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2013 Ranked #7,028

Café Melange

A deduction game in which café workers seat guests beside prominent Vienna figures using logic and inference. Correct placements around the VIPs turn a historical coffeehouse into a compact puzzle.

Deduction Area Majority / Influence Hand Management Admin: Better Description Needed!

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

2.25/5

Rating

6.77

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.1/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Café Melange takes players to Vienna in 1910, with prominent individuals such as Trotzky, Klimt and Freud meeting one another in the coffee bar "Central". The players work in the coffee bar and must use logic and deduction in order to place their guests next to these VIPs.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Area Majority

Compete to have the strongest presence in areas that award control or points.
Hand Management

Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
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Café Melange takes players to Vienna in 1910, with prominent individuals such as Trotzky, Klimt and Freud meeting one another in the coffee bar "Central". The players work in the coffee bar and must use logic and deduction in order to place their guests next to these VIPs. (A "Café Melange", by the way, is a specialty coffee drink akin to cappuccino.)

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Category

1
Deduction

Mechanism

2
Area Majority / Influence Hand Management

Family

3
Admin: Better Description Needed! Cities: Vienna (Austria) Country: Austria

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
45 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Stephan Riedel

Artists

1
Christian Opperer

Publishers

1
Clicker Spiele

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