Arkham Horror FAQ
600 questions players ask · Updated Nov 11, 2026 · Full rulebook
Components
- Is there a limit to how many item cards or conditions an investigator can have?
- When an encounter tells you to gain a specific card by name, can you take it from the Special cards pile?
- Which items can you take when an encounter says gain a common item or a curio item?
- What are the strange cards with codex-like fronts and neighborhood-style backs?
- What does the symbol beside the Move an investigator reward at North Point Lighthouse mean?
- How many Mythos tokens come with the base game?
- How many marker and activation tokens are in the base game?
- How many event cards are in the base game?
- Which side of an Archive card is its front?
Setup
- Can I shuffle the expansion encounter, item, ally and spell cards into the base game deck?
- Do expansion monsters get added to older base-game scenarios?
- Does the Arkham map layout change from one scenario to another?
- When a scenario says to include all monsters of a trait, does a monster match by its name?
- Do a monster's spawn-related effects, such as dropping doom, trigger when the scenario places it during setup?
- Can players join or leave a game in progress and have the scenario scale to the new player count?
- Does Feast for Umordhoth use the anomaly deck, and which cards make up the scenario set?
- Should Approach of Azathoth use Codex card 1 for doom on the scenario sheet?
- In Setup, if two clues come from the same neighborhood, do you shuffle them into the encounter deck together?
- Does the leader token ever move, and who keeps it if the leader is defeated?
- In Veil of Twilight setup, what does 'set aside all Lodge monsters' mean?
- Why does setup use only 13 random headline cards?
- Can you give away starter items and spells when handing over a character?
- Azathoth Codex 8: if no markers are on the board, what do you place and when?
- Does a setup doom placed on a space that already has a doom cause an anomaly?
- Do the same Mythos tokens get used for every scenario that lists them?
- What does the encounter effect 'you become a Gravedigger' mean?
- What do the triangle and square markings on Easttown and Northside mean?
Playing the Game
- Who decides turn order in each phase?
- Can Arkham Horror be played solo with just one investigator, with no rule changes?
- What happens if an encounter tells you to obtain a special item that has already been taken or is no longer in the deck?
- What happens to effects that target the leader while the lead investigator is defeated or out of play?
Winning the Game
- How do you destroy the barrier in Approach of Azathoth?
- Does a codex card's text still apply after the card is removed from the codex?
- What is the Future card in the Azathoth scenario, and is it a realistic way to win?
- When a codex card is added to play, which side should be face up?
- What happens when the investigators are defeated and no replacement investigator is available?
- What does 'researching a clue' mean?
Core Concepts
- When does a ready monster engage you?
- How do I engage an elusive monster so I can evade it?
- If a monster is already engaged with one investigator, can another investigator in the same space ignore it?
- Does Tattered Cloak stop monsters from engaging me, even a Massive one after I evade it?
- What can you do while engaged with a monster, and can you still move?
- Are monsters engaged with you and monsters you engage handled differently?
- If a non-Massive monster is engaged with you and another investigator engages it, does a doom token go on its space?
- Can one investigator be engaged with several monsters at once?
- Can another investigator attack a monster that cannot engage, such as Grim Spectre?
- Can Ol' Boiler damage a monster that is engaged with another investigator?
- After an investigator is defeated, are the monsters engaged with them readied or exhausted?
- Does defeating a Lodge Loyalist or Yog-Sothoth servant count as disengaging it, so that doom is placed?
- Does disengaging from the Servitor of Yog-Sothoth add doom when another investigator engages it?
- Does Silas' Net work on Massive monsters?
- If a monster survives your damage and an investigator evades it, does it heal?
- Does an investigator take damage when they defeat a monster on their own attack, or when a monster attacks them?
- Who decides when an effect has several equal options, such as where a monster moves or where it spawns?
- What happens if a codex effect spawns a monster type that is no longer in the monster deck?
- Do reckoning effects that refer to monsters depend on whether the monster is ready, engaged or exhausted?
- Are Epic monsters considered monsters for card effects?
- What is the difference between an epic monster and a non-epic monster?
- How much health does an Elite monster have, for example Father Dagon or an Epic Elite X monster?
- Does an effect granting Elite 1 stack on a monster that is already Elite 1?
- Does an Epic monster's health change as soon as you mend a scar?
- Can Tommy Muldoon's Handcuffs be used on the Epic monster Archive 28?
- Are Shots in the Dark marker tokens (O'Bannion Stronghold, Sheldon Base) monsters or engagement targets?
- Are Lure Monster and Hunter's Insight free, or do they need an action?
- Is the space at the other end of a travel route adjacent for Ashcan Pete's Wanderer ability?
- In Approach of Azathoth, can monsters move into The Future space?
- If doom would be placed on The Future card, where does it go, and is The Future the same as the epicenter location?
- How far is a defeated leader from other spaces when monsters choose destinations?
- Can a solo investigator defeat Umôrdhoth by killing all six worshipers without attacking him?
- Can McGlen's car Ol' Boiler deal damage to a monster three times, given that voluntary damage is capped at the asset's health?
- How many dice do you roll in a test, and is there a limit of six?
- Does a test penalty that reduces your skill to zero still leave you rolling at least one die?
- Can a reroll pool drop to zero dice, or does the roll-one-die rule still apply?
- If Skids rolls a 1 and rerolls it, does the original 1 count for his ability?
- How many successes do you need to pass a test, and what does a zero result mean?
- How does Shotgun's 'each 6 counts as two successes' work?
- Can Blessed apply to an attack action?
