In an attempt to become the most-famous, highest-paid, awesomest alchemist ever, you need to get to work.
Your lab is a mess. There is one clear set of shelves that already holds a Storage Container, little bowls for solids, and traps for focused energy. First, plan your day. Second, do something like buying raw materials or storing energy. Then, after everyone else does something, do it again, then again. Since those three projects will fill your day, clean up the lab for tomorrow.
Eventually you will have the materials required to create Compounds, then Potions. After that, you can do really cool stuff like convert a compound and use its effect to transmute raw materials, or drink a potion and alter time. Or, best of all, fulfill the requirements of a Prize to get a really cool trophy for your shelf. The first player to get three trophies on their shelf wins.
—description from the designer