The 6th Student
Green ingredients, two extra potion kinds and the two-dispenser game for five or six players.
Short tag: [Sixth].
What it adds
Thirty green Mandragora Leaf marbles, a second dispenser, a Bell tile, two Desks, extra tokens, and sixteen potion tiles in two new kinds. The two potion powers are Generosity Confection and Concentrate of Selfishness.
Setup changes
| Players | Potion kinds | Supply stacks | Countdown Skill tokens |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2–4 | 6 | 5 | 4 / 5 / 6 |
| 5 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
| 6 | 8 | 7 | 8 |
For two to four players using green marbles, return five base marbles of each colour and ten green marbles to the box. Use fifteen of each base colour plus twenty green: eighty marbles total, in one dispenser.
For five or six players, use all eighty base marbles plus thirty green. Fill the first dispenser’s tracks without marbles protruding above the lid, then place the Bell on it to prevent more feeding in. Put the remaining ingredients in the second dispenser. Draft two starters per player as usual, using the number of selected kinds and stacks above.
Mandragora Leaves
In the dispenser, green is a separate colour: it explodes with green, not with an arbitrary colour. In recipes, it may fill any empty layer, but that layer must contain only green ingredients. Once green is in a layer, no other colour can join it; green also cannot join an already mixed or ordinary-colour layer.
Colour-changing potions cannot bypass this restriction. The publisher also rules that Stickiness and Feather Touch cannot take a mixed green-and-white group. FAQ. For example, two green marbles may fill an empty two-hole red layer, but a red marble cannot share that layer with them.
Two dispensers
In five- or six-player games, take ingredients only from the dispenser with the Bell (the Pick dispenser). Return ingredients only to the other one (the Discard dispenser).
At the start of each turn, count full tracks in both dispensers. A full track has at least nine visible marbles, including the one under the arch. If the Discard dispenser has more full tracks, move the Bell to it, swapping the roles. On a tie, leave the Bell where it is. Check at the start of the turn, not during it.
New potion powers
Generosity Confection takes a consecutive group in one track equal to the player count: keep one and give one to each opponent’s Pool, returning any gift that cannot fit. Concentrate of Selfishness steals one ingredient from each opponent’s Pool.
Scoring changes
Only in the five- or six-player mode, your tenth completed potion earns one additional Skill token. Twenty potions do not award another. The two base achievements and final-round procedure remain.