Dragon Castle FAQ
46 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
How to Build a Dragon Castle
A Game Turn
- Must your first tile each turn come from the highest floor?
- Can your second tile be one that became Available when you removed your first tile?
- Must a pair of special tiles (Seasons, Winds, Dragons) show the same symbol?
- Can you place tiles on a fourth level or higher?
- If you place several tiles in one turn, when do you consolidate a new set?
- Are victory points a secret in Dragon Castle?
Building Shrines
Spirit Card Powers
- Can the Chameleon (Spirit of Change) special tile be used to consolidate with a normal tile?
- Can the adjacent second tile for the Spirit of Deception be a different colour from the first?
- Can Spirit of Faith add a shrine for each set you consolidate in one turn?
- With the Spirit of the Deep, what counts as the same type for the second tile of a pair?
- Can you pay for the Spirit of the Deep just to take two identical tiles?
- Can you use a spirit's power between consolidating tiles and building shrines on them?
- Can Spirit of Cunning consolidate a set of three tiles placed in an earlier turn?
- Can another player use Spirit of Elegance's ability without paying a tile while it is active?
- Does Spirit of Elegance let your first tile of the turn come from a lower floor?
- Can Spirit of Destruction discard an available tile from a lower floor?
- Is using a Spirit card an extra action on top of your normal turn?
- Can you activate more than one Spirit in the same turn?
- Can you take a tile and immediately discard it to pay for a Spirit?
Dragon Card Descriptions
- For Dragon of Bravery, do diagonal stacks count as adjacent?
- Does an empty space count as a lower stack for Dragon of Bravery?
- Do face-up tiles count toward Dragon of Bravery at game end?
- Does Dragon of Righteousness need an unbroken row or column of tiles?
- Must a shrine and a face-up Dragon tile be on the same height to count as adjacent for Dragon of Devotion?
- Can one Dragon tile score for several shrines, and does a shrine with two adjacent Dragon tiles score more under Dragon of Devotion?
- Under Dragon of Humility, do you still score a lower shrine when the taller stack also has a shrine?
- Does Dragon of Harmony's shrine-symmetry bonus score if you build no shrines?
- Do shrines count toward the tile symmetry on the Dragon of Harmony?
- What is the maximum score for the Dragon of Harmony?
- How does Dragon of Majesty score?
- Does Dragon of Majesty still score if you have tiles from only some factions?
- What is the value of a tile for Dragon of Majesty and Dragon of Power?
- Do Dragon tiles count as special tiles for the Dragon of Knowledge?
- What is the edge of your realm for the Dragon cards?
- Does a shrine on a face-down tile split face-down groups for Dragon of Tranquility?