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1989 Ranked #3,431

Café International

This seating puzzle has players place multinational customers at restaurant tables for the best score. Shared border seats complicate each table, forcing careful choices about who sits together.

Family Games Abstract Strategy Pattern Building Hand Management

Players

2-4

Play time

45-60 min

Age

10+

Complexity

1.65/5

Rating

6.22

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

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.

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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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All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
45–60 min
Age
10+
Complexity
1.7/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Rudi Hoffmann

Artists

2
Oliver Freudenreich J. W. Thompson

Publishers

1
AMIGO