OBJECTIVE 2-4 PLAYERS • 30 MINUTES

Everyone knows that capybaras love a nice cup of coffee, a delicious snack, and
a comfortable place to enjoy them! Build the coziest café to make your capybara
customers happy and score the most points!
CONTENTS
83 CAFÉ 12 SPECIAL GUEST 4 COUNTER
CARDS CARDS CARDS

COIN TOKENS
Make change as needed.

× 25 ×8
SETUP
1 Shuffle the Café cards into a face- 4 Each player takes seven Coins,
down deck in the center of the play draws four Café cards from the
area; reveal four into a face-up deck to form their hand (keep your
display beside the deck. Leave room hand secret), and chooses a Counter
for a discard pile beside the deck. card to place on the table in front of
themself, beginning their café.
2 Shuffle the Special Guest cards and
deal one per player plus one more 5 Choose a start player; we recommend
face up near the display; return the the player that can balance an orange
rest to the box. on their snout the longest, but any
method will do. The game begins
3 Make a supply of Coins. with the starting player’s turn!

PLAY AREA
Special Guests (one per player +1)
2

3 Coin supply

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Discard Deck Display of four Café cards

EACH PLAYER 4

7 Coins Hand of four

Counter card Café cards

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ON YOUR TURN
Choose one card from your hand, and either Add it to your café, or Serve its
customer. Then Refill your hand from the display, and play passes to the next
player clockwise.

UNDERSTANDING THE CAFÉ CARDS

Each card is two things at once: The top part is something you can add to your
café to make customers happier. The chalkboard on the bottom part represents
a customer visiting your café. You will use each card as one thing or the other,
never both. Which one is up to you!

The top of a card is something you can Add to your café.

FOOD DECOR
TYPE TYPE

CARD SPECIAL
COST CATEGORY

SCORE ?
ACTION SCORING
TEXT RULES

FOODS THE DECOR THE “MULTIPLE COFFEE”

CUSTOMER WANTS CUSTOMER PREFERS INDICATOR
The bottom of a card is a customer that you can Serve.

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ADDING
Pay the card’s cost (by spending Coins into the supply), and add it to your café,
forming a horizontal row.

For example, you Add this Cookie card

from your hand. You spend its cost of
three coins, and add the Cookie to your
café. Now you can satisfy a customer
that wants a Sweet!

If the card has any action text, follow its instructions (any action that bestows an
ongoing effect is indicated by a symbol).

For example, these cards feature

action text. If you added either
of them to your café, you would
follow the instructions.

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The banner on the top left indicates what kind of addition the card is.
FOOD
? The banner shows something to eat or drink that your café provides.

COFFEE TEA DRINK SNACK SOUP SWEET

DECOR
? The banner shows a type of decor
that your café features. Your café
can include multiple different types.
You need decor to gain regulars (see
Gaining Regulars on page 7). RUSTIC RETRO MODERN

EQUIPMENT
These cards don’t provide food or decor, but they offer a
variety of special actions and/or scoring opportunities.

As the game goes on, you’ll continue adding cards to your row. Develop your café so
that it features a winning blend of food, decor, and equipment!

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SERVING
The customer chalkboard displays the type of foods the customer wants, and
(usually) their preferred decor. Gain 1 (from the supply) for each desired food
that your café provides (notice that your café begins the game providing the Tea
and Coffee found on your Counter card).

• Customers don’t want specific foods from their desired types. For example,
a customer that wants a Snack will be happy with any Snack-type food.
• If a customer wants two of the same food, you can’t satisfy both with just
one matching symbol.
• Some customers want multiple Coffees. Your café must
provide that many Coffees in order to fulfill that desire, but it
×3
still only counts as a single food served, earning 1 .
• You may serve a customer that would earn you zero Coins (because you can’t
provide anything they want); in some rare situations this might actually be
your only option on your turn.
• Decor symbols do not earn Coins even if you match them; foods only.

For example, this customer wants any

two Coffees, any Drink, and any Snack.
You have two Coffees and a Snack in your
café (but no Drink), so you earn 2 .

When you serve a customer, discard the card into the shared discard pile.... unless
it has become a regular (see next page).

SPECIAL GUESTS
At any point on your turn if your
café meets the desires of any of
the remaining Special Guests,
claim that card and keep it in your
playing area. This is a free action in
addition to all the normal activities
on your turn. Each Special Guest
provides a nice scoring bonus.
For example, the first one with two Snacks
in their café can claim the Big Eater!
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GAINING REGULARS
If you serve a customer every food it wants and your café has at least one instance
of the customer’s preferred decor, tuck it under your Counter card with just the
chalkboard showing; this customer has become a regular and will score you 4
at the end of the game.

• Customers without a preferred decor can never become regulars.

For example, this customer wants any

Tea, any Drink, any Snack, and prefers
Rustic decor. Your café provides all three
foods (earning you 3 ), and you have
some Rustic decor. The customer becomes
a regular, so you tuck it under your
Counter card!

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REFILLING
Refill your hand to four cards by taking cards of your choice from the display.
Then fill each gap in the display with a new card drawn from the deck; your turn
is now over. If the deck ever runs out, shuffle the discard pile to form a new deck.

GAME END
If during your turn you gained your third Regular (fourth in a two player game)
and/or you claimed the last Special Guest, the game end is triggered. Each other
player gets one more full turn, and then the game ends.
Tally your scores for the following items (a pen and paper will be helpful):

1 for every two Coins you

have, rounding down.
Each Café card displays a
? score value. While many have
a fixed value, some of them
describe conditions that will
affect their score value.

4 for each regular you

have tucked under
your Counter card.

6 for each Special Guest that you claimed.

The player with the highest score has the happiest capybara customers, and wins!
If it’s a tie, share the win!

CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

GAME DESIGN GRAPHICS & RULEBOOK
ROBERTA TAYLOR JOSH CAPPEL
ILLUSTRATION COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR
CINDY MONROY SEAN JACQUEMAIN
GRAPHIC DESIGN PROJECT MANAGEMENT
CHIP COLE HELAINA CAPPEL
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