What is Teabbles?
Teabbles game where you get to play a game around your favourite bubble tea. And if that wasn’t enough, there are 3 ways to play this card game in the one box: Original Play, Bluff, and Boba the Builder. Choose an option to suit your palate, just like your bubble tea orders.
This is an easy-to-learn, action-paced card game. Easy to set up and play.
How to set up Teabbles – Original Version
The setup: shuffle and place the drinks cards in the middle with the top 3 turned face up. Each player is then dealt 5 cards, with the leftover over cards being the draw deck.
Objective of Teabbles
Is to be the first player to earn 11 points (the total value of the drink cards).
How to play Teabbles Original
On your turn, draw two cards from the Inventory deck. You now have three moves
1. Draw one card from the inventory deck
2. Play an action card (if you have one in your hand)
3. Complete a drink order
4. Replace all three drinks cards with new ones.
To complete a drink order, you must have the corresponding ingredients shown on the bottom of the drink card. Once you have completed that drink order, discard those ingredient cards and draw inventory cards to the value of the drink; e.g., if a drink card is worth 2 points, draw two inventory cards. You keep that drink card and replace it with a new drink card from the top of the drink card pile.
Once you have completed the above actions, make sure you have no more than 9 cards in your hand. Don’t get too greedy or distracted here, because if you get caught by another player, they are allowed to randomly discard cards from your hand until you only have three left. Eeekkk, that hurts.
Be the first person to collect 11 drink card points, all the while dodging action cards, such as swapping hands, losing cards from your hand, and people trying to stop you from completing drink cards and more.
How to play Teabbles – Bluff Version
The set is the same as the original set except you need to remove the Today Only Action Card.
How to Win “Bluff” Version
Once one player has completed 5 drink cards, all players add up the value of their drink cards, and the person with the most points wins.
On your turn, instead of placing your ingredient cards face up when completing a drinks order, you place them face down and see if anyone wants to call your bluff. If no one calls you out, you successfully completed that drink order. However, if someone calls your bluff and you are honest, you keep your drink order and take inventory cards to the value of that drink order AND you take one drink card from the person who called you out. If they don’t have a completed drink order, they need to give you two cards from their hand.
If you were dishonest and caught out, the drink order goes back into the face up pile and the person who called you out can take any completed drink order from you. If you don’t have a drink card, the accuser can take three cards from your hand to their personal hand.
Now if you lied and didn’t get caught out, you let the other players know and show your hand. You then get to take a bonus card from the drinks pile and place that face down with your completed drink pile cards. This is only shown at the end of the game when someone has five drink order cards. However, this card is NOT calculated as one of the five completed drink orders.
How to play Teabbles – Boba the Builder Version
To set up for this version, you place 6 drink cards face up. Unlike the original gameplay, these can not be changed out. Just like the original, it is the first person to 11 points who wins. Each player is still dealt 5 cards.
On your turn, you can draw two cards and complete two actions.
1. Play an action card from your hand
2. Pick up an inventory card
3. Display up to three ingredients in front of you. See below for further information
4. Complete a drink order—only with the ingredients that are on display in front of you. Reward yourself by collecting inventory cards to the same value as your drink value.
5. Or replace your cards and draw seven new inventory cards
You may not display ingredients and complete a drink order in the same turn. And you can only complete an order OR replace your inventory. Not both on the same turn.
Displaying your ingredients—you are only allowed to display 5 unique ingredients in front of you with no more than 3 of each ingredient. If you wish to replace an ingredient in front of you, you may do so by discarding the ingredient you no longer wish. This card can not be placed back into your hand.
And the same rule applies, where you are not allowed more than 7 cards in your hand at the end of your turn. If you do and some catches you, that person is allowed to randomly discard cards from your hand until you only have 3 cards left.
Action Cards in Teabbles
There are numerous action cards, which add another level of fun to this game.
Here are just a couple:
Switch Hands—Swap your entire hand with another player
Angel Investor—Draw three inventory cards
Out of Stock – Stop a player from making drinks for one turn
There you have it, the the Teabbles game with 3 versions. This game has huge replayability because of the nature of having three games in one box. Perfect for traveling as well. Wanting to check out more card games? Head over to the articles page for more options.
