It’s a Wonderful World

About this board game

It’s a Wonderful World is a card-drafting and engine-building game for 1–5 players, with games lasting about 45 minutes. You lead an expanding empire and compete to develop faster and better than your rivals.

Each round, players draft seven cards and decide what to do with them. Some cards can be recycled to immediately acquire resources, while others are kept for construction. Careful choices help shape your expansion and strengthen your production power.

• Draft seven cards each round
• Recycle cards for immediate resources
• Construct cards to increase production and gain victory points
• Plan around the specific order of the production phase

When a card is fully built, it joins your empire. Its effects can increase your production capacity for each round and may also provide victory points. Because production takes place in a specific order, the timing of your constructions matters: planning one development carefully can help set up the next.

The base game supports solo play as well as games with up to five players. Its combination of drafting, recycling, construction, and growing production creates an engaging puzzle as you decide which opportunities to pursue and which resources to gain immediately.

Expansions for It’s a Wonderful World add campaign boxes with storylines and gameplay twists. Campaigns can be replayed, and completing one unlocks a reward booster containing new cards that enhance the base game while preserving memories of the campaign. The campaigns do not require destroying game components.