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Unsere beste Bohne

In 2012 the US publisher Dice Hate Me Games released a board game on the topic of creating coffee blends and research on blends, Viva Java Unsere Beste Bohne is the dice version of this game.

At the start players decide on the easier or more difficult version and place the research mat for use accordingly, Sanft or Würzig side up. Coffee dice show different colors for beans and also indicate degrees of roasting.

In your turn you first score coffee blends Beste Bohne or Bunte Mischung, if you hold one of the coasters for such a mix; if you have Beste Bohne you then must downgrade Beste Bohne and then decide if you keep it or relinquish it. Then you roll your own aroma dice plus either five coffee dice from stock or remaining dice from a relinquished Beste Bohne mix; other players can donate aroma dice. The result can be used to create a blend or for research; with a blend you need to surpass existing mixes and then take the respective coaster. If you want to research you sort coffee and aroma dice by color, decide on a color and mark the research advance in that color on your laboratory sheet. If you reach markings 1x/2x, you can use the ability of this bean color from now on accordingly; some abilities also give you a marker for use. Abilities relate to dice results, give you dice or research advances or victory points.

With all those details the simple rolling of dice for combinations has been enormously upgraded; despite being chance-driven all the same, you have quite a few options for decision taking and the the game offers good play for players of all levels of experience, provided that you like dice games.

Players: 1-4

Age: 10+

Time: 40+

Designer: T.C. Petty III

Artist: Chris Kirkmann, Jarek Nocon

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2015

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Use dice combinations

Users: With friends

Special: 1 player

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very classy components

Interesting topic

Rules could be a bit clearer formulated

Compares to:

Games about dice combinations, VivaJava for topic

Other editions:

Dice Hate Me Games (en)

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0