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7 Wonders Duel
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7 Wonders Duel

BGG Rank: 20
Players: 2 - 2, Recommended: 2+, Best: 2+
Playing Time: 30 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 2.22 / 5
Mechanisms: End Game Bonuses, Income, Melding and Splaying, Modular Board, Multi-Use Cards, Once-Per-Game Abilities, Open Drafting, Score-and-Reset Game, Set Collection, Sudden Death Ending, Tags, Tech Trees / Tech Tracks, Track Movement, Tug of War, Variable Set-up
Category: Ancient, Card Game, City Building, Civilization, Economic
Family: Ancient: Babylon, Ancient: Egypt, Ancient: Greece, Ancient: Rome, Constructions: Pyramids, Digital Implementations: Board Game Arena, Digital Implementations: Google Play, Game: 7 Wonders, Game: 7 Wonders Duel, Mechanism: Tableau Building, Misc: Watch It Played How To Videos, Players: Games with expansions that add solo play, Players: Two-Player Only Games, Versions & Editions: Two-Player Versions of More-Player Games
Designer: Antoine Bauza, Bruno Cathala
Artist: Miguel Coimbra
Publisher: Repos Production, ADC Blackfire Entertainment, asmodee, Asterion Press, Boardgame Space, CoolPlay, Galápagos Jogos, Gém Klub Kft., Hobby Japan, KADABRA, Kaissa Chess & Games, Korea Boardgames, Lautapelit.fi, Lifestyle Boardgames Ltd, Ludicus, Ponva d.o.o., Pridemage Games, Rebel Sp. z o.o., Siam Board Games, Sombreros Production, Ігромаг
Category: Drafting
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In many ways 7 Wonders Duel resembles its parent game 7 Wonders. Over three ages, players acquire cards that provide resources or advance their military or scientific development in order to develop a civilization and complete wonders. What's different about 7 Wonders Duel is that, as the title suggests, the game is solely for two players. Players do not draft cards simultaneously from decks of cards, but from a display of face-down and face-up cards arranged at the start of a round. A player can take a card only if it's not covered by any others, so timing comes into play, as it can with bonus moves that allow the player to take a second card immediately. As in the original game, each acquired card can be built, discarded for coins, or used to construct a wonder. Each player also starts with four wonder cards, and the construction of a wonder provides its owner with a special ability. Only seven wonders can be built, though, so one player will end up short. Players can purchase resources at any time from the bank, or they can gain cards during the game that provide them with resources for future building; as they are acquired, the cost for those resources increases for the opponent, representing the owner's dominance in this area. You can win 7 Wonders Duel in one of three ways: each time you acquire a military card, you advance the military marker toward your opponent's capital (also giving you a bonus at certain positions). If you reach the opponent's capital, you win the game immediately. Or if you acquire six of seven different scientific symbols, you achieve scientific dominance and win immediately. If none of these situations occurs, then the player with the most points at the end of the game wins.

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Average Playing Time

1-2 hours

Best Player Count

2 Best

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Kevin

Difficulty

Opener/Closer

Played

Unplayed

Recommended Player Count

2 Players

Special Mechanisms

Variable Player Powers

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Players: 2 - 2, Recommended: 2+, Best: 2
Playing Time: 30 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 2.31 / 5
A pantheon from several civilizations — including Greek, Egyptian, and Middle-Eastern — gets added to 7 Wonders Duel in 7 Wonders Duel: Pantheon, with each god having its own power to help you or hinder your opponent. During Age I you collect mythology tokens — which allow you to choose which deities have a place in the Pantheon — and during Age II you collect offering tokens, which help you court those deities. Then, during Ages II and III, you can activate a god or goddess in the Pantheon instead of taking a card from the pyramid. To do so, you pay whatever that god or goddess demands from you in offerings, then place it next to your city. With Isis on your side, you can use a card from the discard pile to construct one of your Wonders for free. Zeus, whose nod determines what happens and what does not, enables you to discard any single card from the card structure that you want, as well as any mythology or offering token that may be on it. The Phoenician goddess Tanit, whose people were renowned for trade, fills your coffers with twelve pieces of gold. Enki, the Sumerian god of crafts, technology, and creation, lets you choose one of two progress tokens. Minerva's ability to stop the conflict pawn from moving toward you can assist with a military victory or save you from military defeat. What's more, instead of adding three guild cards to the deck for Age III, you add three of five Grand Temples. Each Grand Temple belongs to a different Mediterranean culture, and if you possess a mythology token from that culture, you can build the temple for free. These temples are worth a total of 5, 12, or 21 points, depending on how many you build. 7 Wonders Duel: Pantheon also includes two new Wonders: the Sanctuary (which gives you an additional turn and allows you to invoke deities at a reduced price) and the Divine Theater (which grants points and access to additional gods).
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Players: 2 - 2, Recommended: 2, Best: 2
Playing Time: 30 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 2.88 / 5
7 Wonders Duel: Agora features a new board called the Senate, comprising six separate chambers that provide players with benefits once they take possession of the area. Players can obtain a Senate chamber by taking senator cards. Should any player successfully take control of the majority of Senate chambers then they automatically win the game. 1 Senate board 24 Influence cubes (12 bronze and 12 silver) 13 Senator cards (7 Politicians and 6 Conspirators) 2 Wonder cards 16 Conspiracy cards 16 Decree tokens 2 Progress tokens 4 Military tokens 1 score pad 1 Player Aid card 1 rulebook

rahdo rated: N/A/10

this is the most heartbreaking game of 2015 for me. the core gameplay design is so insanely brilliant, it would likely be my #2 best of the year, except it's also so full of nasty 'take that' style gameplay, so it was a total turn off for us. major bummer 🙁

almi rated: N/A/10

+ 7 Wonders: Duel – The Messe Essen + 7 Wonders: Duel – Statue of Liberty (2016) + 7 Wonders Duel: Stonehenge + Metal conflict pawn

Daniel199423 rated: N/A/10

2-player

8janek8 rated: N/A/10

preorder: Natura PL (@Matiuseq)

ditterio rated: N/A/10

see 7 wonders

MattLive rated: N/A/10

Great two player-version of 7 wonders. A must-buy. Sleeved and in mint condition. At parents

jeeves rated: N/A/10

5

YellowBear rated: N/A/10

2p; 30min

jorispoppe rated: N/A/10

JP

LeeAnnS rated: N/A/10

Hopefully this will have the technology tree, as in 7 wonders, but be good for two players.

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