7 Wonders Duel

Setup and access: each player begins with 7 coins and selects 4 Wonders. Each Age uses 20 cards in its prescribed face-up and face-down structure. Only a card with no other card covering it is accessible; reveal newly accessible face-down cards after playing your card.

Three uses: pay a Building’s cost to add it to your city; discard it for 2 coins plus 1 per yellow card in your city; or pay a selected Wonder’s cost and tuck the card face down beneath it. A card used for a Wonder contributes neither its printed cost nor its effects.

Construction and trading: your resource production is reusable each turn and is not consumed. For each missing unit, you normally pay the bank 2 coins plus the matching resource symbols on your opponent’s brown and grey cards. Yellow-card and Wonder production does not increase this price; specific commercial discounts can set a resource price to 1 coin. Any printed coin cost must also be paid.

Free chains: if a constructed Building supplies the white chain symbol shown in a later Building’s cost area, that later Building can be constructed for free without surrendering its predecessor. Without the symbol, you can still pay the normal cost.

Wonders and Ages: when the seventh Wonder is constructed, remove the remaining unbuilt Wonder. Resolve a replay after revealing newly accessible cards; it is lost if the display is empty. At an Age’s end, the militarily weaker player chooses who starts next; if the Conflict pawn is central, the last active player chooses.

Military supremacy: each shield on a Building or Wonder moves the Conflict pawn one space toward the opposing capital. Resolve and remove a military token when entering its zone, making the opponent return the indicated coins to the bank. Reaching the opposing capital wins immediately.

Scientific supremacy: a pair of identical scientific symbols lets you immediately take a Progress token from the board. Six different symbols win immediately. The base game has seven symbols across green Buildings and the Law Progress token; they are not all found on green cards.

Civilian victory: if neither supremacy occurs before Age III ends, add military position points (0/2/5/10), blue/green/yellow/purple Buildings, Wonders, Progress tokens, and 1 point per complete 3 coins. Break a total-score tie with points from blue Buildings; if still tied, share the victory.