Lucky Duck Games

It’s a Wonderful Kingdom

High Interaction Drafting and Engine Building

by Bree Goldman, Director of Marketing, Lucky Duck Games

It’s a Wonderful Kingdom is the standalone solo and 2-player followup to It’s a Wonderful World. Take turns offering cards to your opponent and drafting what they have offered to you. Split your offering carefully and make strategic selections to trap your opponent. Inspired by the core mechanics of its predecessor, this new game offers more interaction, a bluff mechanism and new challenges.

It’s a Wonderful Kingdom is designed by Frédéric Guérard and published by Lucky Duck Games and La Boîte de Jeu.

The game is played using modules, each offering different mechanical twists. Each game, players will choose one of the modules – Menaces, Advisors, or Quests – to compete against each other. The game is divided into four rounds, each round having three phases. Split & trap

Players take turns offering two cards from their hand to the other player. They can be offered together on one side of the board or split to place one card on each side. The other player then chooses one side of the board and takes all the cards on that side, setting them aside until the draft is complete. The second player then makes an offering, potentially adding cards to the ones offered by the first player. This exchange continues until all cards have been offered.

High player interaction

It’s a Wonderful Kingdom is a high-interaction game with virtually no downtime, where every decision impacts your opponent and all of their decisions affect you. By default, cards are offered face up. However, each player gets two trap tokens to use each round, which allow them to place an offered card face down. Use these strategically to trick your opponent into taking bad cards – or trick them into not taking the cards you want, so you can select them on your next turn!

Plan, recycle, and build

After all cards have been offered, both players choose which of their drafted cards to build, and which to recycle for immediate resources. Plan carefully; with only four rounds of play you won’t want anything to go to waste! Once you’ve made your choices, production begins. Each resource is produced in the same order every round, so with proper planning you might be able to complete a building early in Production that can then produce resources for you later in the same phase!

Don’t forget to score!

It’s easy to get caught up in the engine building in It’s a Wonderful Kingdom, but you can only win by scoring victory points! Make sure to switch gears in the later rounds to start gaining points or you’ll find yourself at the end of the game with lots of resources but very few points.

It’s a Wonderful Kingdom is a competitive game of drafting and engine building for 1 or 2 players. It will appeal to fans of engine building and drafting games, highly competitive gamers, solo gamers, and fans of its predecessor, It’s a Wonderful World.

12+ 75-150 1-4

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