Alembic

You are an apprentice alchemist competing against your fellow novices to succeed your ailing master. As a final test, your mentor will quiz you to identify mystery elements based on their properties. Guess right, and you will gain prestige and be one step closer to becoming the master alchemist. Guess wrong, and you might die… One player acts as the master alchemist and guides the game for the apprentice alchemists. Players lay out 10 mystery elements and six tools. Using the tools, they take turn performing experiments and roll dice to see how well the experiment goes. If you correctly guess the mystery element, you capture it for that round. If you incorrectly guess, you are shamed and must sit out the next round. The winner is the player with who captures the most elements and therefore becomes the next master alchemist! A combination role-playing/deduction game that sneaks in learning about chemical properties. —description from the publisher