Café International
A café seating puzzle where matching the right guests to the right tables pays off big.
Who it's for
Families and puzzle lovers who enjoy a calm but genuinely tricky spatial abstract game.
Not for you if…
You want theme-heavy immersion or direct conflict, since this is a quiet, tactical seating puzzle.
Vibe's take
clever, calm, tactical, spatial, satisfying
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About this game
Café International seats a whole world's worth of guests around your café tables, and getting them in the right seats is the whole game, a Spiel des Jahres winner for good reason. Every guest tile belongs to one of twelve nationalities, and each table only welcomes its own, though a few shared chairs let two cultures mingle at the same table. You are racing to keep genders balanced while filling tables efficiently, because a table that fills up entirely with one nationality pays out double. Simple rules, a surprisingly sharp spatial puzzle, and one of those quietly beloved German classics that never really goes out of style.
Get it
from $35
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Players
Duration
45–60 min
Ages 8+
Complexity
1.6 / 5 — LightBGG Rating
5.9/10
Rank #3,995
3.0k ratings
Published
1989
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