Lemonade Stand Empire

In Lemonade Stand Empire Players are trying to earn the most profit once all of the thirsty customers have been served.

This is a resource and hand management game for 2-5 players and plays in about 20 minutes.

There are 3 types of drinks available to be made: Iced Tea, Lemonade, and Sweet Tea. Iced Tea needs 2 tea leaves, one lemon and one water to make. Lemonade needs 2 lemons, one sugar and 1 water to make. Sweet Tea needs 2 sugars, one tea, and one water to make. The ingredient cards have 1-3 tea leaves, sugars, lemons, or 1-2 water, or 1 wild ingredient each. Each drink card if worth $1-$8 of each type. Their dollar amount decreases as more people serve the different types of drinks. However, each dollar amount provides a player with a different ability to use throughout the game.

On your turn you'll first go shopping. You'll have a row of 5 piles of face-down ingredient cards. You look at the first pile and decide then to skip it or take that pile. If you take the pile, move to the next part of your turn. If instead you skip the pile, you add an ingredient to that pile and look at the next pile, which gives the same choice.

After you draw your ingredients, you can make drinks. Using the symbols as parts of each drink recipe. The quicker you make drinks, the more money they are worth. However, making 2-3 drinks on a turn will get you Thirtsy Bonus cards which are worth $3 or $6 each. Also, completing sets of the 3 drinks will get set bonuses which increase throughout the game.

Each drink card also has an ability, which can be used through the game to help make drinks, get the right ingredients, and interact with your opponents. The player with the most money at the end of the game will win!