Blue Moon City FAQ
64 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Components and Setup
- What happens if the crystal tokens run out during the game?
- Can you make change with crystal tokens, and do you keep them face down?
- How many golden scales go out during setup for each player count?
- Must the courtyard, temples and palace be placed exactly as the illustration shows?
- Where do the dragons start, and how do they first enter the city?
A Player's Turn
- Is there a maximum hand size?
- Must you move your figure on your turn, and can you step back?
- What do you do on your turn if you have no valid contribution?
- Can you move your figure or a dragon after you have made a contribution?
- Can you contribute to a second building in the same turn?
- Can two figures stand on the same building tile?
- How many cards do you discard and draw at the end of your turn?
- Do you still discard and draw at the end of your turn after an obelisk offering?
- Do cards you discard to use card powers count toward the end-of-turn discard?
Reconstructing a Building
- Can you place several cubes on one building in a single turn?
- Can you overpay a space, for example with three 2s on a value-5 space?
- Must the spaces on a building be filled from left to right?
- Can one contribution fill two spaces on a building at once?
- Can I mix colours when filling one Royal Palace box?
- What happens if you run out of cubes early in the game?
Scoring a Completed Building
- Does the player with the most markers also get the contributor reward?
- Do you get the contributor reward more than once if you place several cubes on one building?
- How is a tie for the most markers on a building broken?
- Are the majority, contributor and neighbourhood rewards paid together or in sequence?
- Do diagonal buildings count for a neighbourhood reward?
- Is a neighbourhood reward paid again when another neighbouring building is completed?
- Does a completed Fire Temple give its neighbours 3 crystals or 3 cards?
- Do players and dragons move when a building is scored and flipped over?
- Can you discard the reward cards you receive from a building in the same turn?
- When do you get the cards from a building completed on another player's turn?
- In what order do players draw reward cards when several players win cards from one building?
Dragons and Golden Scales
- Do dragons pay scales again if you make a second contribution in the same turn?
- Do dragons pay scales again on a later turn, and does a dragon left on the tile still count?
- Does an obelisk offering earn a dragon scale when dragons are on the courtyard?
- Can a movement card move a dragon to a space I am not on?
Scoring the Golden Scales
- When a contribution collects dragon scales and completes a building, which scales are handed out first?
- If the golden scales run out, do players who could not receive one still count it?
- Do the most-scales bonus and the three-scales bonus stack, and what happens on a tie?
- Do players who get no crystals keep their golden scales?
- Can you turn golden scales into crystals whenever you like?
- Are crystals only rewarded when a building is completed?
Offering Crystals to the Obelisk
Winning the Game
The Card Powers
- Does a green Khind card take on the special ability of the colour it stands in for?
- How do Khind and Mimix wildcards work in a contribution?
- Must two Mimix cards count as a wild 3, and can the pair be used for any colour?
- How many cards can a white Hoax convert, and must they share a starting colour?
- Can cards converted by a Hoax be combined with normal cards of the new colour in one contribution?
- Can one Hoax recolour cards for more than one contribution, or be saved for later?
- Does recolouring a card with a Hoax change the card's own power?
- Is there a limit on how many card powers you can use in one turn?
Blue Moon City: Expansion Tile Sets 1 & 2Expansion
- How do the Hospital and Meeting House tiles work?
- Does the Hospital's end-of-turn card bonus need the building underneath to be completed?
- Can you make an obelisk offering from the Golden Shrine, and what does it cost?
- Can you contribute to a building before using an expansion tile's end-of-turn ability?
- Is an expansion tile's end-of-turn ability used before or after the end-of-turn draw?
- Can you use more than one expansion tile's ability in a turn?
- Do completed expansion tiles pass their abilities to adjacent buildings?
- Does the Theatre have an end-of-turn special ability?
- Can the Theatre be built with green cards, or with wild cards such as Hoax or Mimix?