Wandering Towers FAQ
43 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup and Playing the Game
- Can each player choose where their wizards start at setup?
- When you discard your whole hand as your action, must you advance a tower?
- What can you do when no card in your hand can move a wizard?
- What happens when the movement card deck runs out?
- Does discarding your hand use up your whole turn or only one of your two actions?
The Movement Cards
- When you move a tower, can you lift only part of a stack and leave the lower sections behind?
- Can Ravenskeep be moved by a Move a Tower card, and does it travel with a tower stack?
- When a wizard enters Ravenskeep and the next raven shield is covered by a tower, where does Ravenskeep go?
- When a wizard enters Ravenskeep, do the towers beneath it move with it?
- If you lift a tower by mistake and its move would place it on Ravenskeep, what happens?
- When a movement card shows a die, must you move exactly the number rolled?
- When a card with a die can move either a wizard or a tower, do you roll before choosing which piece to move?
- On a card with both a tower value and a wizard value, can you use the other piece's number?
- Can a tower you pass during a tower move be picked up and moved in the same move?
- Can a tower move past Ravenskeep, and does Ravenskeep count as a space?
- What happens if a wizard move would put more than six wizards on one tower or space?
- Do wizards imprisoned under a tower count toward the six-wizard limit on a space?
- Can you fill a potion bottle by covering another player's wizard?
- If your wizard enters Ravenskeep with your first card, can you still play your second card?
Casting a Spell
- Does a spell that moves a wizard into Ravenskeep end your turn, even when the wizard is an opponent's?
- After your wizard enters Ravenskeep, can you still cast a spell that turn?
- When a spell moves a wizard into Ravenskeep, does Ravenskeep also advance?
- If a spell moves a tower and covers a wizard, do you fill a potion bottle?
- Can you cast more than one spell per turn, or pay with another player's full bottle?
- Does casting a spell use up one of your two actions?
End of the Game
Magic Spells
- Can a spell move or imprison another player's wizard?
- Can you cast Piggyback on a wizard partway through its movement?
- Can Free a Wizard be cast at any time, including on another player's turn?
- Does casting Swap a Tower let you fill a potion bottle if it covers wizards?
- Does Swap a Tower cost two potions, and do you see the towers underneath?
- Can Swap a Tower swap the top towers of any two spaces on the board?
Nasty Variant
Wandering Towers: The Magic TowerExpansion
- Can Ravenskeep move onto a regular tower in the Magic Tower expansion?
- If the raven lands on a tower stack that has Ravenskeep on top, is the move still valid?
- Do the Hag and the Raven count toward the six-wizard limit on a space?
- Do raven feather actions count toward the one-spell-per-turn limit?
- What happens when the Hag lands on your wizard, and how do you fill a hag potion flask?
- Can the Elixir Fountain return potions from the box to your supply?