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[Splendor] London Pack Challenge Guide
By Bear 19
How to complete the London Pack challenges (The Wars of the Roses, Utopia, The Excommunication, Magnus Intercursus, The Coffers are Empty, The Final Act) in Splendor.
   
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Category: Achievements, Maps or Levels, Walkthroughs
Languages: English
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Guide Index
Overview
London Pack - Overview 
The War of the Roses 
Utopia 
The Excommunication 
Magnus Intercursus 
The Coffers are Empty 
The Final Act 
Comments
London Pack - Overview
The goal of each of the challenges in the London Pack is to get a certain number of bonuses of each color to win.
The War of the Roses
Challenge rules:
  • You need to collect a specific number of Bonuses [white: 1, blue: 1, green: 1, red: 1, black: 1] to win the game.
  • Cards are drawn in a predetermined order.
  • You must complete this Challenge in less than 1 min.
  • Only the level-1 deck is used in this Challenge.
  • There are 3 Tokens(s) per color. Once spent, these Tokens are not returned to their piles.
  • You can reserve a maximum of 1 card(s).
  • Noble Tiles are not used in this Challenge.
Utopia
Challenge rules:
  • You need to collect a specific number of Bonuses [white: 3, blue: 0, green: 3, red: 0, black: 3] to win the game.
  • Cards are drawn in a predetermined order.
  • You must complete this Challenge in less than 2 min 30 sec.
  • Only the level-1 deck is used in this Challenge.
  • There is 1 Tokens per color, expect for Sapphire (blue) and Ruby (red) which have 3 Tokens.
  • You can reserve a maximum of 1 card(s).
  • Noble Tiles are not used in this Challenge.
The Excommunication
Unlike the other challenges, this one doesn't have a predetermined card order so you are on your own figuring out the exact order you need to purchase cards and pick up gems. However, if you follow the general tips & tricks given in the other challenge videos you should be fine.

Challenge rules:
  • You need to collect a specific number of Bonuses [white: 5, blue: 6, green: 6, red: 6, black: 5] to win the game.
  • You must complete this Challenge in less than 33 turns.
  • You may take 3 Token(s) each turn without any constraints.
  • The level-1 cards deck is not used in this Challenge.
  • You start with 5 Token(s) per color. One spent, these Tokens are not returned to their piles.
  • You start with 2 Bonuses of all colors except Onyx (black) and Diamond (white) which you start with only 1 Bonus.
  • Noble Tiles are not used in this Challenge.
Magnus Intercursus
Challenge rules:
  • You need to collect a specific number of Bonuses [white: 1, blue: 1, green: 3, red: 2, black: 1] to win the game.
  • Cards are drawn in a predetermined order.
  • You must complete this Challenge in less than 2 min.
  • Only the level-1 deck is used in this Challenge.
  • There are 2 Tokens per color.
  • You may not Reserve cards.
  • Noble Tiles are not used in this Challenge.
The Coffers are Empty
Challenge rules:
  • You need to collect a specific number of Bonuses [white: 6, blue: 5, green: 2, red: 4, black: 4] to win the game.
  • Cards are drawn in a predetermined order.
  • The level-3 deck is not used in this Challenge.
  • You start with 4 Tokens per color. Once spent, these Tokens are not returned to their piles.
  • You can reserve a maximum of 1 card(s).
  • Noble Tiles are not used in this Challenge.
The Final Act
Challenge rules:
  • You need to collect a specific number of Bonuses [white: 8, blue: 8, green: 8, red: 8, black: 8] to win the game.
  • Cards are drawn in a predetermined order.
  • You must complete this Challenge in less than 3 min 20 sec.
  • You start with 1 Tokens per color. Once spent, these Tokens are not returned to their piles.
  • You have 1 Bonus(es) of each color.
  • Noble Tiles are not used in this Challenge.
4 Comments
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Bear 19  [author] 29 Jan, 2022 @ 7:22pm 
@Silverblade With my luck, I could play it a X times with the same cards, make the video, then find out on the X+1 try the card order decided then to change. It's been a couple years since I last played, but that would be the literal definition of a bug, game play not matching the given rule set. I wasn't going to take time to make an optimal solution guide video based on something that is broken in the game; whether the developers ever plan to fix it by changing the game play or updating the rules around the challenge i don't know.
Silverblade 29 Jan, 2022 @ 6:07pm 
I don't see how you could have played the challenge and NOT have noticed that the cards are exactly the same every time. It's not a bug, they simply failed to list all the rules for the stage properly. It's by far the hardest of the pack.
Bear 19  [author] 29 Jan, 2022 @ 11:57am 
@Silverblade The game doesn't claim the cards are predetermined, unlike the other challenges where it is explicitly listed as part of the rule set. You are either lucky to get the same cards (deck drawn RNG doesn't reset if you just hit try again button only if you quit to the menu), or the game has another bug.
Silverblade 29 Jan, 2022 @ 1:42am 
"Unlike the other challenges, this one doesn't have a predetermined card order so you are on your own figuring out the exact order you need to purchase cards and pick up gems"

Yeah, no. The cards are very much predetermined. Useless.