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Centuries ago, the lucrative spice trade compelled the prosperous nations of the world to explore alternate routes to the sources of these precious goods. These nations took to the seas to seek out exotic lands. This led to the discovery of the famed Spice Islands where the most valuable spices of the world were found. This discovery also led to further exploration, competition....and later, war! During this time of prosperity and opportunity, you find yourself traveling on the high seas in search of these exotic wonders. As a merchant and privateer representing your nation, you seek to control this region for glory and profit. Your journey continues in the Far East...
Designed by Emerson Matsuuchi, Century: Eastern Wonders invites fans to return to the exciting world of spice trading as players take to the high seas in the role of merchants seeking to prosper in the exotic Indonesian islands. Century: Eastern Wonders offers new, satisfying game mechanisms that provide infinite replayability and countless strategies.
Century: Eastern Wonders can be combined with Century: Spice Road to create a new gaming experience called Sand To Sea!
Century: Eastern Wonders FAQ
- Elegant integration of engine-building with route planning and set-collection
- Rules are simple yet unlock deep strategic depth through stations and card-driven choices
- Beautiful physical components and thematic spice color variety
- Strong sense of theme and tactical variety when stations unlock abilities
- Replayability through end-game incentives and flexible routes
- Pacing can feel slow and plodding, especially with four players
- High potential for analysis paralysis due to heavy planning
- End-game can feel abrupt if you mis-time your final trades
- Limited variety of island tiles can reduce freshness on repeated plays
- Trade, exploration, and optimization of multi-step cube exchanges through island markets and station bonuses.
- An archipelago trading world where players voyage between islands, collecting and delivering spice cubes to ports to earn profits.
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- Century: Spice Road
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- Century: Eastern Wonders is a game of having a little merchant boat that goes to places and eats cubes and then poops out the cubes.
- The hold can only hold ten spices regardless of color, so increasing your supply doesn't automatically help you.
- This is an elegant masterpiece; the simple paragraph of rules turned a potentially unplayable setup into a brilliant engine.
- This little engine that could is a speeding locomotive.
- You're never bound to the same boring and comfortable experience; each turn pushes you toward new lands.