Splendor The Silk Road

Explore New Cities. Build Powerful Trading Posts!

Take your merchant empire to new heights with Splendor: The Silk Road, an exciting expansion that adds fresh objectives, powerful bonuses and new strategic choices to the classic Splendor experience.

Travel through the legendary cities of the Silk Road, compete for prestigious city tiles and establish trading posts that reward your growing influence. With two different modules to explore, every game offers new ways to build your strategy and claim victory.

Important: This is an expansion and requires the original Splendor board game to play.

🎮 How to Play

🏙️ Module 1: The Cities

1. Set Up the City Tiles – Replace the standard noble objectives with city tiles according to the rules.
2. Discover Your Objectives – Each city tile presents specific requirements involving prestige points and/or development cards.
3. Build Your Merchant Empire – Collect gem tokens and purchase development cards to meet the required objectives.
4. Claim a City – Fulfil a city's requirements to qualify for victory.
5. Race Against Rivals – Plan your purchases carefully and become the first player to satisfy the winning conditions.

🛤️ Module 2: The Trading Posts

1. Prepare the Trading Posts – Set out the trading post tiles according to the setup rules.
2. Collect Development Cards – Build your collection of cards to unlock trading post bonuses.
3. Unlock Special Powers – Earn rewards that can provide additional prestige points, extra gem tokens or other advantages.
4. Use Bonuses Strategically – Time your purchases and token collection to maximise your benefits.
5. Dominate the Silk Road – Combine your permanent card bonuses with trading post powers to gain the advantage.

You can enjoy the modules individually or combine them with compatible Splendor expansions for additional variety, following the applicable rules.