(I will not be doing a full breakdown of the rules here Kurt does a great job of describing the core mechanics and all the iconography of the 7 Wonders family in his piece.) Read on to find out why.ħ Wonders Duel takes all the great card play of 7 Wonders but eliminates the take-one-card-and-pass-your-hand draft mechanic of the original game. My wife and I love 7 Wonders Duel so much that I sold my copy of the original 7 Wonders last year. But what if he went back to the drawing board and rebuilt the core 7 Wonders experience around two players going head-to-head?īauza, along with Bruno Cathala-the designer of the excellent and award-winning games Five Tribes and Kingdomino-came up with 7 Wonders Duel. So let’s give credit to the designer of the original 7 Wonders, Antoine Bauza, for recognizing what many of us now know to be the truth. As a veteran of the fantastic 7 Wonders (you can enjoy Kurt’s in-depth review here), I had a certain feeling the first time I tried the two-player variant described in the rulebook:

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