7 Wonders Duel
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| Designers |
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|---|---|
| Illustrators | Miguel Coimbra |
| Publishers | Repos Production |
| Publication | 2015 |
| Genres | |
| Parent games | 7 Wonders |
| Players | 2 |
| Website | www |
7 Wonders Duel is a 2015 two-player strategy card game designed by Antoine Bauza and Bruno Cathala with art from Miguel Coimbra. A spinoff of 7 Wonders, the game was published by Repos Production and achieved commercial success.
Gameplay
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7 Wonders Duel is a two-player strategy card game. A game consists of three stages, each with an unique deck of cards, laid out in a overlapping pyramid shape.[1]
On a player's round, they must select one of the available cards and perform one of three actions. They may construct it by paying its cost in resources, activating the card and giving the player its effects. These include resource production, military advances, scientific tokens, victory points, and coins. Alternatively, the card may be discarded for coins or used to construct wonders. Similar to in 7 Wonders, which the game is a spinoff of, wonders give large benefits and cost multiple resources to construct.[2][3]
There are three means of victory. Anytime during the game, a player wins if they have advanced the military token to the end of the track or if they have six different science tokens. If neither condition is met at the end of the game, the player with most victory points, as calculated by a formula, wins.[4][5]
There is a single-player variant available, in which the opponent is replaced by a leader card that takes actions based on decision cards.[6]
Reception
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7 Wonders Duel was published by Repos Production, a subsidiary of Asmodee, in 2015. The game was a commericial success, selling one million copies in five years, at twice the speed of 7 Wonders.[7] It was nominated for, and won, BoardGameGeek's "Best 2-Player Board Game" and "Best Card Game" awards of the same year.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ Bassil, Matt (2024-11-29). "Our all time favorite two player board game is 37% off for Black Friday". Wargamer. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
- ^ Meehan, Alex (2024-05-07). "Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth is basically a reskin of the 7 Wonders 2-player board game". Dicebreaker. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
- ^ Law, Keith. "7 Wonders Duel Boardgame". Paste Magazine. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
- ^ Saathoff, Evan (2020-01-10). "Board Game Review: 7 WONDERS DUEL". Birth.Movies.Death. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
- ^ Bassil, Matt (2023-12-13). "7 Wonders Duel review - a two player marvel". Wargamer. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
- ^ Meehan, Alex (2020-05-21). "7 Wonders Duel gets official solo rules for playing the card game alone during lockdown". Dicebreaker. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
- ^ Jarvis, Matt (2021-01-11). "7 Wonders Duel has sold 1 million copies, in half the time of the original". Dicebreaker. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
- ^ "Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game | Award Category | BoardGameGeek". BoardGameGeek. Archived from the original on 2021-10-24. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
