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Potions is a wizard's apprentice game in which players compete to be the first apprentice to brew the potion instructed by a roll of the Potion Elements Dice.
Dice include Potion Type (Love, Wisdom, Transforming), Ingredient #1 (Eye of Newt, Tooth of Dog, Toe of Frog), Ingredient #2 (Lizard's Leg, Wool of Bat, Fenny Snake), and Application (Drink, Powder, Ointment).
Aspiring wizards can change the recipe, steal ingredients and even spill each other's cauldrons.
For ages 8 to adult.
For 2 to 4 players.
Reader Rating:
August 17, 2009: As another reviewer mentioned, the instructions are ambiguous at best, so you're better off reading through the instructions and then changing them so that they make sense to you. For instance, we don't place our potions facedown in front of us, we just hold onto them so that we always have four cards in our hand. Apprentice challenges are won by whomever is closer to completing the potion. Ties can be broken by tied players discarding a card and redrawing, if that doesn't win it, then the challenge is lost. I think if the designers actually sat through a game with their instructions, they would have seen the obvious problems, but I guess the chance to make our own rules can be a good thing, too.
Reader Rating:
April 13, 2009: The game is a creative way to use logic. My children, ages 7 and 10, had a great time playing with it.