King of Tokyo FAQ
487 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
SETTING UP
GAME OVERVIEW
- What are the steps of a turn?
- What does the movement phase on Cyber Kitty's Feline Motor card refer to?
- How many times can you roll in a turn, and can you stop early?
- Can you reroll dice you have already set aside?
- Can you reroll dice after you have resolved them?
- Do dice effects and 'if you roll' conditions look only at the final dice?
- In what order do you resolve your dice?
- If an attack moves you into Tokyo, do the hearts you roll still heal you that turn?
- Can you respond to lethal damage with healing or Wings before you are eliminated?
- Can you decline to attack when you roll claws?
- Can the claws you roll be split between several attacks?
- How much damage do claws deal, and who do they hit?
- On the first turn, can the first player's claws damage monsters outside Tokyo?
- How many victory points does a triple, or more matching dice, score?
- If you roll two different triples, do both score victory points?
- What does rolling one each of 1, 2, 3, heart, claw and energy get you?
- Does Complete Destruction count a set reached on a reroll?
- Do symbols added to your roll count as rolled?
- Do cards that need three of one face trigger on any face, or on more than three?
- How does Omnivore's 1-2-3 scoring work?
- Does Omnivore's 1-2-3 bonus apply only on your own turn?
- Does Detritivore's 1-2-3 bonus let those dice score again for other combinations?
- When Detritivore rolls more than one matching set, how many victory points does it score?
- Does Alpha Monster give one victory point per attack or per claw?
- Does Alpha Monster's star for attacking count each roll, or only the final result?
- Can your health go above 10?
- If you are at maximum health, can healing or Rapid Healing save you from lethal damage?
- If you lose Even Bigger!, do you also lose the 2 Health it gave you?
- Does losing health from a card count as a wound?
- If a card stops a monster losing its last point of life, is the monster still wounded?
- Does Armor Plating ignore only 1 damage, or all damage from an attack?
- Does a monster at 1 heart die to two claws if it has Armor Plating?
- Does Armor Plating stop poison or other damage that is not from a claw roll?
- When damage from separate sources hits in one turn, does Armor Plating add them together?
- If Armor Plating blocks the claw, does Catch and Release still make the monster lose a heart?
- Does Armor Plating stop Shrink Ray from giving a token when you roll exactly one claw?
- How does Armor Plating interact with Acid Attack damage?
- Must a Discard power card be used as soon as you buy it, or can you hold it?
- Can a Mimic counter be placed on a Discard card?
- Can you use a Discard card on another player's turn, such as Drop From High Altitude?
- Can you use a card on the turn you buy it?
- Can a card you buy this turn change dice you have already resolved?
- Is there a limit to how many Keep cards a monster can own?
- Do Keep cards stay in front of you until you are eliminated?
- Are Keep card effects mandatory or optional?
- When can you use a Keep card, and when do permanent evolutions activate?
- Do two end-of-turn Keep cards resolve in an order you choose, and can you discard one after using its effect?
- Does Dedicated News Team give a point when you buy it, or only for later Power card purchases?
- Does Army count itself when counting the cards in your hand for its effect?
- Can you discard a permanent Evolution like Glasnost to use its effect?
- Can Made in a Lab let you peek at and buy the top card of the deck?
- Can you keep two copies of the same card in play, for example two Extra Heads?
- Can Mimic copy one of your own monster's powers, such as your own Herbivore or Extra Head?
- Can one Mimic copy another Mimic?
- Can you Mimic a Parasitic Tentacles and use the copy to buy from the opponent who holds the original?
- When you buy Mimic, must you choose the card to copy at once?
- When buying a Mimic that copies Parasitic Tentacles, do you pay the Mimic's full cost or the copied card's cost?
- When Mimic copies a card with a cost, counters or tokens, what do you get?
- When a Mimic copies a one-use card like Plot Twist or Psychic Probe, what happens after you use it?
- Can Parasitic Tentacles buy cards from other monsters, and can the owner refuse?
- When Parasitic Tentacles buys Monster Batteries that still hold energy, what happens to the energy?
- When you take a card with Parasitic Tentacles, do its counters transfer with it?
- Does Alien Origin's buying discount apply when you buy a card through Parasitic Tentacles?
- Does Alienoid's Superior Alien Technology let you buy opponents' power cards cheaply with Parasitic Tentacles and Alien Metabolism?
- Can Metamorph sell a card to pay for a purchase in the same turn?
- When you Metamorph a card bought at a discount, how much energy do you get back?
- How many poison or shrink tokens does one attack give?
- Can a monster have more than one poison or shrink counter at once?
- When a Shrink Ray attack hits, does the target lose hearts and also get a Shrink Ray token?
- Does a shrink or poison counter stay on a monster after the monster that gave it dies?
- Can shrink counters block every die so a player cannot roll at all?
