Clever Cubed FAQ
25 questions players ask · Updated Nov 13, 2026 · Full rulebook
Game Play
- Can the silver platter ever hold fewer than three dice, forcing a passive player to take one?
- If a passive player has no usable die on the silver platter, can they take one of the active player's dice?
- As the active player, if you choose not to take a die from a roll, do you lose the rest of your turn?
The Color Areas
- If a number joker changes a turquoise die taken with a +1, which dice count toward the marks?
- When you use a +1 on a turquoise die, which other matching dice count toward the marks?
- If a white die is used as turquoise, does the order it was rolled in change how many turquoise squares you mark?
- Where on the yellow track can a yellow die taken with a +1 be marked?
- If a passive player takes the active player's yellow die by normal choice, which yellow row is marked?
- In the brown area, can you skip squares, and can you ever go back to an earlier square?
- At game end, do you score only the turquoise squares in the turquoise area, or every crossed square?
- Is the first pink square worth only half points?
- How is a halved pink value rounded, and does a pink 1 still earn the bonus?
- Can you write a 7 after any blue number, and can the first blue value be a 7?
- Can you write a 7 to reset the blue area when the blue and white dice do not sum to 7?
Bonuses
- Does an unlocked turquoise ? bonus ever mark more than one turquoise square?
- Can a yellow ? bonus be marked in any yellow square, whatever the position of the die?
- Does a blue ? bonus add the white die, or can you write any legal blue value?
- If a number joker changes a blue die's value, do you still add the white die to it?
- Can the number joker be used on the white die, or on a die other than the one you are taking?
- After a number joker changes a die's value, does the die stay at that value for the rest of the turn?
- Can you combine a +1 action with a number joker on the same die?
- Do you have to use number joker bonuses in order, such as 3, 4, 5 and so on?
- Does the number joker track start at 3, or at 2 as in a recent app update?
- When do players use the round-4 ? bonus, before or after the first active player rolls?
- Can a +1 target a die you picked yourself, and can each die be used for only one +1?