BoardGames:The Quacks of Quedlinburg

The Quacks of Quedlinburg

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Creator: Wolfgang Warsh
Publisher: Schmidt
Genre:Bag-Building, Bag-Pulling
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2-4 Players Players

The Basics

In The Quacks of Quedlinburg, each player takes the role of one of the quacks - fake doctors at a fair, trying to brew the biggest, foamiest potion to win the prize.

Each player has a large cauldron in which they place ingredients they randomly draw from their bag. Chunks of pumpkin, berries, bugs and some spooky extras all add up to grow the potion, earn more points and money to buy more ingredients for the next round.

But watch out for the white ingredients. These little berries make your potions foam and bubble beautifully - but if you ever have too much in your cauldron, it explodes and you'll lose out on points or money this round.

Introduction

Although it has a few extra bits and pieces added on, Quacks is fundamentally a push-your-luck game. You'll always be wondering if just one more ingredient pulled from the bag will give you the slice of pumpkin you need to win you the round, or will lead to your pot exploding in a foamy mess.

That's all your turn-to-turn decision making really is, apart from the option of pouring in your bottle of anti-foaming agent to return the most recently played ingredient back to the bag.

There's a few decisions between rounds - choosing which ingredients to buy to fill up your bag, rolling to see what rewards the winner gets, unlocking new ingredients as the rounds progress etc, all keep you building momentum and wanting to play the next round. You can only add a maximum of two new ingredients in your bag each turn, but such small additions do make a serious difference to how generous your bag feels.

You can also collect rubies that can be swapped for points, or to re-fill your flask.

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