- Does Shrink Ray's dice reduction apply to a single die rolled for Camouflage?
- Can you heal a Shrink Ray token after your first roll to gain extra dice to reroll?
- If Jets prevents all damage, does a monster still get a Shrink Ray token?
- How do you remove a poison or shrink token, and does it count as healing?
- Can a monster in Tokyo use hearts to remove poison or shrink tokens?
- Do you still get the Evolution for rolling three hearts if you then spend them on a poison counter?
- Can a roll of 3 hearts and 3 ones give both a victory point and 3 healing?
- Do dice rolled to reduce heart loss trigger roll-based card rewards?
- If I have a Poison token and a card adds hearts to my roll, can those hearts remove the token or heal me?
- Do poison, shrink and damage-based abilities trigger on damage from cards, or only on attacks?
- Does Poison Quills add its extra 2 damage when you roll three 3s, or only when you roll 2s?
- Do Poison Quills' added claws count for Spiked Tail on the same roll?
- Can Herd Culler set a die to 1 so that Freeze Time's extra turn triggers?
- Can Freeze Time trigger on the turn you buy it?
- If you roll 1-1-1 with Freeze Time, do you get both the extra turn and the +1 VP for three of a kind?
- Does an extra turn from Freeze Time count as a new turn for the 2 VP for starting in Tokyo?
- Can Wings negate the self-damage from Jet Fighters bought in the same turn?
- When can you spend Wings energy, after the dice show claws or on another player's turn?
- Does Wings protect you for every attack in a turn, or only once per round?
- Does Jets stop the damage when a monster yields Tokyo?
- Does a monster yielding Tokyo with Jet Pack still take Fire Breathing damage from a neighbor?
- Does Fire Breathing add your claw damage to the damage dealt to neighbors?
- Who counts as your neighbors for Fire Breathing and similar cards?
- Does a claw rolled on another player's turn count for Fire Breathing's roll-a-claw trigger?
- Does Acid Attack deal damage on a roll with no claws?
- Does Acid Attack combined with Fire Breathing make your neighbors take 2 damage every turn?
- With Acid Attack, do you hit everyone, or only the monsters your claws would normally hit?
- If you buy Acid Attack after an attack has already resolved, does it damage the attacker that turn?
- Does Nova Breath damage all other monsters even when you are outside Tokyo and Tokyo is empty?
- Does Nova Breath damage its own owner, or a monster with a Jet Pack?
- Does Mecha Blast's extra 2 damage hit every monster that Breath of Doom damages?
- If you hold Shrink Ray and buy High Altitude Bombing, must you put a Shrink Ray counter on your own monster?
- Does Drop From High Altitude give 3 VP if you move into Tokyo, or only 2?
- Does Death from Above's Tokyo control also give the 1 VP for entering Tokyo?
- Do three claws spread across several monsters count for a card that needs 3 or more damage?
- How much damage does Reflective Hide return to the attacker?
- Does Burrowing's extra damage apply if you roll no claws?
- If a monster is eliminated, do its cards stop working, such as Burrowing?
- If a monster in Tokyo is eliminated, do its cards leave play?
- Can Eater of the Dead trigger more than once, and does it give VP when your own monster is eliminated?
- Can you win with six 1s on Climb Tokyo Tower while outside Tokyo?
- How does Monster Sidekick work if you or your killer wins, or if the monster you serve is eliminated?
- Does It Has A Child keep your energy when you respawn?
- Do poison and shrink tokens stay on a monster that respawns through It Has A Child?
- Do Anubis curse effects resolve in die of fate order when the eye symbol is rolled?
- Does a double claw on the Berserk die count as two claws, and can Untamed enter Berserk mode with two claws?
- When and how often can you use Psychic Probe?
- If Psychic Probe makes a player reroll and the die becomes a heart, is the card discarded, even if Stretchy changes it later?
- After Psychic Probe forces a reroll, can the target still use their remaining rerolls?
- If Plot Twist rerolls a die that Psychic Probe changed, does Psychic Probe still take effect?
- Can Psychic Probe force a reroll before Clown Costume sets the faces of a royal flush?
- Can Plot Twist be played on another player's turn?
- Can Giant Brain's extra reroll be used on an opponent's dice?
- Can Telepathy's extra reroll be used to evade damage with Camouflage?
- Can you use Camouflage while you are in Tokyo?
- With Camouflage, can you roll more dice than the life you have left when you take more damage?
- When Camouflage and Terror of the Deep both apply, do you roll for them one at a time, and do both protect?
- Does Baby Gigazaur's Camouflage evolution cancel damage the way its card text is printed?
- Can you use a card that costs energy to reroll or change dice, such as Telepathy or Stretchy, more than once a turn?
- Can you buy more than one card in a turn, and can you sweep the market more than once?
