41 questions players ask about Faraway, answered in plain words and graded by where the answer comes from. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-10-29.
The publisher answered this directly.
Six in the base game. The BGG listing was corrected to match the publisher's statement.
The publisher confirmed it, and the rulebook's setup gives the same count.
The normal number: players plus one. The Advanced variant only changes the opening deal (5 cards, keep 3); the discarded cards are shuffled back into the deck before play. Some translated rulebooks omit the "plus one", but the publisher confirmed no change.
Several players report playing it at five and six without trouble.
Players report that it works fine: waits for draft picks are a little longer and the draft is less cut-throat. This is player experience only, not a ruling.
Two players agree, and BGG's language dependence entry says the same.
Yes. There is no necessary in-game text, so any language edition works with English rules.
The publisher answered this directly.
Nothing in the rules. They are cosmetic: players walk them along their line of cards while scoring to show their journey.
Only one player's list of the colours, checked against the scoring examples.
Forest is red, river is green, desert is blue and city is yellow. Play and scoring use the colours and icons, so you rarely need the names.
The publisher answered this directly.
No. Turn order is set only by the number on the card played. Night and day matter only for quests that mention them.
The publisher answered this directly.
Yes. Cards are revealed and stay face up as you play them. They are flipped face down only at the end, to make scoring easier.
The rulebook says you choose from the cards available in the centre.
No. You choose only from the face-up Region cards in the middle of the table.
The rulebook ties Sanctuaries to playing a higher card.
No. Only a card with a higher exploration duration than your previous one finds Sanctuaries; clues only add extra cards to that deal.
The rulebook says a prerequisite is checked only for the quest's fame.
Yes. The prerequisite only gates that card's quest fame. Its resources, colour, clues and other symbols still count.
The rulebook states this for the final round.
No new Region card is taken on round 8, since you have nothing left to play. You can still choose a Sanctuary if you found one.
Only players' advice on this; there is no rule about it.
No. It is optional and only helps when choosing which Region card to take.
The publisher answered this directly.
Yes. Look at them as soon as they are dealt, keeping them hidden from opponents. You still pick your Region card first and then choose and play one Sanctuary. Revealing your choice before the Region card is also allowed.
The publisher answered this directly.
No order is required, as the deck is face down and shuffled. If you want one, use the initiative order of the cards just played, lowest first.
The publisher gave the procedure; the claim that the deck cannot run out is disputed and was removed.
Deal and resolve one player at a time, in the same turn order used for claiming Region cards, instead of dealing to everyone at once. The publisher gives this as the official procedure. Late in a large game, with many Sanctuaries already in play areas, the deck can be too small to deal to everyone at once.
The publisher confirmed it, and it matches the rulebook.
No. Choose one to add to your play area and put all the others under the Sanctuary deck. Some French printings were ambiguous; the publisher said that was fixed after the first print run.
The rulebook states the count.
One for finding a Sanctuary, plus one for each clue (map icon) in your play area, on Region or Sanctuary cards. You keep only one of them.
The publisher answered this directly.
Yes. Sanctuaries stay face up and count as a Region of their colour when scoring Region cards, including their symbols.
Two players say so; the base rulebook never mentions grey.
In the base game grey has no colour and nothing scores for it. Grey is not a wild colour. The People From Below expansion adds cards that score grey.
The publisher confirmed it, and it matches the rulebook.
Score each Region card once, from the last card you played back to the first, then your Sanctuaries. Flipping the Region cards face down first, as the rulebook says, makes it easy to reveal them one by one.
The publisher commented that left to right works too, while the rulebook specifies right to left.
The publisher said it would work just fine that way too, but the rulebook scores right to left (retracing the journey), so that is the standard way to play.
The rulebook describes this scoring procedure.
Only face-up cards: the cards to its right that you have already revealed, the card itself, and all your Sanctuaries.
The publisher answered this directly.
Yes. Everything visible on a card counts for that card itself: its resources, colour and map symbols.
The publisher answered this directly.
Both colours, and per card, not per pair. Four-colour cards instead score per complete set of colours.
The rulebook requires the whole prerequisite.
No. The prerequisite must be fully met, otherwise the card scores nothing.
The publisher answered this directly.
Yes. It scores once for each complete set of the four colours, with no limit. Sanctuaries can supply cards for further sets.
The publisher answered this directly.
No. Each card counts only once for the scored card, so two red cards and one of each other colour make one set.
Single player's answer, consistent with how cards are read.
No. It scores once when the prerequisite is met. Only cards whose bottom condition counts items or sets score repeatedly.
One player's answer, in line with the rulebook's prerequisite description.
No. Only resources and icons on the upper part of cards count, not those in prerequisites.
The rulebook says to take into account faceup Regions and Sanctuaries.
No. Only face-up cards count. Sanctuaries are always face up.
The publisher stated the single-lowest-card reading, which the rulebook's wording leaves open.
The tied player holding the single lowest exploration card wins. Compare only the lowest card, not the total of the durations. A thread disputes this, but the publisher answered it.
The publisher answered this directly.
Mystical Havens are the grey cards, new in the expansion. Some of the new Region cards and Sanctuaries score for grey cards. In the base game grey is colourless.
The publisher answered this directly.
No. Grey is only grey: it counts for cards that score grey, but never as one of blue, yellow, green or red.
The publisher answered this directly.
The cards are correct. The publisher confirmed the printed Region card and the matching Sanctuaries are right, and the rulebook figure is only an example to illustrate the rule.
Only a reasoned reply, with no official word.
First. It is the lowest value, so it acts before the 1.
The publisher answered this directly.
No. The destruction is a one-time cost paid when you score that card, so you score once per such card.
The publisher answered this directly.
When you score that card, choose one Sanctuary and destroy it. Cards scored earlier keep the benefit; the Sanctuary no longer counts for later cards.
The publisher answered this directly.
Every card in your tableau whose exploration duration ends in that digit stays face up, including earlier ones. The Meteorite card itself stays face up even if nothing matches.
The publisher said so, correcting the rule sheet.
Yes, any. The rule sheet's word "one" was a wording error and should read "any".
The publisher answered this directly.
Any card face up at the moment that card is scored counts, including cards placed earlier, Meteorite-affected ones and Sanctuaries.