Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King FAQ
90 questions players ask · Updated Nov 10, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup and general
Course of Play
- Are neighbouring tile edges that show the same terrain one connected area?
- Is a player's gold hidden from the others outside the price-setting phase?
- Can you buy again later in the round after you have passed, or when you cannot afford a tile?
- Can money you receive from a sale be spent on your own purchase in the same round?
- Do discarded tiles go back into the bag each round?
- What happens to your own tiles that nobody buys?
- Can you buy more than one tile in a round?
- Can both of a player's tiles be bought by other players in one round?
- When is catch-up income paid, and does it come before or after scoring?
- Do all players behind the leader get catch-up income, and how much?
- Does catch-up income come from other players, and can a player run out of money?
- Can a road end at water or a dock?
- Do roads continue through a scroll tile?
- Does the promo two-barrel tile give 2 extra gold and count as two barrels?
- How do the promo barrels that show 1 VP score?
- Can you rearrange tiles already placed in your territory?
- What is your clan territory?
- Do barrels block a road to the castle, and does the end-game barrel bonus need a road connection?
End of the Game and Final Scoring
- What makes a terrain area count as completed?
- Is the final tiebreaker the money left after gold is converted into points?
- Is there any tiebreaker beyond leftover gold?
- Do two copies of the same scroll both score, and do two scrolls in one completed area both double?
- When a scroll pays one point per two objects, is an odd object dropped before doubling?
- Does a scroll score double only when it lies in a completed area, and does the doubling cover every point it gives?
- When a scroll sits partly on water and partly on mountain, which area must be completed to double it?
- Do roads matter for scroll scoring, and are scrolls counted across the whole clan?
- Are the scroll tiles and gold scored only after the final round?
Scoring Tile Summary
- How does the square-of-four scoring tile count overlapping squares?
- Do the square and vertical-line scoring tiles depend on terrain type?
- Does an animal score more than once when it is next to several farms?
- Must an animal share a land area with a farm to count as next to it?
- Does the small cow drawn on the farm icon count as a cattle?
- Does a ship need to sit next to a lighthouse for the ship-and-lighthouse tile?
- Must the water body be complete for the ship-and-lighthouse tile to score?
- Can one lighthouse count toward two different water areas?
- How are ties scored on the end-of-round ranking tiles?
- If you are the only player in a ranking, do you get both ranks' points?
- When the most-gold tile is scored, must every player reveal all their gold?
- Is the most-gold tile scored by the gold in hand or by gold icons on your tiles?
- Must whisky barrels be connected by road to the castle to count for the most-barrels tile?
- What counts as a vertical line for the three-tile vertical scoring tile?
- How are vertical lines scored when they form several columns or several runs in one column?
- Does the starting castle tile count as a landscape tile for scoring?
- Does a cattle on a road-connected tile count for the cattle-by-road tile?
- Do two tiles that touch only at a corner connect their terrain areas?
- Do roads split a terrain area or stop it from being completed?
- Does a completed area have to span more than one tile?
- Does the 3-VP completed-area tile need three connected tiles?
- Do separate completed areas of three or more tiles each score 3 VP, even if they are not next to each other?
- Do brochs, towers or other objects in a mountain need the mountain completed to score?
- How is the largest completed water area measured for the 2 VP per tile tile?
- If two completed water areas tie for largest, which one scores?
- Can one landscape tile count toward more than one scoring tile?
- Does a tile count for the per-tile road scoring if the road stops at the border?
- When a round scoring tile is scored again, do you score your total or only the new items?
Isle of Skye: DruidsExpansion
- With a stone tablet discount on buying from an opponent, how much does the seller receive?
- When does a stone tablet that scores a scroll an extra time take effect?
- Can a stone tablet's buy-your-own tile be used in the same buy turn as buying from an opponent?
- Is the second Druid buy turn before or after regular tiles are placed?
- May you test whether a tile fits before you buy it?
- Can Druids be played without the Journeyman expansion?
- Do roads continue under the stone tablets printed on Druid tiles?
- How do tunnel entrances and exits count toward the longest road?
- Do circled groups of animals or buildings on a Druid tile need to be enclosed to score?
- Do the Druids row-or-column scoring tiles score both directions, and does rotating them matter?
- Does the Druids tile worth 1 VP per completed pasture, mountain or water area score all three terrain types?
- Does the Druids longest-diagonal tile score across gaps in the diagonal?
- How are Druid tiles slid and replaced on the Dolmen board?
- Do the new Druids landscape cards with a jetty or pier connect roads across water?
- When buying a Druid tile from the bag for $5, is the stone cost on the tile paid?
- How does the Druids longest-road scroll count when the road has side branches?
Isle of Skye: JourneymanExpansion
- When can a Journeyman benefit unlocked in one phase be used?
- Must you place all waypoint cubes or use all movement points?
- Must you collect a waypoint marker as soon as you move onto its tile?
- Does your movement end once you collect your last waypoint marker?
- Do movement points spent without reaching all the cubes give any advance?
- Can one waypoint marker advance a Journeyman track by more than one field?
- How much movement does a Journeyman move cost, and must every tile have a marker?
- Must the progress goals on a track be reached in printed order?
- Which direction is north on the Journeyman castle board?
- Can a castle advancement be used to advance on the Herald track?
- Can roads be torn down and rebuilt elsewhere?
- Do Journeyman victory point benefits on a track add up?
- Does another player buying one of your tiles advance you on the Warrior track?
- With the Bank Pays bonus tile, do you need the money yourself to buy from another player?
- Does a row count as matching if it has two different kinds of scroll for the matching-symbols tile?