The types of potions you have already made, your grants, your artifacts, your number of gold pieces, and the number and types of cards in your hand are always public knowledge. Playerboard You start your day with a leisurely walk through the forest, looking for interesting things to grind up in your laboratory. Or perhaps you spend some time doing favors for people around town ... in exchange for favors later, of course. Favor cards give you a single-use advantage during some part of the round. They will tell you when they can be used. Some favor cards say "play immediately". These must be played as soon as you draw them. After you play a favor card, it goes to the discard pile. Getting Nothing Final Score: 4 Stars – An innovative and engaging euro game that uses technology in a way that improves the game so much that I wouldn’t want to play it without.

Two players cannot choose the same space, and no one can choose the green space at the very bottom. That's a special space for alchemists who drank a potion on the previous round. In a 2-player game, you cannot choose the space labeled What I like to call “the worst job in board gaming”, one player takes a cardboard grid at the start of the games and assigns each ingredient an alchemical. Instead of using the app, one player asks the game master what his pairing produces. The game master tells him and the player records it in his notes. And that’s it for the game master… for 2 hours. If really don’t want to use the app and prefer to go with the game master, I’d suggest inviting someone you hate over, because this role seems pretty horrible. Seriously though, if you hate the app integration that much, I’d suggest playing something else. When setting up for the final round, place the exhibition board over the Test on Student and Drink Potion action spaces. They will be replaced by the Exhibit Potion action space. Select on the card reader. A little mandrake root, a small raven's feather. Toss them in the cauldron and see what they produce. All reputation points become victory points. So if you ended the game with 16 points of reputation, you begin final scoring with 16 victory points.Shuffle in the new fortune teller cards in with the ones from the base game. Some of these cards have a symbol on them, indicating which expansion they belong to, either a witches hat if it belongs to the Herb Witches expansion or a flask if it’s for the Alchemists. For the cards that have no symbol, they can be used in the base game without any issue. Each randomization has a four-letter code. Write this down. If you need to complete the game on a different device (for example, if your first card reader runs out of power), just tap and type the code into the new device. It will use the same randomization as the first device. This system also enables you to play with two or more card readers if you wish. Conflict tokens do not matter at this point of the game. The seals score positive or negative points regardless of conflict tokens. (If you are playing the apprentice variant, you aren't using conflict tokens, anyway). Ah, but the craft of alchemy is about more than mixing potions. Alchemists seek knowledge, of course, but what they truly value is prestige. Making your mark on the world will not be easy. You do not have to play here in the final round. Note, however, that ingredients in your hand are worth nothing during final scoring, so this is your last chance to make use of them.

The alchemy conference is always well attended. Alchemists come from far and wide to exchange knowledge with their peers. Well, actually it's just a big brag fest, but the sandwiches are nice. Place your action cubes on the actions you want to take this round. Different spaces have different requirements as illustrated below. Publish a Theory: If you think you know which alchemical belongs to one of the ingredients (or even have a good guess), you can publish a public theory. This will earn you reputation points. If you choose this space, you draw no cards, but at least you will get to go first ... or maybe second. Paying Gold Total up your white chips in the cauldron. If it is exactly 7, the marker can move forward one space.

Setup

If you successfully exhibit 2 different signs of the same color during the exhibition, then you have demonstrated mastery of that color. Score 2 points of reputation. (More than one player can score this bonus).