Bora Bora FAQ
66 questions players ask · Updated Nov 11, 2026 · Full rulebook
Components and setup
- Where can you place your first hut during setup?
- What is the 12th hut space on the player board for?
- How are the starting task tiles dealt and placed during setup, and how is a finished one marked?
- How many God tiles are in the game, and how many does each player start with?
- How many man and woman tiles are in the game?
- How many God cards are in the game, and how many do players start with?
Dice, expansion and actions
- Can you place a second die on an action tile you already used this round?
- Can you place a die on an action tile when you cannot carry out that action?
- Can you use the Fishing action with any die?
- When expanding with a die, can you use a path lower than the die's value?
- If another player expands onto the building space where my hut is, what happens to my hut?
- Where do building materials go when the matching ceremony space is already full?
- Can the Helper action buy several God cards at once, and are face-up cards replaced?
- Do you collect shells or tattoos when you recruit a man or woman with a Phase B tile?
The temple and priests
- Do priests stay in the temple from round to round?
- Can you take the Temple action when all your priests are already in the temple?
- When you place a priest on an occupied temple space, which priest moves?
- If two players tie for the most priests in the temple, who gets the top God tile?
- How many victory points does each priest in the temple score?
- Can you place a priest on a temple space occupied by your own priest?
Men and women in Phase B
- In Phase B, must you use both a man and a woman?
- Can a man and a woman with the same effect be combined in Phase B?
- Can you use two or three identical men or women together in Phase B?
- Do man and woman actions in Phase B work like the matching Phase A actions?
- Are men and women shifted down or discarded after you use them in Phase B?
- Can a man or woman tile be used again in later rounds?
- What do the left and right symbols on a man or woman tile mean?
- How many man and woman actions can you take in Phase B?
Status, buildings and jewelry
- Who goes first when two players tie on the status track?
- After Phase C scoring, is the new turn order based on the status track or on seating?
- Do you score victory points as soon as your status marker moves?
- How many victory points does a building score, and does it change by round?
- How do you tell which round it is?
- Can you buy more than one jewelry tile in a round?
- Can you buy a jewelry tile that an earlier player passed on in the same round?
- Can you look at your own face-down jewelry tiles at any time?
Task tiles
- What do the person icons on a task tile require?
- Can a God tile or two identical God cards stand in for a God card a task requires?
- Does a task I fail to complete count toward the nine-task bonus?
- In Phase C, must every player complete a task before anyone chooses a new one?
- Do building materials spent on a building still count toward a task?
Game end and final scoring
- At game end, who scores a region's fish tile?
- Can a region's fish tile score once with a Red God and again at game end?
- How do you complete nine task tiles for the nine-task bonus?
- At game end, can a God card you show for one task also count toward a later one?
- If you build all six buildings, do you also get the bonus for filling every ceremony space?
- Do you refill man, woman and task tiles before round 6?
- In a tie at game end, is the tiebreak based on the turn order from the start of the last Phase C or the order after the status track reassigns it?
The Gods
- When can you play a Red God to score a fish tile?
- Can more than one player score the same region's fish tile with a Red God?
- Can you use an offering from the region you just expanded into to pay for a Red God on that expansion?
- What can a Yellow God do for a task?
- How many Yellow Gods can you play on one task tile?
- Can you show a Yellow God card for a task that requires that same God?
- What can a Green God do in Phase B?
- How does a Green God double identical men or women, or a build?
- Can you play more than one Green God in Phase B, or use a God tile as a second one?
- Does a White God change the die to a 6 when you place it?
- With a Blue God, which dice can go on an action tile that already has a die?
- Can you play two different God cards on the same die, such as Blue and White?
- Can you play two identical God cards as a wild, and what does it cost?
- How many God cards of each color can you play in each phase?
- Do you pay an offering to play a God tile, and where does it go?
- Are God cards discarded after you play them, and are cards shown for a task discarded too?
- Is there a hand limit on God cards?
- Can you play a God card on a die you placed if the Helper action gave you that card?