  We investigate to which extent we can exploit the dependence of the order of
the chiral transition on the number of light degenerate flavors $N_\text{f}$,
re-interpreted as continuous parameter in the path integral formulation, as a
means to perform a controlled chiral extrapolation and deduce the order of the
transition for the case $N_\text{f}=2$, which is still under debate.
