Space Cowboys | Splendor: Marvel | Board Game | Ages 10+ | 2-4 Players | 30 Minutes

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Splendor is a resource-management game for two to four players that plays in about 30 minutes. Players take the role of merchants racing to produce the most renowned jewellery of the Renaissance by collecting raw gems, buying developments and attracting wealthy patrons.

a b Law, Keith (July 21, 2014). "Boardgame Review: Splendor". Paste Magazine . Retrieved November 14, 2015. Place a visiting noble in your play area, making sure that everyone can see them clearly. You can only receive one visit from a noble per turn; if at the end of your turn you attract more than one noble, choose which one will actually visit you. You might get the other noble next turn if no-one else gets to them first. Once a noble visits a player, they will never leave their side. There have been a number of Splendor spin-offs, but knowing the rules to the original will make learning those easier. Image: Space CowboysBut what remains from the original is the sweet satisfaction of building your engine. For anyone who has not played an engine builder before. Let me briefly explain this beautiful mechanic. At the start of the game, you have no engine. Just you. As you begin to recruit characters in your team, they will bring with them bonus colours. Powers to recruit more characters using their combined powers. Acquiring one character my increase your “mind” strength for example, and when added to other cards than have brought your combined “reality” and “soul” strength, this may mean you can now get another character card that needs one of each to recruit. Your engine now has more parts to it. More strength and power. You have built a functioning, working, efficient engine. A mobile application version of the game, for iOS, Android and Steam, was published by Asmodee Digital. [9]

Splendor is the 2014 award-winning engine-building game that promises to turn you and your friends into Renaissance jewellery magnates. This modern classic boasts over one million copies sold, not counting digital adaptations, variants and re-releases. It’s also a great board game for introducing new players to the hobby, given how simple it is to learn how to play Splendor and how fast setup and rules explanation can be. Splendor is an engine-building and resource management game in which two to four players compete to collect the most prestige points. The game has the following components: Wray, Chris (2017-09-11). "Cities of Splendor: An Expansion Review". The Opinionated Gamers . Retrieved 2022-02-06. Is the game any different? Not really. But it sure does look cooler now! And I know my kids will want to play. And now the poker chips are Infinity stones! Gamers, Assemble!

How to play Splendor

An expansion of the game, Cities of Splendor, was released in 2017, including four modules (The Cities, The Trading Posts, The Orient, The Strongholds). The Opinionated Gamers gave a positive review, describing the changes as subtle and varied. [8] Board Game Review: Splendor | TheGamingReview.com". www.thegamingreview.com . Retrieved 2022-02-06. Buy one development card: When you buy a development card, first select which card you want to buy. It can be one of the face-up cards on the table or one that you previously reserved and which now sits in your hand. To buy a development card, you have to spend the gem tokens indicated in the bottom-left of the card. While gem tokens are all worth one of their colour, a gold token can replace one gem of another colour. Additionally, each development card you have already bought reduces the cost of subsequent development cards by one gem of its colour. One final change is the avenger tile. This brings three bonus point to the player who owns it at the end of the game. You can acquire this by having character cards recruited into your team with the Avengers symbol on it, and when you have three of these, the tile comes to you. But as soon as someone else gets at least one more Avenger symbol than you, they take the card and its potential three points. This is a fun see-saw element that can affect end game triggers and the ultimate winner, so worth watching your opponent’s recruitment throughout the game. “No amount of money ever bought a second of time.”