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Welcome to Chai: Craft the Perfect Tea Blend

Step into the aromatic world of Chai, a delightful board game where you become a skilled tea merchant! Specialize in crafting exquisite infusions of rooibos, green, oolong, black, or white tea, sourcing the finest ingredients to satisfy your discerning customers. This engaging engine-building game combines strategic resource management with a touch of economic gameplay.

Mastering the Art of Tea Blending

Each turn in Chai presents you with crucial decisions. Will you venture into the bustling tea market, explore the bountiful pantry, or reserve a customer and unleash a special ability? Carefully consider your options to optimize your tea empire!

Navigating the Tea Market

The tea market boasts a vibrant selection of flavor tiles: mint, jasmine, lemon, ginger, berries, and lavender. For a small sum of gold (acquired by visiting the market), strategically purchase these flavor tiles. Remember, your tea house can only hold 12! Adjacent tiles of the same type can be claimed together, leading to powerful combinations. Think several steps ahead as the market refills after each purchase!

Exploring the Pantry's Delights

Refine your tea orders with the pantry's offerings of milk, honey, vanilla, chai spices, and sugar. Select up to three visible pantry items or take a chance with a blind draw from the pantry bag. Manage your pantry wisely; exceeding six items requires discarding less-valued ingredients.

Securing Orders and Unleashing Abilities

Secure that coveted customer order by reserving it! Blindly draw a customer order from the deck, or select an order visible within the customer pool from the board. Once with a customer order, you can also use an ability.

Fulfilling Orders and Achieving Tea Mastery

At the end of your chosen action, strive to fulfill a customer order using the ingredients stocked in your tea house. Be mindful of your tea house specialization! If a customer's preferred color doesn't match your specialization, you may need to acquire a tea token from another player to complete the sale. Efficient order fulfillment is the key to accumulating money and victory points!

A Tea Merchant's Triumph

Chai unfolds over five rounds, testing your ability to optimize engine-build, manage resources, and satisfy customer demand. At the game's end, the tea merchant wealth and most completed customer orders will be crowned the ultimate tea master!