Alembic: Potion Sort Puzzle

Forty potions. Each one named, each one with a line of its own, and each one doing something no shop will sell you. Alembic is a colour-sorting puzzle where the sorting is the means and the codex is the point. Pour liquid from bottle to bottle until every colour stands alone, fill a reward chest, and watch a new potion take its place on your shelf. BREWING, NOT JUST SORTING Every fifth level fills a chest, and every chest brews a potion. Forty in all — and each is a dose you can actually drink. Foresight plays the next three moves of a real solution. Second Morning deals the level again, the same colours arranged anew. Spare Glass hands you an empty flask past what coin will buy. None of them duplicate what the shop sells, because a potion has to be worth brewing. NOT JUST A LONGER LADDER Three hundred levels, and the curve is a shape rather than a slope. Most sit at the baseline, some…