Food & Drink: Tea

As the proud owner of one of the tea gardens in the the Chinese Yunnan region, your mission in Tea Garden is to cultivate and expand your empire by establishing new tea gardens along the serene river valley. Tea leaves are your most prized asset, with six grades of tea quality and each region producing a different quality of tea. Transform your fresh, vibrant green tea leaves through fermentation, elevating them to rich, aromatic brown leaves that grow in quality — and value! — as they mature.

Harness the power of your deck of cards to orchestrate up to four main actions each game round. The strength of these cards is important for performing the chosen action; the higher the strength, the better the effects you will achieve. With your cards, you will build new tea gardens, acquire new cards, trade your tea with eager caravans, ferment your tea leaves, and harvest more tea. Couple your main actions with the power of secondary actions to navigate the river, produce tea cups, or practice tea studies at the university.

A cup of coffee sure is relaxing — for the customer. For the coffee shop, however, orders tend to pile up during peak hours, and it is no different today at Coffee Rush. Your goal: Complete customer orders to increase your ratings and be recognized as the best barista!

In more detail, each player moves on the ingredient board to collect the ingredients that they need to fulfill orders — and fulfilling orders boosts your rating. Orders that are not fulfilled in time become penalties, which subtract from your rating. If a player has fulfilled three orders, they may activate an upgrade that lets them acquire ingredients more easily.

The game ends once all order cards have run out or after a barista collects their fifth penalty card. The player with the highest rating wins!

—description from the publisher

Sabobatage is a strategic tabletop game inspired by boba, also known as bubble tea or pearl milk tea. Have you or a friend ever said, ‘I wish I had a boba shop and could drink boba all day?’ Make those dreams come true with this card game that’s fun with your friends and perfect for the whole family.

Every player starts with 5 cards in their hand.
Choose a player to start (ex. last person to drink boba)
Each player has a draw and action phase.
Draw phase:
Draw 2 cards on your turn
Action phase:
Play up to 3 cards per turn
Special Draw Phase:
If at the start of your turn you have 2 or more completed drink sets, draw 3 cards on your turn.
Note:
There is no swapping ingredients to your other drink sets. Play ingredient cards in any order.
Only 7 active drink sets can be in progress on your table.
No more than 7 cards in your hand at the end of your turn.
If you have more than 7 you must discard cards until you have 7.

2-4 Players (complete 5 drink sets to win)
5 players (complete 4 drink sets to win)

Unique features to the deluxe include:

30 metal coins
GameTrayz™ deluxe insert
Metal 1st player token
2 dice for AI solo variant
10 deluxe exclusive cards
5 deluxe superfan-inspired cards
5 deluxe wild pantry tokens
Spot UV box text
Upgraded deluxe dice (16 mm)
5 wild tea ingredient tiles
Linen box finish
3 unique customer tips
3 NEW ability cards

Elevenses is a card game in which respectable 1920s socialites strive to serve the finest morning teas!

Each player starts the round with an identical set of eleven morning tea cards. Each card has a point value as well a special action which must be carried out when it is played. The lower the point value of a card, the better its power. The powers lead to surprising interactions between the players! Cards must also be played to a specific position on the table. Whenever a card is played, in most cases you pick up the card that was previously in its position, requiring you to plan your morning tea carefully!

The round ends when a player plays the "Elevenses" card. It's time for tea! The players compare the value of their cards. Points are awarded to the highest scoring morning teas. The game continues until a player has 7 or more points. She has served the finest morning teas of all and wins the game!

The six-card expansion Elevenses: The Special Guests is included in the game. With this expansion, each player is dealt one special guest card in secret at the start of each round. Each guest will come to your morning tea only if you serve certain things. If you play the right combination of morning tea cards, the guest arrives, you reveal the card, and your morning tea goes up in value!

Game #2 in 'The Mike Line' of games from Grail Games.