Carcassonne: The Castle FAQ
37 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Preparation
The Course of Play
- When one tile completes several features, who decides the scoring order?
- Can you take a wall tile while scoring one of several completed features in a turn?
- Can a follower returned after scoring be placed again on the tile you just played?
- Must each new tile connect to the tile placed just before it?
- Can a path tile start from the castle wall, and can a path end against it?
- What makes a path, tower or house complete so that it can be scored during the game?
- How many points does a completed path score?
- Do tiles that touch a feature only at a corner complete or extend it?
- Can a feature only one tile long, such as a single house tile, be scored?
- What do you do if the tile you drew cannot be placed anywhere?
- Can a path tile be placed so that its path leads into unplayed spaces?
- Can a tower, house or court be placed so that it blocks a path already in play?
The Final Scoring
- Do you need to fully enclose a court before its markets score?
- Does a player score a court when both players have the same number of merchants on it?
- What makes one keep larger than another when comparing the largest keeps?
- Can the largest keep sit on an incomplete house that a wall tile scores at game end?
- Who gets the keep when one player completes a house and the other player scores it?
- If you hold both +2 keep wall tiles, does your largest keep grow by 4 tiles?
- Can you take a wall tile by landing on it during final scoring?
- Is there a tiebreaker when two players finish with the same score?
Description of the Wall Tiles
- Can you use a wall tile in the same turn you took it?
- Can you use a wall tile during your opponent's turn, for example to change a feature they just scored?
- If both players have equal followers on a feature, can a wall tile still make it score?
- Does wall tile 7 give 4 points per market in addition to the usual 3, or instead of them?
- If you hold two wall tile 7s, do they apply to two courts or double one court?
- Do two doubling wall tiles on the same tower or house stack, for example to score x3 instead of x2?
- Can two copies of wall tiles 4 to 6 both score the largest incomplete feature at game end?
- Does the +2 keep wall tile add 2 points, or 2 to the size of your largest keep?
- When can the double-turn wall tile (tile 1) be used during a turn?
- Does an incomplete path with a fountain score 2 points per tile with the unfinished-path wall tile?
- If you hold both unfinished-path wall tiles, how many points does an unfinished path score?
- Do you place a claimed wall tile on the castle wall, or keep it face up in front of you?
- Can a doubling wall tile (tile 2 or 3) be used on a feature scored as incomplete at game end?
- Do you take a wall tile by passing over its spaces, or only by landing exactly on one, including on a later lap?