Vivajava: The Coffee Game: The Dice Game

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Moderate level of interaction with a good balance between direct and strategic confrontation. Players need to pay attention to each other's strategies and turns frequently, but there is not a heavy emphasis on cooperation.

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 4.0

High replayability

Interaction 3.7

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 3.0

Luck-sensitive

Table feel

Moderate level of interaction with a good balance between direct and strategic confrontation. Players need to pay attention to each other's strategies and turns frequently, but there is not a heavy emphasis on cooperation.

Replay value

Vivajava: The Coffee Game: The Dice Game has a high replayability score due to its high variability, strategic depth, and adaptability to different player counts. The presence of expansions adds to the replay value, and while it may not be the easiest game to learn, it offers a rewarding experience for those willing to invest the time.

Luck profile

The final luck score for Vivajava: The Coffee Game: The Dice Game is 6, indicating a balanced mix of luck and strategy. The game outcome is influenced by both random elements like dice rolls and player decisions. While luck plays a significant role, players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. Overall, the game strikes a good balance between luck and strategy, offering an engaging and dynamic gameplay experience.

Overview

What ABG knows about this game

VivaJava: The Coffee Game: The Dice Game – or, more simply, VivaJava Dice – is the successor to the well-received 2012 release of VivaJava: The Coffee Game. As in its predecessor, players of VivaJava Dice take on the roles of employees at the VivaJava CoffeeCo., scouring the globe for the best beans to keep the company on top while keeping themselves one step ahead of the rest of the executives. Also as in VivaJava, VivaJava Dice has players making the crucial decision between blending beans and research, but with a quick, new twist. Players must now use the dice in their pool to blend – using the beans to create a best-seller for quick points, then deciding whether to press their luck in subsequent rounds for bigger points but fewer dice as the blends degrade – or to research, which involves using their valuable beans to gain an ever-changing variety of dice-manipulating abilities, new ways to score, and paths that lead to aiding a competitor for a later payoff or hindering that competitor for immediate gratification. VivaJava Dice also offers a unique system of cooperative dice-rolling that can help you rise to the top, but at the price of someone else riding your coattails. With an astounding mix of plug-and-play research abilities, subtle social play in semi-cooperative mode, and the chance to hog all the glory and blend the best for yourself, VivaJava Dice is all about choice, making each game fast and furiously different.

Mechanism

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Dice Rolling Modular Board Paper-and-Pencil Push Your Luck Set Collection

Family

6

Components: Dice with Icons Crowdfunding: Kickstarter Digital Implementations: Tabletopia Food & Drink: Coffee Game: VivaJava Mechanism: Roll-and-Write

Type

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Family

Media

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