Fort FAQ
119 questions players ask · Updated Nov 13, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup
Cards and Suits
- Can a leader declare a Coin card as the Coin suit when playing it?
- Can a Coin count as two different suits for the two actions on one card?
- Must you declare the suit of a coin when you play it or add it to boost an action?
- How is the suit of a coin in your Lookout chosen?
- Can one coin in your Lookout boost two actions that need different suits?
- Does the played card count toward its own suit multiplier?
- How does Ghost's question-mark icon work?
- Which suit counts when I add cards to Ghost's action, and does Ghost's own crown count?
- When following a card such as Patch or Chef, do you copy its public action or its private action?
Player Board
- Are Lookout cards discarded or used up when you boost an action with their suits?
- Can you play a card from your Lookout, or trash one from there?
- Can a wild Coin card go into your Lookout?
- Can you boost an action with cards you have just added to your Lookout?
- How do the Stuff and Pack limits work, and does filling a slot trigger anything?
Your Turn
- What happens if your deck runs out while you draw up to five cards?
- Do you draw back up to five after discarding a card to follow another player?
- Where do the unplayed cards left in your hand go at the end of your turn?
- Can a rival take your Best Friends, or can they end up in a Yard?
- When a card lets you recruit several cards, do you refill the Park after each one?
- Can you recruit the top card of the Park deck instead of a card shown in the Park?
- If you cannot fully use an action on any card in your hand, must you play one?
Playing and Boosting Cards
- Does a card with two icons of the same suit boost an action twice?
- If an added card's suit appears on both actions of the played card, does it improve both?
- Can a Lookout card boost only one of a card's two actions?
- Can you add a boost card when only one of its suits does anything?
- When you boost a played card, must one action be fully completed using every added suit?
- Do you commit the boosting cards when you play the card, or add them as each action resolves?
- Can the cards you add to one played card be of different suits?
- Must you use your Lookout cards when boosting, and do they count toward completing the action?
- Must you fully complete one of a card's two actions when you play it?
- Can you take the two actions on a played card in either order?
- Can you choose to use the second action only partially even when you could complete it fully?
- Can you play a card with no actions, such as Puddin', as your one card for the turn?
- Does an action that gains nothing still count as fully used, such as an empty Doodles or Copy Pack?
- Can you add cards to an action that has no X multiplier, such as Flipper or Lil Boss?
- If you cannot do the right side of a THEN symbol, can you still take the left side, and does that count as fully using the action?
Following the Leader
- Can you use Lookout cards when you follow another player's public action?
- When following with a card that shows a coin and a suit, or with a coin alone, which suit does it count as?
- Can you follow when you don't have room for the whole public action?
- Can you follow with a double-suit card when only one of its icons fits?
- When you follow an X action with a double-suit card, is the effect applied twice?
- When following an X action, which icons set the multiplier: the leader's or your discarded card's?
- When you follow, do you copy the leader's public action using the suits of the card you discard?
- Do you follow after each of the leader's actions, or after their whole card?
- When following, can you play an action card from your hand to add its action?
- When following a public action that trashes a card, do you discard a matching card first, then trash?
- Where does the card you discard to follow go, including a Best Friend?
- When following a gather action, must you match the leader's resource type and amount?
- If the leader does not take the gather part of a public action, who chooses the resource for followers?
- Can the leader name a resource and gather none, so that followers get nothing?
- When following a Pack or Copy Pack action, must you copy the leader's choice or target?
- When following a Convert Resource action, must you convert the same way as the leader?
- When following a gather that counts your Lookout cards, do you count your own Lookout cards?
- Can you add extra suit cards to boost the action you are following?
- Can you follow a card whose only action is private, such as Ghost, or a blank public box?
- When you discard a card to follow, can a trash ability on the action you follow, such as Crash, trash that discarded card?
- When the leader plays a Coin card, does the declared suit set the suit that followers' coins count as?
Fort Level
- When you reach Fort Level 1, do you pick a made-up rule from the whole stack or take the top card?