- Can you spend a focus token to reroll a die, and does the token have to match the skill being tested?
- Can you spend a focus token to reroll dice after a test is already passed?
- Can you spend the focus token that gave you a bonus die to reroll, and can a clue do the same?
- Can you spend focus tokens one at a time, rerolling after each, until you get the result you need?
- Can the same die be rerolled more than once in a test?
- Does 'reroll one or all of your dice' allow rerolling some dice but not all, or just one?
- Does a focus token get used up when it gives me the +1 die?
- When you spend a focus token to reroll, do you keep the +1 that focus gave your dice pool?
- Can you focus the same skill more than once, for example if your focus limit is high or you are Rex Murphy?
- Can you swap one focus token for another at your focus limit, and can you keep focus above the limit?
- Can a Relic hold several focus tokens of the same type, and what counts as the most damage?
- When Rex Murphy's Never Give Up triggers, can its focus reroll the test it just failed?
- Can a Dark Pact die roll be rerolled, including with an ability that rerolls one die?
- Does Chef's Knife's +1 apply to each die when several dice are rerolled from one effect?
- How much does a Knife add to a combat roll, and can it be used with Wither?
- How much does the Wither spell add to an attack?
- Can Intervene turn a failed test into a success?
- When during another investigator's test can you cast Intervene?
- Does Intervene's bonus resolve in step 1 or step 3 of a test?
- When I cast Intervene, whose rerolls, focus and Blessed apply?
- When does a would-pass or would-fail ability resolve relative to rerolls, Barnstormer and Reckless Resolve?
- Must you decide before rolling how many clues or resources to spend on a test that offers extra successes?
- How many hands' worth of items can you use at once on a test or action?
- Do bonuses from an ally and an item, or from several spell items, add together on the same skill?
- Can you use Lucky Cigarette Case to add one to another player's die roll?
- Does selecting an asset before rolling in a skill test count as using it?
- When a card tells me to gain an item, can I choose it from the display?
- Can an attached item such as Enchanted Weapon be reattached to a different weapon later?
- How do you tell whether an item is single-use or can be used repeatedly, and when is it discarded?
- Can you cast a second copy of the same spell in one turn?
- Do you pay a spell's horror or remnant cost to use its attached effect?
- Can a spell's horror cost be assigned to the spell card itself?
- Can remnants be spent to prevent horror other than from casting a spell?
- What are remnants used for, besides paying for spells?
- How many remnants do you get for clearing doom?
- Does trading a remnant to Roland Banks count as gaining a remnant?
- Can Witch's Blood's once-per-round remnant return be used without resolving its action, or while engaged?
- Is an item, ally or talent discarded once its damage or horror reaches its health or sanity?
- Is an item with 0 health or 0 sanity discarded, such as the Bulletproof Vest?
- Can you split damage or horror across more than one asset, or put harm on an ally?
- Can you assign damage or horror beyond an asset's health or sanity to it, and where does the excess go?
- Can the horror from Smoke and Mirrors be assigned to an asset?
- Does Agatha's New Field of Study trigger when horror is assigned only to an asset?
- Does horror from a monster count as being damaged for Tommy's Handcuffs, and does damage put on an asset still count?
- Can a successful Instill Bravery prevent the horror cost of casting a spell or of Smoke and Mirrors?
- Can healing be applied to an item or other asset?
- Can 'yourself or an ally' healing text target another investigator's ally, or be split between you and an ally?
- Can recovering health or sanity remove damage or horror from the Until the End of Time condition?
- Can Calvin Wright's Friend Indeed exchange health or sanity with an investigator in a different space?
- Is an investigator defeated when damage equals their health, or only when it exceeds it?
- Can you repair objects that have damage or horror tokens?
- Does passing any test while Cursed remove the Cursed condition?
- When testing while Cursed, can you roll one die at a time to clear the Cursed condition?
- Does Rex's Undying Curse make him Cursed on every Reckoning, even if he is Blessed?
- Can you gain a second Dark Pact, or pick a card option that gives a condition you already have, such as Fatigued?
- In the Approach of Azathoth scenario, is Codex card 4 added to the codex more than once?
- Do clue and doom tokens stay on the scenario sheet when the scenario advances or you draw a new codex card?
- When a codex card needs three clues on the scenario sheet, are those clues removed when the card is completed?
- Does losing an investigator to a monster end the game?
- What is the difference between 'once per turn' and 'once per round'?
- Does a round include the Mythos Phase, so that once-per-round abilities reset each round?
- When an effect places several doom in a street space, can each doom go to a different adjacent neighborhood?
- Where does doom go when an effect would place it on a street space?
- Can a monster in a street space count as being in a neighborhood?
- What happens when a card says to spawn a monster in each space of your neighborhood while you are on a street?
- Which clues and monsters count as being in your neighborhood?
- If a headline or effect says to gain a clue but does not name a source, does the clue come from the neighborhood or the supply?
- Does 'remove clues from the scenario' include clues investigators already hold?
- Where do clues taken from the scenario sheet by Codex 92 go, and can they be researched again?
- How does a clue get from a location to the scenario sheet?
- Where do the clues or doom that flip the Veil of Twilight Threshold card come from?
- Where does a doom token go when a Ward action removes it?
- What triggers placing an anomaly in a neighborhood?
- Where does doom go when a neighborhood already has an anomaly?
- If several unstable spaces exist, or a card shows doom icons in two spaces, which space is the unstable space for a spawn?
- If your investigator is defeated in the Monster Phase, does the replacement take part in the Encounter and Mythos Phases?
