Coffee Roaster Live Playthrough

all right hello everyone my name is Paul I'm with the dicy review and we are going to be doing a live playthrough of coffee roaster tonight so coffee roaster is a solo only game from from stronghold games and dlp published by stronghold in the US I've obviously got my coffee mug ready to go tonight even though it's like almost 10 o'clock where I am I am drinking coffee so lord help me I'm going to be up late but we are playing coffee roaster and we're going to be playing the South Paulo Brazil scenario if you will so this is basically the intro scenario one of the interesting areas you can play a lot of different scenarios here and this scenario sheet is going to tell us what type of ingredients make up our bags so we have different types of coffee beans in our bag that we are going to try and roast to create an ideal blend for scoring at the end of the game we're also going to have some moisture in our bag that will just evaporate as we roast things and then we're gonna have flavor tokens that we can do cool stuff with so I'm gonna kind of try and play through the game and then talk as I'm playing to give you an idea of kind of what the what the game looks like but basically each round you're gonna draw out the number of chips equal to the number here on your round marker and we started off on eight based on how much moisture was in this scenario we have three so that means we start right here and then you're gonna draw up that many chips every round and then you're gonna decide what you want to do with those chips and early in the early rounds you're gonna draw out a lot of beans that will kind of slowly increase in their roast level but you can also draw flavor tokens that you can use to activate immediate powers or do in-game things that will help you in scoring so we'll kind of go through that as we're playing so what we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and start off on this on this first round and draw eight chips and see what we get all right so I've got five six get back in there six seven eight I think right four and four yeah okay so this is what happens whenever you draw out chips from the bag the first thing that happens is any moisture tokens just go away so these moisture tokens clog up your bag they're not good but they just burn off so we'll go ahead and put those back in the box in this handy divider that is fantastic and then we have some different level zero beans that will increase in value so we also drew a couple of flavor tokens that we could use to activate abilities if we want to but there's some there's some restrictions around that that make it kind of tough so we also want to be careful with our flavor tokens because they're one-and-done if you use them they're gone for the game and basically you know you you want to make sure that you have some left for the end of the game because every scenario sheet also has ideal flavors that you want to be in the in the cup in the final scoring cup here so we need to try and get to blue and a green in the cup at the end of the game if we can so basically we're gonna try and make those decisions each round as we pull things out and and I say round the the game has two phases so you will have the roasting phase which is what we're doing now you're gonna roast and roast and roast every round until you eventually do this this Cup phase where you will score your cup the testing cup testing phase so basically you build your bag and build your bag and make it as good as you can and then once you're done with that you go to Phase two which is essentially scoring and how that works so we're still in phase one and we're just taking turns so basically I don't really want to do anything with these tokens just yet what I will do though is I can I will start to work towards getting this wild flavor token which can be helpful so to do that you have to put a level zero and a level one bean and we don't have any level one beans right now but we will shortly so I'm gonna go ahead and put in the first requirement that you can work on that as you know over round over multiple rounds and then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and say I don't want to use these because I can't really do anything cool with them just yet that I would like to do so I will go ahead and roast these beans and then put he's back in the bag so these will all become level one beans so we'll go ahead and trade in these three zeros for three ones and we will indicate that we now have a roasting level of three because we have three level ones in our bag and these go back in our bag and that's the first roasting round here now we're going to be in round two and since we have a nine here because our temperature is increasing we're gonna draw nine chips from the bag and see what we get kind of rinse and repeat alright so we drew a not great bean that will not do anything for us and then we drew from some flavor stuff okay cool so let's see here oh that's eight that's not nine nine okay so now we have some different stuff that we can work with we have a level one bean which if I don't do anything with this being it would turn into a level tubing at the end of this round and that would be helpful but I think what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and do what I need go ahead and get what I need to complete this wild token so we now have a wild flavor token which will help us at the end of the round because we're trying to get an ideal score of 14 in our beam value here and then we're trying to get some some specific flavor tokens and we'll go over kind of how that works but basically we are also needing to think about kind of abilities that we want to lock in for the end of the game basically during the rounds with the chips that you draw out you can start to work on unlocking these special tiles that will help you at the end of the game whenever you're