Menara FAQ
52 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Materials and Set-Up
Turn Order and the Camp
- When you refill your columns at the end of your turn, do you draw back up to your full number?
- Who takes the first turn, and may players other than the active player touch the tower?
- If you cannot fulfil your construction card, can you exchange the whole camp?
- Can you exchange columns with the camp when a failed card or a base extension adds a level?
Construction Cards and the Level Row
- When a failed construction card can still finish a floor, how many levels do you add to the goal?
- How do you track a second base extension in the same turn?
- Is there a maximum number of levels the temple can need?
- Can you keep a separate discard pile for each construction card deck?
- Can you start a construction card you already know you cannot finish?
- When a card says to place as many columns as necessary on one floor, whose columns do you use?
Placing and Moving Columns
- If a column falls during your turn, can you restore it and keep playing?
- Can you touch or slightly lift a temple floor to steady a column placement?
- Can one column support two touching temple floors?
- Can you nudge a column you placed several turns ago?
- Does 'on matching bases' only require a column's colour to match the base it sits on?
- Can you move a column into a space you just emptied during a move columns task?
- For a move columns task, can the columns come from different floors and go to different higher floors?
Placing Temple Floors
- If a temple floor you are placing falls while you build a new floor, does the game end?
- Where do you place a new temple floor after completing a floor?
- If you refill a column in a floor you already completed once, do you place a new temple floor again?
- Does freeing a completed floor from the floor on top of it trigger a new temple floor?
- How many points must a temple floor added to the temple base touch the others at?
- Can temple floors overlap each other?
- Does 'temple floor' mean a single tile rather than a whole level?
- Can a new temple floor rest on any columns I choose?
- Must a new temple floor rest on at least three columns?
- What happens if a new temple floor cannot be placed without overlapping another floor?
Moving Temple Floors
- Can you move a temple floor that has other floors on top of it with a Move Floor card?
- Which floors can a Move Floor card move, and to which levels?
- After you move a floor with a Move Floor card, do you place a replacement floor?
- Can you move a floor up onto a level that is not fully filled and fill its columns later?
- When you move a built-in floor, do you move it with its columns, and where does it go if the move fails?
- If a column falls while you carry a floor for a Move Floor card, where does the floor go?
- Can a Move Floor card move a floor onto the temple base?
End of the Game
Menara: Rituals & RuinsExpansion
- With the Tears of the Gods ritual, when do you refill a column you returned to the bag for a Tear?
- Does the Floating Quarry ritual allow the Easy fate?
- With the Ban of the Blue Columns ritual, how do drawn blue columns affect your column count?
- Can you place columns freely under the Curse of the Gods' Tears ritual?
- Can a golden column replace a coloured column when no matching base is free?
- How many tears does each Tears of the Gods symbol represent?
- With the Jinxed Yellow Columns ritual, how many cards can you discard when you complete a plan without a yellow column?
- Do the Enlightenment or Dark rituals override the construction card's instruction about which side of a floor to use?
- Do a scenario's components get added directly to the base game components?
- Do unused Tear tokens add levels to the goal with the Enlightenment or Dark ritual?
- Can you return any column from your supply to the bag to take a Tear of the Gods token?
- With the Grace of the Yellow Columns ritual, which columns can you move for a Move Columns task?