- If two effects trigger at the same time after you defeat a monster, who chooses the order?
- Does Minh's All Around You apply to other investigators in her space on their own turns?
- Can you take actions while engaged with an Eyeless Watcher, and how does it move with you?
- If an Alliance of Evil Dark Pact is triggered from a street space, does it spawn monsters?
- Can you voluntarily discard an item such as the Tattered Cloak when no effect tells you to?
- Does Jenny's Dress to the Nines add $2 when she spends a Focus token to reroll?
- Can you gain a clue from a neighborhood's normal encounter while an anomaly is in it?
Action Phase
- Can you take the same action twice in one round?
- Do extra actions from effects count against your two actions in the action phase?
- Can you interleave your actions with another investigator's actions during the action phase?
- Does using an item's or other card's bold action cost one of your two actions?
- Can you take the same component action twice in one round, for example by choosing a different effect of it?
- Can you perform a component action printed on another investigator's card?
- While you are engaged with a monster, which actions can you take?
- Can you cast a spell while you are engaged with a monster?
- Do you engage an exhausted monster when you attack it?
- Can you attack a monster that is engaged with another investigator in your space?
- Can you engage a monster that is already engaged with another investigator without attacking it?
- Does moving into a space with a monster stop your movement or engage you?
- Can one attack hit more than one monster, or attack a second engaged monster in the same round?
- Does excess attack damage carry over to another monster?
- Does damage stay on a monster after you evade it or after it moves?
- Do you gain a monster's remnant if a spell or effect defeats it outside an attack action?
- How do Massive monsters work with evade actions and moving out of their space?
- Can you engage an Elusive monster, and does moving into its space engage it?
- How many monsters does one evade action disengage, and does failing an evade cost you anything?
- When do you get the bonus action after an evade?
- Can you walk away from an engaged monster without taking an evade action?
- Does an evaded monster leave your space and come back later?
- If a card says to disengage all monsters but you are engaged with none, can you still resolve the rest of the effect?
- What happens when a focus action takes you over your focus limit?
- Can you focus the same skill twice to get two tokens for it?
- Do focus tokens count toward your skill value?
- How many hands' worth of assets can you use in a test or a whole action?
- What happens if the horror from casting a spell would defeat you?
- Can you cast a spell during an attack action, such as Wither, and can you cast more than one?
- Do spells that damage monsters need the monster to be engaged with you?
- When an attack uses Lore instead of Strength, such as Storm of Spirits, does the monster's attack modifier still apply?
- When does Heirloom of Hyperborea's focus arrive during a Storm of Spirits attack, and can it reroll?
- Can an item, ally or spell used by one investigator be used by another after it is traded in the same turn?
- Can one trade action exchange items with several investigators, and can I trade with an engaged investigator?
- Does researching a clue need an observation test, and can you research clues from the neighborhood you're in?
- Can you research a clue you don't have, or take a research or ward action with nothing to act on?
- Does a ward action give a remnant for every success?
- What does the Gather Resources action do?
- Does the Grotesque Statue let you move a clue to the scenario sheet after every research action, even with no clue in a neighborhood?
- How do monsters become exhausted?
- What does Witch Blood's "this action" refer to, and can Smoky Velvet pass Witch Blood's own action to another investigator?
- Can Smoky Velvet let another investigator copy an action Marie just took if they already took it this round?
- Does Smoky Velvet treat duplicate components, or a spell Marie cast, as the same action?
- Can Witch Blood give Marie three actions in one turn, including with Pocket Watch?
- Can Marie use Witch Blood while engaged with a monster, or repeat an attack on the same monster?
- How do Stella Clark's Delivery Truck and Mark Harrigan's One Man Army work together?
- When does Stella Clark's On the Job movement happen, and does it use one of her actions?
- How does Michael McGlen's Ol' Boiler work with engaged and elusive monsters?
- Can Dexter Drake's Magical Gift reroll apply to a ward test?
- Does Astral Travel use up an action, and can it be combined with a move action?
- Can you engage a monster to resolve Astral Projection's attack, and does the attack still happen?
- Does Enchanted Knife's effect turn a -2 attack modifier into -1, or set it to +1?
- Does Skids' Switchblade trigger once for each monster you disengage in one evade action?
- Does Wendy Adams's Shortcut work with an evade action?
- Can you use Handcuffs after attacking a monster that is engaged with another investigator?
- Can you use Intervene while you are engaged with a monster?
- Can you use Dynamite before the attack test, and does its damage replace the attack?
- Do weapon bonuses apply to any strength test, or only to attack actions?
- How do Preston Fairmont's Life of Privilege and Rex Murphy's unlimited focus limit interact with focus limits?
- Does Call the Storm count as an attack, so that it engages a monster or uses monster modifiers?
- Does researching a clue through King in Yellow require an observation test?
Delayed
- Does Delayed take away only your next action, or does it limit your whole turn to one action?
- What can a delayed investigator do when engaged with a monster?
- If another investigator passes an action to a delayed investigator with Smoky Velvet, does the action still count?
- Can you become delayed as part of a cost while you are already delayed?
- Does being delayed disengage you from a monster?
- Can a delayed investigator be traded with or moved?
- When you are delayed, does a Pocket Watch's extra action still apply?
Monster Phase
- Can one instance of damage or horror be split among several assets?
- Do several monsters attacking in the same step deal their damage at the same time?
- When a monster has several equally valid destinations or prey, or ties on distance, who chooses?
- When two routes to a monster's destination are equally short, who picks the route?
- Does a Hunter monster move if its only prey is in a space it cannot reach?
