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Chai Garam 2nd edition

Name: Chai Garam 2nd edition
SKU: 19193
Availability: InStock

₹3,299.00

Age Group: 14+ Yrs

No of Players:: 2-4

Duration: 45-60 Minutes

Skills:
Strategy, Hand Management, Observation Skills

About Game:
Chai Garam – A local Indian vendor’s call, meaning ‘hot tea’!

Welcome to a bustling mela* in India.

As owners of a tapri* in the heart of the mela, you will be challenged to serve queues filled with everyone from the most discerning tea enthusiasts to celebs, to quick-fix tea drinkers. Your shop will compete with the other tapris in the mela to win the hearts of the crowd.
*Tapri – Pronounced ‘tup-ree’, the colloquial word for a tea stall in India
*Mela – Pronounced ‘may-lah’, meaning a “fair” in Hindi

Fortunately, you have a few tricks up your sleeve. Your traditional tea recipes and extensive menu are your biggest assets.

Brew the perfect chai , serve as quickly as you can, rake in the moolah, and leave behind a great impression on your customers. Every serving takes you further up the ladder and closer to making your tapri a grand success.

After all, tea is more than just what’s in the cup. In India, it’s a whole emotion!

Welcome to Chai Garam. Where everyone is a master brewer!

Component:
1 Mela Board
4 Player Boards
56 Customer cards
15 Critic Customer Cards
1 Evening Customer Card
16 Goal Cards
24 Tea Leaf Cards
30 Basic Ingredient Cards
24 Additive Cards
18 Snack Cards
16 Saucepan Cards
4 Chai Aunty Cards
4 Chai Uncle Cards
48 Plastic Cups
Tea Speciality Tokens
16 Cubes
Coins:
₹20, ₹5, ₹1 and -1 coins
Rule book.

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Game Play

Setup the Mela: The Mela is where all the customers will form the queue in front of the counters up to 3 customers in each row. Players place their markers on the flavour track. Tea specialisation, tokens coins and negative tokens are placed on the boat.
Customers: The players acquaint themselves with the type of chai, the customers are seeking.
Market: The market is where players get to pick the basic ingredients, tea, leaf cards, additives, snacks, and saucepans.
Players pick up to 3 cards from the market. The market refresh at the end of the play turn
Ingredient cards go directly to the players hand.
Preparing the Chai: To make a cup of chai players, gather one of each ingredient required for a particular tea recipe (either black, green, or milk tea and put them into the saucepans located in their Tapri. It's important to note that no further ingredients can be included in subsequent turns after the chai is prepared.
Serve to earn Money and Star Ratings: Players can serve chai prepared to the customers in the Mela to gain money, stars and customers.
Players can perform a specific serve (with all the ingredients required by the customer) or a simple serve (with just the correct type of tea). Players are allowed to skip over a customer but gain penalties for serving customers out of the queue.
Note: a player must serve customers in a single column or row.
How to Win: The game is won by the player who has reached the top position on the flavour track.
Move up the Flat flavour track by earning stars from:
A. Specific serves to criticise customers
B. Fulfilling a goal card
C. Specialising in a particular Tea Leaf
D. A specific serve to all three customers at the Tapri in one turn.

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Shuffle Review

Chai Garam is an intricate board game with an elaborate game spread. The game includes many small components that need to be tracked but the game itself is amazing due to its theme.

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