The first is that as well as improving your production some cards might reduce your production of cubes of a certain colour. I don’t know if it was intended this way, but from experience, I say such a thing is rarely a coincidence, and therefore It’s a Wonderful World is saying more than what’s apparent at the surface – making its name even more cynical than it already is.

Looking at people’s engines, you might think you can guess who is going to be the winner, but honestly it has always been a surprise to me who wins in the end. There is a lot to this game, but it is well-designed and well-produced, so it’s easy to learn and easy to play, because both the rules and the components are clear. The base experience of It’s a Wonderful World is deceptively simple, because there is much more to explore in its tactical depths that might not seem obvious based on the light ruleset. We accidentally memed on this game because I couldn’t remember the word “financier”, and now I laugh every time I play it.Conversely, if you complete a card with Mineral production during the Energy phase, it will not improve production until the following round.

Discarding cards is a very minor way to gain resources, but the main way is to gain an income from the cards you have already built.Each player looks at their hand of cards, chooses one to keep and then passes the remaining cards to the left (rounds 1 and 3) or right (rounds 2 and 4). At first, you need to have them all (usually four) built by the end of the game, but in later scenarios, you need to build one at least every turn cycle lest you lose outright.