- Does a Hunter still move toward an investigator when nobody has clues, remnants or the tracked value?
- Do you take damage if you fail an evade test or attack a monster that survives?
- Do focus tokens and other bonuses count when a monster picks its prey by skill?
- Can a change in a focus token redirect a monster that has already chosen its prey?
- Does a monster engage an investigator it passes on the way to its prey?
- Does a ready monster engage you when it shares your space, even if you are already engaged?
- What does it mean for a monster to be engaged with an investigator?
- Can you look at the engaged or exhausted side of a monster card?
- Does a monster attack you as soon as it engages you or spawns in your space?
- Does a monster that spawns in your space engage you right away?
- Does a monster that moves into your space in the Monster Phase also attack you that same phase?
- Do Massive monsters attack every investigator in their space?
- Does a Massive monster engage every investigator in its space, and stay engaged with them?
- After evading a Massive monster, can you stay in its space without being engaged again?
- Does an Elusive monster engage an investigator who moves into its space?
- Does a Lurker monster engage an investigator who moves into its space?
- Can you move into a space with an exhausted or engaged monster without being engaged?
- If you move into a space with several monsters, how many of them engage you?
- When a monster shares a space with several investigators, which one does it engage?
- When an exhausted monster readies in your space, does it engage you right away?
- Does a monster that readies at the end of the Monster Phase activate that round?
- If you evade a monster and stay in its space, does it engage you again later in the Monster Phase?
- If you attack a monster but do not defeat it, does it stay engaged and attack in the Monster Phase?
- Where does a Patrol: Most Doom monster move when several spaces tie for most doom, or when it already stands on one?
- Does a Patrol monster keep moving after it reaches its destination, or swap between tied spaces?
- Do Patrol monsters have to consider investigators when choosing where to move?
- When a monster has both Patrol and Prey, which one governs its movement?
- Does a monster spend movement points on each travel route space it passes through?
- Where does a monster spawn when its spawn text targets the street nearest its prey?
- How is a specific monster found in the monster deck when an effect spawns it?
- Where do defeated monsters go, and can named monsters like Corben Bouchard come back?
- Which space is the unstable space when the event discard pile is empty?
- What does a movement value of '*' mean, such as on the Hounds of Tindalos?
- Can monsters follow an investigator into The Future?
- What does the Tattered Cloak do against monsters?
- How does Flesh Ward work against monster attacks?
- What happens to monsters engaged with an investigator who is defeated?
- Does a monster spawned during the Monster Phase, or during the Mythos Phase, activate that round?
- Does a Lurker's ability affect investigators in every space or only in the Lurker's own space?
- Do Lurker monsters move toward the Dream of R'Lyeh bomb when all monsters treat it as prey and destination?
- What happens in the Monster Phase if no monsters are on the board?
- Do monsters engage bystanders the same way they engage investigators?
- When Tainted Blood and the Codex both replace a bystander prey in The Dead Cry Out, which applies first?
- Does Alma Hill's Lurker effect draw two extra Mythos tokens every Monster Phase?
- If you damage a monster engaged with you, does its Pursuit keyword disengage you?
- Does Servitor of R'lyeh's horror effect hit every investigator or only engaged ones?
- Which investigators does River Skulk's 1 horror ability affect?
- When Skids uses On the Lam to exhaust a monster until the end of the round, does that monster still act in the Monster Phase?
- Can you use Streetwise to move while engaged with a monster?
- If three doom would go on the scenario sheet while Tsathoggua's text says to move toward it, does Tsathoggua move three spaces?
- Can you avoid a monster's attack when you are engaged with it in the Monster Attack step?
- Does an engaged monster activate, move or use its ready-side ability in the Monster Phase?
- If remnants move to another investigator and an engaged monster's target changes, does it reassign in the Monster Phase?
- Do monsters become exhausted after they move or after they attack in the Monster Phase?
- Is an engaged monster still in the investigator's space for effects that place doom or affect spaces?
- Do engaged monsters still drop doom when a card says all monsters do?
Encounter Phase
- After an encounter on an Event card gains no clue, where does the card go?
- How do you resolve an Event card that says gain a clue from your neighborhood?
- Can you look at the outcome of each option of an encounter choice before deciding?
- Should you read the other encounter texts on an Event card when you do not gain its clue?
- Do you get an encounter while engaged with a monster, including in a neighborhood with an anomaly?
- Can you have an encounter when a monster is in your space?
- Do encounter rewards in Arkham Horror 3rd Edition match the icons on each space?
- What does it mean to resolve an encounter?
- If you are defeated partway through an encounter, do the remaining effects still resolve?
- Where do encounter cards go after you resolve them, including anomaly cards?
- If an encounter says you gain a clue but the neighborhood has no clue, what happens?
- When an encounter says gain a common or curio item, can you take any matching item from the display?
- Does Velma's Diner loop, giving you the effect again for every dollar you spend?
- Can an effect that lets you or an ally recover 3 sanity be split between you and the ally?
- Does spending $1 at the Asylum heal both damage and horror in full?
- What does it mean to become a Stevedore, and do you still gain it when the encounter's test has zero successes?
- What does the Temporal Fissure anomaly's 'flung through the portal and back in time' text do?
- Does a Temporal Fissure anomaly that removes two doom grant two remnants?
- Do clues stay in a neighborhood that gets an anomaly, and can you still gain them there?
- Does an anomaly encounter that says to close the gate remove the Anomaly?
- If a Codex card offers an encounter in a space with an anomaly token, which encounter resolves?
- What happens when a Dark Pact says to devour another investigator but no other investigator is left?
