About the Game
Balance your resources, manage your equipment, and adapt as your guest list shifts to become the ultimate host.
Each player is hosting a get-together with friends from different regions of the world. Your classy guests expect to be surprised with a liqueur from their home country. To produce these special drinks, you must gather ingredients and equipment to faithfully replicate each guest's national drink.
The guest list is somewhat "flexible," creating a challenge as you arrange the right ingredients and equipment to match the ever-changing roster.
How to Play
Goal: Complete 3 international liqueur recipes to end the game (4 in advanced variant). The player with the most points from completed recipes wins!
Turn Structure
Each turn consists of five phases:
- Draw: Use your 2 draw points to acquire Resource or Equipment cards
- Swap Guest: Exchange guests by discarding matching resources or equipment
- Install Equipment: Set up tools needed for crafting drinks
- Complete a Drink: Match whiskey, glassware, and ingredients to satisfy guests
- Hand Limit: Discard down to 8 cards if needed
Game Components
80 Guest Cards
International guests with unique liqueur preferences, ingredient requirements, and fascinating trivia about their home countries.
Resource Cards
Ingredients (consumed when crafting) and Equipment cards (reusable tools). Each card shows its rarity in the deck.
Interrupt Cards
Cards that create strategic disruption when drawn, keeping players on their toes.
Event Cards
Opportunities and effects that players can use at strategic moments.
Why You'll Love It
Strategic Depth: The game rewards flexible planning over rigid strategy. Interrupts are designed to disrupt careful planning, encouraging adaptation and opportunistic play.
Educational & Fun: Each guest card features trivia about their home country, often highlighting UNESCO World Heritage sites. Learn while you play!
Multiple Ways to Win: Complete recipes perfectly for maximum points, or use substitutes strategically. Gift whiskey to difficult guests for alternative scoring paths.
Advanced Rules Available: Once you've mastered the base game, add enhanced equipment management, the second-hand market system, or play with 4 guests for a longer, more complex experience.