scoring your Cup and the ones that I really like are these two right here so I could technically use one of my green tokens if I wanted to and start to work on unlocking these two chips because basically whenever you put your whenever you put your tokens over here they do an immediate one-time thing so like this this spot right here shows any color flavor token so I could put a green right there and do an immediate action or you can put your flavor tokens over here which will allow them to do a specific action that the token indicate and then it will also pay towards unlocking an in-game special ability so these green tokens when you put them down they are acidity and they let you save two tokens before roasting them which wouldn't be amazing because I would actually keep these level zero beans but that would get me towards unlocking a special cool ability that I could use at the end of the game I could also start to work on this ability which I like quite a bit it it basically increases the number of chip the flexibility you have at the end of the game when putting chips in your in your coffee cup here so I think I will go ahead and start to work on one of these things so I'm gonna be placing this ability chip right here which basically means that I'm going to activate the green chip and then it's going to pay towards activating in-game ability so the green chip whenever you place it down you take two beans and you put them back in the bag before roasting saving them from being roasted and the reason that you would want to do that is once you get up to level four if you roast to a fifth level the bean just gets burnt so sometimes you want to save a little for from being overcooked basically so I did that and when you place these chips you have to take the ability so I put this chip right here you know keeping keeping two of those those chips those beans so I had to do the ability but now more importantly I'm halfway paid for having a cool special ability at the end of the game that being said I've gotten my wild token I have kept two beans out here that I think will I'll keep around and just let them roast and I think that's about all I want to do so these will turn into level one beans so my roast increases by two I now have five levels of being in my bag and then all these go back in this is just a bad defective bean that will give me negative points at the end of the game if I let it score so I'm gonna keep on roasting I need to have a better bag before I try and score my cup so I go into round ten round ten is special you get smoked in your bag because you're increasing temperature and smoke tokens show up and those are bad you don't want smoke tokens they are just negative points and they gum up your bag and also in round 10 in these really nice red highlighted rounds your beans roast double so instead of going from 0 to 1 all my beans would go 0 to 2 so you have to be careful you have to keep in mind during this round that your beans will will roast more than they normally do temperatures are getting hot ok so I'm gonna draw 10 chips from my bag so I've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and I've drawn not amazing things but I could do some stuff here ok so I've drawn some level zeros that will turn into level 2's which is actually pretty good and then I've drawn some chips that I could use so these are nothing these are deadweight I don't really want to do anything with them yet I'm gonna try and get rid of them later in the game and I'll show you how I can do that the other thing is that I have drawn a some red tokens that I could use to unlock my in-game ability which I think I'll probably do so what I'm gonna do is I am going to put this chip down before I do I want to make sure that I don't need to unlock any of my immediate abilities which I don't think I do but the way the the way the abilities go in this game the way they resolve is you have to do immediate abilities first and then you do the flavor effect Cup effect abilities right here so if I put something right here I've locked myself out of doing any more immediate abilities this round so I want to make sure I'm sure which I think I'm sure but I'll go ahead and do this so I will place this right here and the red token whenever you place it down you take two beans and combine them into one before roasting so basically what I'm gonna do is it's gonna make your beam your bag more efficient so you have to have at least a level one roast to do that so or two level one beans so I'm gonna turn these two level one beans into a level 2 bean which meets the requirement for playing that token and now since I've played both of the required tokens for this little cup ability now have that ability which is amazing because that will help me at the end of the game I think I'm also gonna try and get this ability before everything's said and done because this one allows you to have more flexibility when you're placing the tokens at the end of the game but for now I think that's good and then I don't really want to use any of these other abilities on these things right here I could technically use a green if I wanted to I guess but I don't think I do because I want to let these beans roast because they're gonna double roast they're gonna get to level 2 which will be really nice so I think I'm good I'm gonna go ahead and let these double roast because it's a red round so these will all turn into 2 which has increased my roast value by 6 which means my bag is getting better so I'm now to 11 and then all of these will go back into my bag and we'll move on to the next round because I don't want to stop just yet I don't think I have what I need to get to 14 and I don't have the tools I need to effectively manage my bag I don't think so now I met this next round where I will be drawing 11 chips from the bag so I'm gonna mix these up really low alright and place these out so I have