7 Wonders Duel

These are the thoughts from the panelists.

This is the other two-player game selected, Seven Wonders Duel, and this is the last potential panelist pick on the list.

They say, every action you take in this game is a direct hit on your opponent.

You deprive them of resources, make them pay all their money, overpower them militarily, or find a way to snatch away important building blocks of their strategy.

The gods and pantheon add to the constant threat.

It is a short but heavy battle, and 30 minutes feels intense.

That's Seven Wonders Duel at number three.

Number two, we have Rumble Nation.

Which makes me think of Codenames Duet, because they both got green boxes.

And if you're going into duet games, I'm thinking of another duet game, which is Seven Wonders Duel.

And I'm thinking of Queens, which is a B game by Bruno Catala, who also makes Seven Wonders Duel.

Which is B themed, which is good, because that makes me think of Honeybuzz.

And that makes me think of Chai, because that's a company that I'm not sure is around anymore, just like Elf Creek Games.

The Hobbit, there and back again, a Roll and Write style game in the Hobbit universe, which I thought worked well, 7 out of 10.

Seven Wonders Dice, which is good, but not as good as Seven Wonders Duel or Seven Wonders itself, but still a decent Roll and Write game, 7 out of 10.

Rise of the Wastelands.

Dudes on a Map.

All right, Michael.

Seven Wonders Duel, Architects, a great game.

Great game.

Crazy to set up, get rolling.

So I wasn't quite sure why they would do a two-player version of it.

I was thinking back of all the other Duel versions we've been seeing lately, right? White Castle Duel, Splendor Duel, Seven Wonders Duel, Flamecraft Duel.

Just all kinds of games that have this... normal version in many cases that play just fine at two players and yet they're still putting out two two player versions so just wanted to get the gauge for the community on here on uh on how that was hitting what do you guys think you're excited about

these dual versions i answered that yes i think they're a great idea and i've played a few of them and been very happy with the ones that i've tried and i think off the top of my head the ones that i've played and really liked were splendor duel Seven Wonders duel, and I'm sure there's others that I'm forgetting.

And just as a kind of an aside, Azul...

Actually, does Azul have an Azul duel? Yeah,

I took the cop-out answer, but hearing your answer there, I'm trying to think about dual games that I actually enjoy and felt like had a purpose.

I can't think of...

But it is this sort of new wave of dual two-player versions of other games.

I don't know if it started with Seven Wonders Duel.

That's certainly a super successful example of taking a game that is inherently a multiplayer game, Seven Wonders, and figuring out a way to play it with two players.

I've seen some pushback online, and I think it is valid.

And so now that restores their hand up to four, the two that they kept and the two that they got from you and vice versa.

But then you actually only get to execute and do three of those roles.

So it's a good, just like Seven Wonders did, Seven Wonders Duel did, it's a good way of taking the multiplayer dynamics of having a little information about what roles are out there, but a lot of uncertainty and recreating it in this two-player form.

And then you build buildings and score points to a little 4x4 grid, and that worked fine too.