Bullet♥︎
146 questions players ask about Bullet♥︎. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-11-05.
Setup and Components
- Can Bullet be played with five or more players?
- Can wooden and punch-out bullet tokens be mixed in one game?
- What is the "center" in Bullet?
- Can I look at the bullets in the center or my current bag?
- How many bullets and patterns does each heroine start with?
- Does Ekolu start with three patterns or all nine?
- Are power-ups used in Boss Battle, Score Attack or Teams?
- Where do Senka's two crosshairs start, and can they share a space?
Round Structure and Timer
- Who gets a power-up when several players want the same one?
- Does placing my last bullet end my Option Phase?
- Do I have to place every bullet in my current before the Option Phase ends?
- When do I refill my hand to hand size?
- Do I draw a replacement pattern right after using one mid-round?
- Do bullets in my sight stay there into the next round?
- Does damage carry over between rounds, or can I heal?
- Can I flip a bullet and use an action or pattern before placing it?
- Is the timer required in any mode?
- What happens when the timer runs out?
- Where do the bullets I clear go in Free-For-All?
Placing and Moving Bullets
- Can a bullet move past or jump over other bullets?
- Can I chain one movement action in different directions?
- Can I move a bullet into my own hitbox to hit myself?
- Can a boss effect move my bullets into my hitbox and hit me?
- Can I attempt a move that would leave the board and have it fail?
- How much AP does it cost to move a bullet two spaces?
- If an effect asks for more bullets than are available, does the whole effect fail?
Patterns
- Do a pattern's clear spaces have to be inside my sight?
- Do the blank "distance" spaces in a pattern have to be inside my sight?
- Can I choose not to clear a bullet sitting on a pattern's clear space?
- Do the bullets that form a pattern get cleared when I play it?
- Can I play a pattern that clears no bullets?
- Can I use the same pattern twice in a round?
- Must spaces not shown on a pattern be empty?
- Can a dotted empty-space requirement lie outside my sight, and does the hitbox count as empty?
- Can the same bullets satisfy several patterns in one round?
- Can I rotate or mirror a pattern to match my sight?
Star Bullets, Clearing and Powerups
- How often do star abilities trigger when I clear stars?
- Can I decline a star ability after clearing a Star?
- Do star abilities trigger when a Star is cleared by an ability or power-up instead of a pattern?
- How does the "clear a bullet from the center" power-up work?
- Can the team action that sends a bullet place it anywhere in my teammate's sight?
- Are boss-battle Team Action tiles chosen or drawn at random?
Heroines: Adelheid, Ekolu, Esfir, Ling-Ling, Sora and others
- For Adelheid, can face-down bullets count as equal to each other in a pattern?
- For Ekolu, are 3 bullets wild, and before or after placing?
- Is Ekolu's ability to clear all 3s after her third pattern mandatory, and does the pattern position matter?
- When Ekolu places a bullet from the center, can she choose which one?
- Can Ekolu discard a pattern from her discard pile to draw a new one?
- For Young-Ja, what happens when a bullet in the bottom-right corner moves diagonally down?
- Does Sora's unlock ability keep weapons unlocked, and how much does it cost?
- Does Rose have to clear bullets before placing the rest of her bullets?
- What does Rose's third zero-AP action do?
Heroines: Mariel, Rie, Senka and others
- Can Mariel slide a bullet all the way to the bottom of her sight?
- Does Mariel's token count as a bullet for pattern requirements?
- Does Mariel's clear-adjacent action clear everything next to her token?
- How does Mariel's slide work?
- Does Rie keep a card on top of her discard when it is reshuffled?
- When Rie's discard colour blocks a hit, where do the bullets go?
- Can Rie's Curveball hit with a random incoming bullet, and where does it go?
- Do face-down bullets interact with Rie's or the Yakuza's colour-based abilities?
- Does the Yakuza boss ability protect against the colours on her discard pile?
- Can Senka use a pattern if only one crosshair matches?
Intensity and Game End
Boss Battle
- What happens to the boss's incoming bullets after a shield breaks?
- Are bullets sent to a boss's incoming face-up or face-down?
- Do I count bullets sent or their printed numbers to break a shield?
- In what order does the boss round resolve?
- When is a boss pattern checked, and do the bullets forming it go away?
- Do boss patterns carry over to the next round?
- Can one sight satisfy several active boss patterns, and who picks the resolution order?
- When do shield effects happen, and do they repeat each round?
- If two shields break at once, can one bullet hit me twice?
- How many bullets do I draw for my next round against a boss?
Teams and Score Attack
Bullet: FanExpansion
- Can Eulyssa's lily pad flip work in both directions?
- Does Eulyssa discard her Lilypad pattern when an effect makes her discard?
- Does Eulyssa's "place 6 bullets" boss pattern need six uninterrupted placements?
- Does Caitlin's 3 AP ability add bullets to every player's incoming, including in boss battles?
- How do bullets break Caitlain's Overshield, and where is it placed?
- What does Sal's Dragon Form marker and the fireball symbol mean?
- How do I upgrade a Violet seed card into its Flower card?
- When Violet removes a flower pattern from hand to clear 3 bullets, does the card come back?
- In what order do several Hungriest Dragon shield effects resolve?
Bullet: OrangeExpansion
Bullet: Orange+Expansion
Bullet: PaletteExpansion
- Do the letters under Defacer of Tyranny's shields change anything?
- Can Die's movement go in any of eight directions?
- Can I clear fewer bullets than an effect says, and do stars still bounce?
- Do Zuri's distance spaces have to hold bullets?
- Does Zuri gain AP from clearing Stars in a boss fight?
- How do Shout's +1/-1 actions shift a pattern?
- How do Shout's column clears and movement work?
- What does Shout's Live boss card effect "+1 to their number" mean?
Bullet: PawExpansion
- After Mems looks at the top pattern card and applies its effect, is it discarded?
- Are the boss pattern cards for Elurophobia the fears?
- If an Elurophobia pattern's square holds a bullet the pattern's own clear removes, is it still active?
- When a shield breaks, do incoming bullets go to the center before the shield effect?
- How do Beethoven's swap and 3 AP abilities work?
- Does Eluros's "this turn" energy effect last through the boss turn?
- How do Whimsy's boss patterns Cookies & Milk, Day & Night and Full Moon Cookies work?
- How does Memory's boss pattern work, and is her deck ordered by chapter?
- What does "clear" mean when an ability clears from the center or your sight?