Product Description

It is the turn of the nineteenth century, and mad scientists throughout Europe are competing for the infamy of being the first to create life through the power of alchemy.

Using only the raw materials provided by some dubious 'Suppliers to the Anatomical Trade', harnessed lightning and the services of a motley crew of unattractive servants you race to collect the eight body parts needed to create your monster and bring it to life. Unfortunately the local peasants are particularly clumsy and tend to die in freak farming accidents so the dubious gentlemen rarely find a whole cadaver in sufficiently good condition. Instead they offer the parts they have managed to salvage.

Each turn you may buy the offered part, sell it to an anatomist for a meagre profit, or auction it trying to get a better deal or rip off your opponents. You might be lucky and get a coffin with a weakling clerk's cadaver in it, which can be used in lieu of any strapping villager's body part, or your involvement in the macabre trade might invoke the villagers' wrath.

Product Information

• Manufacturer(s): Reiver Games
• Year: 2008
• Players: 2 - 5
• Time: 15 - 30 minutes
• Ages: 12 and up
• Weight: 414 grams
• Language Requirements: This is an international edition or domestic edition of an imported item. Game components are language-independent. Manufacturer's rules are printed in multiple languages (including English).

Contents:

• 5 player screens to hide your progress
• 5 player mats on which to assemble your monsters
• 5 play guides to aid learning the game
• 60 cards representing body parts, cadavers and angry villagers
• 10 coins worth 5
• 40 coins worth 1
• rules

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