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Release Date

2015

Game Designer
Virginio Gigli
Theme

Economy

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Grand Austria Hotel

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dicerooling
Dice Rolling
hand management
Hand Management
Contracts
Contracts
actionselection
Action Selection
Resource Management
Resource Management

Game DNA

Complexity

SimpleDense
CasualIntense
StraightforwardComplex

Experience

PassiveInteractive
MinimalOpen-Ended
LuckSkill
FrequentlyRarely
SolitaryEngaging
DryImmersive

Value for Money

BasicPremium
RarelyVariable

Serve guests and prepare rooms to be the best hotelier in the Viennese modern age.

Playing Time

60 - 120 Minutes

Player Count

2 - 4 Players

In the thick of the Viennese modern age, exquisite cafés are competing for customers. Inspiring artists, important politicians, and tourists from all over the world are populating Vienna and in need of a hotel room. This is your opportunity to turn your little café into a world famous hotel. Hire staff, fulfill the wishes of your guests, and gain the emperor's favor. Only then will your café become the Grand Austria Hotel. The start player rolls the dice, sorting them by the rolled number and placing them on the corresponding action spaces. On a turn, a player chooses one of the six actions and carries it out. The number of the available dice in the corresponding action spaces determines how much the player gets from the action. They then remove one of the dice and can carry out additional actions. With the different actions, a player can get the necessary drinks and dishes, prepare the rooms, or hire staff. But no hotel can grow without guests. To choose wisely which guests to attract and to complete their orders brings some important bonus actions. The staff cards also have different advantages, but the game ends after seven rounds and no player can do everything they want, so whoever makes the right decisions and finds the best way to create bonus actions will win. With 116 different cards and a new set-up in each game, Grand Austria Hotel provides a huge replay value. Each game stands on its own and demands new tactics and strategies.

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Grand Austria Hotel is a fantastic action selection game using dice to select what actions are available. I love the mechanics and gameplay of this, fulfilling orders to fill your hotel rooms up. Super fun, super easy to play, once you go through the rulebook. It's not long, but may need 20-30 mins to get your head around it on first teach.

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