- When an encounter spawns a clue, which card is used, and does the drawn card loop back?
- If a monster re-engages a different investigator during the encounter phase, does the first investigator still get an encounter?
Mythos Phase
- Do you return drawn Mythos tokens to the cup each round?
- In the Mythos Phase, do you resolve your two Mythos tokens one at a time or together?
- How many Mythos tokens does each investigator draw in the Mythos Phase?
- Can you skip a drawn Mythos token whose effect is unhelpful, such as spawning clues?
- If the Mythos cup runs out while you are drawing tokens, which tokens go back into it?
- Can Mythos tokens be added to the cup during a scenario?
- Does the Mythos Phase happen after each investigator's turn?
- What happens when a defeated investigator draws a Headline?
- What happens when you must draw a Headline and the Headline deck is empty?
- If a Headline makes you disengage all monsters, does it also free monsters engaged with other investigators?
- What does a Headline that says an investigator's Health is reduced by one actually do?
- Does a Headline's reminder text let you choose which investigator a spawned monster engages?
- What is the unstable space?
- Can there be more than one unstable space, and who picks the one an effect uses?
- When a Gate Burst puts doom in several spaces, in what order is it placed, and when does an anomaly appear?
- If a Gate Burst hits a neighborhood that already has an anomaly, where does the doom go?
- After a Gate Burst, do you shuffle the whole event deck or only the event discard pile?
- Where does doom go when a card says to place it on a street?
- When Spread Doom lands on a card with two doom icons in one space, do you place two doom tokens?
- When you draw a Mythos doom token, what do you do with the Event card?
- What does a Spawn Clue Mythos token do, including when the neighborhood already has a clue?
- If a clue token is drawn in the Mythos Phase while you are on a street, what happens?
- When are cards drawn from the Event deck?
- What happens when the Event deck runs out?
- Does a monster that spawns into an investigator's space engage that investigator right away?
- Does an Elusive monster spawned by a Headline into an investigator's space engage that investigator?
- When a monster spawns at the most doom, does it go to the single space with the most doom or the neighborhood total?
- Where does a monster spawn when there is no doom on the board?
- When several spaces qualify for a monster spawn, must it go to the space closest to its prey, and does an earlier choice limit a later spawn?
- When a Headline makes you spawn a non-Human monster, how do you find it in the monster deck?
- If the leader is defeated, where does a monster spawn on the street nearest the leader?
- Can Rex choose the Curse option on the Northside Vigilante Headline while he is already cursed?
- In what order do Reckoning effects resolve?
- Do Reckoning effects added during a Reckoning resolve in that same Reckoning?
- If a space with two doom gets two more, do you resolve an Outbreak or an Anomaly, and in what order?
- In Silence of Tsathoggua, how much doom does the reckoning place when several neighborhoods have two or more clues?
- In Silence of Tsathoggua, does Tsathoggua move once or once per doom when doom lands on the scenario sheet?
- In Feast of Umordhoth, does doom keep escalating when spreading creates another four-doom space in the same neighborhood?
- Does Curfew Established damage you for each monster when you are on a street engaged with monsters?
- What does Roland Banks' Follow the Clues talent do when you would gain a remnant?
- Can you look at upcoming cards in the event or monster deck?
- When a monster with prey is spawned and investigators tie for most clues, how is the prey picked?
- Does the Headline Why Even Go On Anymore count as a test, and can it be rerolled?
Additional Rules
- Does the Tattered Cloak item stop a monster's spawning text from targeting you?
- Does the Tattered Cloak stop monsters from engaging the investigator wearing it?
- If a monster with an attached item is destroyed by a Codex or event effect, is the attached item lost?
- Where do anomaly encounter cards go after they are resolved?
- If a dark pact says to devour another investigator but you are the only investigator, what happens?
- Does Clairvoyance let you read every encounter on the cards you look at?
- Where do revealed cards go when a card says to shuffle them and return them to the deck?
- Can the same non-action spell accompany two different actions in one turn?
- Can you spend remnants to prevent the horror cost of a spell?
- Can you prevent damage or horror that you suffered as part of paying a cost?
- When an item or ally is discarded by damage or horror, who takes the excess?
- Does the Masked Hunter count as a worshiper, so that defeating him places a marker on the scenario sheet?
- How do the human cultists (worshipers) enter play in Feast for Umordhoth?
- Where do you find a named card, such as Lita Chantler's, that a card tells you to bring in?
- On archive card 93, does 'location' mean the whole neighborhood or only a space inside it?
- When an event lets you purchase a common item, can you take any card from the item deck?
- How do you attach a codex card to a neighborhood?
- When Dexter's Smoke and Mirrors replaces a test with Lore, do the modifiers on the original test still apply?
- Must you decide to use Smoke and Mirrors before rolling the test dice?
- When an effect offers either 2 damage or becoming Cursed, and the investigator cannot be cursed, what happens?
- When Winifred's Just That Good triggers on a failed test, does she roll an extra die or reroll?
- Can other reroll abilities be used after Winifred's Just That Good?
- Can Winifred's Just That Good give two focus tokens to one skill, breaking the one-focus-per-skill rule?
- Does a Blessed test count only the final dice result after rerolls when deciding whether to keep the Blessing?
- Does Daniela Reyes's focus after a gather action let her exceed the focus limit?
- How does doom get onto the Future codex card?
- Does an investigator who enters the Future take an encounter card?
- Can I leave the Future with Astral Travel or Find Gate?
- When a Gate Burst puts several doom into one neighborhood, how is the doom placed, and when does an anomaly appear?