- When can you buy power cards relative to resolving the dice?
- What happens to the market cards after they are bought or swept, and can the deck run out?
- Can you buy or wipe the market again after spending energy to wipe it at the end of your turn?
- Can a monster that did not roll buy cards during another monster's turn?
- When can you play an Evolution card during your turn?
- If you buy an Evolution at the end of your turn, can you play it that turn, and does it affect the Tokyo entry you already scored?
- Does Friend of Children trigger on energy effects that do not say gain, like Parasitic Tentacles, Healing Ray or Monster Batteries?
- Does Friend of Children give one extra energy per gain, or one extra in total each turn?
- Does Solar Powered give energy when you have none, under the literal card text?
- Does the Making Stronger energy gain happen once per turn or once per damage source?
- Do Monster Batteries return energy at the start of every player's turn, or only your own?
- How does Energy Drink's extra roll work, and can you reroll as many dice as you like?
- Can energy from a die you already resolved, or gained this turn, be spent to change another die?
- Can you spend Rapid Healing's energy after seeing damage, to save yourself?
- Can Rapid Healing be used more than once, and when?
- Does Regeneration give one extra heart per healing roll, or double the healing?
- Can Healing Ray heal a monster already at 10 Health, or one with no energy?
- How does Healing Ray work on other monsters, including one in Tokyo?
- Can Healing Ray heal two players with the same dice?
- If the Loan Shark holder dies, do you still get energy from them?
- If two cards each cost 2 energy for two different effects, can one payment cover both?
- Can the Chitin Armor card's 'cannot lose until end of turn' stop damage for the rest of the turn?
- If one card makes you immune to damage and another adds extra damage, which applies?
- In what order do simultaneous damage and healing resolve, such as Shattered Reality?
- Does Urbavore's start-of-turn Tokyo bonus apply on other players' turns?
- Do cards that say 'each turn' work on other players' turns, or only on the owner's turn?
- Does the Pirate steal energy from a monster that damages the Pirate?
- Can Of Another World let you pay energy to survive when the Rasputin Device triggers at zero hearts?
- Can you use the same card more than once in your turn, such as Smoke Cloud?
- How do Madness dice get rolled alongside your other dice?
- After using Panda Express, do you still take the benefits of the dice you rolled?
- Can you buy a card you just played, using Scavenger, in the same turn?
- If Freeze Time left you with fewer than 6 dice and you take a bonus turn from Frenzy, do you roll 6 dice?
- Can you skip your turn for an Evolution's benefit after you have started rolling?
BECOMING KING OF TOKYOExpansion
- Can a Monster in Tokyo use heart dice to heal itself?
- Can you use heart dice to remove a Poison Spit or Shrink Ray counter while in Tokyo?
- Can a Monster in Tokyo heal with cards like Rapid Healing?
- Can a Monster use hearts it rolled before entering Tokyo to heal?
- In the second edition, must a Monster enter an empty Tokyo even without rolling a claw?
- In the first edition, does a Monster enter an empty Tokyo only if a claw is still showing after its final roll?
- Does the first player always enter Tokyo at the start of the game?
- Do the claws a Monster rolls when it enters an empty Tokyo damage anyone?
- Can a Monster choose not to enter an empty Tokyo?
- Can Tokyo stay empty during a game?
- If you roll a claw on your first roll, can you still reroll it, and when does entering Tokyo happen?
- When a Monster starts its turn outside Tokyo, whom does its claw attack hit?
- With 5-6 players, when a Monster enters an open Tokyo Bay, does its claw damage the Monster in Tokyo City?
- When a Monster outside Tokyo attacks, are both Tokyo City and Tokyo Bay hit?
- When both Tokyo City and Tokyo Bay monsters are attacked, can both yield, and who decides first?
- In a 5-6 player game, if only the Tokyo City monster yields, does the Tokyo Bay monster slide into City?
- What happens to a Monster in Tokyo Bay when the player count drops to four?
- Is Tokyo Bay used in a three- or four-player game?
- How many Monsters can be in Tokyo at once?
- Can a Monster in Tokyo Bay attack a Monster in Tokyo City with ordinary claws?
- With 5-6 players, must an attacking Monster move into an open Tokyo Bay?
- If the Monster in Tokyo yields to your attack, must you enter Tokyo?
- If an attack eliminates the Monster in Tokyo, does the attacker take Tokyo?
- If an attack kills the Monster in Tokyo, does Burrowing damage the Monster that takes over?
- Do you gain the 1 VP for taking Tokyo when you enter an empty Tokyo, even at the start of the game?
- If you buy Drop From High Altitude outside Tokyo, do you also get the 1 VP for taking Tokyo?
- Can you buy Drop From High Altitude while already in Tokyo and still get its 2 VP?
