Hello everyone!
Today we're going to talk about Monster Café!
Monster experts, for 2 to 5 players and ages 8 and up, for 15 minutes, use their powers to win coffee tokens!
The Monster Café has opened its doors in a secluded, secret location! This unique establishment, forbidden to humans, is said to serve the best coffees in the forest, such as the
Grungy Divinato, the Rexpresso, the Vanilla Apocalypso, and the Bliblopino! A game of Monster Café is played over 2 rounds.
Players send Monsters to the center of the table in the Monster Café so they can collect Coffee tokens. The player with the most Coffee tokens at the end of the 2 rounds wins.
Players take turns, starting with the first player. During their turn, a player must perform the following actions:
1 - They choose a Monster card from a Front Row that has more than 3 Monster cards.
From their own or another player's.
2 - They move this Monster card to the center of the table.
3 - They activate the power of this Monster card.
Then it's the turn of the player to their left. A player can never have fewer than 3 Monster cards in their Front Row and fewer than 3 Monster cards in their Back Row. Some Monster families don't trigger powers. Some monsters use tokens.
Sometimes (rarely), you might run out... and that's normal: they aren't unlimited. So be careful, if a power (and its corresponding token) interests you, don't let your chance slip away. There might very well be two different tokens on a Monster in a Front Row... You might be forced to play a Monster (end of a round, for example) and its power might not be usable. This is exceptional, but it happens, and it's a clever move by your opponent. In such a case, don't use the power!
A round ends as soon as each player has only 3 Monster cards left in their Front Row. It's time to distribute the Coffee tokens. Each player reveals the Monster cards in their Back Row (keeping them separate from their other cards... way at the back).
Some powers reveal Monster cards from players' Back Rows during the round. For each Monster Family in the center of the table, check which player has the most Monster cards of that Family in their hand (Front Row + Back Row).
Be careful, Monster cards in the Back Rows count double! That player earns as many Coffee tokens as there are Monster cards of that Family in the center of the table. In case of a tie, no one earns a Coffee token for that Monster Family. Once all the Coffee tokens have been distributed, a new round begins.
The game ends at the end of the second round. The player with the most Coffee tokens wins! In case of a tie, the player who earned the most Coffee tokens in the last round wins (excluding Cookie and Mummy tokens).
And if the tie persists, the players share the victory...
Good day and good game ;)
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