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For tips on how to play potion explosion, see <b>[[Tips_potionexplosion|Tips_PotionExplosion]]</b>


''' LIST OF POTION Effects '''
== Game play ==


'' POTION OF Wisdom ''
* Players start by picking two potions that they want to make.
Take one Ingredient of your choice from the
* Players choose their first potion going clockwise around the table, and their second potion going anti-clockwise.
Dispenser. No Explosions are triggered.
Nothing’s out of reach if you think it through.


'' POTION OF MAGNETICAL Attraction ''
=== On Your Turn ===
Take 2 adjacent Ingredients of different colors
from the same slide track of the Dispenser.
No Explosions are triggered.
I don’t think this is what they mean when they say
“magnetic personality”.


'' SANDS OF Time ''  
* On your turn, take any marble ("ingredient") from the dispenser.
Activate again the effect of 1 Potion you already used.
** If two marbles (or groups of marbles) of the same colour collide when falling to close the gap in a column left by taking a marble, they explode and are also taken by the player.
We can always learn from our past mistakes... but we
** This will repeat as "exploded" marbles are removed and subsequent groupings collapse.
can gain even more from our past good moves!
* Exploded marbles are placed in the user's "hand".
** ''i.e. the rectangle above the flasks in the player's board.''
* One at a time, you can move these marbles to the matching colour on the potions in your board and/or to the "Pool" holding flask.
** ''The pool can hold at most three but can hold any colour.''
** If there is available space in your pool you must fill it with marbles from your hand before ending your turn.
** Any marbles left afterwards in your hand at the end of your turn are returned to the dispenser.
* When all the holes of a potion are filled, that potion is completed and it moves to your potion area, becoming worth its VP at the end of the game.


'' ELIXIR OF BLIND LOVE ''
==== Other Actions ====
Steal all the Ingredients from 1 opponent’s Pool.
Why bother with theft, when all you need to do is
unleash your dazzling charm?


'' FILTER OF LAVAMANCING ''
* At any time on your turn (before or after your regular marble pick), you may also:
Discard up to 5 Ingredients of 1 color from the
** Drink a potion from your potion area, to activate their effect.
same slide track of the Dispenser back into the tank.
*** You can only drink each potion once, and it still scores VP even after being drunk.
No Explosions are triggered.
*** Hover over to see the effect.
Not exactly a surgical strike type of thing, but
*** You may drink multiple potions in a turn if you have them.
undeniably powerful.
** Once per turn, ask the professor for a Little Help.
*** This costs -2 VP, and lets you take any one marble from the dispenser, without triggering an explosion.


'' POTION OF PRISMATIC Joy ''
* At the very end of the turn, you must draw new potions to replace any that you completed (You cannot add marbles to these new potions until next turn).
You can place all Ingredients in your Pool
on any holes of your incomplete Potions,
regardless of their color.
Marbles? Colors? Who cares... let’s party!


'' BALM OF UTTERMOST Stickiness ''
=== Skill tokens ===
Take 2 or more adjacent Ingredients of the same color
from the same slide track of the Dispenser.
No Explosions are triggered.
This stuff is stickier than molasses!
The thing is... how do you unstick this mess?


'' ABYSSAL Draft ''  
* The game is setup with ([# of players] + 2) skill tokens from the start.
Take up to 1 Ingredient of each color from the bottom
* When you make your third potion of the same type, or when you have made five different types of potions, take a Skill token for 4VP.
row of the Dispenser slide tracks. You can only take 1
 
Ingredient from each slide track.
== Game End ==
This is what is called “scraping the bottom of the
 
barrel”. A huge barrel.
* When the pile of Skill tokens has been depleted, that round is played out and then the game ends.
* Skill tokens are scored even after they have been depleted.
* The player with the most VP points is the winner.
 
=== Tiebreak ===
 
* In the case of a tie, all tied players (starting from the first player in turn order) each one at a time take one marble from the dispenser to try to trigger an explosion.
** The player who takes the most marbles this way is the winner.
* ''Note:'' each player may get the skill token of 'the 5th different kind of Potion' once.
** You do not get a 2nd skill token of 'the 5th different kind of Potion' after you collect the 2nd set.
 
