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Pocket Pharma: Setup of the Drug, Threshold, Profit, Loss and Fragments cards are laid out. Six Fragment cards are flipped face up to create the display.
Pocket Pharma: Players claim Fragment cards from the display and add them to their formulas, taking a loss for each card ahead of the card they take.
Pocket Pharma: When players have created a matching formula they can launch their drug, comparing its side effects and efficacy to the thresholds of the target formula.
Our first play ıof "Pocket Pharma" in 2P mode.  Much better than a crowded game...
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Pocket Pharma (2018)

Players
2–5
Best: 3
Playing time
15–30 min
Age
8+
6.44
Average rating
177
Ratings
1.80/5
Weight
#12405
BGG rank
Outside top 5,000
Designer:Brett J. Gilbert, Chu-Lan Kao
Artist:Sebastian Koziner, Alexandra Petruk
Publisher:Alley Cat Games
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 5, Interaction 5, Complexity 3.6, Theme 5
Strategy5.0
Luck5.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity3.6
Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

Card GameIndustry / ManufacturingMedicalHand ManagementOpen DraftingPattern BuildingVictory Points as a Resource

Overview

A reimplementation and redevelopment of the recently released game Medical Frontiers, Brett Gilbert creates a more streamlined and engaging game which can fit in your pocket!

Set in amongst the high levels of competition between different pharmaceutical companies, Pocket Pharma pits every player to formulate, create and market drugs. With the most profitable being the winner!

Using public card drafting to draft compounds which you place on your lab bench, players use "poker hand" style combinations to formulate drugs required by the marketplace. However, creating a drug isn't that easy. Penalty points are applied if your drug is not efficacious and contains severe side effects beyond tolerable norms. Therefore, the search for the perfect compound formulations is critical! However, search for too long, and your competitors may get there first reducing your market penetration and therefore profit.

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Pocket Pharma: R&D Mini Expansions
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