got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 whoo I draw I drew a bad being here 8 9 10 11 cool all right so I've got some stuff to do I've got some level 2 beans that will turn into level 3 beans if I want to do that then I've also got some abilities that I could activate if I wanted to so let's see here I like the idea of having lots of two's because that might get me to afford well actually I probably won't let those turn into threes and I want to see if I can get this ability unlocked before tea into the game so what I'll do I'll let this turn into a level 0 so I'm gonna let this bean roast yeah this is a tough call because I don't really need red tokens at the end of the game because that's not the flavor that my cup is looking for so I want to try and hold on to blues for sure I can and I do have a wild token at the end of the game which will go over scoring and you'll see kinda how that works but I kind of want to let these tokens all turn into something good but I don't really want to use my green well okay I couldn't do this I could turn my I could turn my - yeah why don't I do that okay so I'm gonna do this I am going to use this red token for its ability turning these these two tokens into a level three which will be good so I'm gonna go ahead and put these back in the back in the containers and make this a three so I've used this ability and then I think I am going to use this green token as well to make sure that I have kind of what I need so I have now unlocked this ability but but to do this I have to do two screens ability so which two do I want to save and not let roast I want to let these two roasts because they can get me a better value so I think I'm gonna do this I'm gonna put these back in the bag even though I kind of want them to become level ones and I'm going to let all of these beans roast so this one will become a three this one will become a two this one will become a one and this one will just become a 0 ok so total I've increased my value by 1 2 3 so I'm right at 14 so I probably need to go one more round to get enough beamed value in my bag to even really have much of a chance so but it's gonna be risky because I'm gonna double roast this round and then I'm gonna have some smoke coming in my bag so we'll see what happens but these bulb and roast did they go back into my bag and then now I'm gonna go one more round at least maybe more so now I get three of these in here and I am going to put that smoke into my bag and I'm going to draw 12 out and I have to be careful this round because I'm going to double I'm going to go ahead and increase my value by two on each of these okay so alright I think this mag actually be good so what I'm gonna do let's see I've got six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve okay so I drew some pretty bad stuff which might seem like it's bad but there's an immediate ability that's really good that I think I can use here and it'll actually help me out so I'm gonna have to use a blue token which is not good but I have a wild token so I may I may be I may be okay so basically what I'm gonna do is I have an immediate ability and you have to use immediate abilities first I have an immediate ability down down here that says I can put any color flavor token here to discard any number of smoke tokens or defective bean tokens stuff like that burnt beans stuff like that so basically I think I'm gonna go ahead and do that which will clear out all of these from my bag these are both going to turn into level four I'm gonna get quite a bit of value these uncooked these like below level zero beans don't turn in don't raise two levels they just go to a level zero but all of these will increase in value by two so I think I'm really set up to go ahead and score my cup and we'll see how that looks so I did my immediate ability I'm getting rid of all of these actually I'm about to put them in that bag I get rid of all of those which means I almost have no smoke left in my bag and then all of these turn into increase in value by two which means I'm going to get ten more value in my bag so I'm all the way up to twenty four so I think I'm good to go now so these will turn into fours this will turn into a three these will both turn into twos this will turn into a zero which is good because if these get put into the cup at the end of the game that is negative point so that avoids me getting some negative points and then I get to keep my while token so I think my bag is set up pretty well so I'm gonna go ahead and try and move on to my cut phase so basically the way this works is you keep on taking rounds roasting rounds until you want to basically stop and score your cup and so that's going to happen now and the way that you do that is you will draw out tokens from your bag and place them one at a time in your cup until it's full and then you have to score your cup based on the the coffee that's in there based on any kind of flavor tokens that are in there because any type of bean that's in your bag can go into your cup flavor tokens can be good bean value can be good obviously because we want to get anywhere between 11 to 18 value of beans and our cup and then you can also score points by having the same numbers in your cup so like if you have a bunch of threes or a bunch of twos you can get bonuses for that so I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna go ahead and place start placing these these tokens one at a time now the cool thing is there is this little tray where you can place chips that you don't want to put in your cup you start off being able to only put in three and then you can expand it a little bit if you do this little if you have the special ability that you've unlocked during the game where you can discard up to five chips where they don't have to go into your bag and then this special chip that I unlocked as well lets me draw out two chips and decide