- Can Drop From High Altitude force the Monster in Tokyo to give up its place?
- If I roll no claws, can Acid Attack's extra damage let the Monster in Tokyo yield?
- Can a Monster in Tokyo yield after taking damage from a card instead of claws?
- If Camouflage or another effect prevents all of an attack's damage, can the Monster in Tokyo still yield?
- When can a Monster in Tokyo yield, and must it take all of an attack's damage first?
- Can a Monster leave Tokyo voluntarily, for example after taking its 2 VP?
- Do you score the 2 VP for starting your turn in Tokyo only on your own turn?
- Does an extra turn from a card, such as Freeze Time or Stasis, pay the 2 VP for starting in Tokyo again?
- Do you still get VP for Tokyo in a 2-player game?
- Can a Monster in Tokyo still use hearts for effects that are not healing?
- In Power Up, can a Monster in Tokyo still draw an Evolution card by rolling three hearts?
- Is Feline Motor a permanent evolution, and when can Cyber Kitty use it?
- What happens when the Monster in Tokyo refuses to yield and nobody wants to leave?
- When in the turn do yielding and the attacker's entry into Tokyo happen?
- If you buy a card that eliminates the Monster in Tokyo, do you move into Tokyo?
- What does 'yield' mean in King of Tokyo?
- If you roll a claw, must you attack, or can you choose not to?
- Does a Monster rolling a claw to enter an empty Tokyo count as attacking for card effects?
- What happens when Nova Breath is played and no Monster is in Tokyo?
- Can I yield Tokyo to avoid the damage from an attack when I am low on health?
- If your Monster dies in Tokyo and then plays It Has a Child, does it re-enter Tokyo?
WINNING THE GAMEExpansion
- If I reach 20 VP but am eliminated the same turn, do I win?
- When does the game end once a Monster reaches 20 VP?
- If my Monster is eliminated by a card I buy after my roll, do I still get the stars for surviving my turn in Tokyo?
- What happens to an eliminated Monster's cards and Energy?
- Do Poison Spit or Shrink Ray counters stay on Monsters when the card leaves play?
- Can a Monster in Tokyo use heart results to remove Shrink Ray or Poison counters?
- Does Healing Ray heal every Monster, or do I choose which Monsters each heart heals?
- Does a Monster at 10 Life have to pay Healing Ray's 2 Energy when it cannot heal?
- When can I use Wings to negate damage, and must I announce it before the dice are rolled?
- Does the owner of a card have to agree before Parasitic Tentacles takes it?
- If two cards trigger when my Health reaches 0, can I use one and save the other for later?
- What happens to the Tokyo Bay Monster when the player count drops to four?
- When two Monsters in Tokyo are attacked, which one decides first whether to yield?
- When the Tokyo City Monster leaves, does a Monster in Tokyo Bay move up into Tokyo City?
- Does Fire Breathing's extra damage hit my neighbors even when they aren't the target of my attack, and does it count as an attack?
- Does Fire Breathing add extra damage to damage from a card, such as a card that hurts me when I buy it?
- Does Camouflage prevent damage from cards, or only from dice attacks?
- What does Burrowing do: extra damage when I attack from Tokyo, and damage when I yield?
- If I reach 20 VP and eliminate the other Monsters at the same time, do I still get the win?
- If the last two Monsters are eliminated at the same time, does either of them win?
- Can a Monster reduced to 0 Life still make a regeneration roll from an Evolution card?
- Does starting a bonus turn in Tokyo from Frenzy give Tokyo victory points again?
- Can I score VP by buying a card that gives VP, and does that win the game?
- How many points do I score for a triple, and does each extra matching die add a point?
- If one roll contains two different triples, such as 3-3-3 and 1-1-1, do both score?
- How many VP does Omnivore give for a roll of 1-1-2-2-3-3, and does its bonus apply once per turn?
- Is there a limit on how many times Energy Drink can be used in one turn?
- If a Monster reaches 20 VP but a card then takes its VP below 20 or eliminates it, does it still win?
GeneralExpansion
- Can Mimic copy a Zombie costume?
- Can Parasitic Tentacles be used to buy a Costume from another Monster?
- Does the Zombie costume keep a Monster alive at 0 Health?
- On Freeze Ray, does 'wound' mean any loss of Life, or only damage from a claw?
- With Freeze Ray in a 5-6 player game and two Monsters in Tokyo, who receives the card?
- Does a claw added by Acid Attack count as rolled for Alpha Monster?
- Does a die face blanked by Freeze Ray still count for card bonuses such as Panda Express?
- Can Freeze Time give more than one extra turn in a single turn?
- Does Freeze Time's extra turn require resolving three 1s, or just rolling them?
- Can Freeze Time be used again and again on bonus turns?
- How does Frenzy's extra turn work?
- Does Friend of Children trigger from the Energy Metamorph gives me?
