Kanban: Driver's Edition FAQ
111 questions players ask · Updated Nov 11, 2026 · Full rulebook
Components and the board
Setup and the first day
Round overview
General rule
- Can you use a book, parts voucher or banked shift on the turn you gain it?
- When do books, parts vouchers and banked shifts count for Sandra's evaluation and for a meeting?
- Can you use the immediate benefit of an Award Plaque right away?
- When are banked shifts added to the Shift Bank, and when can you spend them?
- Can you bank more than three shifts when there are only three Banked Shift tiles?
- Can you bank unused shifts for a later turn?
- How many shifts can you spend in one day, and can banked shifts go to training?
- What gives you banked shifts?
- If the Shift Bank track is full, can extra banked shifts be saved for later?
Recycling and parts vouchers
Human resources
- Can you use a certification benefit on the same turn you earn it?
- Can you spend several training books in one workday to train more than once?
- How does stacking on a training track decide who is ahead?
- Is training available in every department, or only in Administration?
- Can two players' certification markers share a space, and can you take a benefit an earlier player already took?
Factory Manager (or "MODE" of Play)
- When several players are tied at the top or bottom of a training track, does Sandra's evaluation reach all of them?
- How do banked shifts affect Sandra's reward and penalty?
- In nice and mean mode, whom does Sandra reward or penalize on a training track?
- How many items does Sandra require before she rewards or penalizes you?
- How can you avoid Sandra's penalty in mean mode, and do tied players at the bottom get penalized?
- Where does Sandra move when she changes department?
- When Sandra evaluates the Assembly Line, which car parts are removed?
- Do parts vouchers count as car parts for Sandra's Logistics check?
- Do upgraded designs count toward Sandra's Design Department check?
- Does sharing a department with Mean Sandra affect the player who shares it?
Design and Logistics
- Where do design tiles go after you use them to claim a car?
- What does Sandra do in the Design Department, and how do the tiles refill?
- When the leftmost design stack runs out, how many tiles come back from the Central deck?
- When you are certified in the Design Department, can you take a design from the Central stack?
- What are the design tiles with no part printed on them for?
- How many Kanban Orders can you issue in a day in the Logistics Department?
- May players look through the face-down design stacks during play?
Assembly Line Department
- What does it cost to provide a part to the assembly line, and does every part produce a car?
- If you hold none of the upgraded parts a model needs, can you still produce a car of that model?
- When are full assembly spaces cleared?
- Can you produce more than three cars of one model in a single turn?
- What happens when a model's cars run out during production?
- When a demand tile gives a seat for assembly, do you get one seat per car or one per action?
- When you park a car in the Assembly Line fifth garage, which benefits can you choose?
- What happens when a fifth car rolls onto the Test Track?
Testing & Innovation Department
- Does one matching car in your garage make every upgraded design of that model a tested design?
- How many points does an upgrade score?
- How does a double upgrade work?
- Can the same car part type be double-upgraded more than once, or by two players?
- Can the same part on the same model be upgraded twice, and how many upgrades can a model take?
- Can you claim a car by spending an upgraded design?
- When you claim several cars in one action, how is the shift cost worked out?
- When does the Pace Car move on the Testing track?
- What happens when all your garages are full and you claim another car?
- Does a double upgrade count as two upgrades toward a factory goal?
- How many actions does the Testing & Innovation Department offer?
- Does a tested design count as an upgraded design for Sandra's Testing and Innovation check?
Administration Department
- Can you micro-manage two different departments from Administration on one day?
- Can you split your shifts between Administration and the department you micro-manage on the same day?
- If you micro-manage the Assembly Line from Administration, do you clear full assembly spaces first?
- While micro-managing from Administration, can your books train the department you micro-manage?
- Can you micro-manage a department that Sandra is currently in?
- Can you use training books in Administration to train another department?
Meetings
- If the pace car passes more than one checkered space in a single turn, do you get more than one meeting?
- Can two meetings happen on consecutive days in a two-player game?
- Can claiming three cars in one turn cause another meeting in the next round when Sandra is in her office?
- When can you exchange a Red Seat for a seat at the conference table?
- When you earn a Red Seat, must you turn it into a seat straight away?
- Can you spend Red Seats during a meeting, and what happens to the ones you keep?
- Can you run out of Red Seats?
- What happens to seats at the conference table after a meeting?
- Must you reveal a pet project in a meeting, even if you have no seats to spend?
- Can you place a seat on your own pet project right after revealing it?
- How many seats can you play in one turn during a meeting, and in what order do players speak?
- Can you pass during a meeting and join back in later?
- How is the conference table filled for New Business when there are only two or three players?
- Can you convert a parts voucher or use Recycling during a meeting?
Performance Goals Cards
- Can you score the same Performance Goal more than once, in one meeting or in a later one?
- How does Performance Goal 14 differ from Performance Goal 15?
- Does a car or upgrade belonging to another player count toward Performance Goal 15?
- Are the points for Performance Goals 16 to 18 scored per individual part or per set of different parts?
- How is a Performance Goal's score worked out, and how many times can it be scored?
- How many points does Performance Goal 2 score for different car models?
- How do banked shifts count toward Performance Goal 31?
- Can you place a seat on a Performance Goal to block an opponent who wants to score it?
- Does the seat you just placed on Performance Goal 32 count toward its score?
- Does a car in the fifth garage count toward Performance Goals 19 to 21?
End-of-Week Scoring
- In what order do end-of-week scoring, the week marker and the meeting resolve on the same day?
- Does Sandra arriving in her office at the end of the week trigger a meeting?
- How many points does end-of-week scoring give for upgrades on your cars?
- How does end-of-week upgrade scoring differ from end-of-game scoring?
End of the game
Final Scoring
- How are tested designs scored at game end, and do cars or other players' upgrades change it?
- What are the points shown above the cars on the wall, and when do they score?
- Can black cars go into your garage, and what are they worth?
- Do leftover seats and Red Seats score at game end, and does turning a Red Seat in score during play?
- How are the training tracks scored at game end?
- Do you need a seat to score each final goal, and which seats can you use?
- Can you turn in Red Seats before final scoring, and do they count toward the final goals?