I love pawing around in a bag and drawing out stuff. I think Orleans is a superlative game that barely shows its age. Quacks, the zooted-up new version of The Quacks of Quedlinburg, adds a fun new charm to a solid game, mainly in the form of new artwork and more luxe components.

Potion Explosion

Quacks casts you as a quack doctor, making potions to sell to unwitting doofuses who think drinking a potion with a combination of ghost essence, spiders, and mushrooms is a good idea. You pull random stuff out of your ingredient bag and throw it into a cauldron, which makes the potion more valuable, but you have to watch out, because too much of one specific ingredient makes the whole thing explode.

Mechanically speaking, Quacks is a bag builder, which in this case means that you’re going to put tokens in a bag, and push your luck trying to draw them out in just the right way without exceeding a sum total of 7 of the white tokens, which trigger an explosion. Each token, when drawn, makes your overall potion increase in value by the number on the token. For example, you draw a token with a 3, you count 3 spaces and…

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