- If I have already taken the Energy from a die, can I change that die with Stretchy?
- Do the abilities of Keep cards work more than once in a turn?
- Does a card that says 'if you have 1-1-1, gain 2 VP' score again for each extra set of three 1s?
- Can a Monster in Tokyo avoid damage with the Jets card?
- Does Jets let a Monster in Tokyo survive lethal damage?
- Does Acid Attack's extra damage happen on every player's turn, or only on the holder's turns?
- Does Rooting for the Underdog trigger at the end of every player's turn, or only at the end of mine?
- Does Rooting for the Underdog trigger when I am tied for the fewest victory points?
- How does Psychic Probe work, and when is it discarded?
- If a card says to roll at least 1-1-1, do 2-2-2 or 3-3-3 also count?
- Does Shrink Ray still apply when the Tokyo Monster cancels the damage with Wings?
- Does the base King of Tokyo give each Monster its own special ability?
- What are the Tokyo Tower tokens with symbols in the King Kong monster pack?
- Can King Kong's temporary Evolution card be played out of turn, or after my Health has dropped to 0?
- If Mimic copies Plot Twist, when is Plot Twist discarded, and how long does the copy last?
- Can I spend Energy to gain a heart and heal myself?
- Can I change or reroll a result granted by a card's added bonus rather than rolled?
- Do the orange dice in the Halloween expansion have any game function?
- How many rerolls does the Giant Brain card give, and can the extra reroll be used on a single die?
- When can Background Dweller reroll a 3?
- Do players keep their Power cards secret from the other players?
- What does Space Penguin's Freeze Ray do when I choose a die face?
- Did the second edition of King of Tokyo change any card wording or function?
- What rules changed between the first and second editions of King of Tokyo?
- Can Evolution cards from different Monsters be mixed into one deck?
- Is King of Tokyo: Power Up! 2nd edition compatible with the 1st edition base game and Halloween?
- Must Evolution cards match the Monster they are used with?
- Can Giga Zaur Evolution cards be used with Baby Giga Zaur?
- What are the cardboard tokens for?
- Can Monsters from King of New York be used in King of Tokyo?
- Is the King Kong monster pack compatible with the first edition of King of Tokyo?
- Can King of Tokyo and King of New York promo cards be mixed?
- Are there official Evolution cards for promo monsters like Ka-Boomer?
- Are the 66 base-game cards unique, or are there duplicates?
- Can Pandarwinism pay out for hearts rolled on the turn I draw it, and can Saurian Adaptability change dice on that turn?
- With the Berserk die in King of Tokyo, does Scribe's Perseverance block rerolling 1s and Skulls?
King of Tokyo: Power Up!Expansion
- If you copy Fire Breathing with Icy Reflection after rolling three hearts, does the copy add damage to claws you already rolled that turn?
- How does Cyber Bunny's Heart of the Rabbit work after the translation error?
- Does Cat Nip leave you with only one roll even when other effects grant extra rolls?
- When can Cyber Kitty's Feline Motor be used?
- Does Terror of the Deep's roll penalty apply to life loss from card effects, not just claws?
- Which Heat Vision text applies to Gigazaur in Power Up!?
- Does Cat Nip double the dice faces, or the points they are worth?
- Can an Evolution that changes a die result be used after the dice are already resolved?
- Can Kraken's Cult Following be discarded for VP on the turn it is drawn?
- Does the second edition King of Tokyo: Power Up! include King of New York powers?
- Can a monster in Tokyo still draw an Evolution card from three hearts?
- When two dice-changing cards are in play at once, who resolves first?
- Does a die face blanked by Freeze Ray still trigger claw effects, or effects on other players' dice?
- Does Shrink Ray replace the damage, and how many Shrink tokens does one attack give?
- What counts toward the three-heart threshold for drawing an Evolution?
- Can a monster's victory points go above 20 on the dial?
- If your attack and a Heat Vision penalty both happen in one roll, do you gain the points first and then lose 1?
- If Camouflage negates all of a Freeze Ray attacker's damage, does Freeze Ray still apply?
- Can an opponent force a reroll after you start resolving dice and play an Evolution that pays energy for claws?
- Is there a limit on how many Evolution cards you can play in one turn in King of Tokyo: Power Up!?
- Does Bamboo Supply (Panda Kai) take energy on every player's turn, or only on Panda Kai's owner's turn?
- Does an 'at the end of a turn' card like Rooting for the Underdog trigger on every player's turn?
- Can Eater of Souls' 12-heart maximum be exceeded, for example with Even Bigger adding 2 hearts?
- When can you play an Evolution card: only from your hand, and can a temporary one be played after rolling?
- Do symbols added to your roll by a Power card or Evolution count as part of the roll?
