There are only four tiles left in the bag.Every chair around the tables is occupied.The game ends immediately when any one of four situations occurs: Later in the game, players will be forced to seat customers on the fifteen seats with negative scores.Īt the end of the game, each player must deduct five points from their score for each tile left in their hand. Early in the game, players will seat customers on the five seats with positive scores. The active player can also score or lose points by seating customers at the bar, where a positive or negative score is printed on each chair. Coloured chips are used to record points. If a table of 4 is also of a single nationality, then the player earns 8 points rather than 4 points. If the tile is the second, third or fourth customer at a table, the player scores 2, 3 or 4 points respectively. The active player scores points by placing a customer at a table. If another player on their turn has the proper customer that can be seated in a seat occupied by a joker, the second player can exchange the joker for the correct customer, and then save the joker to be used later. If the active player does not have the correct tile to place a customer at a table, and the player has a joker, the player may use the joker as a wild card to represent any nationality and gender. However, if the player completed a table that is composed of a single nationality, the player does not draw a new tile, in effect reducing that player's hand by one. Once the active player has played a tile, the player draws a new tile to bring the player's hand back to five. If the active player is unable to seat a customer at a table, there is room for any 20 customers at the bar. Gameplay Įach player must seat a customer at a table in the cafe, but only at a table representing the customer's nationality, and keeping the division of gender at any table as even as possible. This becomes the player's hand, and is always visible to the other players. The tiles are placed in the bag, and each player draws five customer tiles at random from the bag, and places them face up on the table. Each table has a specific nationality that is allowed to sit there, but some chairs are shared between two tables, allowing two nationalities to sit at either linked table. 100 tiles representing 96 "customers": four men and four women from 12 countries (Central African Republic, China, Cuba, France, Germany, India, Italy, Russia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States), plus four jokers (wild cards).It was re-released in 1998 by Relaxx, and then by Amigo in 1999. The game was designed by Rudi Hoffman, and was published in 1989 by Mattel. Café International is a 1989 tile-laying board game created by Rudi Hoffmann that won the Spiel des Jahres in 1989.
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