Cauldron 15

In Cauldron 15 you step into the shoes of a witch who wants to brew the tastiest potion. Together with your fellow witches, you toss all sorts of ingredients into the cauldron. It all comes down to one magic number: fifteen. If you land exactly on it, or stay just below, you are in good shape. Go over it and the brew soon starts bubbling the wrong way. The game uses tricks, just like many well known card games. Whoever wins a trick takes the cards. But the value of those cards all counts towards that nerve racking fifteen. Again and again you have to weigh things up: do I dare play another card, or do I play it safe? If you end up above fifteen at the end, you cannot win. Unless you get hold of all five ingredients and bring your potion back into balance. A game takes about twenty minutes, so you can easily play a few in a row. With two to five players and from age eight, this is a lovely card game for the kitchen table. It comes from Japan, but the cards speak for themselves and players do not need to read Japanese. The box contains English rules.