Little Alchemy 2 is a puzzle Browser Game (and also a Mobile Phone Game) and sequel to the original Little Alchemy. Much like the original game, you combine items together to make new items. You start with only the four Classical Elements; Fire, Water, Earth and Air. By combining these in different ways and by then combining the results of these combinations, you can make up to 720 different items, from airplanes to farms to ideas to planes to unicorns. Your goal is to find every combination for every item.
The game can be played on browser or mobile. Exclusive to mobile is the Myths & Monsters pack, which adds four additional starter elements; Good, Evil, Immortality and Monster. Combining these elements together, alongside those from the base game, allows for the discovery of an additional 110 mythological/fictional creatures.
This game provides examples of:
- Achilles' Heel: Mentioned in the Flavor Text for Achilles:A Greek warrior known more for the idiom his death created than his exploits in the Trojan War.
- Alchemy Is Magic: Combining the right items allows you to transform them into something else entirely.
- All Caps: Present in the following element flavor texts
- Universe:
EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS.- Jörmungandr:
THE GOD SNAKE OF THE NORTH. - All Trolls Are Different: Troll is made by combining Monster or Giant with Bridge, Cave, Mountain, or Mountain Range.
- Apple of Discord: Made by combining Evil with Fruit or Fruit Tree.
- Asian Fox Spirit: Made by combining Fox with Deity.
- Banana Peel: Mentioned in the Flavor Text for Banana:Fruit loved by certain monkeys and fans of physical comedy.
- Bedsheet Ghost: Represents the Ghost element's image.
- Big Red Devil: Represents the Demon element image.
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Present in the following element flavor texts:
- Mara:In olden times, bad dreams were often caused by 1) an unclean conscience 2) fever, or 3) a demon sitting on your chest while you slept.
- Vodyanoy:Creepy old frog man who loves the simple things in life: floating, splashing, and drowning people.
- Mara:
- The Caper: Mentioned in the Flavor Text for Vault:A secure space for storage where the more valuable its contents are, the higher the chance it will get broken into by a team of colorful characters.
- Chainsaw Good: Chainsaw is made by combining Axe with Machine, Electricity, or Motion, or by combining Lumberjack with Machine or Electricity.
- Chicken-and-Egg Paradox:
- Invoked by combining Chicken with Egg, creating Philosophy.
- Mentioned in the following element flavor texts:
- Egg:An organic container of life, and important subject of certain philosophical questions related to casuality.
- Philosophy:The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence of poultry.
- Egg:
- Chinese Vampire: Jiangshi, made by combining Corpse with Curse or Evil.
- Circular Reasoning: Present in the following element flavor texts:
- Lake and Pond:A big pond.A really small lake.
- Horse and Unicorn:A hornless unicorn, commonly used for transportation and racing.A majestic horse with a single horn in the middle of its forehead.
- Lake and Pond:
- Cosmic Egg: Made by combining Egg with Deity.
- Cyclops: Made by combining Giant with Giant, Poseidon, or Zeus, or by combining Mermaid with Poseidon.
- Downloadable Content: The "Myths and Monsters" pack, which unlocks items based after mythology and legends.
- The Dragonslayer: Combining Knight with Dragon makes Hero, implying the Knight killed the Dragon.
- Elixir of Life: Made by combining Immortality with Bottle, Container, or Liquid, or by combining Bottle with Philosopher's Stone.
- Excalibur: Can be acquired by combining Sword with Stone, Legend, Story, Monarch, Lake, or Fairy Tale.
- Explosive Breeder: Combining a Rabbit with a Rabbit will just make another Rabbit, a reference to the saying "breeds like rabbits".
- The Fair Folk: Faerie is made by combining Goblin with Good.
- Father Time: Made by combining Time with Deity and Grim Reaper with Good.
- Feathered Serpent: Quetzalcoatl is made by combining Deity with Snake or Rainforest.
- Fire and Brimstone Hell: Represents the Hell element's image.
- Fluffy Cloud Heaven: Represents the Heaven element's image.
- Frankenstein's Monster: Can be acquired by combining Corpse with Legend, Lighting, Electricity, Story, or Monster, or combining Zombie with Electricity or Lightning, or by combining Monster with Story.
- Gashadokuro: Made by combining Skeleton or Bone with Monster or Giant.
- Gotta Catch Them All: There are 720 elements to make in total, and multiple ways to make each item. The Myths & Monsters pack increases that total element count to 830.
- Green Aesop: The Flavor Text for Paper Cup:A cup that should be recycled after being used unless the drinker enjoys destroying the world.
- Grievous Bottley Harm: Mentioned in the Flavor Text for Bottle:A container for liquids, and favored weapon of bar patrons.
- The Grim Reaper: Made by combining Scythe with Human, Corpse, Zombie, Death, Boat, River, or Deity.
- Also mentioned in the Flavor Text for Scythe:A deadly tool against grass that is often wielded by death itself.
