How to Play Splendor Duel

Splendor Duel is a standalone two-player game with a spatial token market and three different ways to win.

Take tokens

Choose a legal line of adjacent tokens from the shared 5×5 board under the normal draft restrictions.

Buy a Jewel card

Spend tokens to purchase a card. Purchased cards provide permanent discounts and can add prestige, crowns, pearls or special effects.

Reserve a card

Reserve an available Jewel card and take gold where the rules permit.

Privileges

Privileges let you take individual tokens outside the normal line-drafting action. Opponent choices can award privileges when they refill or take certain token combinations.

Pearls

Pearls are a distinct resource required by specific cards and cannot simply be treated as another gem color.

Crowns

Crown symbols contribute to one of the game’s immediate victory routes.

Victory

The game ends immediately when a player satisfies any one of the three printed victory conditions.

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