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Alchemists: The King's Golem

2–4 players · best with 3 · ~120 min to play · ages 14+ · 2016

kind · Puzzle-and-escapeDeduction complexity · Heavy

language · Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups (6 votes)

BGG 8.4/10 (1,518 ratings) · weight 4.6/5 View on BGG ↗

Questions here read: Alchemistsbg-161970-en-1e · Alchemists: The King's Golembg-204650-en-1e This box expands Alchemists, so a question here is asked on the base game and reads both books.

Asked on Alchemists, with this expansion included.

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🔧 BGG — every figure this page shows, and where it came from
the word this page prints
Heavy
community weight
4.55 of 5
votes behind it
134 weight votes
community rating
8.36 of 10
ratings behind it
1,518 ratings
players
2–4
best with
3 players
how that best-with count was read
BGG's own poll summary
recommended counts — read out of BGG's poll-summary sentence
2–4
language dependence — the level BGG's poll names, ties read upward
3 of 5 — Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups
votes in that poll
6 votes
minimum age — the figure BGG reports, which a printed box can disagree with
14+
play time — the min and max BGG reports
120 min
play time — the headline figure BGG reports
120 min
year published
2016
captured
Aug 24, 2026
source
BoardGameGeek XML API
🔧 Kinds — what each one rests on, and when it was approved
Puzzle-and-escape · the kind of evening
From this shelf's owner.
Approved Aug 17, 2026, one at a time.
Deduction · the kind of evening
From this shelf's owner.
Approved Aug 17, 2026, one at a time.

Kinds are chosen by this shelf's owner. Some start as a suggestion — from BoardGameGeek's listings, or from the rulebook itself — and none of them shows on a listing alone. A person approved each one before it appeared here. Last reviewed Aug 17, 2026.

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