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Splendor
Year
2014
Players
2–4
Play time
30min
Min age
10+
Weight
1.77
BGG rating
7.42
BGG rank
#243
Best with
3

Owned by

Michael Redlich

Local copies

Rating: ★ 7.0

Board game

Splendor

Розкіш

Designed by Marc André

Splendor is a game of chip-collecting and card development. Players are merchants of the Renaissance trying to buy gem mines, means of transportation, shops-all in order to acquire the most prestige points. If you're wealthy enough, you might even receive a visit from a noble at some point, which of course will further increase your prestige. On your turn, you may (1) collect chips (gems), or (2) buy and build a card, or (3) reserve one card. If you collect chips, you take either three different kinds of chips or two chips of the same kind. If you buy a card, you pay its price in chips and add it to your playing area. To reserve a card-in order to make sure you get it, or, why not, your opponents don't get it-you place it in front of you face down for later building; this costs you a round, but you also get gold in the form of a joker chip, which you can use as any gem. All of the cards you buy increase your wealth as they give you a permanent gem bonus for later buys; some of the cards also give you prestige points. In order to win the game, you must reach 15 prestige points before your opponents do.

Categories

Card GameEconomicRenaissance

Mechanics

Set CollectionOpen DraftingRaceContracts

Best with how many players

1
Not rec.
2
Recommended
3
Best
4
Recommended
4+
Not rec.

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Language dependence

No necessary in-game text(175 of 178 votes)

Sub-rankings

  • Family Game Rank#53

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Wikidata enrichment: 5 links · 1 facts · latest game data 06/20/2026.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 06/20/2026.

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Publication date
2014