The New Drafting is Brilliant | It's a Wonderful Kingdom 1/3/5 Review
32How wonderful is the kingdom? RUS or ROUS? Can you win with negative points? And is The Princess Bride really a good movie? We cover all this and more in our extensive 1/3/5 review of It's a Wonderful Kingdom from @LuckyDuckGamesEN .
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00:00 Introduction
01:30 Quick How To Play
04:44 What’s different in Its A Wonderful Kingdom
05:55 1st Play Review
07:46 3rd Play Review
13:45 Pop-in 4th play note
14:33 5th Play Review
18:55 Well Rounded Review
20:29 Wrap Up
It's a Wonderful Kingdom from Lucky Duck Games is a 2 player followup to It's a Wonderful World, introducing a new drafting system, debilitating threats and more. In our 1/3/5 review, we played our first game and hit record on our first review, then recorded more reviews after plays 3 and 5, so you get our thoughts through the entire process, from first impressions through well rounded thoughts. Check out what we thought about It's a Wonderful Kingdom from Lucky Duck Games.
From the Publisher
It's a Wonderful Kingdom is a standalone solo or 2-player game in a Low-Fantasy universe. Inspired by the core mechanics of its predecessor "It's a Wonderful World", this new game offers more interaction, a bluff mechanism and new challenges.
The game is played using modules, each different and offering mechanical twists. Each game, players will choose one of the different modules to compete against each other. The game is divided into 4 rounds. Each round having 3 phases.
Split & Trap
Players take turns placing their cards on two piles at the center of the table.
One player picks 2 cards from his hand and place it either on the same pile, or split it among the two piles. The other player chooses a pile. This step is repeated alternatively until the players have placed all the cards from their hands.
Furthermore, each player has 2 Trap tokens which can be used to place face down cards.
Planification
Each player chooses, for the cards he has collected, which ones to build and which ones to recycle in order to accelerate the development.
Sequential Production
Each player produces the resources of his Kingdom in a sequential way. The resources being produced in a certain order, it is necessary to anticipate the sequences to optimize the production and development.
At the end of the 4th round, the player with the most victory points wins the game.
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