2025Dan Kazmaier, Connie Kazmaier
- Videos
- 3
- Creators
- 2
1 - 2 players30 - 45 minMedium weight

2019Dan Kazmaier, Connie Kazmaier
Mainly reviews. Chai is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 28 reviews, 10 how-to-play guides, 4 recorded sessions, 8 unboxings, and 4 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
In Chai, you will step into the shoes of a tea merchant, combining tea flavours to make a perfect blend. Specializing in either rooibos, green, oolong, black or white tea, you will buy and collect ingredients to fulfill your customers' orders. As a tea merchant, each turn you will do one of the following: Visit the Market, Select Additives, Reserve a Customer. At the end of each turn, a player may complete a tea order from one customer card in their hand or visible in the customer pool. A base tea token, tea flavours and additives shown on the card are needed ingredients, and placed in an empty tea cup. The player flips over a tip and receives a coin bonus, moving the thermometer round tracker up one notch if all cups are filled. The game ends when five rounds of cups have been fulfilled. When the final order is completed, other players complete their last turn so that each player has played the same number of turns. The player with the most victory points (from customer orders, money, and awards) wins the game as best tea merchant! -description from the publisher
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Chai has 54 videos from 6 creators: 28 reviews, 10 how-to-play guides, 4 playthroughs, 8 unboxings and 4 other videos. They date from 2018 to October 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Chai - How To Play", which runs 16 min. For a quicker teach, "Chai - Teach the Teach, with Melissa Makak" runs 7 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "3 Things in 3 Minutes: Chai Review". 3 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Tom Teaches Chai (Rules Overview & Gameplay)", one of 4 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Chai: Tea for 2 and Chai: High Tea, also by Dan Kazmaier, or Point Salad and Isle of Trains: All Aboard, which share several of its mechanics. It appears in convention videos from GAMA Expo 2020.
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2025Dan Kazmaier, Connie Kazmaier
1 - 2 players30 - 45 minMedium weight
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1 - 5 players20 - 60 minMedium weight
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2 - 6 players15 - 30 minLight weight
2023Seth Jaffee, Dan Keltner
1 - 4 players60 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
In Chai, you will step into the shoes of a tea merchant, combining tea flavours to make a perfect blend. Specializing in either rooibos, green, oolong, black or white tea, you will buy and collect ingredients to fulfill your customers' orders. As a tea merchant, each turn you will do one of the following: Visit the Market, Select Additives, Reserve a Customer. At the end of each turn, a player may complete a tea order from one customer card in their hand or visible in the customer pool. A base tea token, tea flavours and additives shown on the card are needed ingredients, and placed in an empty tea cup. The player flips over a tip and receives a coin bonus, moving the thermometer round tracker up one notch if all cups are filled. The game ends when five rounds of cups have been fulfilled. When the final order is completed, other players complete their last turn so that each player has played the same number of turns. The player with the most victory points (from customer orders, money, and awards) wins the game as best tea merchant! -description from the publisher
Designers
Dan Kazmaier, Connie Kazmaier
Artists
Mary Haasdyk, Sahana VJ
Publisher
Steeped Games Ltd.
Mechanics