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Class is now in session for Lab Notes! This roll-and-write game features the brain teaser challenge of putting together chemical bonds. Each round, a player rolls all the elemental dice for Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Carbon, or a useful but dangerous Bunsen Burner. The rolling player chooses their element first, leaving the rest of the table to scratch their heads to fit the remainder within their lab notes.
Elements now in hand, the players choose where to keep their elements. They can notate in the research field or trash them for some added benefits, later. Combine elements based on the real rules of chemistry! Double and triple bonds are worth more, but you can only bond with elements near each other and as they’re written.
Don’t worry if you’re not sure about what bonds work where. There are handy-dandy notecards outlining real, actual chemicals you can make! Manage to make the chemical on the card? You get a bonus!
Lab fires burn a slot within your lab notes, but maybe that will work out for you, who knows!
The game ends when the first person fills up their sheet. Tally up all those points and see who’s top of the class!
-description from designer
- Quick compound building
- Claiming elements
- Linking compounds by drawing bonds
- Avoiding blame for lab fires
- Claiming elements and linking compounds
- High school chemistry class
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Push Your Luck — Avoiding blame for lab fires.
- Roll and Write — A quick compound-building roll-and-write game.
- Set Collection — Claiming elements and linking compounds by drawing bonds.
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- Seemed fine
- Never played
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Roll and Write — Read the rules, it seemed fine, but it was never played.
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- So many games and we can't play them all because we're not robots. We have to eat and sleep and do other things as well.
- I really enjoyed the concept of this. It's a co-op game. This we got even before I started going to say hating co-op game, but understanding they weren't for me.
- It sounds okay, but it also big and we don't need it.
- This is actually not sad. It's actually a positive thing getting these out of the house so we can get more games into the...