- Also mentioned in the Flavor Text for Scythe:
- Hellhound: Made by combining Dog, Wolf, or Animal with Demon, Evil, or Hell.
- Holy Water: Made by combining Water with Good or Heaven.
- Kappa: Made by combining Demon with River, Stream, Turtle, or Lake.
- Kraken and Leviathan: Kraken is made by combining Monster with Sea, Ocean, Fish, or Shark.
- The Krampus: Made by combining Santa with Evil or Monster.
- Little Green Men: Represents the Alien element's image.
- Medical Drama: Mentioned in the Flavor Text for Hospital:An institution for receiving medical care, and inspiration for countless TV shows.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: The following elements are described as such by their flavor texts:
- Platypus:The animal example of 'Ok, but what if we added this…'
- Chimera:The mythological proto-platypus; a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and a snake for a tail.
- Griffin:You ever see the fiercest animal of land standing next to the fiercest animal of the air and think, "Why not combine them?"
- Wolpertinger:The most hunted animals in Germany got together and decided they'd literally be stronger together rather than apart.
- Platypus:
- Necromancer: Made by combining Wizard or Witch with Evil or Curse.
- Number of the Beast: Mentioned in the Flavor Text for Pitchfork:Farm tool #666.
- Non-Indicative Name: Mentioned in the flavor texts for the following elements:
- Lava Lamp:A liquid lamp that doesn't actually contain magma.
- Seahorse:A small fish whose head barely resembles a horse.
- Computer Mouse:An input device for computers that would resemble a rodent if you were drunk.
- Lava Lamp:
- Oni: Made by combining Demon with Monster.
- Our Elves Are Different: Elf is made by combining Faerie with Big.
- Ouroboros: Made by combining Snake or Dragon with Immortality, or by combining Jörmungandr with Small.
- Our Orcs Are Different: Orc is made by combining Elf with Evil or Monster, Human with Monster, or Big with Goblin.
- The Paladin: Made by combining Warrior or Knight with Holy Grail, Holy Water, Durendal, or Good.
- Pegasus: Made by combining Horse or Unicorn with Sky or Bird.
- Philosopher's Stone: Made by combining Immortality with Rock, Stone, or Alchemist.
- The Phoenix: Made by combining Fire with Bird, Death, Life or Egg.
- Pie in the Face: Invoked in the Flavor Text for Pie:A deliciously-filled pastry that is the bane of all clowns.
- Public Domain Artifact:
- Holy Grail is made by combining Cup with Good or Immortality.
- Mjölnir is made by combining Hammer with Deity or Thor, or by combining Thor with Tool.
- Pandora's Box is made by combining Box or Container with Good or Evil, or by combining Gift with Deity.
- Robot War: Mentioned in the flavor texts for the following elements:
- Robot:A machine that can be electronically programmed to carry out a variety of physical tasks automatically, and is the face of humanity's downfall.
- Robot Vacuum:A robotic floor cleaner and spy for the impending robot uprising.
- Machine:An apparatus performing a particular task using mechanical power, and which possibly has murderous intentions toward its creators.
- Drone:The scouts of the impending robot uprising.
- Robot:
- Rollercoaster Mine: Mentioned in the Flavor Text for Roller Coaster:Real life mine cart sequences.
- Selkies and Wereseals: Selkie is made by combining Monster with Seal.
- Shaped Like Itself: Flavor Text for Warrior:One who wars.
- Shout-Out:
- Combining Ring with Magic or Volcano makes The One Ring, with the following Flavor Text:A small circular band of material used for decoration, and may be set with gemstones or the black speech of the dark lord.
- Combining Turtle with Katana, Shuriken or Ninja gives you Ninja Turtle.
- Combining Sword with Light, Electricity, Energy or Space gives you Light Sword, and combining that with Human, Warrior or Knight gives you Force Knight.
- Flavor Text for Hedgehog:A spiny mammal that can roll into a ball for defense, and which the populace loves to see go fast.
- Double Rainbow! is a reference to the Double Rainbow viral video.
- At the game's initial release, combining Time with Space gave you Tardis, which is a combination in the original game. It was likely removed for copyright reasons.
- Flavor Text for Doctor:Someone who practices medicine or time traveling.
- Flavor Text for Doctor:
- Flavor Text for Potter:A person who makes organically-sourced things like vases, plates, bowls, and sometimes magic.
- Flavor Text for Rock:Any innocuous solid mineral, and when preceded by "The," gains world-class acting and professional wrestling abilities.
- The Flavor Text for Land references the song "This Land is Your Land":Anything on Earth's surface that isn't covered by water, but is owned by Woody Guthrie and YOU!
- Flavor Text for Sand:A find debris of stones that gets everywhere.
- Flavor Text for Dune:A ridge of sand formed by wind and sandworms.
- Flavor Text for Bridge:A structure that provides passage over a problematic area, and may go nowhere.
- Flavor Text for Life:
- Flavor Text for Clock:An instrument for measuring time and driving hooked pirates insane.
