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Sprawlopolis

56 questions players ask about Sprawlopolis. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.

Updated 2026-11-05.

  • Setup and building the city
  • Placement
  • Roads
  • Final scoring
  • Scoring cards
  • Construction Zones
  • Sprawlopolis: BeachesExpansion
  • Sprawlopolis: InterstateExpansion
  • Sprawlopolis: WrecktarExpansion

Setup and building the city

  • Does the order of the three scoring cards drawn matter?
  • When an expansion adds cards, do you play all of them before final scoring?

Placement

  • Can a new card completely cover an existing card, or blocks from several cards?
  • Can you tuck a card under the city or attach one only by a corner?
  • Are diagonally touching blocks adjacent for scoring?

Roads

  • What counts as a road section for scoring cards like Superhighway?
  • Is the road penalty per road or per section of road?
  • Does an unfinished Construction Zone split a road for scoring?

Final scoring

  • If two groups tie for largest, which one counts?
  • Does a single block count as a group for largest-area scoring?
  • Does an unfinished Construction Zone still count as a zone for largest-area scoring?
  • Is the result just a win or loss, or a margin?
  • In what order are blocks, roads and scoring cards added up?
  • Do holes or gaps inside the city count as edges?
  • What counts as an edge or a corner for Tourist Traps and Central Perks?

Scoring cards

  • How is Superhighway (card 12) scored?
  • Does a scoring card score every time its condition is met?
  • Does Concrete Jungle score an industrial block that also touches others along an edge?
  • Does an industrial block score on Stacks and Scrapers if it has fewer than four neighbours?
  • How does Morning Commute score?
  • How does The Outskirts score roads, and does a loop count?
  • How does Mini Marts work: same road, rows and columns, shared residential blocks?
  • What does Park Hopping need: parks at both ends, different parks?
  • How is card 18 (Sprawlopolis) scored: longest row and column?
  • How does Block Party count groups?

Construction Zones

  • What can cover a Construction Zone, and when does its job condition apply?
  • Does Business is Closed restrict roads on the construction block?
  • Can Construction Zone cards be stacked, or held in hand?

Sprawlopolis: BeachesExpansion

  • Can cards extend past a beach line?
  • Do Beaches add a fourth goal card?
  • When is a drawn Beach card placed?
  • When do you shuffle the Beach cards into the deck?
  • Does the Peninsula card need both a north and south beach?
  • Does Scenic Route cancel all road tax?
  • For Scenic Route, which blocks need roads next to the beach?
  • Are beaches edges of the city for edge-scoring cards?
  • Do Beach rows and columns count for Bloom Boom?

Sprawlopolis: InterstateExpansion

  • In solo Interstate, do you score each side separately?
  • In solo Interstate, must you alternate sides?
  • Must you keep to one side of the Interstate?
  • Can Interstate and Points of Interest be used together?
  • How many roads does the Interstate count as for the road penalty?
  • Where does the last Interstate card go in setup?
  • Do blocks printed on the Interstate score, and can they be covered?

Sprawlopolis: WrecktarExpansion

  • Does Wrecktar stop commercial zones counting for Tourist Traps?
  • Can the tail of Wrecktar be covered by later cards?
  • When is Wrecktar revealed, and does placing it use a turn?
  • Can you choose Wrecktar's orientation or rotate it?
  • What if Wrecktar is the top card of the deck at the start?
  • How do Wrecktar and Beaches interact?
  • Does Looping Lanes score per block or per card in a loop?
  • Does Go Green score each park block or each group?
  • Are rows and columns counted from visible blocks, and can they have gaps?
  • Which parks count as edge parks for Central Perks?
  • How does Tourist Traps score, and can a city have more than four corners?
  • Are the grey squares in The Outskirts example holes?