7 wonders

Number of players: 2–7 Players
Playing time: 30 Min
Complexity: 2.32 / 5
Age: 10+

About the game
In 7 Wonders, players lead one of the great cities of the Ancient World through three Ages of growth, trade, scientific progress, military conflict, and monumental construction. Develop your civilization, gather resources, strengthen relationships with neighboring cities, and build an architectural Wonder that will endure through history.

Each Age begins with a hand of cards. Everyone chooses one card simultaneously, then passes the remaining hand to a neighbor and receives a new hand in return. The cards you draft may provide resources, commerce, military strength, science symbols, civic victory points, special effects, or guild-based scoring. You may also use a card to build a stage of your Wonder or discard it for coins.

Resources generated by brown and gray cards allow you to construct more advanced buildings. Yellow commercial cards can provide coins, discounts, and trading advantages. Red military cards determine battles with neighboring cities at the end of each Age. Green scientific cards create sets that score increasingly valuable points, while blue civic structures and purple guilds offer other paths to victory.

After three Ages, players total points from their Wonder, buildings, military victories and defeats, science, coins, guilds, and special effects. The civilization with the highest score wins. 7 Wonders is a fast, simultaneous-play civilization game that combines card drafting, tableau building, resource management, and neighbor-focused strategy.