7 Wonders: Architects FAQ
42 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Turn Overview
- When can you use the Cat pawn to look at the central deck, and can you peek again after drawing?
- Must you build a wonder stage as soon as you have enough resources, or can you wait?
- In what order can you take the actions in one turn, such as using a progress token, building a stage and resolving a card's effect?
- Are the cards you take during your turn always placed face up?
- Are the coins from yellow cards wild, and can yellow cards alone pay for a stage?
- What happens to the Grey and Yellow cards used to build a Wonder stage?
- What happens when a deck runs out of cards, including the central deck?
- When your own personal deck runs out, which decks can you still take a card from?
Battles and Military
- When does a Battle triggered by a Red card with Horn icons happen if you still have other effects to use that turn?
- When a military tie happens, who gets Military Victory tokens?
- If you take a Red card with 2 Horn icons but only one Conflict token is still on its Peace side, what happens?
- Do Red cards without Horn icons stay in front of you after a Battle?
End of the Game
2 Player Game
Effects of Wonders
- Is taking a Wonder stage's immediate benefit mandatory?
- Are Wonder stage abilities one-time effects, or do they apply every turn?
- Are Rhodes' extra Shields permanent, and how do you track them?
- Does Ephesus's extra draw still work when the central deck is empty?
- After Halicarnassus takes five cards, do the four you do not keep go back into the deck, and is that deck reshuffled?
- Can Babylon choose the top face-down Progress token from the stack for its Wonder effect?
- If Babylon's stage gives a Progress token that triggers when a stage is built, does it trigger for that same stage?
- In a 2-player game, how does Olympia's draw work when it takes from the decks to your left and right?
Effects of Progress Tokens
- Can Science progress tokens chain together to draw several extra cards in one turn?
- Can the same progress token be used more than once in a turn?
- Is the Economy token's extra coin limited to once per turn or once per build?
- Does the Engineering progress token let any resources count for a stage, including identical-resource costs?
- Must you activate a progress token's effect whenever it applies?
- When does a Progress token take effect, and does it apply to a card you already took this turn?
- How many Victory points does the Culture progress token give when you hold one or both copies?
7 Wonders: Architects – MedalsExpansion
- Can 7 Wonders: Architects – Medals be played with 9 players?
- Must a Ur wonder's bottom-level stages both be built before any second-level stage?
- Does the Dog progress token from Medals work differently from the Cat token?
- How does the Ur wonder's Cat pawn ability work?
- If Rome's power ends the game, does the victim get to play the card they received?
- In a 2-player game with Medals, are there still two Medals between the players?
- If Rome gains a card that lets it build a Wonder stage, must Rome keep building?
- Can you achieve more than one Medal objective in a single turn?