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It’s a Wonderful Kingdom is a standalone solo or 2-player game in a Low-Fantasy universe.
Inspired by the core mechanics of its predecessor "It’s a Wonderful World", this new game offers more interaction, a bluff mechanism and new challenges.
The game is played using modules, each different and offering mechanical twists. Each game, players will choose one of the different modules to compete against each other.
The game is divided into 4 rounds. Each round having 3 phases.
1/ Split & Trap
Players take turns placing their cards on two piles at the center of the table.
One player picks 2 cards from his hand and place it either on the same pile, or split it among the two piles. The other player chooses a pile. This step is repeated alternatively until the players have placed all the cards from their hands.
Furthermore, each player has 2 Trap tokens which can be used to place face down cards.
2/ Planification
Each player chooses, for the cards he has collected, which ones to build and which ones to recycle in order to accelerate the development.
3/ Sequential Production
Each player produces the resources of his Kingdom in a sequential way. The resources being produced in a certain order, it is necessary to anticipate the sequences to optimize the production and development.
At the end of the 4th round, the player with the most victory points wins the game.
—description from the publisher
Ages | 14+ |
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Players | Solo, 2 Players |
Play Time | 45m – 60m |
Designer | Frédéric Guérard |
Mechanics | Betting and Bluffing, I Cut, You Choose, Open Drafting, Solo / Solitaire Game |
Theme | Card Game, Fantasy, Medieval |
Publisher | Geronimo Games, Kobold Spieleverlag, La Boîte de Jeu, MTS Games, Origames, Studio Supernova, TLAMA games, Tranjis Games, Lucky Duck Games |
Dado7
It's all about resource management. You draft, with some optional tricking, than you make your set collection to get the resources and points (if a card gives you those instead of a resource)... and that's it. Additional modules mix game a bit, but in a nutshell it is all about resources, so if you like it straight to the bone - it is a game for you. If you need more flavour and complications - than this one is definitely not for you. A good game overal!
BggTroll
35€* Card game Resource management Hand management Tableau builder Multi use cards Fast and satisfying gameplay. Putting cubes on cards is fiddly but also rewarding Seeing his engine starting in a tight time frame (4 rounds like every game nowadays) is tense and provides joy if you can pull off 90points and more if U can actually be that good while fulfilling the mission Lots of head work with all the multiplier in Ressource generating on one side and win points in the other For later: I am kind of running this game against its predecessor and both terraforming mars games - and I am not sure which of these 4 I like best and If one or two games will be redundant
boardchao999
Still the same gameplay as wonderful world, but with a number of twists that muddy the waters a bit. Some might see it as an improvement, I don't as much.