- Can an investigator have two copies of the same named spell, and can both be cast in one round?
- If Silas's Fishing Net is used during a move action, can you still use a two-handed weapon in the attack action?
- Is the Pocket Watch discarded after its one additional action, or is it kept?
- How do you gain an item with a specific trait, such as common or curio?
- If an effect lets you buy items and you decline, can you discard items from the display instead?
- Can investigators ride along in the Delivery Truck when Stella moves at the start of her first action phase?
- Does Wrack damage a monster whose remaining health is higher than your test result?
- With several neighborhoods holding anomalies, how many anomaly encounter decks are used?
- Do clues an investigator holds count toward 'clues in your neighborhood' for abilities like Roland's Fight for the Truth?
- Must Astral Travel move exactly 2 plus the test result spaces?
- Does Skids' On the Lam count as an action or grant an extra action?
- Where does doom go when it would be placed in a neighborhood that has an anomaly?
- Can Diana's doom bonus stack several points onto one die?
- Does an attached spell such as Enchant Weapon stay active on its weapon until the weapon is discarded?
- Can Ol' Boiler damage a monster you are already engaged with, using a move?
- Does Flux Agitator's discard of a monster count as defeating it?
- Does Alice Luxley's extra dice ability apply to attack tests, and is it a reroll?
- Does the spell Binding grant the bonus action that an Evade action gives?
- How many white markers are needed for Ithaqua's Children, and what happens when the seventh is placed?
- When Codex card 109 would add a clue to the scenario sheet through Research, does the clue return to the supply or stay on the investigator sheet?
- When doom accumulates on the Approach of Azathoth scenario sheet, what happens?
- Once Hunter's Insight is attached to a monster, who gets the research and the spell back if the monster dies?
- When doom triggers a codex card, does the doom stay on the card?
- Is the Calling in Favors talent mandatory at the start of your turn?
- When Silence of Tsathoggua removes neighborhoods from the map, what happens to doom, gate bursts and clues placed there?
- Can you pay half price for an item once per round when buying from a Curio?
- Does Zoey's Knife +1 apply to every reroll or only to attack tests?
- Does a Watcher monster stop my movement when I move into its space?
- Does Contraband Whiskey's Downtown neighborhoods clause apply to two neighborhoods or one?
- Do spell dollar amounts matter?
- Does the Elder Sign Amulet prevent two single horrors from two different monsters?
- Can Calvin Wright's Voice of the Messenger be rerolled repeatedly to keep gaining horror until you succeed?
- Can horror required by Calvin Wright's Voice of the Messenger be assigned to his Until the End of Time asset?
- Can an investigator's Ominous Dreams talent be used on a test where they have only one success?
- Can Patrice Hathaway's Violin effect apply to herself?
- Does a Clairvoyance spell let you look at encounter cards of other neighborhoods?
- Does the Azathoth epicenter require three clues on the scenario sheet before it can be found?
- Which anomaly encounter do you use when your own space has no doom but the neighborhood still has some?
- Are clue tokens and their encounter cards removed when an anomaly token is placed on a neighborhood?
- Can Ashcan Pete's Scrounge draw from the item deck, or cycle the display, when no displayed item qualifies?
- Is an item with no stated use limit single-use, or can it be used repeatedly?
- Does a neighborhood icon let you take or buy items from the display?
- Does Tommy Muldoon's Handcuffs count as defeating a monster as part of an attack action?
- Does Mr. Pawterson help when enemies ready and engage right after the bear's effect?
- How do Mama's Amulet and the Elder Sign Amulet interact?
- How many times can Ol' Boiler's effect be used in a normal game?
- Can an encounter that heals an ally let you heal an ally that belongs to another investigator?
- What happens if an investigator gains a condition it already has?
- Can Grand-mere's Knife be used with the spell Intervene?
- Can items that add Lore be used when casting a spell that tests Lore in place of Strength or Observation?
- Can Calvin Wright's Friend Indeed pass damage or horror to his assets?
- When an effect says to gain a spell, which deck do you draw from?
Rules Reference
- What actions can you take while engaged with a monster?
- Does moving into a space with a monster engage you?
- If another investigator attacks a monster you are engaged with, who is engaged with it?
- What happens when you run out of doom tokens?
- Can damage or horror from one source be split between an asset and your investigator?
- Can Calvin assign damage or horror to Until the End of Time without discarding it?
- Does trading a clue count as gaining it for Wendy Adams' Mysterious Photo?
- Can Dexter's Magician's Cane absorb damage and horror?
- Does Token of Faith's horror recovery apply to horror placed on the item itself?
- Can you keep a second copy of a spell you already own?
- How does Precious Memento handle horror on the holder?
- Are items, allies and spells discarded after you use them?
- Can you still move after defeating a monster if there is nothing to disengage from?
- Do clues and doom on the scenario sheet stay there after an encounter?
- Can doom be placed in a street space?
- If you attack a monster but do not defeat it, does its damage stay on the card?
- Do allies take damage and horror?
- Does a cultist spawn at the ritual site every round after the Approach of Azathoth codex card is in play?
General
- Are clues an investigator has gained counted by All Around You?
- In Veil of Twilight, do the investigators still win if only one investigator took a Dark Pact to join the Silver Twilight Lodge?
- Can an investigator who already has a Dark Pact take another one to join the Lodge?
- Why do Codex cards 3 and 5 both have a three-clue trigger that adds card 4, and does card 5 add card 4 again?
- Can Arkham Horror 3rd Edition expansions such as Under Dark Waves be used with Arkham Horror 2nd Edition?
