Potion Explosion Game Review and Strategy Tips for Beginners

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1. Plague Verified Buyer – 4 June 2024

   Let me be clear. The idea and gameplay are fantastic. Absolutely love it! The issue I have is the quality of the marbles. After 5 games, the marbles are badly chipped. I’m sure I’m going to have to buy replacements before they draw blood. UPDATE: I talked to COolMiniOrNot, who is the game’s North American representatives and they were less than useless. Horrible customer service. I spoke with a representative from Horrible Games and they made it right.

   

2. Michael McDonald Verified Buyer – 18 June 2024

   This game is a potion for one amazing game night! I enjoy dexterity games and this one is hands down my favorite. It is quick and easy to learn and enjoyable by all gamer levels. We play this with friends and family any chance we can and it is so much fun. The rolling marbles mechanic is such a unique mechanism that everyone enjoys it. It is complex in it’s gameplay and strategy which appeals to me but also easy to learn and understand so anyone can enjoy it. Love using the potions and grabbing all the marbles I can. This game is perfect for family game nights and for group gamers as well.

   

3. Nauya Verified Buyer – 1 July 2024

   Such a fun game, both to play and assemble!
   

4. Garl Vinland Verified Buyer – 1 January 2025

   Have yet to play the game. We are unboxing at present and had to stop as there were broken marbles. At least boardgamesweekly.com made it right but the manufacturer needs to get it together. We can’t have sharp edges on the glass marbles and play with the kids!

   

5. Duckyoddone Verified Buyer – 2 January 2025

   It’s a fun game but the marble slot piece feels flimsy. The image print quality is high but even with the thick card stock they used when it’s full of marbles it’s wiggley and pretty easy to spill. The game is an interesting mix of matching and puzzle solving. Players ‘explode’ matching sets of colors to then use the colors to match color slots on cards and ‘make’ potions. It’s fun and simple. I just wish the overall quality was better. I guess somethings more plastic may be hoping for too much. Finally- This game needs more colors and more potions. The content is pretty limited and while well balanced feels limited. I do know there is an expansion made but not sure if it’s still in print.
   

6. Barbara Vowles Verified Buyer – 22 March 2025

   pretty fun game. just as shown rules could be written a little better but i guess learn as you go
   

7. Hunteil Verified Buyer – 8 April 2025

   Addicting fun game that’s easy to learn and explain. Totally a worthwhile game to buy for the family. And the preview video is the quickest way to explain the game. I read the rules in the book. And explaining the game was 100% faster using the video they give (b/c in person, you have to play with the marbles to give examples and your fingers and hands get in the way, the video also gives visual effects like explosions & highlights.)

   Quality of game parts: Some reviews say to glue the box together. I agree with this recommendation. But so far, I haven’t had the need to glue it together yet. Also about 1-2% of the marbles seem to have shape issues. I.e. I have 1 or 2 marbles out of the 80+ marbles that have a rounded flat side. But they still roll 90% of the time and when they stick, just jostle the box and it’ll move. So I don’t see this an issue. As they give you an additional 8 marbles to replace an missing / damaged ones. Same goes for the paint jobs. One of my yellows is see through. But again, it doesn’t hurt the game, just my OCD lol.
   

8. Sam Boonsakul Verified Buyer – 19 April 2025

   I’m sure like many others, i don’t have a problem with the game. It’s the quality of the game. Right out of the box while we were taking out the pieces from the it’s board we had pieces that weren’t cut properly. A long streak of paper stuck causing some tear on the game pieces. Some of them were so bad we had to go at it with an exacto knife. Second, on a piece or two there were air bubbles between the cardboard and the printed paper and last but not least some of the marbles came slightly damage one was broken in half. The overall quality of the game pieces are all in all bad.

   

9. Beth DeVries Verified Buyer – 26 April 2025

   It is a lot of fun and easy to learn!