Chai

About the game

What is Chai?

In Chai, you will step into the shoes of a tea merchant, combining tea flavours to make a perfect blend. Specializing in either rooibos, green, oolong, black or white tea, you will buy and collect ingredients to fulfill your customers’ orders. As a tea merchant, each turn you will do one of the following: Visit the Market, Select Additives, Reserve a Customer. At the end of each turn, a player may complete a tea order from one customer card in their hand or visible in the customer pool. A base tea token, tea flavours and additives shown on the card are needed ingredients, and placed in an empty tea cup. The player flips over a tip and receives a coin bonus, moving the thermometer round tracker up one notch if all cups are filled. The game ends when five rounds of cups have been fulfilled. When the final order is completed, other players complete their last turn so that each player has played the same number of turns. The player with the most victory points (from customer orders, money, and awards) wins the game as best tea merchant! —description from the publisher

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Questions to bring to BoardGameBrain

• How do setup and the first turn work in Chai?
• When does scoring happen and what ends the game?
• How should the table resolve an unusual timing or rules interaction?