient cards in the 'discard' pile and draw 2-5 new Ingredient cards.
NOTE: if the draw pile is empty, shuffle the discard pile to make a new draw pile.
The next sorcerer can start a new turn.
End of the Game
The game ends as soon as a sorcerer fills their Bag card; however, players keep taking turns until all the sorcerers have had the same number of turns.
To decide the winner, each sorcerer adds the amounts shown on their Potion tokens together.
The sorcerer with the highest total wins the game and will be in charge of the Potion House during Nécrochu's vacation!
If there is a tie, then the sorcerer who has won the most points with the least amount of potions wins (as they have the same number of points but with less potions).
If a tie persists, the sorcerers share the victory.
Example: Here, sorcerer n°1 scored 11 points (5 + 3 + 3) and sorcerer n°2 scored 10 points (2 + 2 + 4 + 2). It is therefore the sorcerer n°1 who wins.