Marrakesh FAQ
90 questions players ask · Updated Nov 11, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup and components
Round sequence and the cube tower
- In the Essential Edition, when are drafted keshis placed on the boards?
- What happens to keshis left in the tower base after the draft?
- Do keshis stuck in the cube tower stay there between rounds?
- What is the difference between the camel and the Feld figure for first player?
- If the keshis in a sector are all gone, can you still take a keshi of that color?
- Can you pass in the draft instead of claiming a keshi?
- Can you take a keshi whose color's sector on your board is already full?
- Does each player use all three assistants in a row, or do players alternate?
River track and fisherman
- Can you spend water to move further along the river track?
- Where does a fisherman go when it ends its move on a space already holding another player's fisherman?
- Does the end of the river count as a rapid for a scroll's rapid bonus?
- Does Scroll 4 let you spend water to move further on the river?
- Do you get the 4/3/2/1 jetty points just for being on the river?
Souk and luxury goods
Main square, mosque and palace
- Must the goods keshis from one Main Square action all be the same color?
- Can a black or white keshi gained from the mosque or palace track give extra steps in the same activation?
- Can a bonus gained mid-move by crossing a threshold be spent to keep moving that turn?
- Do you get the dinar and connection bonus when a move climbs a staircase?
- Do you get the connection-line bonus every time you move up a staircase?
- Do you score for steps you cannot take after reaching the end of the river, mosque or palace track?
Madrasa and scrolls
- Can keshis or dates gained from a scroll pay for another scroll in the same Madrasa action?
- Does Scroll 72 let you score 2 points for each resource you return?
- When buying Scroll 58, do you pay the date cost again to take the 7-keshi scroll it unlocks?
- Does Scroll 36 give you an extra keshi when you buy a gate, or only let you choose its color?
- Can a guard keshi from a gate bought with Scroll 36 pay for another gate in the same action?
- Can a scholar keshi be used again for a scroll in a later turn?
- With Scroll 24 on the date orchard, can you mix dates and dinars?
- Can you pay a dinar to reveal new scrolls of more than one color in one turn?
Medina and city gates
Sahara and oases
- Can one Sahara assistant action buy several discovered oases?
- Must Sahara oases be discovered in order along each path?
- Do you have to place a keshi on the start oasis before revealing Sahara oases?
- Can a brown caravan keshi next to a discovered oasis be exchanged in the Sahara?
- When you cover an oasis exchange icon, what can you swap?
- Does the Sahara path have a fourth keshi space in the base game?
- When placing a keshi on the Sahara, must the discovered oasis be filled first?
- If you exchange a keshi and then replace the original, do you get its placement bonus again?
- Are oases 27 and 28 swapped between the addendum and the tiles?
Water and red keshis
- If you chose a red keshi for a worker, must a red keshi drafted later go to the same sector?
- Where can a red water-vendor keshi from a Medina gate be placed?
- Does a red water-vendor keshi add to a sector's strength, or advance a marker?
- Is a red keshi needed to fill a sector and score its points?
- What is the water vendor space in the beige guards area for?
- Can water from a water vendor be spent during the same activation?
- If you use a water-vendor sector to buy a scroll, do you get one water or two?
- Do you gain water when a scroll adds a keshi to a sector with a water vendor?
- Does a red water-vendor keshi give water when its sector is activated by a bonus tile instead of an assistant?
Phase 4: River bonus & end of the round
- How does Scroll 17 differ from Scroll 28 for river bonuses?
- With Scroll 28, do you get the bonus of every crossed rapid, or only one extra?
- Do Scroll 60 and Scroll 69 stack, so you get rapid bonuses twice?
- If a river tile lets you perform the main square action twice, do the extra river steps start from where you finish?
Season Scoring and Preparation of the Next Season
- What happens if you cannot pay the resources on your provision tiles at season scoring?
- Who gets the river bonus when two fishermen end on the same river space?
- Do you get the river bonus at season end if your fisherman never moved?
- In the third season, can the leader pick one of the two river bonuses, with second place getting the other?
Expansion Modules
- When a Sultan or Imam is passed down after its holder reaches the top, where does it go?
- Does the player who reaches the top of a staircase keep the Sultan or Imam bonus?
- Does the Sultan's date discount apply to every scroll bought in one Madrasa action?
- Does Desert Town 8 require a water vendor keshi in the sector to score?
- Do I need a spare guard keshi to claim Desert Town 12?
- Do you pay the three goods keshis to take the luxury good from Desert Town 11?
- Can you place a brown keshi on an empty desert-town space when no desert town is left?
Marrakesh: Camels & NomadsExpansion
- Must you pay the keshi and resources to advance a camel onto a supply bridge, or can you stop before it?
- Does a supply bridge space on the camel track count as a step?
- What gray keshi requirement applies to the Library scroll benefit in season 1?
- Is Marrakesh: Camels & Nomads compatible with the Essential Edition?
- Can the Camels & Nomads solo mode be played with the expansion modules?
- Can the Library's first yellow scroll be bought for only one gray keshi?
- When can you move your Nomad keshis, and can a Nomad sit in the camel race spectator sector?
- If the Nomad keshi is the last one left in the tower, does every player get a last chance to take it?
- What are the white stickers in the Camels & Nomads expansion for?
- Can you claim a keshi of a color whose sector on your board is full if you can place it as a camel spectator?
- Does the Camels & Nomads expansion's nomad keshi count toward a scoring oasis that pays per three keshis on the board?
- How does the PashaBot place nomad keshis?
- Where does the PashaBot's red keshi go?
- When the PashaBot's keshi priorities tie, does each later step only consider candidates that survived the earlier steps?
- What happens when the PashaBot's assistant is on a color with 8 keshis already, or in the Medina with no gates to take?
- Can you keep placing spectators when your camel is stuck, or once it reaches the final space?
- Can a nomad keshi move from one Main Square space to another space in the Main Square?
- Does the first movement space after the camel start give a reward?
- Do you lose a point or reward when you remove a nomad from a space?
- Does the falcon tile that lets you exchange resources apply once or every turn?