- Are the Power Up! Evolution cards for Kraken and Cyber Bunny the same as those for Space Penguin and Cyber Kitty?
- Can 2nd edition Power Up! be mixed with 1st edition King of Tokyo?
- Does Cyber Kitty's Mouse Hunter trigger on a 2 or 3 when it says roll at least 1?
- When Pandakai's Panda Guerilla makes you leave Tokyo, does another monster enter right away?
- Can Cyber Bunny's Prince with 1000 enemies be played again after you enter Tokyo?
- Can Power Up monster decks be used with King of Tokyo Dark Edition?
- With both Camouflage and Lightning Armor, do you roll for each separately?
- If Space Penguin's Icy Reflection is drawn before any Evolution is in play, what happens?
- Does Gigazaur's Reptilian Adaptation change dice for every player, or only its owner?
- Is there a limit on permanent Evolution cards in play, and when are temporary Evolutions used?
- If you roll three hearts and heal, do you also draw the top Evolution card?
- Must Power Up! Evolution cards be kept secret from other players?
- Do discarded temporary Evolution cards go back into the deck, or get reshuffled when it runs out?
- Does rolling six hearts, or more than three, give more than one Evolution in one turn?
- If Twas Beauty Killed the Beast is in play and you leave Tokyo, do you lose all your VP or only the VP it gained?
- How does Boogie Woogie Gift work: does the Evolution stay with the monster who played it?
- How does Kraken's Terror of the Deep roll work, and when do you roll?
- When Cyber Bunny's Electric Carrot triggers, who chooses between giving energy and taking damage?
- Can you use Stretchy or Plot Twist to change the result of a Camouflage roll?
- Does Deep Dive from Space Penguin give you a power card for free, and is it permanent?
- If a card cancels damage taken when you leave Tokyo this turn, does it also cancel the extra attack from another Evolution?
- Do an Evolution and a regular card with the same reroll-to-evade ability stack?
- Can you use a die-changing Evolution such as Saurian Adaptability on the turn you gain it?
- How does Claws of Steel count damage: must the 3 damage come from one target?
- When can you flip your dice with Yin and Yang?
- Does Heat Vision still apply when an attack does no damage, and how many points does it cost?
- If Space Penguin copies Call of Cultists, who receives a Cultist when another monster discards one?
- When Monkey Rush takes control of Tokyo, does the other monster still gain the 1 VP for taking Tokyo?
- When can you activate Tune-Up, and does a skipped turn still count for King's end-of-turn point?
- Is there a limit on how many extra turns Panda Express can give in a row?
- Does Destructive Analysis or Cult Following replace the claws or hearts you rolled?
- When Yin and Yang is played, does it switch all dice or can you pick which to switch?
- How does Eat, Shoots and Leaves work when no monster is in Tokyo?
- Does Friend of Children add energy when Bamboo Supply pays energy to Pandakai?
- Does Wave of Ruin hit the monster already in Tokyo?
- If a monster dies, does Lightning Armor still trigger on the attack that killed it?
- Does Dread Maw's 1 star loss apply once per attack, or once per damage point?
- Are Power Up! level-up cards tied to specific monsters, or dealt randomly to any player?
- If you buy or evolve a damage-boosting card after rolling, does it apply to dice already resolved this turn?
- If Meka Dragon wins through Programmed to Destroy but is reduced to 0 hearts first, does it still win?
- Does Pandarwinism's victory point bonus apply only when Pandakai rolls three or more hearts?
- Do Alien Metabolism and Superior Alien Technology both reduce a card's price, and in what order?
- If you use Monkey Rush to play another player's Jump from High Altitude, do you get its 2 VP for entering Tokyo?
- Does Eater of Souls let you go above 10 health outside Tokyo, up to 12?
- If you use Lightning Armor retaliation against a Tokyo monster, can that monster yield because of it?
- What does 'sweep the cards' mean on Alienoid's Adapting Technology?
King of New York: Power Up!Expansion
- Does Short Arm of the Law double the damage to a neighbor who is also your normal claw target?
- Does Camouflage reduce the heart payment for Titanic Anchor?
- Can Bugs on Broadway take Superstar when no one holds it or it has changed hands?
- Does Mega Chainsaw's 'take Energy' effect let you keep the Energy?
- Does moving between sections of the same Manhattan borough count as a move for Titanic Anchor?
- Can a Monster holding Titanic Anchor pass it to another Monster?
- Does Titanic Anchor make a monster in Tokyo pay energy or health to leave right away?
- Does a skull added to your roll by Red Dawn count as rolled for Workers Unite?
- Can King of Tokyo: Power Up! evolution cards be used with monsters in King of New York?
- Does King of New York: Power Up! include evolutions for King of Tokyo monsters?
- Does Power Tap trigger separately for energy from rolled dice and energy from building breaks in the same turn?
