Review
One Card Wonder
One Card Wonder is an ultra-light civilisation bag-builder about getting your wonder built before everyone else. It has real bite at lower player counts, provided you leave the leaders mini expansion out of the box.
- Published
- 2022
- Designer
- Nathaniel Levan
- Publisher
- APE Games, OSTIA Spiele
- Players
- 2–6
- Playing time
- 30 min
One Card Wonder makes no attempt to be heavier than it is: a quick civilisation bag-builder where the first player to build a wonder wins. That is perfectly fine by me. Sometimes you want to sit down, pull some cubes, and see who gets there first.
The heart of it is bag-building and the probability game that comes with it. You are trying to shape your bag so that the cubes you need appear at the right time, while the race to complete a wonder keeps the whole thing pleasantly taut.
This is not everyone tending their own little bag; you can take precisely the cube your neighbour was after.
TheCuttlefish
At lower player counts, there is honest interaction too: you can see which cubes the others need, and counter-drafting them matters. This is not everyone tending their own little bag; you can take precisely the cube your neighbour was after. And you will enjoy doing it.
The KS-exclusive mini expansion with leaders, however, tears that balance apart and turns the game into nonsense. If you own it, my advice is simple: forget it. Without it, One Card Wonder is a good way to spend half an hour.
Without it, One Card Wonder is a good way to spend half an hour.
TheCuttlefish
Source: BoardGameGeek
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