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Nils' Bohrmaschine

by Olaf Nowacki profile

2026
Inform 7

(based on 2 ratings)
1 review2 members have played this game. It's on 1 wishlist.

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Wenn man vergisst, ausgeliehenes Werkzeug beizeiten zu retournieren, ist man dem Verleiher etwas schuldig.

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Grocery checkout in German, April 30, 2026
Related reviews: 15-30 minutes

This game has you face the most pernicious of puzzles: checking out at the grocery store.

You have a wide variety of items you have to balance, include the screwdriver of your friend Nils (this is a joke that I wonder how it would be translated; screwdriver is 'bohrmaschine', this this is Nils' Bohrmaschine, a pun on the name of famous physicist Nils Bohr).

You navigate the various buttons and weighings and so on. Then the game gets weird. (complete spoilers) (Spoiler - click to show)Trying to leave, I found myself entering again, starting the game over again. I feel like that was due to the screwdriver which acts as Chekhov's gun and Schroedinger's Cat at the same time. So I tried again, this time changing things up, since in my first playthrough I scanned a deposit slip and ended up with a negative balance, but this time I didn't. Also, this time I saw a portal and entered it, which gave me a third playthrough. This time I didn't scan the deposit slip and didn't leave anything on the 'waage' (scale?). I was able to leave normally, although I had to enter my pin twice.

(Spoiler - click to show)Each time I played, weirder things happened like stormtroopers coming in. I'm genuinely not sure what made each playthrough different and why I was able to win in the end. Did my actions change anything, or does playing three times always end the game?

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