“Serve guests and prepare rooms to be the best hotelier in the Viennese modern age.”
Link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/182874/grand-austria-hotel
Playing Time: 60-120 minutes
Weight: Midweight
Genre: Dice Drafting & Order Fulfillment
Designer: Virginio Gigli, Simone Luciani
Players: 2-4
Players play as hotel managers, and are tasked with attracting guests, feeding them their favorite foods, and then sending them to a prepared room. Different guests are worth more points, but players are also rewarded for filling up color blocks of rooms.
The engine of the game is a dice drafting one. A whole bunch of dice are rolled at the start of the round, and each die corresponds to a different action. Picking a ‘1’ lets you replenish your strudel supply, whereas a ‘5’ lets you recruit. But the number of dice on a spot determines the strength of the action – if there are 4 ‘1’s, then taking 1 will give you 4 strudels. Each player will end up choosing two dice in a whipsaw fashion – the first player will take the first and last pick, whereas the last player gets the benefit of two picks in a row.
If you like the idea of strudels as a game resource, this is the game for you.
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