Tiletum FAQ
139 questions players ask · Updated Nov 10, 2026 · Full rulebook
Game setup
Round structure and the King track
- How many Corruption tokens are revealed each round?
- Do negative King track positions reset to zero each round?
- Can you pay gold to change a die's value before taking it?
- In what order do you take a die, its bonus tile and its resources?
- Can you spend the resources from a die to free a Storehouse slot for its bonus tile?
- After paying gold to change a die, which bonus tile do you take?
- Does the leader of the King track get 4 Victory Points in the final round?
- Can the King track leader take 4 VP instead of the Bonus tile in rounds 1 to 3?
- Is the King track Bonus tile replaced after round 3?
- Can you use a task or bonus tile you win on the King track during the King phase?
Actions
- Can one Architect or Merchant action take more than one bonus tile?
- Can you place a Character on a higher floor before the room below it is filled?
- Does the Contract exchange's bonus resource come every time you use it?
- Can the bonus resource from your first exchange be the same resource you traded away?
- Does a Merchant or Architect move have to end in a Town?
- If you take two Contract actions in one turn, is the Contract offer refilled between them?
- Can you split the Action Points from a Joker action between two actions?
- Does taking a bonus tile from the Action Wheel cost an Action Point?
- Do you have to spend all the Action Points you get from a die?
- Can you use several options of one Action in any order, such as exchanging and then taking a Contract?
Tasks
- Can you complete a task before taking a die from the Action Wheel?
- Can you place a Crest on a Building before its Characters are placed?
- Can you place a Crest and skip its placement bonus, for example when you cannot use it?
- Can you take a Contract tile when every Contract space on your board is covered?
- Can you build a city's Cathedral as a task even when your Architect is elsewhere?
- Can a player contribute more than one tile to the same Cathedral?
- Can you do the same task more than once in one turn?
- When a Contract asks for a resource of your choice (the bag icon), can you pay one Gold?
Tiles, Storehouse and Helpers
- Can you take a bonus tile when your Storehouse is full, even to use it straight away?
- Can you discard a bonus tile you do not want?
- When is a one-use Helper removed from your Storehouse?
- Which Helper tiles can you use before choosing a die, or between a die's Action Points?
- Can you use a colour-changing Helper on the die you are choosing?
- Can a Helper free a Storehouse slot so you can take a bonus tile from the wheel?
- Does a Helper's Action Points add to your die's action, or form a separate action?
- Can an Action Point Helper, or the Joker tile, boost a bonus action from another tile?
- What does a Contract Helper worth 2 or 3 Action Points do?
- Can you split a bonus tile's Action Points, using some before and some after a main action?
- Can you interrupt one bonus tile to resolve another?
- If a Building bonus gives the bonuses of every Character in a Building, are they combined into one action?
- Does a House placed through a Crest bonus trigger the board's Victory Point bonus?
- Can you take a Crest you already have, or one on the wheel, just to deny it to an opponent?
- Can you use only part of a bonus tile's reward?
Player board and Buildings
- What counts as completing a Building, and when does its Action Point bonus take effect?
- Can you place a Crest under a Building that still has empty rooms?
- Do you need a Crest to take the House from a completed Building?
- Can different Character types share one Building on your Player board?
- Can you have two different Buildings with the same Character type?
- Do you get a Character's bonus when you move it into your Storehouse?
- Can you take a Character tile you cannot place yet, such as when every matching Building is full?
- When you complete a Building, do its Character bonuses trigger again?
- When is a Character's bonus granted, and when do a Building's Action bonuses start?
- When do you get the bonus printed on a Crest, and when does the +1, +2 or +3 Crest bonus apply?
- Does a bonus Action Point marker apply when you take that action with the Joker?
- If you complete a Building or unlock a bonus Action Point marker mid-turn, does it boost the action you are taking?
- If your last Character completes a Building, can you use the freed House for that Character's bonus?
Victory points and Fairs
- Do Crests in your Storehouse count for Fair tiles that score each Crest on your board?
- Does the pre-printed character on the rightmost house count as a filled Building for Fair scoring?
- Does a negative King track position lower your score?
- If you are not in the Fair town, do you score that Fair?
- Is the King track's Fair tile a multiplier on your points?
- When scoring a Fair, do you add the board's VP to the tile's VP before multiplying?
- Can you score a Fair when only one of its conditions is met?
- At end-game scoring, must the four resources converted into a Victory Point be the same?
- Can you convert leftover Action Points into anything at the end of the game?
- How many Victory Points do your completed Buildings score at the end of the game?
Solo mode: the Cardinalbot
- Does the Cardinalbot's Decree marker wrap around to the first card when its move runs past the last one?
- Why is the leftmost Decree card removed after each Fair in solo mode?
- When the Cardinalbot's die comes from the Joker action with no action named, what does it do?
- How does the Worldly Riches Decree card choose the Cardinalbot's die?
- For a Decree card that compares Pillars and Houses, does the Cardinalbot count only the pieces near its architect or merchant?
- If the Cardinalbot needs more reach than its gold allows, does it still move to the new town?
- Does the Cardinalbot's gold-funded extended reach count when it checks a Decree condition for a crest bonus tile in range?
- Where does the Cardinalbot's Ready for Action card take its starting Crest tile from?
- If the Cardinalbot's dice difference is 0, does it advance or roll again?
- When the Cardinalbot has dice in both the Joker spot and its chosen action spot, which one does it take?
