Compounded

Compounded is chemistry in a convenient board game form! This worker placement game positions elements as your workers while you try to build compounds and improve your status in the scientific community! Completing your compounds scores you points, gains you equipment and increases your ability to research bigger and better compounds! Ultimate success is earned through careful trading with your fellow scientists, sharing your discoveries and avoiding the unscrupulous scientists who would steal from you! Danger arrives throughout the game in the form of explosions and lab fires which can wipe out your precious work!

In Compounded you are a chemist fighting for elements and taking turns simultaneously (shared phases), with personal tableaus (Lab Tables) and an series of Compounds represented by cards. You will move elements from your Lab Table to Compounds working on those you have started and claimed or you can be daring and work on unclaimed compounds which are easily stolen by other players and susceptible to the two event cards, Lab Fire & Too Much Oxygen. Beware Flammable materials!

The compounds you chose to work on and complete are the solution you need to score points. Each compound comes as liquid, gas or solid. Those states of matter will give you bonuses when you take your actions: increase the number of elements you can store, discover, or move…or increase the number of compounds you can claim. Valuable equipment and other special abilities can be gained by completing certain compounds.

This thrilling game of scientific discovery is highly interactive and fairly combustible fun for groups of 3-6 players! Each game will take roughly 60-90 tension filled minutes of chemical creation!

Compounded was designed by Darrell Louder is currently seeking a publisher. For more information on Compounded please email john@cartrunk.net! 

Check out the Compounded Gallery for pictures of the game being played as it develops!