In all but the last round:
If everyone is waiting for someone else to decide whether to draw (or place a deferred chip), the person with the emptiest pot chooses (and if necessary draws) first. Ties are broken by the Fortune Teller card turn order.
[Rationale: the official rule suffers from a perverse incentive. This rule approximates natural player behaviour, formalising the edge case.]
When a chip (typically green, but also eg some blacks) talks about “the last or second-last chip in your pot”, apply the rule for each of the last three chips, not just the last two.
[Rationale: Greens seem not to come up. In my experience, even with this change they are still quite weak.]
We have overflow tracks, not overflow bowls. They are simply an extension of the pot’s track. The space “34 14” on the overflow track follows the space “33 14 ruby” in the main pot. Disregard (cover up) the “35 15” on the provided board.
In the “money” phase (and any other time you are invited to buy chips), you may buy one additional chip, but to do so you must pay 5 extra money (in addition to the price of the additional chip).
(You may combine this with the “Sale” Fortune Teller card to get the another of cheapest chip, for a total of 4 chips.)
Players do not choose their own disease. Instead, choose one disease randomly, for all the players.
If your essence value is more than 10, you get the bonus for 10, plus the bonus for the remainder (max.10). (Notate this by placing two counters on the essence track). With Vampirism, add the buying power together and buy one chip. With essences that are used up during play by reducing your essence, you may make up a reduction by adding two reductions of your two essence tokens.
In the last round, perform the essence bonus, instead of getting VPs for your essence.
In the final round, when drawing is supposed to be secret and simultaneous:
Each player with Nervousness chips puts some large draughts stones in their bag. When drawing a chip, they may (by feel) choose to draw a draughts stone instead. When the stone is revealed, it means they are placing one of their Nervousness chips.
A player who drew a stone selects which of their Nervousness chips they are playing before anyone makes other decisions about how to play their chips. If more than one player has more than one Nervousness chip to choose from, the applicable players each choose a Nervousness chip in fortune teller card turn order.
If you have any black in the last three, you get rubies for all your own blacks.
[Rationale: this adds an element of diminishing returns for the player buying the black, which was otherwise missing. The official rules text is ambiguous.]
You are not eligible for the ruby if you got the droplet.
[Rationale: these are somewhat be overpowered, especially if you have many. We want to debuff them.]
No ruby awarded if more than one person got the droplet.
[Rationale: As above, but also this is a usual 1st/2nd prize rule.]
This chip costs 9, not 10.
[Rationale: This chip is hardly ever a good buy at 10.]
We do not play with this card. Draw another one instead.
(We think it means that you get to choose between (a) the player on your left may remove a garlic and (b) they may take a chip of their choice.)
We play with this card even if we are not playing with the Herb Witches.
Any bonus chips you gain after the start of a round are put aside and go into your bag in the next round. This is equivalent to the official wording but more generalisable. In particular, it applies to the bronze witch “exchange your … chips”. (Chips from Witch’s Hump go into your bag, as per the official rules.)
You may always use a chip’s special power as if it were a chip of a lower value of the same colour. (That is, for a 4-chip you can choose to use the corresponding 2- or 1-chip power; for a 2-chip, the 1-chip power.)
But you may not forgo a chip’s special power unless it says so (eg, by saying “may”).
A locoweed is not a “1-chip”. But it has a “value” (the number of spaces to move), unless otherwise specified.
By no means may you acquire a purple or yellow before they are available (from the start of rounds 2 and 3).
For the avoidance of doubt: when you return a chip to your bag, any special effects that have already occurred does not need to be undone. But any ongoing or end-of-round effects (or side-effects) no longer happen because the returned chip is no longer in your pot: henceforth it is henceforth as if that chip was never placed.
(As a general principle, rules interactions do not involve any hidden state that doesn’t exist for the rules taken separately.)
If you remove a yellow from your pot (due to some rule or other), and this reduces your garlic threshold below your current amount of garlic, your pot does explode.
Using this witch does not deprive anyone else of the die roll.
When upgrading chips, the new ones go into your pot, in the same space as the old chips.
When upgrading a 1-chip to a 4-chip, you may upgrade a 2-chip instead.
Draw all the Ear Worm chips at once; you may choose the placement order.
With Book V Yellow, the chip for the yellow must come from your bag, not from Nervousness chips.
You may take the bonus for to a lower-valued chip, instead.
Giant pumpkin (on a ruby space) counts as 4-chip or locoweed.
(Clarifications of interactions with other rules are here, rather than filed under the other rule or game feature.)
Any VPs you gain as a result of a fortune teller card don’t affect the number of rat tails you get this turn; likewise, if your droplet moves, move your rat stone too.
With Ear Worm, do Ear Worm first.
You may do this as many times as you like.
Locoweed count for 1 each.
Every die roll is to be rolled twice, not just the one for winning the round.
With Alchemists’ Carrot Nose, Carrot Nose happens first.
Doubles all rats, no matter where they come from, not just VP track rats.
This applies only to the normal “money” phase, not any other rules which might involve buying chips.
If buying two chips of the same value, you can choose which to receive another of for free.
If you are unlucky enough to draw within the first 5 chips, a garlic that would make you explode, you may put everything back in your bag and restart immediately – before the explosion happens. (Assuming you haven’t restarted already, obviously.)
Other side effects that occurred in your first 5 chips are not undone.
Nervousness (alchemists): if you choose to start again, you put all your Nervousness chips back into your bag, and choose a fresh set for the restart.
Applies to this round only (despite the wording which suggests otherwise).
With Book II Red: draw 5 for Strong Ingredient before placing any reds. Then place Strong Ingredient chips, and any reds you wish to place, in any order.
With Book II Red, place any reds into your pot first, before resolving the White Blessing.
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