Lisboa
140 questions players ask about Lisboa. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-11-02.
Turn Structure and the Portfolio
- How many cards can my Portfolio hold, and how many can be in the top row?
- Can I discard a card from my Portfolio whenever I want?
- When making room in my Portfolio, can I discard from the top row to play into the bottom row (or the reverse)?
- Can I discard the card I just played to get back under the Portfolio limit?
- If my Portfolio is full, can I play a card first and discard afterwards because its reward would free a slot or raise my limit?
- Must I be able to take a Noble card's reward to play it into my Portfolio?
- Can I ignore the benefit on a Treasury card in my Portfolio?
- Can I play a card into my Portfolio if I have no goods?
- What do I get when I play a Treasury card into my Portfolio?
- When does the Treasury marker move down?
Influence, Money and Discounts
- Can I spend wigs instead of Influence when I still have Influence?
- Can I pay réis instead of Influence even if I still have Influence?
- Does a money discount apply to each separate payment, including réis paid in place of Influence?
- Can a réis discount from Clergy tiles or Treasury cards apply when I pay réis to visit a Noble?
- How many wigs do I gain when my Influence reaches or passes 10?
- Do I gain Influence if a Noble visit's total cost works out negative?
- Do I gain Influence when I tuck a Political card into my Portfolio?
- Does an Influence reward also add up my ships and Nobles?
- Does Clergy tile #7 still give me its bonus when my tucked card adds no Influence?
- When a Noble card's reward builds a Ship, is that card's Influence counted?
Trade with Nobles and State Actions
- How many State actions can I take with Trade with Nobles, and which goods pay for them?
- Can I produce goods with my first Trade and use them to pay for the second?
- Can I put both recruited officials into the same Noble's office?
- Can I recruit officials from a Noble's office or the plaza, or when I have none on my board?
- What happens when I place an official into a full Noble office?
- Do officials in the plaza ever go back to a Noble's office, and do they count for visit cost?
- Can I open a Public Building with no officials of my own, hiring all of them?
- Does a discount on hiring officials apply per official or to the total?
- What does the "minus two officials" icon on a card like #63 mean?
Visiting Nobles and Following
- Do I have to play the matching Noble card to visit that Noble?
- Does tucking a Noble card let me take that Noble's main action?
- How much Influence does it cost to visit or follow a Noble?
- Can I visit a Noble whose office has none of my officials?
- In what order do I take the State action and the Noble action on a visit?
- When I sponsor an event with a Treasury card, do I pay Influence or can others follow?
- When a sponsored event builds a store or opens a Public Building, do I still pay the normal costs and use the Plan?
- What can a Treasury card's "take any one Noble action" effect give me?
- Who can follow a Noble visit, and can I follow on the final round?
- Do decrees, clergy tiles and store tiles refresh before other players follow my visit?
Stores and Public Buildings
- When building a store or Public Building, do I get the space's reward before paying?
- Can I take a Plan from a Public Construction Site's reward and use it right away for that building?
- What if the only Public Construction Sites left need a colour I cannot provide?
- What happens when one colour of Public Building runs out?
- How is the land price of a store worked out?
- Which wooden house do I take from my board when I build a store?
- Can I build two stores in one visit or turn, and can a follower build the same kind I just built?
- Why are there 22 city building tiles for fewer spaces on the board?
- When does a store score against Public Buildings in its row or street?
- Does a store's entrance need to face a street to count for that street?
Ships and Selling Goods
- Can I upgrade a ship into another ship of the same size?
- Can I build any ship from the shipyard or only the top one?
- Can I upgrade a ship that is at sea, and what happens to its cargo?
- Where does a discarded or upgraded ship go?
- Do ship-building discounts apply to ship upgrades?
- Can I own more than one ship, or two of the same colour?
- When I build a ship, do I pay a good for the Trade action and also the ship's cost?
- Which ships can I sell goods to?
- Does a ship's price bonus apply once or to each good sold?
- Can I sell goods and also trade with a Noble in the same turn?
- How do goods prices change and can they drop below 1?
Rubble, Rubble Sets and Decrees
- How often can I discard a Rubble Set marker for an extra Decree?
- What makes a Rubble set?
- What happens to rubble cubes I have no room for, and are they scored?
- What are the six rubble cubes beside the rubble values for, and are they used in 2-player games?
- Do I take rubble before or after the reward when opening a Public Building or building a store?
- Can I take a Decree blind from the deck?
- Do Decrees 46-49 score if nobody has any of that good?
- Do goods on my ships count for Decrees about goods?
- Do ships in my Portfolio count for Decree 68?
- Which Influence do the "most Influence" Decrees count?
Clergy Tiles and Church Scoring
- What does Clergy tile #9 let me do with rubble?
- Do I have to discard Clergy tiles during Church Scoring?
- When does Church Scoring happen, and can it happen twice in a turn?
- Who scores in Church Scoring, and in what order?
- Does Church Scoring happen if a discard at End of Period passes the Church icon?
- Do Clergy tiles discarded in Church Scoring go back to the bag?
- What can I do when I already hold four Clergy tiles?
- Can the Cardinal get stuck for the rest of the game?
- How many Clergy tiles do I get when I Meet the Cardinal?
- What do the colour bands on Clergy tiles mean?
End of Period and End of Game
- What ends the first period and the game?
- In what order do the end-of-period steps happen?
- Can I build a second-period ship with a reward from a card I discard at End of Period?
- At End of Period, how many rewards can I take from discarded cards and in what order?
- When do decrees and Clergy tiles refill at End of Period?
- Can I still spend a Rubble Set marker for an extra Decree at End of Period?
- If a player triggers the end of a period during a visit, can the others still follow?
- Do players get more turns in a 2-player game than in a 4-player game?
Endgame Scoring
- What counts at the end of the game?
- Are goods on ships that never sailed scored at the end?
- How does the end-game cash-out of Influence into réis work?
- Is the Tools majority worth 6/3/1 or 6/4/2?
- How are ties split in end-game majorities?
- How does the State Officials majority score?
- What are the three numbers printed on each store type's board space?
Setup and Components
- At setup, can I take Royal Favors from Clergy tile #35 when favors are placed in a later step?
- How do I set up the Royal Favour tiles?
- How many rubble cubes do I use in setup?
- What are the two sides of the Treasury marker, and what do the numbers above the ship cards mean?
- Why does the score marker start on the 5 wig space?
- Are the store and Public Building randomiser tiles in the base game?
- Where do the Kickstarter reward tokens go during setup?
- What are the A and B cards in the Kickstarter add-on, and how do they work?
- What does the rope-and-glass icon mean?
Solo Mode (Lacerda)
- Does Lacerda pay Influence when he takes a Noble action?
- What happens when Lacerda cannot pay the Influence for a Noble visit?
- How does Lacerda gain Influence in solo mode?
- How does the Helper move through the Political decks in solo play?
- Does Lacerda need Plans or officials to open a Public Building, and do his Plans count at the end?
- Where do Lacerda's officials go when they are kicked out of a Noble's office, and can he use the plaza?
- When Lacerda follows my visit, what can he take?
- What does Lacerda do if no ship is available for his Build a Ship action?
- Can Lacerda own more than one ship, and does he pay goods?
- What do the goods Lacerda produces do?