Rajas of the Ganges FAQ
69 questions players ask · Updated Nov 7, 2026 · Full rulebook
Set-up
Course of the game
- Can I place a worker on a space whose cost I cannot pay (for example, with only 1 money for a 2-money space)?
- Can I place a worker on a market space and pay its cost when I have no market to score, just to block it?
- Can I pass instead of placing a worker on my turn?
- Can two workers share one action space?
- When a reward gives me several dice, do I take and roll them all at once?
- What is a stage?
- Can I take an action whose reward I cannot fully store, such as karma already at its maximum?
- What is the dice limit?
Building action (quarry)
- Do I score a tile's money and fame as soon as I build it?
- Can I rotate a province tile freely when placing it?
- Can a road run into a dead end or off the board?
- Does a special yield on my province board pay again when another tile connects to it?
- If one board space carries several yields (bottom centre, middle left or right), do I get all of them?
- Do I get a bonus for placing a tile of a particular colour?
- Is the red yield tile's coin value a 6 or a 9?
Market action
- How many markets can I score with a goods-of-one-kind space?
- Does a goods-of-one-kind space score only the good pictured on it?
- Do I give up a die to use an assorted-goods space, and does one market suffice?
- When a tile has coins on two markets, which coin do I count when scoring?
- Must market spaces be taken in order?
- What are the money values in the rulebook's market example?
Palace actions
- At the Dancer, must I give up the 2 die before drawing the yield tile, and in what order do I take the rewards?
- What does the Master builder cost in dice?
- When the Master builder covers a tile, do I score the new tile's money and fame?
- Does the Master builder ever give a special yield, even one I never connected before?
- What does 'matching' mean for the Master builder, and must I place a particular tile?
- Can I use the Master builder to redirect roads so a later tile reaches a special yield?
- Can I use the terrace more than once in a round?
- Does the Portuguese pay the reward of every river space I pass?
- Can I use the Portuguese when fewer than six river spaces remain?
- What does the Great Mogul give me?
River action
Karma
Workers and scoring tracks
End of a round and end of the game
Navaratnas version
- In Navaratnas, when do I get the benefit of a yield tile?
- What does the brown tile paying 2 money per connected yield tile count?
- Which tiles count as bends for the brown tile's 2 fame per bend?
- In Navaratnas, what do I get if opponents have more active workers than I do?
- Can I move or cover a placed yield tile?
- At the Dancer in Navaratnas, where does the yield tile go?
- What does the bottom yellow space on the advanced board give?
- Which yield tiles are used in which version?
- How do mixed player groups handle yield tiles?
Ganga module
Solo play (Mautoma)
Rajas of the Ganges: Goodie Box 1Expansion
- Does the Gemstone Trader cost me one of my workers?
- If I have no white yield tile, does the Mango Village bonus give 2 money?
- Does the Mango Tree trigger only villages?
- What does overbuilding a tile with a Snake or Tiger tile cost?
- Can the Ganges dolphin tile send me to any round river space?
- Is the Shalimar worker retrieval a one-time effect?
- Does the retrieved Shalimar worker count as an extra worker for yield tiles?
- Does the Imperial Flag let me repeat an action for free?
- Does the free Test of Fate tile give special yields?