Grand Austria Hotel

Play seven rounds with ten dice for two players, twelve for three, or fourteen for four. Each player normally gets two turns per round, following the outward-and-back numbers on turn-order tiles: 1, 2, 2, 1 with two players.

On your turn you may first pay the queue-space cost to take one guest, then must select an action space containing a die. Determine strength from the number of dice before removing one. Once per turn, you may pay one krone to increase strength by one.

Action 1 takes strudel and cake, with no more cake than strudel; action 2 takes wine and coffee, with no more coffee than wine. Newly gained items can go directly onto orders for free. Moving items from your kitchen normally costs one krone for up to three items.

Action 3 prepares up to its strength in rooms: match the printed colors, place orthogonally adjacent to existing rooms and pay floor costs. Action 4 freely splits strength between krones and Emperor-track steps; money is capped at twenty. Action 5 hires one staff card from hand at its cost minus strength, minimum zero. Action 6 costs one krone to copy any of actions 1–5 using the number of sixes, even if the copied space has no dice.

A completed order and a vacant room of matching color let you move a guest in, turn the room occupied and collect the guest’s rewards. Green guests can use any room color. Fully occupying a same-color room group gives its occupancy bonus once.

On your turn, additional actions may occur before, after or between the two main steps, but cannot interrupt an action: pay to serve kitchen items, move eligible guests into rooms, activate once-per-round staff or claim public objectives. Claim each objective at most once per player, taking its highest remaining points. Staff icons distinguish immediate, once-per-round, permanent and final-scoring effects.

After rounds three, five and seven, score your current Emperor-track position, then retreat three, five or seven spaces respectively. A resulting position of at least three grants that round’s reward; one or two does nothing; zero incurs its penalty. Final scoring follows the seventh-round Emperor scoring.

At the end, score staff effects; occupied rooms on floors one through four give one through four points each. Each leftover kitchen item and krone gives one point, while each guest still in the café costs five. Most points wins; tied players compare the combined points from leftover kitchen items and money.