Babylonia FAQ
35 questions players ask · Updated Nov 13, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup
Playing
- Can you play just two Farmers in one turn?
- Can you place a Clan Token beside a Crop Field and then place a Farmer in it in the same turn?
- Does a face-down Clan Token in a river count as the adjacent token needed to place a Farmer on a Crop Field?
- Can a Noble be placed on a Crop Field?
- Can you play a face-down Clan Token with the three-Farmer action or a Ziggurat bonus?
- Can you play only one Clan Token on your turn?
- When do you refill your stand back to five Clan Tokens?
- When are Ziggurat and Crop Field points scored compared with surrounded cities and ziggurats?
- Does a Clan Token placed next to several Ziggurats score for each one, and does every placement score separately?
- After a Ziggurat is scored and its card taken, does a later token placed next to it still score?
- If you win several city tiles in one turn, how are the city-tile points scored?
- Can you place a Clan Token in the empty hexagon left after a city tile is taken?
- To win a city tile, do connected Clan Tokens count, or only the tokens next to the city?
- If a city is tied and its tile is discarded, do the Nobles still score?
- When scoring a city, do non-scoring Clan Tokens link your Nobles into a connected chain?
- Do unclaimed city or crop-field tiles break a connected chain when a city is scored?
- Can a player ever be left with no legal placement on their turn?
End of the Game
Ziggurat Cards
- If you win a Ziggurat this turn, when can you use its card's power?
- If you complete a city and a ziggurat in one turn, can you use the city tile's bonus that turn?
- With Ziggurat 8 or 9, do empty hexes count as your Clan Tokens for city or Ziggurat majority?
- How many empty hexes can a Ziggurat 8 or 9 connection run through?
- Can Ziggurat 9's river connection link a city to Nobles on the far side of a free river hex?
- If an opponent places a token on a river hex, does it stop your Ziggurat 9 river connection through that hex?
- Does Ziggurat 9 let you place a Farmer on a Crop Field on the riverbank?
- Does a Noble placed on a Crop Field through Ziggurat card 6 score that field?
- Does Ziggurat card 6 let Farmers claim Crop Fields without an adjacent Clan Token?
- How does Ziggurat card 7's bonus score: only when you gain a city, or whenever cities are scored?
- Does Ziggurat card 7's bonus apply when you claim a Crop Field with a city symbol?
- Does Ziggurat card 7's bonus trigger when a tied city tile is discarded?
- Can the three-different-Nobles Ziggurat power be used on a river hex?
- Under the Ziggurat card that adds a Noble to three or more Farmers, can you play the Noble before the Farmers?
- Can you play one Noble with only two Farmers under the Ziggurat card that adds a Noble to Farmers?
- How many Ziggurat cards can be taken in a four-player game?