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2015 Ranked #927

Coffee Roaster

Solo bag-building game where roasters manage beans, smoke, and flavor tokens to reach each coffee's ideal roast. Hitting the target is not enough: evenness and a clean bag determine whether the final tasting truly succeeds.

Strategy Games Industry / Manufacturing Deck, Bag, and Pool Building Memory Food & Drink: Coffee

Players

1-2

Play time

10-30 min

Age

12+

Complexity

2.12/5

Rating

7.36

Harder to teach Low interaction 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 1.7/5

Low interaction

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?

Coffee Roaster is a solitaire pool-building game. You choose a variety of coffee beans you want to roast, and put a number of tokens specific to that variety into a bag.

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Coffee Roaster is a solitaire pool-building game. You choose a variety of coffee beans you want to roast, and put a number of tokens specific to that variety into a bag. Each turn, you draw a number of bean tokens randomly from the bag to advance their roast level. When you are finished, you make a cup-testing to check the taste of your coffee and score points accordingly. Each variety has its own target roast level, but approaching the target is not enough for perfect roasting; you also have to even out the roast level of each bean, while not spoiling the flavor of that variety. You also have to screen out smoke tokens and burnt bean tokens that hinder your roasting, and reject bean tokens that spoil the taste. It is important to control the contents of your bag utilizing flavor effects and unique effects caused by placing tokens on the roast board. There are 22 varieties of beans in the game. In one game, you try to roast three of them, and your roaster title is awarded based on the total score. Enjoy the world of coffee-roasting, and aim for the ultimate title "Meister". ••• ?COFFEE ROASTER???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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Play and group

Players
1–2
Best with
2
Play time
10–30 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.1/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Saashi

Artists

2
Andrea Boekhoff Takako Takarai

Publishers

1
Saashi & Saashi

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