- How do you place Azathoth archive card 8 when doom advances?
- Can Skids use On the Lam when he is not engaged with any monster?
- In Feast for Umordhoth, does the set-aside Masked Hunter count toward the worshiper defeat condition?
- In the Azathoth story, is the red token revealed when archive card 8 resolves?
- In the Azathoth story, does archive card 7's entry restriction still apply after the card goes back to the archive?
- In the Azathoth story, should archive card 7 be placed face-up or face-down when the red token appears before the barrier is destroyed?
- When a card says to remove clues from the scenario, does it mean the scenario sheet?
- Does 'become a Server at Velma's' give you a card, or is it only flavour text?
- If a headline deals damage for each monster in your neighborhood, what happens when you stand on a street?
- How does Codex card 83 change the Bloodless Man epic monster?
- Are investigators on a Sheldon Base or O'Bannion Stronghold space engaged with that marker?
- Can a scar show up again in a neighborhood after you have mended one?
- Can monsters move into The Future during the Monster Phase?
- Does Kate Winthrop's Flux Stabilizer stop a Gate Burst from placing doom?
- Can Dexter Drake hold two copies of Mists of R'lyeh?
- Can Rex Murphy take a Dark Blessing, given his Family Curse?
- Can Calvin's Friend Indeed ability swap any amount of health and sanity with another investigator?
- Where is the lead investigator while defeated, before a new one is created?
- How does Calvin's Until the End of Time condition work as a damage sink?
- Is the Whatley Bible an item with its own text?
- What does 'return the card to the Archives' mean for a location card?
- How do you find the cultist for the Shots in the Dark reckoning effect?
- Does the Observatory's doom removal apply to any space on the board, or only the neighborhood?
- When a Codex card flips or resolves, do clues and doom leave the scenario sheet?
- Did we win Feast for Umordhoth if we skipped card 10's instruction?
- If Calvin Wright's Dark Pact triggers and is discarded, does he keep Voice of the Messenger?
- Where do special cards come from, and how do you know when to take one?
- Does the game have a scoring system for how well you did?
- Can Find Gate take an investigator out of The Future, and do clues there count for All Around You?
- Does Kate Winthrop's Flux Stabilizer defeat a monster, so that defeat rewards such as a marker are gained?
- How do you get markers onto the Scenario Sheet in the Echoes of the Deep Codex?
- Are there rule changes for solo play?
- What is a curio item, and how do you gain one?
- If you attack an exhausted monster, does it engage you?
Arkham Horror (Third Edition): Dead of NightExpansion
- Can you spend zero clues on Codex 57 to roll one die?
- Can Implacable heal itself after it takes damage?
- If an encounter says discard $2 and then gives a reward, and you have only $1, do you discard the $1 and get the reward?
- Do you need to remove Dead of Night cards to play a base-game scenario?
- Do clues on a Gang's Stronghold token count as clues in the neighborhood for an ally's reroll ability?
- Can Dead of Night components such as anomalies, events and archive cards be added to the base game without its scenarios?
- What does LEGBREAKER mean on a Dead of Night card?
- Does Kate Winthrop's Research Notes replace the cost of a reroll?
- Does the Shots in the Dark scenario use anomalies, and which anomaly deck applies?
- In Silence of Tsathoggua, what happens to clue or doom tokens meant for spaces that are already destroyed?
- How many markers can be added to the Scenario Sheet with Codex card 57 (Silence of Tsathoggua)?
- How do you spawn an aberration from the monster deck when a Maw Opens card says to?
- Does reaching four doom on the scenario sheet trigger card 44 in Shots in the Dark?
- What is a Tome, and how do you gain one?
Arkham Horror (Third Edition): Secrets of the OrderExpansion
- Do Wild Gateway map tiles appear in Secrets of the Order?
- How do you put David Renfield into play in Secrets of the Order?
- Can a delayed investigator still take the extra attack granted by One Man Army or Anything You Can Do?
- Can Mark Harrigan attack more than once in a round?
- Can a delayed investigator use The Red Cloak's effect after receiving it by trade?
- Can you resolve a regular neighborhood encounter in a mystery location, such as the Unnamable, when its neighborhood has an anomaly?
- Does the Lost Journal need a free hand to recover sanity when you gain a remnant?
- Does Winifred's Anything You Can Do let her add her own items or focus tokens to the copied dice pool?
- Does Winifred's Anything You Can Do copy the dice pool the other investigator rolled, including their pre-roll changes and monster modifiers?
- Can Winifred use Anything You Can Do to cast a spell or use an item action that another investigator used, or copy Find Gate?
- Can Winifred copy another investigator's action if that action was already used this round?
- Can an investigator engage and attack a Shrouded Monster in their space?
- When Agatha's Call the Dead discards an archive card from a scenario encounter deck, where does it go?
- Why can't I find Raging Poltergeists and Storming Wraiths in my monster deck?
- Are Shrouded monsters reshuffled into the monster deck when they are defeated?
- Is the Twilight Sentry's Speed 2 with the Lurker ability a printing error?
- When Fatigued requires removing a die to reroll, which die do you remove?
- Does Find Gate move an investigator through hazardous borders?
- What is Fatigue, and where do the Fatigued and Driven conditions come from?
- Who gains Secrets of the Order card 158 when no doom is placed?
- What is the Steward of Order?
- Can you prevent the damage from a Hazardous Border and still keep moving?
- Can a Shrouded monster be exhausted?
- Do hazardous borders stop Astral Travel?
