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Café International

Café International

1989·Rudi Hoffmann

2 - 4 players
45 - 60 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

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This game revolves around the placement of multi-national customers in a restaurant. The board shows many different tables, each with four chairs around them. The tables are grouped by nation, so the Chinese like to sit with other Chinese. However, some of the chairs are on the border between two nations, so a person from either place could occupy the seat. To further complicate this odd tile game, each of the people is either male or female, and tables must be gender-balanced. As the game progresses some tiles become unplayable...

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About Café International

From BoardGameGeek:

This game revolves around the placement of multi-national customers in a restaurant. The board shows many different tables, each with four chairs around them. The tables are grouped by nation, so the Chinese like to sit with other Chinese. However, some of the chairs are on the border between two nations, so a person from either place could occupy the seat. To further complicate this odd tile game, each of the people is either male or female, and tables must be gender-balanced. As the game progresses some tiles become unplayable...

Designer

Rudi Hoffmann

Artists

Oliver Freudenreich, J. W. Thompson

Publisher

AMIGO

Categories

Abstract Strategy

Mechanics

Hand ManagementPattern BuildingTile Placement
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