“Splendor” puts you in the role of a merchant during the Renaissance period.  Your goal will be to increase your prestige by purchasing cards (mines, shops, etc.) with differently colored chips (gems) that you can collect on a regular basis.  Since all cards have varying costs and require different gem colors, it’ll be a race to see who can best manage their resources and make the most logical purchases based on the situation as it presents itself.  In other words, there’s a heavy focus on chip collecting and card development.  This might sound a bit complicated to some but it has a play time of only thirty minutes…meaning you won’t spend hours scratching your head and yearning for the game to “just be over already”.  Quite the contrary, in fact.

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