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Café Melange
Herr Ober, die Rechnung bitte!
Rush hour at Café Central in Vienna, meeting point of celebrities from Art, Literature, Politics and Science. Clever seating for guests and celebrities earns you victory points, but before that you must reserve seats according to preferences, for instance shape or color of furniture. You place reservation cards and markers and additional means to reduce the selection, until only one seat remains which is possible and thus reserved. Now you can seat your guest or celebrity. Action cards influence seats or trigger additional scorings. When a total of 21 guests has been seated, the game ends with a final scoring of additional points for combinations of your own guest and celebrities.
In Herr Ober, die Rechnung bitte!, the first expansion for Café Melange, 36 new target cards are introduced. Those cards replace the cards from the core game, and have been revised and amended, the rules of the game have been adapted for the new target cards. Each player is dealt three target cards. If you play a celebrity, you mark him with a reservation marker. If you play a reservation card, you can play a second one and select any characteristics for it. In each section of the game you can play one target card. Possible target cards are, for instance “you score four points for each celebrity that you can seat alone at a table” or “if two of your own guests are seated at a table, you score 3 victory points”; however, the symbols of the cards are not necessarily self-explanatory; the summary with explanations must be consulted frequently.
But this is the only criticism, the expansion very felicitously enriches the tactical and yet simple core game.
Players: 2-4
Age: 10+
Time: 45+
Designer: Stephan Riedel
Artist: Christian Opperer
Price: ca. 9 Euro
Publisher: Clicker Spiele 2017
Genre: Guest placement
Users: With friends
Version: multi
Rules: de en
In-game text: no
Comments:
1st expansion
Re3vised target cards
Adapted rules
Needs core game to play
Compares to:
Café Melange
Other editions:
Currently none
Chance (pink): 1
Tactic (turquoise): 2
Strategy (blue): 0
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 3
Memory (orange): 0
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 1
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0