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Century: Spice Road

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2017 · 2-5 players · 45min · weight 1.80 · 27,656 ratings

v2 v3 fit 0.487

BGG raw

ID
209685
Name
Century: Spice Road
Year
2017
Rank
234
Min players
2
Max players
5
Playing time
45
Min playtime
30
Max playtime
45
Avg weight
1.7986
Num weights
690
Bayes avg
7.10428
Average
7.29018
Users rated
27656
Num owned
35223
Wanting
469
Wishing
4626
Num comments
4198
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:15:39 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (10)
Action RetrievalAuction: DutchContractsDeck, Bag, and Pool BuildingEnd Game BonusesHand ManagementIncrease Value of Unchosen ResourcesOpen DraftingSet CollectionVariable Set-up
Categories (3)
Card GameEconomicMedieval
Description (780 chars)

Century: Spice Road is the first in a series of games that explores the history of each century with spice-trading as the theme for the first installment. In Century: Spice Road, players are caravan leaders who travel the famed silk road to deliver spices to the far reaches of the continent for fame and glory. Each turn, players perform one of four actions: Establish a trade route (by taking a market card) Make a trade or harvest spices (by playing a card from hand) Fulfill a demand (by meeting a victory point card's requirements and claiming it) Rest (by taking back into your hand all of the cards you've played) The last round is triggered once a player has claimed their fifth victory point card, then whoever has the most victory points wins.

LLM v2 (wide)

Core verb
play trade card
Decision shape
combinatorial
Reward schedule
engine_compounding
Aesthetics
["Challenge"]
Core loop pitch
Acquire trade cards, chain conversions of cube spices, fulfill colorful order cards for points.
Translation difficulty
Easy
Difficulty reason
Compact deck/conversion engine; lives on BGA and unofficial mobile (Spicee). No first-party digital port.
Direct digital port
Century: Spice Road (browser, Board Game Arena)
Port kind
bga
Closest loop translation
none yet
Primitive tags
["resource_upgrade_chain", "card_engine_recall_action", "contract_market_bonus", "cube_color_ladder", "splendor_like_endgame_trigger"]
Confidence
0.8
Extracted at
Mon Apr 27 2026 11:40:03 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Raw v2 JSON (872 chars)
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  "name": "Century: Spice Road",
  "core_verb": "play trade card",
  "decision_shape": "combinatorial",
  "reward_schedule": "engine_compounding",
  "aesthetics": [
    "Challenge"
  ],
  "core_loop_pitch": "Acquire trade cards, chain conversions of cube spices, fulfill colorful order cards for points.",
  "mobile_translation_difficulty": "Easy",
  "translation_difficulty_reason": "Compact deck/conversion engine; lives on BGA and unofficial mobile (Spicee). No first-party digital port.",
  "direct_digital_port": "Century: Spice Road (browser, Board Game Arena)",
  "direct_digital_port_kind": "bga",
  "closest_loop_translation": "none yet",
  "primitive_tags": [
    "resource_upgrade_chain",
    "card_engine_recall_action",
    "contract_market_bonus",
    "cube_color_ladder",
    "splendor_like_endgame_trigger"
  ],
  "confidence": 0.8
}

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).