Annotated Games: 4 Players, version 0.4

This game was played during the game testing of On Shelf. For testing purposes, Blue plays a "long hour" strategy with few breaks and Red plays a "short hour" strategy with frequent breaks. Black focuses on optimizing the assortment based on her customer cards while White play tactically and work where the reward is highest.

Items per item space are listed in order of reach, e.g. items on top on the arrow space are listed first.

Setup

Beer shelf	Wine shelf	Spirits shelf	Buffer	Stock

Blue customers	Red customers	Black customers	White customers

Monday 9 o'clock

The game starts in a standard way with the players choosing stock and fill jobs that earn them the most CSI.

• Customers: None
• Blue: Stock , CSI +5+5 → 10
• Red: Fill , CSI +5+5 → 10
• Black: Stock , CSI +3+2+2+2 → 9
• White: Stock , CSI +1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 → 8

Beer shelf	Wine shelf	Spirits shelf	Buffer	Stock
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Blue customers	Red customers	Black customers	White customers

Monday 10 o'clock

As the store opens, White fills some empty spirits shelves. Black picks up a customer from the floor looking for wine that is available on the shelves. Red checks out a wine customer, although she gets 1 CSI less because the last blue wine in the shelf is sold. Blue decides to pick up spirits customer from the floor to get a better variety of customer cards.

• Customers: | |
• White: Fill , CSI +3+2+2+2 → 17
• Black: Floor , CSI +6 → 15
• Red: Checkout , CSI +3+4+4 → 21
• Blue: Floor , → CSI +6 → 16

Beer shelf	Wine shelf	Spirits shelf	Buffer	Stock
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Blue customers	Red customers	Black customers	White customers

Monday 11 o'clock

Black considers how empty the store is and decides to study Fill with the plan to stock and fill after her next break. Blue wants to see more beer in the store for her customers and fills beer. White takes advantage of this and checks out a beer customer. Red studies Floor to be able to build a hand of many customers.

• Spillage Die: 1
• Customers: | |
• Black: Study Fill, CSI -1 → 14
• Blue: Fill (buffer)||, → CSI +1+1+1+1+1+1-1 → 21
• White: Checkout , CSI +4+4+4-1 → 28
• Red: Study Floor, CSI -1 → 20

Beer shelf	Wine shelf	Spirits shelf	Buffer	Stock

Blue customers	Red customers	Black customers	White customers

Monday 12 o'clock

Black decides to check out a customer, although empty shelves and spillage reduce her score. Red takes an early break to be able to take a new checkout and use her studied fill as soon as possible. Blue also checks out a customer, emptying even more shelves, after which White decides to play janitor and clean up the spillage.

• Spillage Die: 2
• Customers: | |
• Black: Checkout , CSI 4+4+4-1-2 → 23
• Red: Break, CSI 3-2 → 21
• Blue: Checkout , → CSI 3+3+6-1-1-2 → 29
• White: Janitor, CSI 3+2 → 33

Beer shelf	Wine shelf	Spirits shelf	Buffer	Stock

Blue customers	Red customers	Black customers	White customers

Lunch Rush Hour

At the rush hour, Red is the only one to match a customer card with items on shelves. Blue has to pick an item from stock, Red has to replace an item, and White is unable to match any item card without getting less than the minimum CSI of 0. Most checked out items empty the shelves so the overall score is low and the store is in great need of filling.

• Spillage Die: 1
• Customers: | |
• Red: Checkout, , CSI 10-1 → 30
• Black: Checkout (from stock), CSI 3+3+3+3-3 → 32
• Blue: Checkout (replaced by ) , CSI 3+3+3+4-1-4-1-1 → 35
• White: Checkout , CSI -4-4 → 33

Beer shelf	Wine shelf	Spirits shelf	Buffer	Stock

Blue customers	Red customers	Black customers	White customers

Monday 1 o'clock

Red follows up her break with a stock job to start filling the now almost empty store. Black and White both decide to play break to replenish their job cards while Blue delays her break to play a supervisor and replicate Red's stock job.

• Spillage Die: 1
• Customers: | |
• Red: Stock , CSI 2+3+3+3-1 → 40
• Black: Break, CSI 6-1 → 37
• White: Break, CSI 5-1 → 38
• Blue: Supervisor (stock) CSI 2+2+2+1+1+1+1-1 → 44

Beer shelf	Wine shelf	Spirits shelf	Buffer	Stock
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Blue customers	Red customers	Black customers	White customers

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Annotated games

• Version 0.1: 4 players

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