I've enjoyed my games of Quacks but I grew fed up with it quickly. RNG plays a huge role in this game, it is a push your luck gambling game first. If you play enough you will play a round where the first three chips drawn from a bag of twenty are white and add up to 8. You've lost the round and probably the game.

RNG overshadows the strategy of ingredients you buy. I can't tell if the ingredients I bought worked well together or I just got lucky. Some ingredients are strictly overpowered and others are strictly worse. The blue birds in set 1 that allow you to look at 1/2/4 tiles from your bag and choose to play 1 is incredible and you should _always_ buy it.

The catch up mechanic is interesting but favors experienced players. First, if you go bust and create a potion with more than 7 cherry bombs you must pick between getting money to buy ingredients or getting points (instead of both). At the beginning of each round players with fewer points than the lead player will get a boost to their potion. Experienced players will bust during the first 1-3 rounds in order to get more money to buy ingredients, and get a boost to their potion the next round because of the catch up mechanic.

It's a fun game and it has been getting a lot of play time because it is fast, but I'm not sure how much longer that will last.