As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information. With 2 players: 3 tokens of each gem color except gold are removed (there should be only 4 of each remaining). Over time, the board empties; while you can optionally refill the board at the start of your turn, it likewise provides your opponent with a privilege.

Jack, Kingdomino) collaborated on the project with artist Davide Tosello ( Sheriff of Nottingham: 2 nd Edition, Orbis) to create this original board game in the Splendor universe. A player can be visited if they have (at least) the quantity and type of bonuses indicated on the noble tile. Marc André’s Splendor was the first board game that SPACE Cowboys released in 2014 and has since won numerous awards like Best Family Game and nominations like the Spiel des Jahres. By 2014, I had already begun reviewing board games, and I likewise remember playing five games in a row of Splendor with my wife, pregnant at the time with our first child. However, ‘Splendor Duel’ brings additional layers to gameplay: limited chip availability, pearls, wild cards, and crowns, to name but a few.

The noble tiles are shuffled, and as many of them are revealed as there are players plus one (example: 5 tiles for a 4 player game). At the start of your turn, you can spend a privilege token to grab any non-gold token from the board, then you take your turn like normal.

If your opponent collects two pearls or three tokens of the same color in a single turn, you receive a privilege token to compensate for the random token placement that fell their way. To reserve a card, a player simply needs to take a face-up development from the middle of the table or (if you’re feeling lucky) draw the first card from one of the three decks (level ◯;◯◯;◯◯◯) without showing it to the other players.

You CAN refill the game board (if there are tokens in the bag) – if you do though, your opponent gets a privilege token.