== Potion effects ==
 
*'''Abyssal Draft:''' Take up to 1 Ingredient of each colour from the bottom row of the Dispenser slide tracks. You can only take 1 Ingredient from each slide track.
*'''Balm of Uttermost Stickiness:''' Take 2 or more adjacent Ingredients of the same colour from the same slide track of the Dispenser. No Explosions are triggered.
*'''Elixir of Blind Love:''' Steal all the Ingredients from 1 opponent’s Pool.
*'''Filter of Lavamancing:''' Discard up to 5 Ingredients of 1 colour from the same slide track of the Dispenser back into the tank. No Explosions are triggered.
*'''Potion of Magnetical Attraction:''' Take 2 adjacent Ingredients of different colours from the same slide track of the Dispenser. No Explosions are triggered.
*'''Potion of Prismatic Joy:''' You can place all Ingredients (up to 3) in your flask's ingredient Pool on any holes of your incomplete Potions, regardless of their colour.
*'''Potion of Wisdom:''' Take one Ingredient of your choice from the Dispenser. No Explosions are triggered.
*'''Sands of Time:''' Activate again the effect of 1 Potion you already used.
 
== Variants ==
 
* Fulminating Serum Allowed: This potion will possibly be available.
** It discards 2 ingredients on the same track back into the Dispenser. No explosions are triggered.

Revision as of 16:03, 31 December 2021

For tips on how to play potion explosion, see Tips_PotionExplosion

Game play

  • Players start by picking two potions that they want to make.
  • Players choose their first potion going clockwise around the table, and their second potion going anti-clockwise.

On Your Turn

  • On your turn, take any marble ("ingredient") from the dispenser.
    • If two marbles (or groups of marbles) of the same colour collide when falling to close the gap in a column left by taking a marble, they explode and are also taken by the player.
    • This will repeat as "exploded" marbles are removed and subsequent groupings collapse.
  • Exploded marbles are placed in the user's "hand".
    • i.e. the rectangle above the flasks in the player's board.
  • One at a time, you can move these marbles to the matching colour on the potions in your board and/or to the "Pool" holding flask.
    • The pool can hold at most three but can hold any colour.
    • If there is available space in your pool you must fill it with marbles from your hand before ending your turn.
    • Any marbles left afterwards in your hand at the end of your turn are returned to the dispenser.
  • When all the holes of a potion are filled, that potion is completed and it moves to your potion area, becoming worth its VP at the end of the game.

Other Actions

  • At any time on your turn (before or after your regular marble pick), you may also:
    • Drink a potion from your potion area, to activate their effect.
      • You can only drink each potion once, and it still scores VP even after being drunk.
      • Hover over to see the effect.
      • You may drink multiple potions in a turn if you have them.
    • Once per turn, ask the professor for a Little Help.
      • This costs -2 VP, and lets you take any one marble from the dispenser, without triggering an explosion.
  • At the very end of the turn, you must draw new potions to replace any that you completed (You cannot add marbles to these new potions until next turn).

Skill tokens

  • The game is setup with ([# of players] + 2) skill tokens from the start.
  • When you make your third potion of the same type, or when you have made five different types of potions, take a Skill token for 4VP.

Game End

  • When the pile of Skill tokens has been depleted, that round is played out and then the game ends.
  • Skill tokens are scored even after they have been depleted.
  • The player with the most VP points is the winner.

Tiebreak

  • In the case of a tie, all tied players (starting from the first player in turn order) each one at a time take one marble from the dispenser to try to trigger an explosion.
    • The player who takes the most marbles this way is the winner.
  • Note: each player may get the skill token of 'the 5th different kind of Potion' once.
    • You do not get a 2nd skill token of 'the 5th different kind of Potion' after you collect the 2nd set.

Potion effects

  • Abyssal Draft: Take up to 1 Ingredient of each colour from the bottom row of the Dispenser slide tracks. You can only take 1 Ingredient from each slide track.
  • Balm of Uttermost Stickiness: Take 2 or more adjacent Ingredients of the same colour from the same slide track of the Dispenser. No Explosions are triggered.
  • Elixir of Blind Love: Steal all the Ingredients from 1 opponent’s Pool.
  • Filter of Lavamancing: Discard up to 5 Ingredients of 1 colour from the same slide track of the Dispenser back into the tank. No Explosions are triggered.
  • Potion of Magnetical Attraction: Take 2 adjacent Ingredients of different colours from the same slide track of the Dispenser. No Explosions are triggered.
  • Potion of Prismatic Joy: You can place all Ingredients (up to 3) in your flask's ingredient Pool on any holes of your incomplete Potions, regardless of their colour.
  • Potion of Wisdom: Take one Ingredient of your choice from the Dispenser. No Explosions are triggered.
  • Sands of Time: Activate again the effect of 1 Potion you already used.

Variants

  • Fulminating Serum Allowed: This potion will possibly be available.
    • It discards 2 ingredients on the same track back into the Dispenser. No explosions are triggered.