- Why does the Fort Level start at 0 instead of 1?
- Does the first Fort upgrade cost two resources of any type, or two of the same type?
- Can the resources you pay to advance your Fort come from your Pack as well as your Stuff?
End of Game
- At the end of the game, do all players still complete every turn phase, including recruit, discard and draw?
- Who takes the Macaroni Sculpture if the game ends by another trigger, or two players reach Fort Level 5 together?
- If a player triggers the end of the game on their turn, is the round finished before scoring?
- If the second player triggers the end of the game, can the first player still follow the public action?
Actions: Resources
- When an action copies your Pack, do you get exactly the pizza and toys the copied pack holds?
- Can you take a Copy Pack action only partially when your Stuff cannot hold it all?
- When a gather action lets you choose pizza or toys, can you take one of each, or a mix?
- Can you move a mix of pizza and toys from your Stuff to your Pack in one action?
- Can you move resources from your Pack back to your Stuff?
- Can a card that spends resources to score points take them from both your Pack and your Stuff?
- Can a conversion action swap pizza and toys back and forth?
- Can Tiny's public and private wild resource icons give different resource types?
- Can one card give you one resource of each type?
- For a gather that counts your Lookout cards, must you take as many as the Lookout holds to use it fully?
Actions: Recruit and Trash
- Can you recruit from your own Yard, including when following a recruit action such as Baby Face?
- On Baby Face, if you have room for only two toys, can you recruit more than twice?
- Can a trash effect target the card you played, or the cards added to boost it?
- Can others still follow a card that trashes itself, such as Trash This Card or Destroy this Card?
Actions: Scoring
- How does Bones score: trash a card, then gain VP for each Book?
- How does Kitty's private action work with Glue symbols?
- How many VP does Munch's private action give when you eat several pizzas?
- Do wild coins count toward a per-suit VP multiplier, such as VP per shovel?
- For a trash-then-gain action repeated per suit, such as Sarge's private action, does each repetition need its own trashed card?
Glossary: Made-Up Rules
- Do Coin cards count toward suit-based Made-Up Rules, such as crowns for Play Palace?
- Which cards count for Made-Up Rules that count the cards you have?
- Does a Best Friend in your Lookout or discard pile stop the Loner made-up rule?
- Do Advance Fort actions on Lookout cards count for Big Plans?
- Do double-suit cards count as two cards for the Popularity made-up rule?
Glossary: Perks
- How does Sticky Fingers work: must you hold a resource type, and does it work with an empty Stuff?
- Does the Bribe perk let you add cards to your Lookout from your own Yard?
- What does the Copy Cat perk do when you follow?
- If you use the DIY perk instead of playing a card, does your remaining hand still go to your Yard?
- Can you trash Recycling between discarding your hand and drawing five cards?
- How does Rough Housing work when you use it instead of following?
- Can Rough Housing trash a Best Friend?
- Can you use Rough Housing on a card with no public action?
- What does Birthday Party's extra recruit mean?
- Does a perk that says trash this card mean the perk card itself?
- How do you tell which perks are one-time use and which are permanent?
General
Fort: Cats & Dogs ExpansionExpansion
- How often can a dog card's effect be used in the Cats & Dogs expansion?
- When Echo or Barkley copies a dog action, can you add cards to boost it, and must you fully complete one of the two actions?
- When Pudge trashes cards from your deck and discard pile, can you look through the deck to choose them?
- After Pudge makes you shuffle your deck and discard pile together, do you end up with a new deck and an empty discard pile?
- For Floofer, must the two resources you spend be the same type, or can you mix them?
- What does the Violet dog's 'Add 3 Cards' require?
- How does the Eclair dog's perk draw work when you already hold a perk?
- What does 'add' mean for dog cards in the Cats & Dogs expansion?
- Does the Ranger dog combo with the Bribe perk?
- Does a dog's 'Fort level 2+' requirement include Fort level 2?
- How do you draft the 3 dog and 5 kid cards together in Advanced Setup?
- Do dogs in your doghouse count toward made-up rules that count cards and suits?