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Café Race

#20781BGG ↗

2005 · 3-6 players · 15min · weight 1.25 · 159 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
20781
Name
Café Race
Year
2005
Rank
26189
Min players
3
Max players
6
Playing time
15
Min playtime
15
Max playtime
15
Avg weight
1.25
Num weights
24
Bayes avg
5.49793
Average
5.50975
Users rated
159
Num owned
266
Wanting
1
Wishing
20
Num comments
80
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:42:44 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (3)
Auction / BiddingDice RollingSimultaneous Action Selection
Categories (2)
Print & PlayRacing
Description (1121 chars)

Café Race is a race game set in a business office. The players take the role of office workers going upstairs to the first floor to get a cup of coffee who then improvise a race while they are going back downstairs… with a cup full of coffee. The player that makes it to the bottom of the stairs and spills the least amount of coffee wins. Game summary Each round, throw as many dice as there are players. The results are the speeds at which the players may move their pawns. The players bid for these speed dice in a blind auction. Once all the speed dice have been distributed, the pawns are moved. After any movement, a check is made to see if your worker has kept his balance; if this check fails the coffee is spilled and one marker is lost. Play continues until a player crosses the end line. The player with the most points is the winner The free print-and-play version can be downloaded from here (see the files section). The game has been professionally edited on 2006 by Homo Ludicus, a new Spanish publisher. It comes with a rule book in Spanish, Catalan, English, German and French rules.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.