Praga Caput Regni FAQ
78 questions players ask · Updated Nov 7, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup and Plazas
- Can you build on the Old Town spots next to the pre-placed starting buildings?
- Can you build on the plaza sites left empty in a 2- or 3-player game?
- How do you place plaza tiles at setup, and which side faces up?
- In what order do the six action tiles go on the crane at setup?
- Does the orientation of the two Charles Bridge tiles matter at setup?
- What if you have more production tokens than river spaces at setup?
- Is the raised 3D tiered board section required for play?
- What are the two plain wooden cubes and the five promo cards that come with the wooden-egg upgrade for?
Your Turn and Extra Actions
- How many actions can I take in one turn, and can I buy an extra action mid-turn?
- Does a bought extra action give the wheel bonus, a special (S) tile, or my upgrades?
- What if I can't afford any action tile on my turn?
- Once I choose an action tile, must I carry out the action in full?
- Can I resolve the parts of my turn (buying windows, taking the tile, bonuses) in any order?
- How does refreshing a hex-tile row work, and can I do it before picking an action?
- When is a replacement hex tile dealt after I take one from a row?
- Can I use an upgrade's resource exchange to pay for the wall or building I'm constructing?
- How many windows can I keep, and when do I discard down to two?
The Action Crane
- Where does an action tile go when it leaves the blue zone and the green zone is full?
- What is the 5-point token, and where does the tile carrying it go?
- Do the 5 token points stack with blue-zone points if the tile passes the blue zone again?
- Can I pay a red-zone tile's gold cost with gold from its wheel bonus?
- Do I still get the wheel bonus from a green-zone tile?
- If I take a tile from the first red space, do I still rotate the wheel?
- What if the red space where my tile must return is occupied?
- In a four-player game, when does the wheel turn two positions?
Upgrades and Adjacency Bonuses
- If I overbuild an upgrade, do adjacency or corner bonuses pay out again?
- Can adjacency bonuses form between two upgrades or two walls, not only upgrade-to-wall?
- Can I upgrade an already-upgraded action, and do I still advance the University track?
- When I upgrade an action that was already upgraded, do I get the old bonus, the new bonus, or both?
- Can I take an upgrade tile's bonus right after placing it, for an action I already did this turn?
- Does an upgraded action's bonus trigger on extra actions and technology actions, and when a track bonus raises production?
- Does an upgrade tile with a crown score every time I upgrade any action?
- Does a mid-game upgrade tile giving a golden window pay out on each upgrade?
- Can I choose a tile's orientation when placing it, and change it later?
Mines, Quarries and Production
- How much gold can I produce at once, and how much can I store?
- Which production bonuses do I collect when I produce gold or stone?
- What does the gold/stone wheel show versus the production track?
- Do the wheelbarrow or treasure-chest icons give a coin or stone?
- Do the wealth bonuses at 6 and 9 on the gold and stone wheels pay out more than once?
- Does a production token with a crown and a stone scale with how much I produced?
- Does a track-raising bonus give resources or trigger Level I technologies?
- Does the Technology Level I bonus also apply when the wheel gives two gold or two stone?
Walls and Buildings
- Do I have to place a cube on a building with a cube space, and can I build without one?
- Must every wall touch my action board, and can walls touch each other?
- If I skip a special tile, how many points do I score?
- What happens when the special tile stack runs out?
- How many points does a building without a cube space score around a plaza?
King's Road
- Does the King's Road 3-points-per-Era-I-upgrade count covered tiles?
- Is the King's Road step 1 reward 2 VP plus 1 gold or 1 stone, or a three-way choice?
- Can I resolve King's Road effects in any order, for example gold, then egg, then the second bonus?
- Do I need an egg to advance on the King's Road?
- Can I pay more than 1 gold on the King's Road to score more than 4 points?
- Where does my King's Road marker start, and do passed spaces activate?
Hunger Wall, Cathedral and Windows
- Can I move up the Hunger Wall or Cathedral from the starting square?
- Is the gold-and-stone tier-crossing cost paid on top of the two silver windows, and for arrow moves?
- Can I save an up-arrow move for a later turn?
- Can my marker enter the black columns, share a space, or climb without windows?
- At the top of the Cathedral or on Charles Bridge space V, do I choose my tile?
Technologies, Seals and Cubes
- Do I get a technology tile's 2 points if my marker is already at the track's maximum?
- Does a once-per-turn technology work when I gain the token on another player's turn?
- If I'm out of cubes, can I take one from a building, a track, or a seal?
- How many marking cubes do I have, and do I get them back?
- Does claiming a seal give a bridge or Cathedral tile?
- If I advance several spaces on the technology track, which technologies do I get?
- Can a Level IV 'perform any action' technology give an extra action, and how does the double-arrow Level III work?
- How can I gain books (technology advances)?