2017Chu-Lan Kao, Chi Wei Lin
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2 - 4 players10 - 25 minLight weight

2019Chu-Lan Kao
Mainly reviews and unboxings. Formosa Tea is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 8 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, 2 recorded sessions, 5 unboxings, and 3 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
The sub-tropical climate and environment of Taiwan makes the island highly suitable for cultivating top quality tea. But it wasn't not until the 19th century after English businessman John Dodd discovered some amazing Oolong tea there that the Taiwanese tea business truly begin to bloom and "Formosa Tea" became world-reknowned. In Formosa Tea, players are tea farm owners competing to harvest the best tea leaves, improve their tea processing techniques, and produce tea of the highest quality for not only the domestic market but also for the international market. With the unique worker placement and worker advancement mechanisms, along with the tea dehydration and scenting processing, players must use their workers wisely to make the best tea in the market. A game of Formosa Tea is played in four rounds. In each round, players take turns to perform one of the five possible actions: Send a worker to harvest tea leaves Send a worker to a tea factory to process tea leaves Retrieve a worker from the tea factory after tea processing is completed Send a worker to sell tea in the domestic market Send a worker to sell tea to international merchants. After the end of the fourth round, the player who has the most prestige points wins!
Formosa Tea has 22 videos from 21 creators: 8 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, 2 playthroughs, 5 unboxings and 3 other videos. They date from 2019 to June 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Formosa Tea 台灣製茶錄 Unboxing and Basic Strategy" by Show Me How To Win, which runs 6 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Formosa Tea 4p Teaching, Play-through, & Round table by Heavy Cardboard" by Heavy Cardboard. 8 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "All the Games with Steph: Formosa Tea - 2nd Ed- Playthough" by Steph Hodge, one of 2 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Numeracy Legends and The Zerda Fox, Numeracy Legends and The Gluttony Dragon and Scrolls of a Northern City, also by Chu-Lan Kao, or Ceres, which shares several of its mechanics. It appears in convention videos from Spiel Essen 2019.
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2017Chu-Lan Kao, Chi Wei Lin
2 - 4 players10 - 25 minLight weight
2017Chu-Lan Kao
2 - 5 players12 - 25 minMedium weight
2019Chu-Lan Kao
1 - 5 players30 - 40 minLight weight
2023Gustaf Sundström
1 - 4 players90 - 120 minHeavy weight
From BoardGameGeek:
The sub-tropical climate and environment of Taiwan makes the island highly suitable for cultivating top quality tea. But it wasn't not until the 19th century after English businessman John Dodd discovered some amazing Oolong tea there that the Taiwanese tea business truly begin to bloom and "Formosa Tea" became world-reknowned. In Formosa Tea, players are tea farm owners competing to harvest the best tea leaves, improve their tea processing techniques, and produce tea of the highest quality for not only the domestic market but also for the international market. With the unique worker placement and worker advancement mechanisms, along with the tea dehydration and scenting processing, players must use their workers wisely to make the best tea in the market. A game of Formosa Tea is played in four rounds. In each round, players take turns to perform one of the five possible actions: Send a worker to harvest tea leaves Send a worker to a tea factory to process tea leaves Retrieve a worker from the tea factory after tea processing is completed Send a worker to sell tea in the domestic market Send a worker to sell tea to international merchants. After the end of the fourth round, the player who has the most prestige points wins!
Designer
Chu-Lan Kao
Artists
Sammixyz, Huang Yu Wen
Publisher
Soso Studio
Categories
Mechanics