Yspahan FAQ
68 questions players ask · Updated Nov 13, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup and goal
Turn structure
- How does the first player marker pass from day to day and week to week?
- In the 4-player game, who plays first on the last day?
- What does a player do when no dice group is left for them?
- Can one dice group give you more than one action, such as placing cubes plus moving the Supervisor and drawing a card?
- What does the first action on a dice group depend on?
- Are dice group values counted by the number of dice or by their pips?
- Does each player take exactly one dice group per day, and what happens to dice nobody takes?
- Can you take a dice group whose neighborhood is full, to move the Supervisor or draw a card?
- If the only dice showing a number are yellow, can players other than the first player take that action?
The Supervisor
- If you place a cube in a shop next to the Supervisor, is it sent to the Caravan?
- Can the Supervisor move past the end of the road, or turn around, if he still has movement left?
- Can you spend gold to move the Supervisor zero squares?
- How far does the Supervisor move, and how can you adjust it?
- Can another player change where the Supervisor moves?
- Where does the Supervisor go at the end of each week?
- Can the Supervisor move back onto the space it just left?
- After moving the Supervisor zero squares, can the next player move him back onto the same square?
- Which shops does the Supervisor affect when he stops next to shops?
- Does a wall count as a shop when the Supervisor stops beside it?
- If a zero-square move keeps the Supervisor in place, do the shops beside his space still send cubes?
The Caravan
- When the Supervisor sends several cubes to the Caravan at once, who chooses the order they arrive in?
- If only one Caravan space is left and two cubes are sent at once, what happens?
- When is the Caravan scored, and when is it emptied?
- When the full Caravan is emptied, do its cubes go back to their owners or leave the game?
- How is a player's Caravan score calculated?
- Who scores when an opponent's Supervisor sends your cube to the Caravan?
- When a card places a cube on the Caravan, what does it score?
- Is the Supervisor the only way to send cubes to the Caravan?
- Can you pay a camel to send a cube from your own stock to the Caravan instead of one in a shop?
- What is the most cubes one Supervisor move can send to the Caravan?
- Does the Caravanserai owner draw a card when their own cube goes to the Caravan?
- Does a card that places a cube on the Caravan give the Caravanserai draw?
- If the Supervisor sends my cubes to the Caravan and I draw a card from the Caravanserai, can I play it to change what happens to those cubes?
Souks and buildings
- Can you finish a souk and start a new one in the same turn?
- If you have an unfinished souk in a neighborhood, can you start a new souk there?
- Can you choose which open shops in a souk your cubes fill, including ones away from the road?
- Must you place every cube a dice group allows, or can you place fewer?
- Are incomplete souks cleared at the end of each week?
- Are built buildings removed from the board at the end of each week?
- When do you score points for a building: when built, or at the end of the game?
- Can you build before taking a dice group, and how many buildings can you build in a turn?
- How does the Hoist's free extra cube work?
Cards
- When during your turn can you play a card?
- Can you play a card right after you take or draw it on your turn?
- Can you discard a card to get one more die from the group you take?
- Can you play both the build-without-camels and build-without-gold cards on one building to build it for free?
- Can you build the Paddock for free with the build-without-camels card?
- Can you hold the camel-to-points and gold-to-points cards until the last turn, and is there a hand size limit?
- Can you score the same coins or camels twice by playing two points cards in one turn?
- Does the discard pile get reshuffled when the draw pile runs out?
- How many cards are in the deck, and how many of each?
2- and 3-player variants
- In the 2-player game, who is the first player each day?
- In the 2-player game, does the player trailing on points get an extra action on the last day of week three?
- In the 2-player game, does the active player get a second dice selection each day?
- In the 2-player game, is building an extra or an action?
- In the 2-player game, can build-discount cards be used after a regular action?
- In the 2-player game, what happens to yellow dice the starting player buys?
- In the 2-player game, how many camels go on each line of the Caravan?
- How does the Caravan change in a 3-player game, and does the last day change turn order?
Ystari BoxExpansion
- Do the Ystari Box souk-scoring cards require the neighborhoods shown on the card?
- Does the Ystari Box expansion allow five players?
- Do the Ystari Box expansion cards replace the base game cards?
- In the 2-player game with the Extra Action card, can you use it to build?
- Does the revised draw-two-keep-one card rule apply to the Caravanserai?
- Can the Yspahan Souks card let you claim a card placed in the discard pile by any means?