Cities (2024) FAQ
35 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Gameplay
- Can a special feature tile be placed on a water or park space?
- Once a building is placed on a special feature tile, is its colour fixed?
- Where can a monument feature tile be placed, and can anything go on top of it?
- Can you place several building pieces of one colour onto one space in a single turn?
- Can you build a new building and stack more pieces on it in the same action?
- If you take building pieces you cannot place, can you keep them or re-stack placed ones?
- In a two-player game, can one player's worker visit the same row twice before the others are visited?
- Can you deliberately place duplicate feature tiles in one water or park area?
City Achievement Boards
- Does Sydney's Circular Quay achievement need exactly the four building heights 1, 2, 3 and 4?
- For Sydney's Botanic Gardens achievement, do the park and water spaces have to touch, or only the areas?
- Must the park area and water area in Barcelona's Ciutadella Park achievement be adjacent?
- For New York's Avenues goal, can one horizontal line of six and one vertical line of six satisfy it?
- Do building spaces covered by a Monument still count toward New York's Avenues goal?
- What counts as city spaces versus building spaces in Cities?
- Can regular water or park feature tiles count as city, water, or park spaces for an achievement?
- Does a special feature tile count as an empty city space of any colour for achievements?
- Must Lisbon's three-area achievement have exactly three building spaces per area?
- Do the three Lisbon areas have to be different colours?
- For Venice's bridges goal, can one building space count toward more than one pair?
- Do the three Venice bridge pairs have to be the same colour?
- Must the water between a Venice bridge pair be exactly one space?
- Does a statue or monument covering a Venice bridge square still count as a building space?
- In Buenos Aires' Lago de Regatas, must the lake also be surrounded diagonally?
- If you claim an achievement and later no longer meet its requirements, do you lose the ring?
- For Barcelona's Eixample goal of 12 city spaces, do water and park spaces count?
End of a Round
End of a Game
- If two copies of the same scoring card are in play, do you score both copies?
- Do duplicate feature tiles in the same water or park area add to that area's score?
- Does a single water or park space count as an area for scoring?
- For the largest water area scoring card, do you count squares or connected pairs?
- On the Liveable Cities scoring card, must the four buildings in a set be the same size?
- How do you know when a Cities game ends, without tracking rounds?
- On the Spanish personal objective card, must the buildings be together or can they be separated?