My City FAQ
106 questions players ask · Updated Nov 10, 2026 · Full rulebook
Game materials
General rules of the game
The construction rules
- Does the first building have to lie along the river on its whole side?
- Do later episodes' examples override the rule that each building must touch another building?
- Do buildings on opposite sides of the river count as adjacent for scoring?
- Can you build on both sides of the river in Chapter 4 and later?
- Does a park get a bonus for red buildings on two sides when it sits at the board edge?
- Can you build on forest spaces after Chapter 4, and from which episode can you start?
- Does passing on a building cost points, and does ending your participation cost anything?
- If you decide to end your participation, do you still place the revealed tile?
- If a drawn building fits nowhere and you cannot pay to pass, are you out of the round?
- Does the sawmill count as a building for later placement, and can two buildings both touch it?
- In Chapter 8, must each new tile touch the first tile or any building?
- Can L-shaped and Z-shaped building tiles be flipped, or only rotated?
End of an episode
- In a five-player game, how are end-of-episode bonuses split between players?
- In a two-player game, does the second-place player get any episode reward?
- Does your score stop at 50 in My City?
- In what order do you tally the points for an episode?
- What happens if your score drops below 0 during an episode tally?
- Do negative points carry over to the next episode?
- What does an uncovered space showing rocks or a tree score at episode end?
- Do light green squares with dots still count as empty squares costing one point each?
- Does an uncovered, unfinished well score as an empty space?
- How do the four sides of a well count toward its scoring?
- How do churches score at the end of an episode?
- Does a lone building score for its colour when nothing touches it?
- Do you score the largest group for every colour, or only one colour?
- How are tied scores broken at the end of an episode in multiplayer?
- Does the same tiebreaker apply to a tie for second place in a four-player game?
- Do trees count as green spaces for the first-row tiebreaker?
- Do uncovered gold, gold vein or forest spaces score points at episode end?
- Do scoring items from earlier episodes keep applying in later episodes?
- Do the flooded spaces on the left of the river count for scoring in Chapter 3?
- Is episode 6 of Chapter 2 scored normally, or as last-player-standing?
- Does your score carry over to the next game, or does each game start at 10 points?
Railway rewards and stickers
- Where do tree and rock stickers go on the board?
- After taking a railway reward branch, can you still go straight ahead on a later railway section?
- In Chapter 7, what counts as the same round when several players earn a railway triangle bonus?
- Can the second player claim a railroad bonus at end-game scoring after the first player already claimed it during play?
- When does a railway icon's bonus, such as factories = 3, trigger?
- Do you have to build into the side branch to claim the factory = 3 railway reward?
- After the wagon and train railway stickers, can you choose which branch to build toward for the bonus?
- Can you get two railway stickers for linking both a blue group and a red group to the port?
- When do the stickers for first linking a group to the port get placed?
- Do railway stickers earned at the end of an episode count for that episode's scoring?
- When do end-of-game railway bonuses resolve relative to the final scoring in Chapters 7 and 8?
- Can railway-earned trees be placed over rocks?
- Do you start Chapter 7 episode 19 with the railcar and locomotive stickers?
- Does the Chapter 7 railway factory reward place a factory sticker?
- When one player reaches the factory-to-3 branch on the Chapter 7 sheet, which spots does the increase apply to?
- In what order do players place railway segments when both earn a new one at the end of an episode?
- When are railway stickers placed, and can several players claim the same first-to-reach bonus at the end?
- Do the railway bonuses for building all 11 spaces first repeat in every episode?
Gold, nuggets and gold rows
- In Chapter 4, are the progress-point squares on the display case covered with gold nuggets?
- When is the Chapter 4 gold nugget bonus scored: after every episode or only at the end of the chapter?
- In a two-player game, does the second-most gold holder get a gold bonus?
- Does a player with no gold nuggets get the second-most gold bonus when others are tied for second?
- If two players tie for second-most gold, do both get the bonus?
- When a gold nugget covers a space with progress symbols, do you get those symbols?
- In episodes 11 and 12, do you get a nugget for covering the forest as well as the gold veins?
- How many gold nuggets does the first display-cabinet row reward need?
- When a gold row is filled, does only the first player get the reward, or any player?
- What do you score when you cover a gold-row square with a gold sticker?
- In Chapter 8, where do you get gold nugget stickers when the chapter has none?
- For the Chapter 4 gold-vein bonus, what does 'same round' mean?
- Is the most-gold bonus scored at the end of every chapter after Chapter 4?
- In a two-player game tied for most gold at chapter end, does each player get the bonus?
- In a two-player game, what does the player with less gold get from the end-of-chapter gold bonus?
Factories, mines and the investor
- How many points does a group of blue factories score?
- Where does a factory sticker from a mine reward go, and does it score in the same game?
- If you lay the railway to the factory = 3 spot at the end of the game, do factory quarters score 2 or 3 points?
- In which episode are the factories added and assessed in Chapter 5?
- Does the investor move when you place a building that is not next to him?
- In Chapter 6, which buildings dig each mine, and do factories matter for the blue mine?
- How many points does a connected blue cluster score for the blue mine?
- For mine-shaft rewards, does 'first to reach in the same round' mean the whole episode?
- Do Chapter 6 mine points count as victory points or contiguous-group points for the episode?
- Must you still cross out a mine box that another player already claimed?
Churches and late chapters
- Do church tiles count as a colour when scoring groups of same-coloured buildings?
- Can two churches next to each other score as a contiguous group?
- Do church tiles score points by themselves?
- Must you place a church tile when it is drawn?
- Does the church rule still apply after Chapter 2 and in the final games of the campaign?
- In the final episode, can trees stop you from placing your first building next to the palace?
- Does the largest-group-per-colour scoring still apply in Chapter 5?
- What breaks a tie for most progress symbols at the end of the campaign?
- Is there a tiebreaker for the end-of-campaign most-trees or fewest-rocks bonuses?
- Are the end-of-campaign tree and rock bonuses counted on your board with the buildings removed?
The first chapter
- How many construction cards does the first game use?
- Can you use the dotted forest squares in the first three games?
- Where can a tree be placed in Chapter 1?
- Do you need four different buildings adjacent to a well to score its four points?
- Can a well still score its bonus after you build over it?
- Does the -1 penalty apply when a building is placed on a space with a well?
The eternal game
- In the Eternal Game, must yellow, red and blue each touch the church, and do diagonal neighbours count?
- Does a factory tile still count as a blue building for scoring next to a church?
- How does the Eternal Game score each colour?
- Do you need to play the first episodes of the campaign before the Eternal Game?
- In the Eternal Game, who gets the gold vein bonus: the first player to cover both veins, or the first to cover each one?
- Can you score several wells, each with four buildings around it, in one game?
- What happens if two players finish the Eternal Game with exactly the same score in every row?