Forgotten Waters FAQ
111 questions players ask · Updated Nov 11, 2026 · Full rulebook
Object of the Game
Forgotten Waters App
Game Setup
- Is there an official solo or two-player variant, and where are its rules?
- Are the later scenarios more complicated than the first one?
- How are the infamy markers placed on the track at setup?
- Can two players use the same pirate or player sheet?
- With three players, do you use both the Hungry Pirates and Masked Pirate special rules cards?
- Whose bonuses and infamy does the Masked Pirate count toward?
- Does difficulty scale with the number of players?
- Do player roles such as First Mate matter in the game?
Playing a Round
- How does a round run once setup is complete?
- What timer length should you use when playing?
- Must you read the full action text before choosing during planning?
- Can a player skip their action once the monster's dial is at zero?
- If a parley skips Fight Enemy Crew, can you still resolve Loot Cannons, Loot Treasure and Recruit Crew?
- On a space that says take 2 actions, can you choose the same action twice?
- If an action says to take 2 actions, must you take both?
- On an unlimited action, can a later player choose the action an earlier player already chose?
- In what order are actions chosen and performed?
- With four players, must you choose all four red required actions on the Kraken page?
- With four players, must the lowest-infamy player place a pirate on Feed Crew?
- If Hungry Crew is locked, is it still mandatory for the lowest-infamy player?
- When playing solo, do you always get Hungry Crew from the Hungry Pirates card?
- In the solo variant, must you choose two actions, and is drawing a treasure after a steal mandatory?
- When playing solo, do you read the Rest action entry even if other pirates act after you?
- In solo play, do you make a skill check four times when the game asks for one?
- If infamy changes before the Masked Pirate acts, who takes its action?
- Why is the Rest action not on my page?
- When an event is read to a specific player, such as the Boatswain, who gets the reward or penalty?
Turning to a New Page
- When an entry says to turn to a page and then check threat, which comes first?
- Does the round end once every standee has resolved, or do you stay on the page until told to turn?
- Do lock tokens stay in place when you return to a page later in the game?
- If you replay a page, can you fill in the skill boxes again?
Navigation and Sailing
- When an event says to return all revealed navigation tokens to the pile, does that include tokens removed from the game?
- When the game says to return navigation tokens to the pile, do you shuffle them back into the unused pile?
- If the navigation token under your ship is removed from the game, where does the ship go?
- After a navigation token is removed, do you place a new one when the ship returns to that hex?
- Is it normal for the ship to sit on an ocean space with no navigation token under it?
- Does a remove-all-navigation-tokens effect also remove the numbered 9xx ship or enemy token?
- Can a ship sail through the cloud tiles on Beyond the Ocean's Edge?
- How many spaces can a ship sail in one Sail action?
- Do you pay supplies for a sail before moving the ship, or as the ship moves?
- If you pay supplies to sail several spaces and hit an exclamation tile after one, do you lose the rest?
- Do you draw a navigation token for every unexplored space the ship enters?
- Does moving onto an exclamation-marked tile end all ship movement for the round, even if a card adds movement?
- When the ship moves onto a tile, do you enter its number in the app?
- Can you scout a tile under the space your ship is currently on?
- Can you scout next to a token that was scouted earlier in the same action, or by another pirate?
- Should navigation tokens be shuffled before they are drawn?
- Can an enemy ship such as Razor's ship move onto navigation tokens, and around mountains?
- If you have no supplies or hull to sail, must you sail?
- Do special location tokens such as islands get removed after you resolve them?
Skill Checks and Dice
- How do misfortune and re-roll tokens combine on one skill check?
- Do bonuses from treasure, story cards or cannons still apply when you re-roll a skill check die?
- Do misfortune and re-roll tokens apply to dice rolls other than skill checks?
- Does a Challenge action use skill-check modifiers and re-rolls?
- What does a 'reroll (symbol) +1' reward at the end of a Scenario 1 entry give you?
- Can you give a re-roll token to another player?
Treasure and Story Cards
- Should the different colored treasure cards be shuffled together or kept separate?
- Should story cards be kept in their numbered order or shuffled?
- Can you use the Trusty Spade's discard ability in the same action you acquired it?
- How does the Golden Flask treasure card work?
- When can you discard a treasure card to use its discard effect?
- Does a treasure's 'if discarded' bonus add to the +1 supply from discarding?
- Can you give or swap treasure with another pirate?
- Why does the app's Dirty Monk Wine text differ from the printed card?
- Are all the item cards in the treasure deck unique?
- Does Loudmouth Parrot trigger when a player gains infamy from the Snuff Box?
- If the leading player gains infamy, does Silver Box of Snuff trigger?
- Does the Gold Coat of the Lost King trigger on misfortune and re-roll dice, and who picks the item given?
- Can a treasure that gives a skill bonus fill in a skill box?
- Do skill icons on a treasure get written onto my player sheet or cost anything?
- Are treasure cards with skill boosts discarded after you use them?
- Can you discard a treasure that cannot be buried during a non-bury effect?
- Do scenarios carry anything over, and what changes after the intro scenario?
Infamy and Constellations
Threat and Objectives
Ship Stats and Combat
Cannons
- When a card says to gain a cannon of level 3 or lower, can you upgrade one you already own?
- Can you take the Fire Cannons action with no loaded cannon, and can a loaded cannon's bonus go on any roll?
- How do loaded cannons work when you fire cannons?
- Is a cannon's aim bonus a one-time modifier or a rechargeable one?
- If you have run out of supplies, can you still fire or load cannons?
- Which cannon slots receive the starting cannon tokens during setup?
Components and Sheets
- Where is the hunger value shown during a Hungry Crew event?
- How do you fill in or change a player sheet during play?
- Does a multi-part skill ability raise the skill when an action says Aim +1?
- If an item on the ship's log is crossed out, does it still count as written on the log?
- What happens when the Captain's Missions or Captain's Quarters options run out?
- What do the location dials represent?
- When told to remove the landmark under your ship, do you remove it?
Winning and Losing
Saving Your Game
- How do you save a remote assistant game, including card hands?
- Does shutting down the app or PC before saving lose game progress?
- Can you stop a scenario partway through, leave it set up, and resume on another day?
- Can a character be carried into a different saved game or group?
- Can players swap in and out between Part 1 and Part 2 of a scenario?
- How do you resume or start Part 2 of a scenario in the app?
- Where does Razor's ship (962) start when Ocean's Edge Part 2 resumes?
- What happens if a player drops out in the middle of a scenario?