- Can the Cardinalbot keep more than one inactive Crest, and how is the food for placing Crests paid?
- Can the Cardinalbot take a not-ready Contract after it has taken the ready ones?
- When the Cardinalbot chooses among Characters of the same colour, does three of one reward beat two different rewards?
- Does the Cardinalbot pay 2 AP to place a Character on the first floor, given the 2 icon on its board?
- Does the Cardinalbot get the action bonus for a House in a Building with no Crest under it?
- For the Cardinalbot's Merchant action, does a 'Town without its House' include a Town where the player already has a House?
- Does the Cardinalbot discard a bonus tile that is a Contract?
- For the Cardinalbot's Merchant tiebreaker on the next upcoming Fair, do Fairs in later rounds count when the current one is out of reach?
- Do the Characters on the Cardinalbot's second floor count toward the Fair goal for floors 2 and 3?
- How does the Cardinalbot choose a Character when it has none of the offered types?
- Does the Cardinalbot take the Gold die when its unfulfilled Contract needs Wool and no Wool die is on the wheel?
- In solo mode, can the Cardinalbot take a die from the Joker space when its target action has no die?
- In solo mode, can the Cardinalbot spend gold to change a die's value so it can take the action it wants?
- In solo mode, does the Cardinalbot pay action points for each house space it fills?
- Does a Contract needing three of one resource accept any mix of three, or three identical resources, for the Cardinalbot?
- Does the Cardinalbot score the completed-building bonuses at the end of the game?
- Does the solo bot score the completed-building bonus for a column that has no room for Characters?
Tiletum: Prospect for SilverExpansion
- Can a Crest ability that places a House or Pillar anywhere on the board be used on an Underground map where you have a Prospector?
- Can Merchant or Architect action points place a House or Pillar on an Underground map where your Prospector stands?
- At the end of the game, does a Technology score the sum of the costs of every tier reached on its track?
- How does a Fair tile that scores per Technology tier score a level 3 Technology?
- Do the bonus Action Points from your completed Houses apply to actions taken with a Joker die, and do Technology effects trigger too?
- With Joker Technology level 3, can you split a Joker die's Action Points so that one action gets 0 AP to trigger a House bonus?
- How does Contract Technology level 2 work: when can you reveal three contracts and buy one?
- Does Contract Technology level 2 work when my Contract AP come from a Joker die or a bonus tile?
- When a scoring condition says Houses OR Mines, do you count both categories or only the better one?
- Do Houses and Pillars on the Underground sideboards count toward a Fair tile that scores Houses and Pillars?
- What are the Stone Tablet tiles in the mini-expansion for?
- Is the bonus token on the Prospector action space a regular bonus tile or an underground one?
- Can the Prospector movement granted by a wheel space be made at any time during your turn, as a task?
- When a Decree condition says whichever has more Action Points, and the higher action has no die you can select, what does the Cardinalbot do?
- When two actions tie on Action Points for a Decree condition or the Destiny card, which one does the Cardinalbot take?
- On the Worldly Riches card, does the Cardinalbot prefer the Prospector action when its die is shared with another action or with the Joker?
- Does the Cardinalbot pay silver for the extra bonus when it covers a Stone Tablet with an X token?
- How does the Cardinalbot resolve a Decree effect that says to perform a Joker action and move the Architect?
- When the Cardinalbot takes a Prospector action without a stated target, which of Mines, Houses or Pillars does it pick?
- When the Cardinalbot has two sets of dice usable for a Prospector action, which does it choose?
- Does the solo bot pay silver to build an underground Cathedral with a Pillar, as an end-of-turn task?
- Does the 'All that glitters' challenge change the bot's most-required-resource evaluation?
- If you cross a Stone Tablet you cannot resolve, do you still mark it with an X to deny it to other players?
- When you upgrade Bonus Action Points markers, which replacement tiles do you use for the +1 markers?
- Do the two sides of the double-sided scoring overlay differ?
- Does a 'Whenever you place a Mine' Technology trigger on each Mine placed, or only when the Prospector action places one?
- When the Prospector moves on the new action wheel, does one Prospector move or all of them?
- If you unlock a Technology mid-action that adds Action Points to that action, does it apply to the action you are already resolving?
- Does the Contract Technology's extra resource apply to every resource exchange in a turn?
- Do Prospector Technology bonuses apply when you take the Prospector action through the Joker space?
- Can the Joker Technology's split into two different actions be used when the Joker is taken as a Helper?
- If a Joker Technology gives a King reward, do you take the King action right away, and do non-Joker King Technologies apply to it?
- Does the Joker Technology's extra King action trigger the King track Technologies?
- How does a Resource Technology's bonus tiles work in Prospect for Silver?
- When you take a die from the Prospector Move section, do you get the regular action and a free Prospector task?
- Does the Prospector Technology bonus apply to a Prospector action taken through a bonus tile Helper?
- How do you set up the silver and gold construction cost tiles in Prospect for Silver?
- Where do the Prospect for Silver underground bonus tiles go during setup?
- What are the 15 'x' tiles in Prospect for Silver for?
- Does the dice-change Technology's discount apply to changes of up to 3, or only to changes of exactly 3?
- Can a seal on a 'place a Pillar or House anywhere' space go on an underground board?
- Does a Stone Tablet that places a Column or House need your Merchant or Architect on that space?
- Does Tiletum: Prospect for Silver change the core game loop or the King track?