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I enjoyed the story and game concept behind this. (can't comment on the strategy aspect, since I didn't have anyone around to play it with)

Not sure if I followed the instructions correctly, but here's my interpretation:

To play, I've printed all three sheets (36 ingredients, 5 power labels, 4 power cards) and colored them.
I left out the check and steal cards, as i couldn't mentally fit them into the deck (you can't have them as ingredients, and they seemed redundant). I ended up using them as rat markers.
The power costs (symbols and amount) are randomized each game, with one power being left out. To play a power, I discarded the given amount of hand cards with the matching cost symbol as my turn. (except for "Two", which is passive)

To introduce more mayhem, I could see an addition to the ruleset working well here:
When a player attempts to craft a potion, he peeks at all the ingredient cards.
 - if he succeeds, the ingredients are revealed to prove his success.
 - if he fails, he only has to point out which of his cards were correct.
This keeps the rest of the players guessing, but gives enough information for the minusing rule.     

Woah that is excellent. Thank you so much. And yeah I definitely feel like the check and steal cards are super redundant, and the check and fail could work awesome. I also messed around with introducing a board. and "rats" have to scurry to the different places to collect the ingredient (a corner for dust, bin for juice etc) so introducing a die and random amounts between the sections. which i would hope could mean i could introduce a third and fourth player. and the powers change every time as well. 


I have struggled to get someone to play it through with me too. :D but I will try at next game night. i really like the colour part too. just need better symbols i think. 

thanks for this feedback. it makes me feel more excited about making games :D And I am slowly (epically slowly) learning python. so i want to attempt my first text based adventure game, and then who knows where I will end up :D 


have you enjoyed the jam?