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Base game
Grand Austria Hotel
Kritiku rating
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- Published
- 2015
- Reach
- Well known
- Players
- 2–4
- Play time
- 60–120 min
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- Economic
How it plays
Build the highest-scoring hotel by serving guests, filling rooms, hiring staff, and earning the emperor’s favor. On your turn, take a guest, then choose a dice action whose strength depends on how many dice show that number; gain food, prepare rooms, serve guests, or hire staff. After seven rounds, score occupied rooms, staff, emperor bonuses, and other objectives, minus penalties.
Main mechanics
- Worker placement
- Drafting
- Trading & negotiation
- Dice rolling
- Hand management
- Set collection
- Worker placement: You claim limited action spots before anyone else does.
- Drafting: You pick from a shared pool and pass the rest along.
- Trading & negotiation: Deals between players move the game forward.
- Dice rolling: Dice create swing and force you to adapt.
Full publisher description
In the thick of the Viennese modern age, exquisite caf s are competing for customers. Inspiring artists, important politicians, and tourists from all over the world are populating Vienna and in need of a hotel room. This is your opportunity to turn your little caf into a world famous hotel. Hire staff, fulfill the wishes of your guests, and gain the emperor's favor. Only then will your caf become the Grand Austria Hotel. The start player rolls the dice, sorting them by the rolled number and placing them on the corresponding action spaces. On a turn, a player chooses one of the six actions and carries it out. The number of the available dice in the corresponding action spaces determines how much the player gets from the action. They then remove one of the dice and can carry out additional actions. With the different actions, a player can get the necessary drinks and dishes, prepare the rooms, or hire staff. But no hotel can grow without guests. To choose wisely which guests to attract and to complete their orders brings some important bonus actions. The staff cards also have different advantages, but the game ends after seven rounds and no player can do everything they want, so whoever makes the right decisions and finds the best way to create bonus actions will win. With 116 different cards and a new set-up in each game, Grand Austria Hotel provides a huge replay value. Each game stands on its own and demands new tactics and strategies.
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