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35.00€
Century: Spice Road
30m - 45m
2 - 5 Players
Ages 8+
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Century: Spice Road is the first in a series of games that explores the history of each century with spice-trading as the theme for the first installment. In Century: Spice Road, players are caravan leaders who travel the famed silk road to deliver spices to the far reaches of the continent for fame and glory. Each turn, players perform one of four actions:
Establish a trade route (by taking a market card)
Make a trade or harvest spices (by playing a card from hand)
Fulfill a demand (by meeting a victory point card’s requirements and claiming it)
Rest (by taking back into your hand all of the cards you’ve played)
The last round is triggered once a player has claimed their fifth victory point card, then whoever has the most victory points wins.
| Ages | 8+ |
|---|---|
| Players | 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players |
| Play Time | 30m – 45m |
| Designer | Emerson Matsuuchi |
| Mechanics | Card Drafting, Deck / Pool Building, Hand Management, Set Collection |
| Theme | Card Game, Economic, Medieval |
| Publisher | ABACUSSPIELE, Bergsala Enigma, Devir, Edinorog, Mandoo Games, Ninive Games, Piatnik, Plan B Games, Arclight, Asmodee, Broadway Toys LTD, Cube Factory of Ideas, Esdevium |
AKBanse
A fast and fun game that pulls similar strings to Splendor with the building of a tableau. Instead of building up to larger amounts of specific colors of gems (Splendor), Century Spice Road has you manipulating a few colored cubes, trading in one color for another and then spending those cubes on new cards.
agentpatman
Card based resource management is a cool idea. I wish there was more theme then buying point cards since you can kind of imagine the different spices in your caravan. I also wish there was more ways of getting out a fresh set of new cards other then taking ones you don't want to reveal them one at a time. With 4 or more irrelevant cards you could lose 3-4 turns to cycle through to get some interesting choices. I'm really intrigued by combining it with the others in the trilogy for a bigger game. As it stands it is pretty fun.
Ajax
This may get that [b]Splendor[/b]-killer title. It's longer and slightly more complicated than that one, but it's also more satisfying with engine-building. Great production all-around!