# Café

Café is a board game for 1–4 players. It plays in 20–45 minutes and is meant for ages 8 and up. Ludoya players call it best with 2. It is rated 7 out of 10 by 51 Ludoya reviewers. The cheapest copy in stock is $33.99 (United States).

- **Players:** 1–4 (best with 2)
- **Playing time:** 20–45 minutes
- **Minimum age:** 8+
- **Complexity:** 2.1 out of 5
- **Year published:** 2020
- **Categories:** Card Game, Industry / Manufacturing, Economic, Farming
- **Mechanics:** Solo / Solitaire Game, Open Drafting, Action Points, Tile Placement, Grid Coverage, Contracts, Highest-Lowest Scoring, Layering, Melding and Splaying, Pattern Building, Square Grid
- **Ludoya rating:** 7 out of 10, from 51 reviews
- **Owned by:** 123 Ludoya players
- **Plays logged on Ludoya:** 554
- **Unique players:** 373

**Designers:** Costa, Rôla

**Artists:** Marina Costa

**Publishers:** PYTHAGORAS

## Where to buy in United States

| Shop | Price | Link |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gamers Guild AZ | 33.99 $ | https://gamersguildaz.com/products/cafe-expresso |
| Mathom | 19.8 € | https://mathom.es/es/otros-juegos-de-tablero/45692-cafe-8436578813476.html |
| Va de jocs | 10 € | https://vadejocs.es/producto/cafe |
| Zacatrus | 19.79 € | https://zacatrus.es/cafe.html |
| Mono de Juegos | 19.95 € | https://www.monodejuegos.shop/juego-de-mesa/cafe/ |
| Magia de Tinta | 19.95 € | https://www.magiadetinta.com/es/juegos/8042-cafe-nueva-edicion.html |
| Spelexperten | 235 kr | https://www.spelexperten.com/sallskapsspel/kortspel/cafe.html |
| Milan Spiele | 23.4 € | https://www.milan-spiele.de/caf-deutsch-p-29041.html |
| Nexus | 6495 kr | https://nexus.is/vara/cafe-2/ |

## Expansions

- [Café: EXPRESSO](https://www.ludoya.com/games/cafe-expresso)
- [Café: Lisboa Promo Card](https://www.ludoya.com/games/cafe-leao-de-ouro-promo-card)
- [Café: Lviv promo card](https://www.ludoya.com/games/cafe-lviv-promo-card)
- [Café: Lviv and Lisboa Promo Cards](https://www.ludoya.com/games/cafe-lviv-and-lisboa-promo-cards)

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## Rules questions

### Do Plan cards have to be placed on consecutive spaces, and can they overlap other cards?

Plan cards are placed sequentially covering 2–4 squares in your tableau and must follow the placement rules shown in the examples; you do not overlap existing cards when placing them (see p.5).

### Can I buy a Plan card I can’t currently afford or ‘bank’ discounts for a later purchase?

You may only buy Plan cards if you can pay their cost after applying any discounts; you cannot reserve or buy cards you cannot afford (see p.4).

### When I take a Produce action, do I also produce cubes on adjacent/connected spaces (the cluster)?

Producing places cubes on the chosen production space and also affects connected production spaces as a cluster—cluster production rules and examples explain how multiple cubes are produced together (see p.6).

### If I dry or roast one cube, does that affect nearby cubes in the cluster too?

Drying and roasting can apply to clusters: the rules and examples show how drying/roasting actions convert cubes in connected clusters according to the cluster rules (see p.7–p.8).

### What’s the difference between delivering roasted cubes to a coffee shop versus to the warehouse?

Delivering to a coffee shop places roasted cubes for immediate scoring on that shop’s scale, while sending cubes to the warehouse stores them for end‑game scoring under different warehouse scoring rules (see p.8–p.11).

### When does the game end and how is final scoring, especially for the warehouse, calculated?

The game ends after the final round, then you perform final scoring: score coffee shops immediately and then score the warehouse using the warehouse score scales and examples provided (see p.10–p.11).

## Links

- [This page](https://www.ludoya.com/games/cafe)
- [Café in the Ludoya app](https://app.ludoya.com/g/cafe)
- [BoardGameGeek entry](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/284936)

_Data from Ludoya, updated 2026-09-24. Ratings, ownership and play counts are Ludoya's own._