Everdell
190 questions players ask about Everdell. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-10-31.
Setup and Game Flow
- Is the discard pile placed face up or face down in Everdell?
- What do you start the game with: resources, workers, or cards?
- Are the three Rugwort cards only for solo play?
- Can you play the base game with 5 or 6 players without Bellfaire?
- Can you place a worker on the second, four-player slot of a Forest card in a game with fewer than four players?
- Are the Basic Event tiles required to sit in a particular order on the board?
- Can you combine several Everdell expansions in one game?
- Can you use Bellfaire player powers with the base game without the rest of Bellfaire?
- Are card effects optional or mandatory in Everdell?
Seasons and Prepare for Season
- Do all players move to the next season together, and does the first player change?
- How many rounds does Everdell have, and does the game start in Spring with no Winter round?
- How many workers do you gain at each Prepare for Season, and can you use the Autumn workers?
- Must you place all your workers before you can Prepare for Season?
- Is the Summer Meadow draw mandatory, or may you skip it?
- When preparing for Summer and told to draw 2 Meadow cards, do you draw from the deck or the face-up Meadow?
- What happens when you Prepare for Summer with a full or nearly full hand?
- Can you spend more than one Clock Tower point token when preparing for season?
- Do green production cards activate when played, even in Summer?
Hand Limit and Drawing
- What happens when a card or action tells you to draw while your hand is full or nearly full?
- Can you place a worker on a location if you cannot complete all of its actions, such as drawing with a full hand?
- What happens if I must give cards to an opponent but their hand is full or they have passed?
- Can I play the Postal Pigeon with 8 cards in hand?
- Can I play a card from the Meadow when my hand is already at 8 cards?
- Do you have to show the card you find with Bounty Hunter?
Playing Cards and Your City
- Can you have two copies of the same Unique card in your city?
- Can you play a card when your city already has 15 cards?
- When you play a card, is it added to your city before or after its effect triggers?
- Can you play Ruins into an empty city, or as your first construction?
- Can you play a Ruins onto a card that takes no space in your city, such as Ever Wall?
- Can a Ruins be played onto another Ruins card, or onto itself?
- Can a Ruins card be played into a full city of 15 cards?
- Can the Magician be played into a full city by discarding a card to make room, the way the Ruins can?
- If a Farm lets you play a Husband or Wife for free, can you also play the other one for free?
Combining Card-Playing Abilities
- Can you combine card-playing abilities, such as the Judge and the Crane, to reduce the cost of one card?
- Can you combine the Inn's cost reduction and the Dungeon's discount on the same card?
- Can you use an Innkeeper's discount together with an Ever Tree occupied token to play a Queen for free?
- Can the Judge be combined with the Crane, Inn, or other card-playing abilities?
- Can a Spirecrest Discovery card's own card-playing ability be combined with another card-playing ability?
Specific Cards
- Do Critters placed in the Dungeon keep their abilities and points?
- Can the Ranger be placed in the second Dungeon space?
- Can the Husband and Wife both be placed in the Dungeon together, since they share one city space?
- When the Ranger moves a worker to a new location, do you get that location's reward?
- If a construction with a worker on it is discarded or destroyed, do you get the worker back?
- How does Miner Mole work when it copies a production card in another player's city?
- Can a Miner Mole copy an opponent's Miner Mole or Storehouse?
- Is the Historian's draw after playing a card optional?
- Do Historian and Shopkeeper trigger when I play Rugwort the Rowdy into an opponent's city?
Legendary Cards
- Can you play a Legendary card by paying its cost while its basic card is still in your city?
- Can you bring a Legendary critter into play for free through a matching construction or an occupied token?
- Are Legendary cards Common or Unique?
- Can a Legendary card be reactivated, copied or used again by another card?
- Can a Legendary card be played into a full city, creating its own space?
Workers and Locations
- Are some basic locations shared spaces that more than one worker can use?
- Can one player occupy both spots of the same Forest location in a four-player game?
- Can you place a worker on a location or Citizen just to block an opponent?
- Can a Forest card that copies a basic location do so when that location is occupied by another worker?
- Can I use the second worker space on a card before the first space?
- When a card says to place resources on it, do they come from your supply or the general supply?
- For a location that lets you copy an action and draw a card, must the actions follow the printed order?
