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Splendor

Splendor Board Game

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As a wealthy Renaissance merchant, acquire mines and transportation, hire artisans and woo the nobility. Create the most fantastic jewelry to become the best-known merchant of them all! Acquire precious stones to trade them for development cards. Use development cards to acquire more gem stones. Use your gems and gold to create the most fantastic jewelry, and appeal to the nobles to gain the prestige you need to win.

Splendor is a fast-paced and addictive game of chip-collecting and card development. Players are merchants of the Renaissance trying to buy gem mines, means of transportation, shops; all in order to acquire the most prestige points. If you're wealthy enough, you might even receive a visit from a noble at some point, which of course will further increase your prestige.

On your turn, you may (1) collect chips (gems), or (2) buy and build a card, or (3) reserve one card. If you collect chips, you take either three different kinds of chips or two chips of the same kind. If you buy a card, you pay its price in chips and add it to your playing area. To reserve a card, you place it in front of you face down for later building; this costs you a round, but you also get gold in the form of a joker chip, which you can use as any gem.

All of the cards you buy increase your wealth as they give you a permanent gem bonus for later buys; some of the cards also give you prestige points. In order to win the game, you must reach 15 prestige points before your opponents do.


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So pared down and polished that it manages to slide right through this world without making an impact. I know the underlying design is solid, because the game functions pretty well in app form, but in person its pretty forgettable. It moves too fast for its own good, rushing forward so fast that the phrase you'll hear most is "it's your turn." I applaud this return to streamlined German-style design, but this one is a little too streamlined for my money.
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My thoughts on Splendor have had a weird arc. At first I hated it, then I loved it, now I'm somewhere in the middle but closer to the latter. As far as light euros go it's strong. Far better than the likes of Century Spice Road or any of the games that have directly tried to supplant Splendor. It also makes a great app.

I have trouble thinking of anyone who would consider this their favorite game, but it's a very enjoyable one that'll please most folks. FYI the expansion is overpriced for what you get and only two of the modules are good.
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