Caper: Europe FAQ
48 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup
Round Structure
- When you draft and play a card, does your opponent see it before choosing their own card?
- Does the first player change from round to round in Caper: Europe?
- Are discarded cards placed face up or face down in your Hideout?
- On the final turn of a round, is the last card passed or discarded, and does this apply to Gear rounds too?
Thief Rounds
Gear Rounds
Assembling a Crew
Icon Effects
- Do the Driver and Soprano trigger when a yellow or purple card goes to your discard by round end, coin discard, or burning?
- Does the Boxer's caper movement depend on which crew the coins are placed in?
- Does losing coins move the Caper Tracker?
- If two cards at one Location have the same Caper icon, does each one move the Caper Tracker?
Set Effects
- Does a Set Effect count cards already in the crew, and cards played there later?
- Are all card effects ongoing, so they trigger whenever their condition is met later in the game?
- If The Chef is played onto a Thief with light blue Gear already in that crew, does his Caper effect trigger immediately?
- If a Thief scores a color set, does each complete set count separately, and can one Gear card be reused?
- How many sets does a Thief score when the Location has uneven numbers of each color?
Locations and How to Win Them
- Do the ongoing Location icons with darker backgrounds apply to both players, including for Gear played later?
- Do both players score a Location's bonus, or only the player who won the Location?
- If there are no coins left in the supply, how many coins can you take from your opponent?
- What does the arrow symbol on a Rome Location card mean for scoring?
Burning Cards
- If a burned card's effect could not fully happen when it was played, is it still reversed when the card is burned?
- Can a Blazeblaster burn another Blazeblaster to undo the first one's effect?
- If a burned card would return more coins than you have, how much is lost?
- When a burned card returns a wildcard Stolen Good, who chooses which good goes back to the board?
- After a Blazeblaster burns a Gear card, can another Gear card be played in that spot?
- Can a Blazeblaster destroy a Thief card and revert its effects?
Game End and Scoring
- Do burned and end-of-round discards count toward Veloce Wheels, including discards made before it was played?
- Can one Stolen Good count toward the bonus scoring of two different Locations?
- Does a Barcelona card with a topmost-color bonus score its points for each matching card in the crew, or once?
- How does the Anarchist score when a purple Gear card is topmost in its crew?
- Does the Pickpocket score once, or once per yellow topmost card or set, when several yellow Gear cards qualify?
- How do Plans Caches score when several light-blue cards are at the Location, and do several copies each score?
- With two Laundromatics and two Scoundrels in your Hideout, do you score two or four points?
- Do coins in a London Hideout count toward the coin tiebreaker?
- If several Thieves in one crew are at a Location, does each need a topmost card of the bonus color?
The Cities of Caper: Europe
- Once coins are stored in your Hideout by a London effect, can you spend them or can your opponent take them?
- Does the Paris reference card text give extra points for collecting Paris cards, or for a Paris icon on a Location?
- Does a Barcelona purple-eye bonus on a Thief trigger by the eye's color or by the card's own color?
- Do coins you collect go into a specific Location, or are they yours?
- When a Rome card says to move the Caper Tracker per discarded card, which tracker moves?
- Does the Don count himself when moving the Caper Tracker for each Thief in your crew?
- Does a London cream-card coin bonus pay out during play or at game end?
- If the supply is empty, can a card that places a coin from the supply into your Hideout take one from your opponent instead?