FAQ
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Rules questions from the BoardGameGeek forum. Answers marked Official were confirmed by Delicious Games or the designers.
Common mistakes
- Paying for a different action with the lantern the tile just gave you — the lantern must be yours before you pick up the tile. Ruling · Rule
- Choosing a blocked tile just to take 3 blueberries — a blocked tile cannot move, so it cannot be chosen. Ruling · Rule
- Cutting a die with sawblade tokens alone — every sawing starts by flipping a sawing tile. Ruling · Rule
- Sawing, splicing or gluing a die still in a pot — harvest it to your lumber pile first. Ruling · Rule
- Taking both a public contract and the blueberries and points of a hazelnut order — it is one or the other. Ruling · Rule
- Letting only the hazelnut counter earn the tool and 3-point lines — both income counters do. Ruling · Rule
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When a tile I take moves the saw into a new quadrant, do I get the bonus shown before or after the saw turns?
Before. You gain the bonus of the space your tile starts on (on the wheel edge and in the saw window), then move the tile, turning the saw if the tile crosses the arrow, then do the action.
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When is the arc tile removed?
As soon as the starting quadrant is empty — when the last action tile leaves it. From then on the bonuses under it count.
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A wheel space shows two bonuses. Do I get both?
Yes, you gain everything shown on the space.
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What does the bonus with a scrapwood cube, a 3 and a curved arrow give?
One scrapwood token, 3 points and a tile-reuse token (which lets you use a sawing, splicing or gluing tile again after it has been flipped).
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What does the gear with a 1 on the wheel mean?
Production from one of your helpers.
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What does the lantern with two hazelnuts mean?
You gain a lantern and 2 points.
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How exactly does blocking work? Official
Think of the green line on the central saw: a tile may cross it only when the quadrant it would move into is empty, and then the saw turns so the line stays just ahead of the leading tile.
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Can I choose a blocked tile if I have no lantern, and just take 3 blueberries? Official
No. Without a lantern you cannot use a blocked action at all; a blocked tile cannot be chosen because it cannot move. Choose an unblocked tile instead — you can still take 3 blueberries instead of its action.
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Where does a tile go if the next quadrant's last space is taken? Official
That cannot happen: a tile is only ever as far down a quadrant as the number of tiles that have passed through it. A tile that has run ahead so that the next quadrant is still occupied is at the front and cannot move.
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Must the action tiles always start in the top-right quadrant?
Only in your first game; afterwards you may start in any quadrant for variety.
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Can I do free actions in the middle of my main action — buy one die, complete an order, then buy the second die? Official
Yes. Free actions may be done at any point of your turn, also between the parts of a main action. The same goes for buying two materials and taking two orders, and for both halves of Produce / Plant a Tree.
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Can I use a lantern I gain from the tile's own bonus, or from a production that bonus triggers, to do a different action? Official
No. The lantern must be yours before you pick up the tile. Gaining one first — for example by completing an order as a free action — and then spending it is fine.
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Can a lantern from the wheel bonus count toward the 3 lanterns of a bonus action?
Yes. The restriction only covers the 1-lantern different action; for a bonus action you may use a lantern you just gained, together with two you already had.
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Can my bonus action be the same action as my main action, and when do I do it?
Yes, it may be any of the seven actions, including the one you chose on the wheel, and you may do it at any point of your turn.
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Can I complete several orders in one turn?
Yes. Completing an order is a free action, so you may complete as many as you can pay for.
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When I complete an order, may I take part of its reward, do something else, and take the rest later? Official
No. You take all of an order's rewards together, immediately.
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What if a deck runs out? Official
Shuffle the discarded cards and use them.
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Can I spend sawblade tokens to cut a die without a sawing tile?
No. A cut always starts by flipping a sawing tile; sawblade tokens only add extra cuts to that same sawing.
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Can I saw, splice or glue a die that is still in a pot?
No. A die in a pot is a tree, not lumber. Harvest it to your lumber pile first.
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When planting, may I slice a 1 or a 2 off any larger die for free?
Yes. Planting lets you split off the piece you plant without using a sawing tile.
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With the brown pot I plant two trees. May I slice both dice for free? Official
Yes, both dice may be cut.
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Can I add sawblade tokens to the free planting cut for more pieces?
No. The planting cut is not a sawing, so no extra cuts.
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Can I plant a tree and harvest it in the same turn?
Yes. A die in a pot may be moved to your lumber pile at any time on your turn, even straight after planting.
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A tree shows 5. What happens when it grows? Official
It grows by exactly 2, except a 5, which grows by 1 to 6 because it can go no higher — and a 6 moves to your lumber pile at once.
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Must the planted die match the pot's colour?
Yes: green in the green pot, yellow in the yellow pot, brown in the brown pot.
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What does the brown (third) pot give besides a sapling?
From then on Plant a Tree lets you plant two trees, in two pots, with one action.
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Are permanent helper abilities optional?
No, they trigger every time their condition is met.
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Can I use several different once-per-turn helper abilities in one turn?
Yes, each once-per-turn helper may be used once on each of your turns.
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A helper lets me Improve Workshop immediately. Does that move an action tile?
No. You just do the improvement; no tile moves and no wheel bonus is gained.
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May I use the production from placing that helper to pay for the improvement it gives? Official
Yes, you may choose the order.
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Do helper discounts and effects apply to a bonus action bought with lanterns?
Yes. Permanent abilities apply whenever you perform the action, however you got it.
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The 4 and 6 workshop spaces give production from several helpers. Can one helper produce twice?
No, each production must come from a different helper.
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Does helper HI/16 discount its own cost?
No. Its discount applies to helpers placed after it.
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Are the arched spaces at the ends of the attic's top row tool spaces? Official
Yes. Treat each as sitting above the top-row space next to it: once that space has a tool, the arched space is open.
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What if the tool type an order gives has run out?
The bank is meant to be unlimited: take another type of your choice, or use a substitute marked as the type shown.
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How does the public contract with the glue, sawblade and scrapwood tokens score?
At the end you may spend those tokens for 2 points each, up to 16 points, instead of counting them toward leftovers.
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With a hazelnut order, do I get to claim a public contract and also its blueberries and points?
No, one or the other: claim a contract, or take the blueberries and points shown instead.
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What happens to orders still beside my board at the end?
Each one costs you 2 spaces on the reputation track before completed orders are scored.
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The first printing says to discard helpers and orders after rounds 4 and 12. Which rounds are right?
Follow the income board: the X cards go after the first and third income phases (rounds 4 and 10 with four players, 4 and 11 with fewer), and the second income phase replaces everything with the late-game decks. The January 2023 rulebook prints "after rounds 4 and 10 (11)".
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Do both income counters earn the tool and 3-point rewards on the income board? Official
Yes, the hazelnut counter and the blueberry counter each earn them when they cross those lines.
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Can I pay marketing again to score without moving my marker?
No. Each purchase advances the marker one space — except on the last space, where you may keep buying 11 points for 12 blueberries.
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[Promos] Does the Essen 2022 promo helper that rewards tools trigger however I gain a tool?
Yes — from orders, the income tracks, helpers or any other source.
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