Unfair
304 questions players ask about Unfair. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-11-03.
Setup
- Is there a shared base pack of park cards, and how are the theme packs set up?
- Where do the teaser cards go during setup?
- Which Update #1 cards have rule changes that affect play?
- Can you shuffle all theme packs together at setup instead of sorting them by theme?
- Should the First Date game changer be used for a first solo game of Unfair?
- Are expired sneak-peek cards and replaced update cards still legal to use?
- If you build no Showcase super attractions, can you return your Showcase cards for 10 coins?
- What are the randomizer tokens included in the box for?
- Which parts of the first and second printings of Unfair differ in rules?
Park Layout and Attractions
- Does demolishing an attraction shift the other attractions in the park?
- Can you pay 3 coins to skip an empty attraction position when building?
- What is the maximum number of attractions in a park, and does the Showcase attraction count toward it?
- Is the Main Gate an attraction for Blueprints or attraction limits?
- When you demolish an attraction in the middle of your park, do the remaining attractions slide over to fill the gap?
- Can you play an upgrade such as Restrooms onto the Main Gate card?
Events and City Cards
- Do I choose my free event card at the start of the round, or is it assigned to me?
- Can cards raise your income above the park's guest capacity?
- Does Viral Marketing add your park capacity on top of your star total?
- Can Event cards block a City Event, and does blocking use up your action?
- Can an event with no attack type be blocked?
- Which attraction counts as the one closest to your park entrance for City events such as Arsonists?
- Can you play without the player Event cards but keep everything else?
- Do stars from Media Blitz or similar event cards raise guest capacity?
- In the Events step, can I play an event card and also use a park card's event ability on the same turn?
Instant Karma
- Does Instant Karma cancel the opposing event card?
- Can two Instant Karma cards be played against the same event?
- Can an event be both blocked and answered with Instant Karma by the same player?
- Can Instant Karma target a thrill ride type that is already closed by the event against you?
- Does Instant Karma work against Media Blitz?
- Can you use Instant Karma against a Fire Drill that chooses an attraction type you own?
- Can Instant Karma's duplicate clause for matching extra costs be used when an opponent discards events to demolish?
- Can an opponent block an Instant Karma copy of an intrusion event?
- Can Instant Karma repeat an event against the player who played it, but with different choices?
Park Step and Building
- Can an attraction hold more than one quality upgrade of the same name?
- Can the same theme appear more than once in the park, for example on three different attractions?
- Where does an upgrade go when it is moved onto another attraction?
- What does 'the attraction' mean on an upgrade's ability, such as Red Carpet or B-movie Theme?
- Can you add a theme card to an attraction that already has the same theme built in?
- If the Park deck runs out mid-action while you discard a card to draw five, what happens to the discard pile and the drawn cards?
- Does a card saying you may use an action give you an extra Park Step action?
- In the Park Step, can you choose the same action more than once?
Guests, Stars and Capacity
- Do stars from the entrance gate count toward the 5 stars needed to build a Super Attraction?
- Do closed or unavailable attractions count toward the five stars needed to build a Super Attraction?
- What happens to a built Showcase attraction if your park drops below 5 stars?
- Can a billboard's star count toward the 5 stars needed for a Super Attraction if you demolish the billboard to build it?
- Do closed sideshows in your park count toward Soolin's Dockside Bazaar's star total?
Closing, Demolishing and Built-in Upgrades
- Are buried cards under an attraction hidden from other players or visible?
- Can you close one of your own attractions during the Park step?
- Can a built-in upgrade be demolished, or does a demolish effect aimed at it only close the attraction?
- Do closed attractions still count for properties such as theme icons?
- Can you build an upgrade whose build restriction does not fit a closed attraction?
- Do cards buried under Blackbeard's Revenge count toward attraction size?
- Are buried cards counted by Annual Insurance?
- Can a buried card be exhumed other than by demolishing its attraction?
Staff Members and Mesmerist
- What counts as a ride's star total for Snack Seller?
- Can Snack Seller be used on a Sideshow attraction?
- Does a staff member taken by Head Hunting return to its original player at cleanup?
- Can Dumpster Diving retrieve an event card from the discard pile?
- Can the Star Performer target a built-in upgrade?
- Can the Lost and Found Attendant be used on a card that was demolished?
- Can Instant Karma copy a staff member's or park card's ability, such as Star Performer?
