Top Tier Cafe’
Top Tier Café invites coffee enthusiasts and strategy lovers to step into a bustling café where every move counts. In this engaging card game, 2-6 players combine set collection, hand management, and resource strategy to create high quality brews.
Assemble matching sets of Coffee Cards to earn Premium Beans and Reviews, trade tokens to fine-tune recipes, and navigate the vibrant Coffee Shop in order to acquire the cards you need. With ever-changing opportunities, every round challenges players to outsmart their competition and transform their humble café into the town’s top destination for coffee connoisseurs.
Components:
93 Drink Cards (Poker Sized)
21 Recipe and Asset Cards (Poker Sized)
12 Reference Cards (Poker Sized)
3 Scoreboard Mats (8x4)
1 Coffee Flight Mat (for advanced gameplay) (8x4)
150 Tokens (120 Reviews and 30 Premium Beans) (Dime sized)
1 Dry Erase Marker
1 Rulebook
Gameplay:
This game is played in a series of rounds. During each round, every player takes one turn in clockwise order, with the player who most recently brewed coffee going first.
During a turn, a player must take 1 of the 3 available actions and may also perform any number of Free Actions.
1) Draw 2 Drink Cards.
2) Swap Drink Cards.
3) Play a Set of Coffee Cards.
Free Actions:
•Play a Specialty Card.
•Trade 2 Review Tokens for 1 Review Token from any pile.
•Buy a Recipe/Asset Card. Pay the Premium Bean cost then keep the card face up in player area. Each player may only have 1 copy of each Recipe/Asset Card.
•If a Coffee Shop row has 3 Specialty Cards, you may discard them and immediately replace them with 3 new Drink Cards.