Coffee Roaster is a solitaire pool-building game. You choose a variety of coffee beans you want to roast, and put a number of tokens specific to that variety into a bag. Each turn, you draw a number of bean tokens randomly from the bag to advance their roast level. When you are finished, you make a cup-testing to check the taste of your coffee and score points accordingly. Each variety has its own target roast level, but approaching the target is not enough for perfect roasting; you also have to even out the roast level of each bean, while not spoiling the flavor of that variety.
You also have to screen out smoke tokens and burnt bean tokens that hinder your roasting, and reject bean tokens that spoil the taste. It is important to control the contents of your bag utilizing flavor effects and unique effects caused by placing tokens on the roast board.
There are 22 varieties of beans in the game. In one game, you try to roast three of them, and your roaster title is awarded based on the total score. Enjoy the world of coffee-roasting, and aim for the ultimate title "Meister".
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「COFFEE ROASTER」は1人用ゲームです。ターンごとに袋の中に入れた規定数の豆トークンの焙煎度を上昇させていき、最後のカップテストで味を確かめ得点を計算します。おいしい焙煎コーヒーにするためには、狙った焙煎度に近づけるだけでなく、豆の煎り具合を揃えたり、特徴を醸し出すフレーバーを残したりする必要があります。
妨げとなる煙チップや焦げ豆チップ、また味を損なう欠点豆チップの排除にも気をつけましょう。フレーバー効果や焙煎ボードへチップを配置することで得る特殊効果を駆使して、袋の中の状態をうまくコントロールすることが重要です。
登場する豆は22種類。そのうち3つの豆の焙煎に挑戦した合計値が焙煎職人としてのあなたのランクです。最高位マイスターの称号を勝ち取るべく、焙煎の世界を存分に楽しんでください。
- Coffee shop management
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
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References (from this video)
- Elegant puzzle with satisfying tension
- Accessible solo play with strong bite for a solo fan
- Tightly integrated bag-building and scoring decisions
- Solo play emphasis may overshadow group dynamics for some players
- Theme can feel niche to non-coffee players
- Coffee quality optimization and bag-based resource management.
- A coffee roasting house where the goal is to brew the perfect cup.
- Puzzle-esque bag-building with a cup-test final assessment.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bag-building — Tokens representing beans, moisture, and flavors are drawn and managed from a bag.
- Cup test and tray placement — After roasting, you test tokens to determine cup vs. tray placement and scoring.
- Roast progression — Tokens can be roasted and gain value, impacting scoring opportunities.
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- My number 70 game is a two-player game only about two villages competing over beer and bread.
- This is the only solo game I have on my list.
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- Interesting bag building mechanism
- Nuanced coffee brewing gameplay
- Strong memory aspect
- Has a digital app alternative
- Coffee production
- Coffee brewing
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bag building — Building a bag of components to brew perfect coffee
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- I want to make sure the games I own actually get played more often
- In each episode of the series, I'll show you four games for my to sell pile
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- slick, well-done streamlined design
- variety between games is not huge
- Bag-building with variable blends
- Coffee roasting and blending
- streamlined, fast
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bag-building — Drafting with coffee blends and adjustable difficulty.
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- this is just my opinion my list if your favorite game isn't on here it's more likely that I haven't played it
- it's a solid tense game
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- flavorful theme
- accessible to families
- some players may prefer heavier optimization
- operational optimization and production planning
- coffee shop/cafe business
- light, thematic
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- set-collection/worker placement — build a coffee shop menu with ingredients and actions to optimize roasting.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I am known for my channel Minimum Player Count mainly on YouTube but I first started on Instagram
- Welcome to the show
- we are not going to take it easy on you so maybe you should be a little bit nervous
- stop watching and go play a game
- you can also see some of my videos on board game spotlight
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- Charming, approachable theme
- Deep bag-building puzzle
- Tin storage can be fiddly
- Sleeving recommended
- Bag-building with flavor profiles
- Coffee roasting and brewing
- Charming and lighthearted
- Brew Cest?
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bag-building — Draw tokens from a bag to create blends and roasts
- token management — Blend, burn, or separate beans to influence scoring
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- I like co-ops sometimes it's nice to not have bad blood between players and work together
- everything just rewards you gently little rewards that remind you you're doing well
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- Encourages community engagement and participation
- Low barrier to entry for new viewers
- Consistent weekly content and interaction
- Limited information about the solution without video context
- Relies on audience guess accuracy for appeal
- Coffee production, solo puzzle solving
- Cafe/roastery ambience; solo puzzle framing around bean tokens
- Abstract, puzzle-driven
- Coffee Roaster
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- audience participation — Solving relies on comments and social engagement to reveal the correct game.
- Deduction based guessing — Viewers infer which title a component belongs to based on context clues provided in the host's description.
- Recurring weekly cadence — A new component and puzzle each week keeps audience coming back.
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- cool Bean token that is from the good solo game coffee roaster
- this is week 16
- I'll resolve this mystery next Monday
- there actually is a video on my Channel about a show of this game a bit