The Quacks of Quedlinburg in about 3 minutes

Kia Ora Koutou and welcome to The Quacks of Quedlinburg in about three minutes it's a game for two to four players playing time is medium and it's a reasonably simple game in the German town of Quedlinburg a group of charlatan doctors are competing to create the most impressive looking miracle cure you're one of these medieval frauds or quacks, can you con the local populace better than your scumbag rivals the game ends after nine full rounds and the winner is the player with the most points you mainly get points from making potions bag building: players start with identical potion ingredients but add more throughout the game push your luck: pulling more tokens from the bag will increase your score, but you run the risk of losing it all at the start of each turn draw an event card some will affect all players equally while others will require you to make a choice the main focus of the game is making potions. put all your ingredients into your cloth bag and then draw them one at a time resolving each one in full before drawing a new one each token that is drawn is placed a number of spaces equal to its value down the track for example this yellow 4 is placed 4 spaces along you can use your flask to place a white ingredient back in the bag and draw again now why would you do that? well if you ever have more than 7 value of white ingredients in your potion it will explode immediately ending your turn some ingredients have a special effect when they are placed make sure to resolve that before continuing you can also stop drawing from the bag whenever you want unless you exploded of course where you finish determines your score and income once all players are done those are the highest rated potion roll the bonus die to get an extra reward such as victory points you then resolve the purple, black, and green ingredients in your potion and their bonuses if your final space was marked with a gem you claim one now you then collect money and victory points unless you exploded in which case you get one or the other you then buy one or two ingredients paying the cost shown they go into your bag along with all the ingredients pulled in the previous round you can spend two gems to either advance your start marker one space or flip your flask back to available from the second round onward each player other than the leader gets a boost count how many rats are between your score and the leader and advance your rat tail marker that many spaces this is your new start position for the next round why would you like this game? quacks is an incredibly family-friendly easy to teach game that nonetheless has enough going on to engage more experienced gamers the rats tail mechanic is good for slowing down runaway leaders and the game comes with four sets of ingredients which allows you to shake things up but quacks lives and dies on the tension of worrying about the odds of what the next ingredient you pull from your bag will be so if you like games that reward calculated risks but will also just slap you in the face randomly quacks will be for you the best thing about this game is the tension when all players are drawing from the bag simultaneously it makes the game so much more exciting however, playing without simultaneous turns is allowed under the rules and I personally think the game is a shadow of itself that way it came alive when we did the draws together and you can just have horrible horrible luck Like bag building but want a solo game about real doctors try healthy heart hospital and for a different game about exploding potions try potion explosion The Quacks of Quedlinburg: just one more - noooooooooooooooooooooo

Channel: 3 Minute Board Games

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Length: 3min 31sec (211 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 05 2020