- Flavor Text for Family:A group that is united by blood, marriage, and/or a love of high-speed cars.
- Fish resembles Flounder, further reinforced by its Flavor Text:Any gill-breathing vertebrate that hangs out under the sea.
- Flavor Text for Tool:A device used to achieve a goal, like a hammer to pound a nail or a Skynet to eliminate humanity.
- Flavor Text for UFO:Objects prone to close encounters.
- Flavor Text for Cave:A hollow space underground that can serve as a home for bats and batmen.
- Flavor Text for Don Quixote:Some guy who attacked a bunch of windmills, and a film Terry Gilliam will never complete.
- Flavor Text for Ghost:Life after death, sometimes as a translucent body, and often on the receiving end of busts.
- Flavor Text for Jerky:Slim-as-a-jim sunbathed strips of meat.
- Flavor Text for Shark:A type of carnivorous fish known for their flexible skeletons, occasional encounters with humans, and fondness for oxygen tanks.
- Flavor Text for Toucan:A tropical bird with a massive bill who is an eater of fruits and sometimes loops.
- Flavor Text for Battery:A container of chemical energy that can be converted into electricity, sometimes heralded by a drumming bunny.
- Flavor Text for Legend:A story handed down over time that is believed to be true, but cannot be verified, like the Batman.
- Flavor Text for Polar Bear:Bear of the arctic, and popularly believed to love cola.
- Flavor Text for Steam Engine:Energy brought to you by Steam!
- Flavor Text for Swamp:You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and wetland-that's-heavily-dependant-upon-natural-water-fluctuations.
- Flavor Text for Boulder:A big rock, prone to chasing archaeologists.
- Flavor Text for Hay Bale:An informal, off the cuff greeting to Christian Bale, a celebrated actor.
- Flavor Text for Rat:Close relative of mice and often depicted as villains in animated movies, except when they're cooks.
- Flavor Text for Mousetrap:A horrible board game inspired by real-life capture devices.
- Flavor Text for Pan Flute:The musical instrument of choice for kids who never want to grow up.
- Flavor Text for Bat:Flying mammal and inspiration for vigilantes.
- Flavor Text for Gingerbread Man:Uncatchable human-shaped cookie.
- Flavor Text for Giant:An extremely tall person, and not always big and friendly.
- Flavor Text for Goblin:Grotesque, greedy monster prone to obsessing over people who dress like spiders.
- Flavor Text for Cyclops:One-eyed giant that DOESN'T have the power to shoot optic blasts from its peeper.
- Flavor Text for Jötunn:Frosty the Norse Giant.
- Combining Ring with Magic or Volcano makes The One Ring, with the following Flavor Text:
- Space Is Cold: Combining Space and Thermometer makes Cold.
- Stock Money Bag: Mentioned by the Flavor Text for Bank:The main producer of sacks with dollar signs on them.
- Stock "Yuck!": Flavor Text for Vegetable: "The bane of children worldwide".
- Stuff Blowing Up: You can make items such as Explosion, Grenade, Gunpowder and Atomic Bomb.
- Swamps Are Evil: Swamp is an ingredient for Sickness, Quicksand and Alligator, among other things. Its description also calls it a "wretched hive of scum".
- Talk Like a Pirate: Flavor Text for Pirate Ship:A vessel manned by an ARRRRRdy group of individuals, and which docks in an ARRRRRRRbor.
- Tastes Like Chicken: Flavor Text for Chicken:Apparently everything tastes like it.
- Tengu: Made by combining Bird with Monster or Demon.
- Troll: Mentioned in the Flavor Text for Troll:Giant, unhelpful and quarrelsome monsters that live in caves, under bridges, and around internet forums.
- Unicorn: Made by combining Horse with Magic, Story, Legend, Rainbow or Double Rainbow!.
- Valkyries: Made by combining Warrior with Deity or Valhalla.
- Weakened by the Light: Combining Vampire with Sun or Dawn creates Ash, implying the Vampire incinerated in the sunlight.
- Will-o'-the-Wisp: Made by combining Monster with Light, Light Bulb, or Lamp.
- A Winner Is You:
- After discovering every element, a short animation of several elements spinning around, before being consumed by an expanding yellow circle. After all the items are consumed by the sphere, it pops and the message "All Items Discovered!" is displayed. The game then returns to the main dashboard, with a pop-up appearing that encourages the player to find all remaining combinations.
- After discovering every combination, another animation occurs where a black circle appears and grows largers, with a slightly larger white circle growing behind it to create the image of a solar eclipse. The eclipse then bursts, expelling elements around as it is consumed by a blinding white light, followed by the message "All Combinations Discovered!" being displayed. The game once again returns to the main dashboard, with another pop-up appearing congratulating the player & encouraging them to try out art mode.
- World Tree: Yggdrasil is made by combining Tree with Immortality or Heaven.
- Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My: Bunyip is made by combining Swamp with Monster.