which one I want to put for both of these so I have some flexibility with how I'm gonna be putting stuff into my bag but basically you have to draw out one at a time and decide if you want to resolve or not okay so I drew out a fork this is pretty good that's a pretty good start I'm okay with that so that means that I have four value in my cup I drew a level zero which is okay so this doesn't score me negative points if I put it in my cup but I don't necessarily know if this is ideal if I put a lot of beans in my cup that are like high value I think I'm gonna leave it in my cup that's a tough call because if you if you if you don't put enough value in your in your cup you don't score so like I want to get to 14 ideally to get 10 points that's the most points I can get in this scenario from the value of beans in my cup this is awesome so I drew out a wild flavor token which also gonna go towards meeting the requirements for the ideal flavor of my cup so I want to get two blue and one green if possible and this could be blue or green so that's great and now I'm on my second row and the second row since I have this special ability I can draw out two beans or two chips and decide which one I want to put down so I think I want to put down my my two that gives me six value in my cup I put the other one back in my bag and then I get to do that one more time since I have that special ability on that row so now I drew out these two I think I want to do that again so I'm at eight so I haven't really drawn out anything bad just yet which is awesome this is going well let's see here oh okay so I drew out a level zero I think I'm gonna go ahead and put this one in my tray here I don't I'm at eight I want to get to 14 so I need some more value in my in my cup I also drew out this accidentally I do not want this in my cup because this is one negative point so I'm also gonna discard this so I'm getting close to not being able to do that anymore which stinks because if I can't put things over here in this tray I have to put them in my cup all right so I've drawn it too that's fantastic so we are at ten oh man I probably should have put those zeros in my cup let's see here what I get okay we're at 13 or do I want to do that okay we're at 13 we still have a decent amount of zeros in our cup and we have to put down three more chips so we have some flexibility here this is really bad we don't want to put that that is two negative points if we put that in our cup so that's bad news do not want that in there oh this is great okay so this adds no value so I am still at 13 and this goes towards getting the ideal flavor for my my coffee which we want so I'm hoping actually I'm hoping for ones or zeros at this point this is a four I do not want that that is gonna make my coffee way too strong so let's hope for good draws from this point out okay so this would put me at 16 which would get me six points which is not bad I feel so bad putting a three in my man okay where did I draw this time ah I ended up drawing one anyway okay so this next chip we're really hoping for a zero really open for a zero and we actually drew even better than a zero okay so we are done drawing our our chips now so now we have to score our pot so the way this works we've got our little let's see here I've got our little helpful reminder sorry I'm gonna have to get a pin okay so we have to score our our Cup now based on kind of three different to know three different categories so we have to score the value of all the beans in our cup so we have 16 beans let me double check that 10 yeah 16 which puts us with this scenario at 6 points for that which is not which is not terrible we could have gotten better but I'll take 6 okay so we scored 6 for our beans here now we see if we matched all of the flavors that we needed to match in our cup which we did which is awesome because we have a wild flavor which we can use as green and then we also wanted to get to blue which we have so if you get one flavor you get one point if you match two flavors you get 3 points if you match 3 you get 6 points so we actually got 6 points for that which is fantastic and then now we will get a bonus if we have multiples of the same value of being in our Cup which we do trigger one point for having three we do trigger I get one point for having three of the same value for these two right here so now we would get one more point for that which would get us a total of 13 points because we have no negative points so you also get negative points if you have bad things in your cup so like if we if we had to put this in here this would have given us negative 2 points anything with an X on it basically if we had to put this completely unroasted bean in there that would have been really bad and we would have gotten a negative point for that but we didn't have any of those so we ended up getting 13 points which isn't that they say I think 9 or less means you need to stay at the beginner level so 13 points is not is not too terrible so there's a couple different ways you could play this game you can play one-off scenarios like we just did we're done we played a complete scenario we've built our bag and then scored our cup and then there's also mode where you can play three games in a row and see kind of what score you can get to we're not going to do that just because we we took a little bit of time at the start explaining how the game works so but hopefully this was fun to watch I'm gonna be doing these more often kind of solo playthroughs or things like this that can be that can be streamed live on the channel so hopefully this was enjoyable if you guys like this stuff let me know and I will do more but thanks for watching so much until next time we'll see you at the table

Channel: The Dicey Review

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Length: 25min 0sec (1500 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 09 2020