Fliptown FAQ
70 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup and Components
Phases of Play
- In multiplayer, is there one shared lineup or does each player get their own?
- Are all cards reshuffled at the start of each round, including discards and the previous Sheriff card?
- When scoring Pan and Work, do you count all tools gained over the game or only this round's?
- When do you earn dollars and gold from pans and hammers?
Phase 6: Sheriff Attempts Arrest
- Can you bribe the Sheriff for only part of your Wanted level?
- Does your Wanted level reset after you pay an arrest penalty or bribe the Sheriff?
- Can you use a character ability after the Sheriff card is flipped to avoid arrest?
- How does the Marshal's special ability work during an arrest attempt?
- When players decide whether to bribe the Sheriff, do they act in turn order or all at once?
Trail and Badlands
- Does the Trail Horse add up to 6 to your value card, or exactly 6?
- On the Trail, can you reuse a circled site by playing a card equal to its value?
- Do you get the Badlands bonus when the robberies on the three matching targets fail?
- Can an Ace count as high when resolving a Badlands robbery?
- Can you take the Badlands bonus the moment you circle the third matching target, before that robbery is resolved?
- In what order are several Badlands robberies resolved when players draw in the same turn?
Mine and Cemetery
Town
- Do you circle a Town building only the first time you visit it?
- In Town, can you take a building's star or bonus action without using the building's effect?
- Do you get a Town building's first-visit bonus when you reach it through a bonus action?
- Can you buy more than one shape in a single Land Office visit?
- Which Land Office shape scores the most stars, and does the corner piece ever beat the straight pieces?
- Can you cross out Wanted at the Hideout before you have circled it, to save the removal for later?
- Once you circle an outlaw at Bail Bonds, does it keep paying out for the rest of the game?
- Are the Gunsmith's gun bonuses +2 and +4, or +3 and +6?
Using Gold to Modify Your Suit or Value Card
Bounty Cards and End Game
- Does the bounty that needs a bonus action in all five regions require one in each region?
- For the bounty that needs 9 or more Wanted, do crossed-out Wanted posters count?
- Do crossed-out cash and gold count toward end-game scoring?
- Do crossed-out Wanted posters count toward your Wanted level for the final ranking?
- What score counts as a Legendary result for the solo achievement?
Play Against a Cowbot (Solo Play Only)
Be a Wild West Character
- Can the Ranch Hand or Prospector ability let you hold more than four plates or picks?
- Does the Gambler's ability double the stars from a poker hand as well as the cash?
- Does the Trailblazer's ability follow the normal bonus action rules, including crossing out skipped Trail rewards?
- Can the Wild Card's ability change the poker, Sheriff or robbery cards?
Texas Hold 'Em Poker Variant
Fliptown: The Lone GunExpansion
- Does the Texas Hold 'Em variant change the Lone Gun campaign's final score?
- With the Lucky Bullet, do you cross out the star or the bonus action when you take a building's bonus action instead?
- Does the Lasso mark the Trail site you skipped as circled?
- In Chapter 6, must Town have two more circles than the most-circled region, or two more than all other regions combined?
- In Chapter 7, must you cross out a Trail stop before using a bonus action that lets you visit it, and are bonus actions mandatory?
- In Chapter 11, can you descend to a lower mine level before filling every chamber on the level above?
- How many stars does the Rigged Scale give at the Prospector's Club?
- Do Lone Gun items carry over between chapters, even after they have been used?
- In Chapter 4, does the Bible still give the Shovel's +1 star?
- In Chapter 4, does lowering the Sheriff card with circled tombstones get you arrested automatically?
- In Chapter 9, is the Sheriff card used even though the story suggests it is not?
- Is The Stranger the only character you can play in the Lone Gun campaign?
- What happens when you fail a chapter's Aim in The Lone Gun?
- Does the game end as soon as you meet the Aim of the Game in a Lone Gun chapter?
- In Chapter 3, can you take a spades bonus action before resolving the gold you gained from the mine?
Fliptown: New FrontierExpansion
- Can you complete a corral's whole perimeter in one visit and take all its rewards at once?
- Can you use the Cowpuncher's ability after drawing extra Blackjack cards?
- When do you earn dollars and gold for pans and hammers in New Frontier?
- Does changing a card's suit with gold trigger the Jesse James bot's stealing ability?
- What does the Top Hat do in the double barrel poker section?
- In single barrel mode, are the tombstones irrelevant in New Frontier?
- In Double Barrel mode, do buildings in New Town count toward the base Mine's silver star bonus?
- Can you hit more than once in Blackjack in the Hills?