Arkham Horror (Third Edition): Under Dark WavesExpansion
- In Tyrants of Ruin, where do the investigators start, since the scenario sheet mentions the General Store?
- Should the Under Dark Waves back-page summary say doom or terror for the Mythos token?
- In Tyrants of Ruin, do Archive cards 93 to 102 and 107 return cards to the codex or the archive?
- In Tyrants of Ruin, is Archive card 105 Elite 4, or does it give 2 extra health per investigator?
- In Tyrants of Ruin, what does Codex card 65 do when you gain a Deep One Relic?
- In Tyrants of Ruin, is the reckoning on Archive card 67 a mistake when Mother Hydra is defeated?
- Can Harpoon be used when no monster is in your space or engaged with you?
- Is the Harpoon weapon one-handed or two-handed?
- In Dreams of R'lyeh, are the Innsmouth and Kingsport cards left out of the decks until those districts are set up?
- Can you use an encounter ability, such as Signum Crucis, in addition to your encounter, or in a neighborhood with an anomaly?
- Does Carson Sinclair's Quietly Indispensable ability work when he is the one making the test?
- What does the hand icon on the Fishing Net mean?
- Does Fishing Net stay on a monster if Silas is defeated?
- Can you exhaust a monster with Fishing Net while moving through its space if your hands are full?
- If a neighborhood encounter deck is short of cards for an expansion, can core game cards be added to reach eight?
- Can Prudence Douglas use her ability when a fourth horror is assigned to her?
- Does The Watcher engage Patrice Hathaway as soon as it spawns, so that she gains its condition side?
- If an investigator takes damage and horror at the same time, does one Prepared for Anything focus token prevent both?
- Does Baseball Bat still suffer damage if you modify the single 1 you rolled by adding 1 to it?
- Can Signum Crucis target a different investigator with each success, including yourself?
- Does Holy Water replace a non-human monster's attack and evade values with +1?
- Does a monster moved into my space by Harpoon engage me?
- If both Ominous Dreams and The Watcher apply to one test, which reroll is resolved first?
- Does the Delivery Truck's trade, taken as an additional action, use up one of your two actions?
- When Voice of Authority turns a skill test into an Influence test during an attack, do the monster's modifiers still apply?
- Are terror tokens removed after you resolve a terror encounter or terror card?
- Are the Deep Ones from Under the Dark Waves added to the monster deck in base-game scenarios?
- Can the game start with an Anomaly if the setup doom lands on a space that already has doom?
- Can Ashcan Pete's Wanderer encounter take place in a space with a monster?
- Do Mystery tiles count for Gate Burst doom and for a neighborhood's doom total?
- When a card says to place two Doom icons on one space at setup, do you place two doom tokens there?
- When Ashcan Pete's Scrounge says to gain an item from the display, what happens if no item matches the cost?
- When an encounter card offers an alternative encounter effect, do you resolve Terror first, and can you pick the target?
- Can you voluntarily discard an item, such as the Golden Crown, at any time?
- Does Chef's Knife's +1 apply when you reroll dice outside an attack action?
- Does a monster moving between two travel routes of the same type spend a movement point?
- If a drawn event card is for a location that is not in play, do you skip it and draw another?
- Codex 93 (Bent to His Will): does defeating a thrall on a street place a marker?
- Does ignoring a monster's text box also ignore its Elite keyword?
- After resolving the Astral Projection spell, can you take another Ward action in a different space?
- Can you resolve more than one terror encounter in a single turn?
- Does Silas Marsh's Tainted Blood stop a Lurker's activation, or only work on Hunter monsters?
- Do Deep One effects apply to Father Dagon and Mother Hydra?
- Do the three focus tokens for Codex 87 need to be for different skills?
- When a Spreading Terror token is drawn, which neighborhood does it affect?
- When a scenario says to add all Deep One monsters, do Human Deep Ones and other Deep One variants count?
- Does Headline card 43's Reckoning reduce health or deal damage?
- Do you keep paying the cost to hold an enchant weapon spell's attachment each turn?
- Do the focus limit and the one-token-per-skill limit apply to focus tokens placed by Codex 68?
- How do you resolve the Will test on Codex card 116 against the doom on card 120?
- Can a neighborhood reach six doom to trigger Terror when five doom would make an anomaly?
- Does Spread Terror add one terror and one doom, or just one terror?
- Do Thrall and Deep One monsters from Under Dark Waves join base scenarios that use all thrall or all Deep One monsters?
- Does the Pursuit monster trait ever matter, if you can only attack monsters in your space?
- What counts as 'in play' for a component?
- If the most-doom district already has a lead, can the next lead go to the district with the second most doom?
- What are the white markers on Codex card 64?
- Do weapon bonuses count as modifiers for Charlie Kane's Influence attacks?
- Does Codex card 102's clue-based health reduction apply continuously?
- Are terror tokens used in Outbreak scenarios?
- Does Silas's Fishing Net do anything on a monster that cannot be exhausted?
- Who gains Silas's Fishing Net when the netted monster is defeated?
- How do Stella Clark's On the Job and Delivery Route interact with movement?
- Is Ithaqua Elite 4 or Elite 2 for health per investigator?
- Does Codex card 85 (The Pale Lantern) need more doom tokens than the base box contains?
- Card 107 says to return it and card 106 to the codex once it flips at four doom. Does it keep flipping every time there are four or more doom?
- In Tyrants of Ruin, does a Deep One on a street or travel route count for the reckoning's spread-terror effect?
- Can Patrice use Ominous Dreams' reroll to also satisfy The Watcher's forced reroll on the same success?