- Does an ability that says 'attraction' also affect staff members?
- How does the updated Mesmerist work, and do its tokens ever come off?
Money, Loans and Discount Cards
- Does Renovation make builds half price only when an attraction is closed?
- Can I pay back a loan early with coins during the game?
- Are coins on a card lost when it is dismissed or discarded?
- Does 'may' on Treasure Trove or Robopocalypse 2057 make the effect optional?
- When do you refill the Market after a 2-for-1 Deal purchase?
- After a Renovation build, how much can the 2-for-1 Deal's free build cost?
- Does a free build from a card's own ability trigger the 2-for-1 Deal?
- Does paying 20 coins or discarding Giant Wad of Cash against Frivolous Lawsuit count as blocking it, so Instant Karma can still be used?
- Can I ask other players how many coins or cards they have, and are hand counts secret?
Other Card Rulings
- Does the World Peace game changer stop all attacking events?
- Can Celebrity Guest close attractions that are already closed?
- If Robopocalypse 2057 reveals an upgrade already on the ride, do you keep searching?
- Do two Celebrity Guest cards stack in your park?
- When Ticking Packages closes the largest attraction, what if two or more attractions are tied for largest?
- Can Robopocalypse 2057 keep revealing park cards when its Flagpole or other upgrade block means nothing can be built?
- What does the 'if possible' wording on Robopocalypse 2057 mean when building a revealed upgrade for free?
- Can you use a Shadow Dragon ability more than once per round, and how many upgrades can it demolish in a standard game?
Blueprints and Scoring
- Do the coins on a Balloon Artist get paid out at game end?
- Does the Something for Everyone blueprint need exactly 1, 2, 3 and 4 star totals, and does a 5-star attraction stop the bonus?
- Does a panorama score in every game, or only with theme packs that support it?
- Does a Sea Serpent Roll count as an animal upgrade for the Easy Tiger blueprint's optional goal?
- Can one attraction count toward more than one Blueprint requirement?
- Do coins on an Offshore Account still count at game end?
- How many points does a five-icon attraction score at game end?
- Does the attraction type change its score for attraction size?
Solo Mode and Quinn
- Does Quinn use staff members' attack and defense abilities?
- When Quinn picks an upgrade to demolish, does a built-in upgrade rank differently from a non-built-in upgrade?
- Does adding a Mesmerist token count as a change in Quinn's warehouse?
- Do face-down park cards in Quinn's warehouse flip over during Cleanup?
- When Quinn acquires from the Market and no card there is a legal pick, does Quinn still roll and then draw an Event card?
- Can you play an attack event against Quinn when it has no valid target in his warehouse?
- Does Corporate Raiders have any target against Quinn, since his warehouse does not attach upgrades to attractions?
- Will Quinn play Hasty Relocation as an attack when he has no valid place to move the upgrade?
Unfair: Alien B-movie Dinosaur Western ExpansionExpansion
- Does a Velociraptor that cannot move to an open food outlet demolish its upgrade?
- Can the Alien Ambassador stay in the park it starts in?
- Does Shield Generator stop two dinosaurs on the same attraction from demolishing each other?
- When A Power Outage targets a dinosaur, which dinosaur must you choose, and what happens if it cannot move?
- If A Power Outage moves a dinosaur next to another, does the dinosaur fight happen before the moved dinosaur escapes?
- Can you discard Alien Influence tokens to get rid of them for Human Resistance?
- Can Dinosaur Supervisor reopen an attraction and move a dinosaur in the same activation?
- How does Quinn treat alien cards that have no coin cost when picking by lowest marked coin price?
Unfair: Comicbook Hacker Kaiju Ocean ExpansionExpansion
- Can Rapid Reload re-open an attraction in an opponent's park?
- Under the Singularity blueprint, can one park have two attractions of the same type, such as two theaters?
- Under the Singularity blueprint, can a park have two upgrades with the same name, such as two Quality upgrades?
- How do Anonymous Hacker's two Hacking options work in one Events step?
- In solo mode, can Quinn's warehouse attractions be closed, and does closing one affect the goal?
- If the top 5 cards for the Ocean theme's reveal are not all there, do you still choose from what is available?
- Can a Shinkansen Station upgrade stand in for a quality upgrade to satisfy Negantis?
- Does Hard Pass pay a coin on the turn you decide to pass?