Events, Journey and Haven
Scoring and End of Game
- What happens to the cards left in my hand when I run out of workers and end my game?
- When one player passes, does the game end, or do the other players keep taking turns?
- Do you remove your workers from the board when you pass?
- How many points is the Wife worth when paired with a Husband at game end?
- How does the Architect score unused resin and pebbles: per resource or per pair?
- Do point tokens left on the Clock Tower or other constructions count at game end?
- Can leftover resources score for more than one end-game card, such as Baker and Wimble Wuffle?
- Do you need a worker on an event to score its 3 end-game points?
- If you claim Ministering to Miscreants and later lose the Dungeon, do you still score the critters under it?
Solo Rules (Rugwort)
- When does Rugwort take his card after you play a card from the Meadow?
- Does Rugwort play a card when you add a card to your city by a Place a Worker action rather than the Play a Card action?
- Does Rugwort get a card play or roll after you play the Fool in a solo game?
- Does Rugwort the Ruler count as a King, so that he blocks another King from being played?
- Can Rugwort have more than 15 cards in his city in solo play, and do his cards' text abilities apply to him?
- How do Legendary cards work in solo play?
Everdell: MistwoodExpansion
- Is Mistwood a solo, co-op, or competitive expansion?
- Who goes first when playing against Nightweave with the Butterfly player power?
- Does Nightweave win ties against the player?
- Can Nightweave be used with three or more human players?
- How many starting cards does each player get when two humans play against Nightweave?
- When does Nightweave Prepare for Season?
- What does Nightweave do on a Spiderling Activity card when she has no Spiderlings left to place but is still in her Lair?
- If Nightweave is already in the Meadow, can an Activity card that places her there make her take that action again?
Everdell: SpirecrestExpansion
- How does Bellsong City score: does a colour you have none of count as zero?
- How does Windlore work: when does he trigger and how does he return?
- Can Grey Cloak's Hideout move a deployed worker to reactivate the location it was on?
- How do Spirecrest Discovery cards work and what do they cost?
- Does Mountaineer let me draft and pay for two Discovery cards?
- Can you use all three cards tucked under Trail Guide or Archeologist for their discount in one turn?
- Does Stubblehoof keep blocking his location after you choose to leave him there, and what happens to your worker?
- Does the Inn owner gain a point when Stubblehoof reactivates an opponent's Inn?
Everdell: PearlbrookExpansion
- When the construction a Messenger shares a space with is removed, where does the Messenger go?
- Does a Messenger played under a Construction count against the city limit?
- Can you discard an Adornment or Legendary card for a Journey or Haven?
- Do Wonders count as Events for scoring cards and tie-breaks?
- Do pearls count as resources for effects that say any resource?
- Does a Frog Ambassador need an exact number of matching cards in your city to visit a River location?
- When the Pirate reveals cards, does the Fool's -2 reduce the total?
- Does a Bridge's draw effect resolve before or after a River destination's pearl gains?
Everdell: NewleafExpansion
- Can a critter that Gardener or a Greenhouse-type card lets you play for free go into a Newleaf construction's space?
- Is there a limit on how many Newleaf cards you can play?
- When a Newleaf critter and construction both have a golden banner, which play condition do I use for the free critter?
- Does Main Road count toward the 15 city spaces, and does it give an extra space?
- Does reserving a Meadow card for later use take your action for the turn?
- How do the Station cards work in Newleaf?
- Can Chip Sweep re-activate the Mayor in Newleaf?
- Can Newleaf cards be mixed into the base game deck?
- Are the extra seasonal Farms part of Newleaf, and how many Farms do you use in a game?
Everdell: BellfaireExpansion
- Can you use the Evertree together with the Bellfaire board in a two-player game?
- How is the Garland award split when two players tie for first?
- With Cardinal's extra draw, does Teacher draw three cards and give one from them?
- Is the Axolotl token a wild resource, or does it stand for the resource of the space it came from?
- When the card holding the Rugwort token is drawn or discarded from the Meadow, where does the token go?
- Can Starlings use their power when drawing from the deck, not only from the Meadow?
- With the Squirrels player power, do you gain one extra twig for each twig or one extra per worker visit?
- Does Blizzard reduce resources when a Fox activates a non-Forest location?