# Century: Eastern Wonders

Century: Eastern Wonders is a board game for 2–4 players. It plays in 30–45 minutes and is meant for ages 8 and up. Ludoya players call it best with 4. It is rated 5.6 out of 10 by 37 Ludoya reviewers. The cheapest copy in stock is $28.39 (United States).

- **Players:** 2–4 (best with 4)
- **Playing time:** 30–45 minutes
- **Minimum age:** 8+
- **Complexity:** 2.1 out of 5
- **Year published:** 2018
- **Categories:** Nautical
- **Mechanics:** Contracts, Pick-up and Deliver, Point to Point Movement, Grid Movement, Set Collection, Modular Board
- **Ludoya rating:** 5.6 out of 10, from 37 reviews
- **Owned by:** 86 Ludoya players
- **Plays logged on Ludoya:** 174
- **Unique players:** 191

**Designers:** Emerson Matsuuchi

**Artists:** Atha Kanaani, Chris Quilliams

**Publishers:** Plan B Games

## Where to buy in United States

| Shop | Price | Link |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cardhaus Games | 28.39 $ | https://www.cardhaus.com/century-eastern-wonders/ |
| 401 Games | 35.95 $ | https://store.401games.ca/products/century-eastern-wonders |
| Goblin Trader Barcelona | 14.95 € | https://www.goblintrader.es/es/inicio/34341-century-maravillas-de-oriente-8435407640252.html |
| Games Empire | 54.99 $ | https://gamesempire.com.au/products/centuryeasternwonders |
| Curiosity Shop | 35 € | https://www.thecuriosityshop.es/products/century-maravillas-de-oriente |
| El Nucli | 40 € | https://www.elnucli.es/products/century-maravillas-de-oriente |

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## Rules questions

### How do I acquire a Merchant card — what do I pay and does the leftmost card cost anything?

To acquire a Merchant card, place one cube from your cargo hold on each Merchant card to the left of the card you are taking, then take that Merchant card into your hand; taking the leftmost card requires placing no cubes (page 1).

### When I play a Trade card or do a Market action, can I perform the same trade multiple times?

Yes — both Trade cards and Market actions allow you to perform the listed trade any number of times in a row as long as you have the required cubes available (page 2).

### How many cards do I have to discard to move my boat, and where can those cards come from?

For a Move action you discard one or more cards (each discarded card equals one adjacent tile of movement) from your hand and/or your face-up cards to the right of your player board into your face-down discard pile; the first movement also requires a discarded card (page 2).

### Can I end my movement on a market tile that already has other players' boats?

You may end on a market tile with other boats only if you can pay each owner 1 cube from your cargo when you land there; if you don’t have enough cubes to pay all concerned players you cannot end your movement on that tile (page 2).

### What does it cost to build an outpost on a market tile?

You may build one outpost per market tile if you don’t already have one there; the cost is 1 cube for each outpost currently on that market tile (in a 2-player game this counts as 2 cubes per outpost), so placing the first outpost on a tile costs no cubes (page 2).

### How do Port VP tiles and the Closed Port tile work when I claim a VP tile?

To claim a port’s VP tile return the cubes shown on that VP tile to the supply and take the tile face down, then draw and reveal the next VP tile for that port; if the revealed tile is the Closed Port tile the port is closed (no VP tiles are placed while it is present), and whenever a VP tile is later claimed at another port you move the Closed Port tile to that port and then place a VP tile on the port that previously held the Closed Port (page 2).

## Links

- [This page](https://www.ludoya.com/games/century-eastern-wonders)
- [Century: Eastern Wonders in the Ludoya app](https://app.ludoya.com/g/century-eastern-wonders)
- [BoardGameGeek entry](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/242574)

_Data from Ludoya, updated 2026-09-19. Ratings, ownership and play counts are Ludoya's own._