- In King of New York: Power Up!, does Mega Shark's Card Shark discard the three open power cards when you pay for the extra reveal?
- Can you win by reaching 20 VP while White Death is in play in King of New York?
- Does Workers Unite protect you only when exactly three Ouch faces are rolled?
- Can you play a King of New York Power Up card on another player's turn, and when?
- Can a Sheriff evolution move a monster into or out of Manhattan?
- When does the Fury card's bonus Destruction and Energy get added to your roll?
- Does Rob's Wires in the City trigger each time energy is gained, if a monster gains energy twice in one turn?
- If you lose the Statue of Liberty with fewer than 3 stars, do you go negative on stars?
- How does Loan Shark's payment work: whose energy is given and where does the 6 energy go?
- Is there a hand limit on Power Up evolution cards?
- How does Sheriff's Mammoth Lasso move another monster?
- How does Infinite Loop reroll energy dice?
- Does Lone Star Lizard give a point for a single star when you do not have Superstar?
- When can a three-Heart roll give you an Evolution, and can dice change once you start resolving them?
- Does 'Draw an Evolution card' mean the top card of the deck?
- Do monsters destroyed before the Drakonis evolution count toward Gather Them All?
- Does a surprise attack on a monster in Manhattan count as an attack, and can that monster flee?
King of Tokyo: HalloweenExpansion
- When the Witch rerolls a Smash in Tokyo, do the other players also benefit from the reroll?
- Is King of Tokyo: Halloween compatible with King of New York?
- Can a Monster wearing the Zombie costume regain health after reaching 0?
- How do Halloween Gift evolutions pass between monsters?
- Does ownership of a Gift evolution pass to the monster that receives it, and can the owner be hurt by its own Gift?
- Can several Gift evolutions move in one attack?
- When can you play a Gift evolution so that you can give it away?
- What happens to a Gift evolution when the monster it was given to dies?
- When the monster that owns a Gift dies, is the Gift discarded?
- When does a Detachable Head gift's extra 1 damage happen, including in a two-player game?
- Is Boogie Woogie's Gift permanent once someone receives it?
- How do you steal a Costume card from another monster?
- If you roll 3 or more claws, can a Robot Costume's energy-for-damage substitution count as damage for stealing the costume?
- With a Pirate and Zombie costume in the same roll, can the Pirate's energy steal and the costume steal be ordered?
- Can you use a costume's benefit on the same turn you steal it from another monster?
- When does the Vampire costume's heal trigger?
- Can a Vampire monster gain health while in Tokyo from its Vampire costume?
- If your monster drops to 0 health, can an end-of-turn heal bring it back?
- Does a Zombie at 0 health still count as damage dealt, so that damage-triggered bonuses still happen?
- Does Gas Refinery damage count as your monster dealing damage for the Pirate Costume's steal?
- Can Bamboozle be played against a monster that steals your Costume?
- Does Alien Metabolism's discount apply when you steal a Costume?
- Does a Friend of Children energy bonus stack with another card that gains energy when you roll energy?
- Does the energy regained by Bobbing for Apples count as gaining energy for Friend of Children?
- Can Vampire or Ghost remove a Poison Spit counter, or trigger on poison damage?
- Does Eater of the Dead give stars when a monster reaches 0 health, including your own monster and repeat drops to 0?
- Are Costume cards Keep cards, so that Parasitic Tentacles can buy them?
- If a monster in Tokyo with Jets is damaged, can it still yield without taking the damage?
- Does Cheerleader's cheering deal damage when no claws are rolled?
- Does an extra reroll from a Costume let you reroll any dice you choose?
- Can Psychic Probe's reroll change a die before Clown Costume's all-faces change is used on that roll?
- Can an evolution that changes a die face to a claw count as a rolled face for Clown Costume?
- How does Clown Costume's roll requirement count rerolls, and can each die take a different chosen face?
- How many VP does Clown Costume give if you set every die to 3?
- Do claws added by Power or Evolution effects, such as Acid Attack or Scythe, count toward claw-count requirements?
- If Pumpkin Jack's temporary gift evolution is given to an attacker, does the attacker keep it for later turns?
- Does Pumpkin Jack's Scythe add extra damage every time you deal damage?
- What does the Scythe wording 'When you play this card or you eliminate a Monster' mean?
- Does Pumpkin Jack's Candy stop the whole attack or only Pumpkin Jack's damage?
- Does a four-of-a-kind on an interim roll trigger Boogie Dance?
- What does Boogie Woogie's 'force a Monster to flee Tokyo' do?
King of Tokyo/New York: Monster Pack – AnubisExpansion
- Under Pharaonic Ego, can a Monster that gave up Tokyo or Manhattan take it back in its next movement step?
- Does the Ankh's extra die roll in Buried in Sand give one extra die or one extra full reroll?
