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Pentos

Brewing and tasting Potions!

You are a contestant in the annual competition of sorcerers' apprentices and brew potions from ingredients, for spell; bad brewing gives you koâs, magical burns.

3x2 cards are laid out in columns for pots, and two special cards are on display. You have one action, chosen from three options: 1) Add ingredients - you place a card from the pile into each column; when then cards of the same color or value are present in a column you take one card from any of the pots 2) Taste a potion - you take cards from one column, either of the same color or of the same value. 3) You discard sets of ingredients for spells: Mikros are sets of a minimum of three cards, either all of the same value or making up a straight of the same color; a Mikros allows you to choose one of the two special cards on display - either a wildcard or an enchantment, for which you take a card from draw pile or discard pile, give 1-5 cards of a color, but no wildcard to any player or take such cards from a player or discard such cards from hand or take a card of your choice from one of the pots. If you discard five cards of the same value, you have cast a Pentos spell and the round ends. Other players now score koâs for cards in hand: One point for each card that you can assign to a sequence, or points equal to the card value for each individual single card. If you can discard nine cards of the same color, you cast a Megalos spell and win instantly. Otherwise, you win after three rounds with fewest koâs.

Magical set collecting - not really new, but very nicely done and very nicely illustrated, simply a well-made and fun family card game.

Players: 2-5

Age: 7+

Time: 20+

Designer: Bruno Cathala

Artist: Harold

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Asyncron Games 2013

Web: www.asyncron.fr

Genre: Set collecting

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Handy, small box

Very nice family game

Well-combined standard mechanisms

Topic and mechanism go together well

Compares to:

Set collecting games using special cards

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0