Description

Beyond a Cheese strategy game!

Located at the heart of Minas Gerais state, Serra da Canastra is a certified region where one of the most traditional raw milk cheese has been produced since colonial times.
Canastra´s cheese is a hidden treasure little known outside Brazil.
Until very recently, it´s only been made by a few exclusive and certified producers. Now it is time for you to make a change in this game.

Your challenge is to make your small company grow and become the best among all cheesemongers, admired and certified with loads of Prestige Points.

Players must produce, pick up, deliver, and hopefully guide as many Tourists they can to appreciate those great cheese and other typical products such as coffee, Pão de Queijo and Dulce de Leche.

And remember, there is always someone else ready to profit from your cheese!

Canastra is a competitive open information strategy game for 2 to 5 businessmen.

The game is played in four rounds.
Every round has 3 phases: a) income; b) Actions; and c) Quality level.

A) Income of Action Cubes
Built Farms on the board produce a milk token and a typical product cube.
Players always get 7 Action Cubes and may get plus cubes, up to 4 units, for each Farm Bonus tile with a milk token they have.

B) Following turn order, players use their Action Cubes to take only one action per turn, until everyone has passed.
Some actions spend more Action Cubes than others. The action of producing cheese may not spend action cubes at all if a player has all the necessary ingredients.

There are eight Actions available: Produce Cheese, Pickup items, Deliver items, Guide Tourists, Build a Farm, Movement, Draw an Online Request Card, and Pass.

C) Raise the Quality Level of one Region
A Specialist meeple is placed on the Region that has produced more cheese according to the production track.
The player with more influence, counting Crafter meeples, the Truck, Cheese packages, and Farms, receive Prestige Points and a Quality Certificate tile that give endgame prestige points.
The Region increases its Quality value. This has impact on the price of Cheese when picked up, and also values all the Farms on that same Region.

There is not a money representation on this game. No coins.
All the commercial transactions give players Prestige Points.
The way Prestige Points are gained during the game is very intertwined with players actions.

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Replayability of Canastra focus on the setup of the board, on several different Farm bonus tiles available, where each player may build up to four Farms, the various ways of getting Prestige Points, and also the interaction among players during the game.