- Under Thot's Blindness, can a Monster without the Golden Scarab gain energy?
- Under Isis's Disgrace, can a Monster without the Golden Scarab gain Health?
- Does Bow Before Ra's 8-Heart limit stop Starfish DNA or Carapace from taking you above 8 Hearts?
- Does Confused Senses let the Golden Scarab holder make itself reroll two of its own dice?
- Does Impenetrable Skin's Snake effect let you give any mix of Energy, Hearts and VP?
- Does an Anubis energy bonus that triggers when you roll pay out on every roll or once after rolling?
- If a Curse makes you lose 2 VP at the start of your turn and Tokyo gives you 2 VP, which applies first?
- Can you play the Anubis Monster and its Evolutions without the Die of Fate and the Curse cards?
- In Khepri's Rebellion, does the Scarab holder give all the listed resources or just one, and who chooses which?
- How much damage does Weighing of the Heart deal, and when can it be played?
- Do Curse cards override other Evolution, Power or Curse effects, such as a Curse that removes Hearts?
- With Confused Senses in play and a Snake rolled, does the roller still get Evolutions when the Golden Scarab holder gains the Hearts and Energy?
- With Anubis, must every player roll the Die of Fate on their turn, and when is it resolved?
- Does the Golden Scarab go back to the table when a new Curse card is flipped?
- Can a Monster without the Golden Scarab gain Health from a Cultist tile while the Scarab curse is active?
- How does Day of the Jackal's extra wound work when Anubis is in Tokyo or New York?
- Does God of the Dead gain stars when a monster is eliminated but returns through 9 Lives?
- If you roll an Ankh outside Tokyo and attack the Monster inside, do you still get the extra turn, and does the Die of Fate resolve first?
King of Tokyo/New York: Monster Pack – CthulhuExpansion
- Does Friend of Children give an extra energy each time a Cultist is discarded for energy?
- Can a Monster in Tokyo gain Health from a Cultist token?
- Can a Cultist's Heart be spent to discard a Madness, Poison Spit or Shrink Ray token?
- Can a spent Cultist Heart, combined with rolled Hearts, give you an Evolution card?
- Can the Cthulhu Monster Pack be used with the first edition of King of Tokyo?
- Can Space Penguin's Icy Reflection copy Cthulhu's Call of the Cultists?
- How does Nug's Spawn work when you must lose Health to a Heart roll?
- Can Cultist units attack Cthulhu when he rolls an Ouch in New York?
- Does an Evolution that triggers on 'if you roll' count only the final roll, or each roll along the way?
- Does a Cultist's extra-roll symbol let you reroll any number of dice?
- Which buildings count as Cthulhu temples in the Cthulhu Monster Pack?
- Can every player get Cultists, or only the player who rolled four of a kind?
- When do you gain the 2 Cultists from Call of the Cultists?
- Can four Hearts give you both a Power Up Evolution and a Cultist token?
- Without the Power Up expansion, do you keep the Cthulhu Cultist tiles in the game?
King of Tokyo/New York: Monster Pack – CybertoothExpansion
- When does a Monster enter Berserk mode: when it rolls four or more claws, or when it resolves them?
- If a Berserk Monster rolls Hearts and Claws together, does it stay in Berserk mode?
- Does healing from any source, including cards, Power Up cards or healing in Tokyo, end Berserk mode?
- When a Berserk die shows a skull, does the Monster lose one Heart immediately or after the roll?
- Can you resolve a Heart before a Berserk skull to end Berserk without losing a Heart?
- In Berserk mode, can you ignore a rolled Heart so you stay Berserk?
- Does Cybertooth gain the start-of-turn Victory Point when Tail Whip forces him into Tokyo?
- Do multiple Berserk tokens stack?
King of Tokyo/New York: Monster Pack – King KongExpansion
- Does a Curse that bars gaining Hearts also stop King Kong's tower pieces from healing you at the start of your turn?
- When you leave Tokyo or Manhattan, do you keep your King Kong building levels, and in what order are they claimed?
- Can King Kong take back Beauty from a Monster that is at zero or fewer Hearts?
- With the King Kong card 'It Was Beauty Killed the Beast', can you attack the Beauty holder when you are both inside or both outside Tokyo?
- Does King Kong's Jet Club evolution add its extra claw every turn, or only when you are in Manhattan?
- When can you play Monkey Leap if the game has no movement phase?
- Does claiming a part of the Empire State Building move your Monster?
King of Tokyo: Promo CardsExpansion
- Can Sleepwalker's energy-for-star power be used more than once in the same turn?
- Must a Monster in Tokyo stay there every turn when Reflective Hide keeps damaging its attacker?
- Does Canabalistic heal once per claw rolled, or once when you deal damage?
- Does the Army promo card count itself or discarded cards when working out its damage?