Learn Potion Explosion
Learn the game in 5 short steps. Everything links to the full rules.
Welcome to the exam
You win by completing potion recipes, earning Skill tokens and avoiding too many Little Help penalties. Drinking a completed potion keeps its points and grants a one-use power. Read the teaching script for the whole game in a few minutes.
Make a collision
Take one accessible marble as your regular pick. Matching marbles that collide explode: collect the connected group, then repeat if another matching collision follows. Extra removals from powers and Little Help never explode. Picks and explosions.
Fill the two recipes
Put ingredients into matching holes. Completed recipes immediately move below your Desk and may be drunk that turn. Store at most three unused ingredients in your Pool; ingredients already in a recipe cannot move. Ingredient placement.
Use powers before cleanup
Drink powers and take at most one Little Help at useful moments around your regular pick. After finishing your choices, discard excess ingredients and replenish your two burners. Those new recipes cannot receive ingredients until your next turn. Turn cleanup.
Watch the finish
Earn one four-point token for three of a kind, once per kind, and one for five different kinds. The same potions may count toward both. Emptying the countdown or potion supply ends the current round; score completed values plus tokens minus help. Final score.