Fromage FAQ
52 questions players ask · Updated Nov 11, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup
Turn Structure
- Is there a first player in Fromage because of the white cow icon on the centre piece?
- Can players wait to see what others do before placing their workers?
- If none of your workers are facing you on your turn, do you lose the turn?
- Can you gain resources when a worker is retrieved from a gold plate?
- Must you use all your workers each turn, or can you keep some for later?
Make Cheese
- Do you place your worker on top of the cheese token when making cheese?
- Does a cheese on a fruit or jam space complete an order if its type and age match?
- Can you fulfil an order with a cheese you placed earlier the same turn?
- When is an order completed, and does the cheese stay on the board?
- Can you choose which order card to complete, and how many orders can you complete in one turn?
- Does the cheese icon's orientation matter when you fill a Milking Parlour bonus or an Order?
Venues
- How is the Festival scored for groups of cheese stands?
- Can each Milking Parlour take livestock more than once per game?
- Can you overpay livestock to use a Milking Parlour more strongly?
- Can a Milking Parlour be used when there is no empty cheese space for its Bonus Cheese, to still score livestock points?
- Do you need fruit to place a Bonus Cheese from a Milking Parlour on a fruit or jam space?
- Does a bonus cheese from a Milking Parlour give the bonus of the Fromagerie space it fills?
- Can you use a fruit gained from a Fromagerie space to meet the fruit requirement of that same space?
- Must you take the bonus from a Fromagerie shelf that asks you to discard a resource?
- Can you trade a Cow for a Cow on the Fromagerie's lower left shelf to trigger a player board 'gain another Cow' ability?
- Can you trade an Order Card for another Order Card on the Fromagerie's lower left shelf?
- Can you interrupt gaining two different resources from a Fromagerie shelf to build a structure in between?
- How many points does the Fromagerie give when cheese is on four of the six shelves, including the left-hand ones?
- Are ties in the Villes worth points in a 1 or 2 player game?
- Does the Jammery tile let you move two fruit onto the Jam space?
Structure Abilities
- Can you build several structures in one turn so that the Cellar and Tasting Room chain together?
- Do the Depot and the Gift Shop both complete an order card?
- Where do you discard an incomplete order card for the Mould Cave?
- Can structures like the Farmhouse, Feedlot, Mould Cave or Trading House be triggered more than once?
- How does the Showroom score cheese on prestige shelves in the Fromagerie?
- Can you ignore the Foundation's discount when completing the Headquarters, and add a structure token later to raise its score?
- Does building a structure with the Foundation discount lower the Headquarters score?
- Can the Pasteurizing Chamber be used more than once per game?
- Can a structure be partly filled, and when does it count for points?
- Can the Depot complete an order card without matching its cheese type and age?
- Does a tile that says to complete another Order Card need a cheese wedge?
Game-End
- Do the order card scoring values differ between the 1st and 2nd printings of Fromage?
- What happens when a player places their last cheese token?
- Can you make cheese with the Workers Quarters after all 15 cheese tokens are placed?
- Do you need all 15 cheese tokens to play, and what if one is missing or broken?
- How do unused resources score at game end?
- Does the game score at the end only, or must points be tracked during play?
- How are structures scored at game end?
- Do you score 1 point per structure on a scaffolding space at game end?
Solo Mode
- If the Corporation cannot place a cheese, does it remove one from its board?
- Does the Corporation in solo mode gather resources or make cheese outside its order cards?
- Does the Corporation in solo mode place cheese on fruit spaces without fruit?
- How do you draft structure tiles in solo mode with the experienced variant?
- What does the Corporation score at the end of a solo game?