You may exchange 1 card before each turn, fill your teammates Potions after your are all full, give them your full Potions and move their Wizards after all yours are inside of Ravenskeep.

It depends

When playing a team variant, once ALL your Wizards are inside the Ravenskeep, you can move your teammates Wizards.

Yes

When multiple players wish to cast a Spell, they cast Spells in turn order, starting from the player with the Ravenshield token.

When playing a nasty variant, you can use Spell during ANY player's turn.

Yes

Achieve the game's end goal by using 30 or fewer cards to win while playing solo or cooperatively.

Yes

Yes

Yes

There is a cooperative, teams and a nasty game variant.

Yes

Yes

See the following rule(s) to find an answer to this question.

Yes

See the following rule(s) to find an answer to this question.

Moves Ravenskeep to the next or previous EMPTY space. It may be without a Ravenshield.

Moves a tower counterclockwise.

Move a Wizard counterclockwise.

Swaps two top-most towers.

Moves a tower.

Moves your Wizard.

Yes

You are always allowed to peek into Ravenskeep to see how many wizards each player has in there.

No

It doesn’t matter which goal you fulfill first: Keep playing until someone has fulfilled both!

Yes

No

If you have no more empty potion bottles, and all of your wizards are in Ravenskeep, you trigger the end of the game: Finish the round, so everyone has had the same number of turns.

If you have no more empty potion bottles, and all of your wizards are in Ravenskeep, you trigger the end of the game: Finish the round, so everyone has had the same number of turns.

Yes

Most importantly, you must NOT have any empty bottles to win.

Reshuffle

Each time the deck is depleted, shuffle the discards to form a new deck.

Clockwise

Everything in the game - Wizards, towers and Ravenskeep- moves clockwise around the circular path.

No

You EITHER play 2 cards, OR discard all 3 cards to move any tower 1 space. You can't mix these two things.

No

At any time during your turn, you may spend full potion bottles to cast one magic spell.

Usually yes

You either MUST play 2 cards on your turn, OR discard all 3 cards to move any tower 1 space forward.

Play 2 cards, potentially use a Spell and redraw back to 3 cards.

No

If there are no free spaces or towertops with a Ravenshield, Ravenskeep stays where it is.

Spell

The Ravenskeep can be moved by a Spell "Nudge Ravenskeep", OR if it is atop a tower, which then moves the Ravenskeep together with its normal move.

Yes

Whenever a wizard’s move ends in the space with Ravenskeep, it advances clockwise to the next space or tower top depicting a raven shield, with no wizards on it.

No

The spells available for you to cast are the magic spells placed face up during setup.

No

To cast a spell, you must spend the number of full potion bottles depicted on the spell, then apply the effects of the spell.

To cast a spell, you must spend the number of full potion bottles depicted on the spell, then apply the effects of the spell.

Usually no

At any time during your turn, you may cast one spell, for your own benefit, UNLESS you play the "Nasty" variant of the game.

On your Turn

At any time during your turn, you may cast one Spell, for your own benefit. The Spells available for you to cast are the magic spells placed face up during setup.

Casting Spells

Filling all your Potions is one of the victory conditions. Additionally, you can cast Spells during the game with your filled Potions.

Yes

Filling all your Potions is one of the victory conditions. Additionally, you can cast Spells during the game with your filled Potions.

Impison Wizards

Yes

If you have no empty potion bottles, you can still imprison wizards, but this will not fill a potion bottle for you.

No

When you imprison one or more wizards (even if only your own), you may fill one of your empty potion bottles (no matter how many wizards you imprisoned) by flipping it over.

Yes

When you imprison one or more wizards (even if only your own), you may fill one of your empty potion bottles (no matter how many wizards you imprisoned) by flipping it over.

Yes

When you imprison one or more wizards (even if only your own), you may fill one of your empty potion bottles (no matter how many wizards you imprisoned) by flipping it over.

No

You are not allowed to peek under the towers!

Nothing

Imprisoned Wizards stay hidden where they are, and players need to remember their positions.

Yes

Whenever a tower’s move ends in a space with towers already in it, the new tower goes atop the existing towers, imprisoning all wizards it covers.

Yes

All 9 towers and Ravenskeep could end up in the same space!

No

Towers can't end their move atop Ravenskeep. If you were to make such a move, return the tower to its original place and forfeit the move.

Yes

Yes, if Ravenskeep is atop the stack, it goes along, too!

Yes

You can move ANY tower with EVERYTHING atop it - other towers, wizards and even the Ravenskeep!

Moves together

Roll

Only after your final roll must you announce whether you are moving a wizard or a tower.

Fill all of your potion bottles and get all of your wizards into Ravenskeep (it doesn’t matter which you do first).

A Mage Academy

Ravenskeep is the black tower with a big raven over it. Ravenskeep is a functional "finish line" that players are trying to reach throughout the game.

Almost

Rules-wise - all towers are the same. However, some towers have a Ravenshield on their tops. Ravenskeep can move ON towers with the Ravenshield during the game. Otherwise, all towers are the same.

No

Ravenskeep is NOT a tower.

No

Cards CAN'T move Ravenskeep. Some Spells can move Ravenskeep. Otherwise, the Ravenskeep only move after a Wizard is dropped inside of it.

See the following rule(s) to find an answer to this question.

Yes

When playing solo, there are a couple of changes to the setup.

Yes

Depending on how many players are in the game, the amount of Wizards and Potions used by each player changes.

No

Your choice

For your first game: Place the 2 magic spells, Advance a Wizard and Advance a Tower, face up near the circular path. Return the other 6 magic spells to the box. Otherwise, you can choose the Spells you want to play with.

Yes

For your first game: Place the 2 magic spells, Advance a Wizard and Advance a Tower, face up near the circular path. Return the other 6 magic spells to the box.

Yes

Within a single colour, all Potion bottles are the same.

Choose a starting player in any way you like, and give them the Ravenshield token.

No

There are three different card types - with a Wizard, with a tower, with both a Wizard and a tower.

The cards show a piece that you can move forward in a clockwise direction.

No

you can only move YOUR Wizards or any tower with the cards you play.

No

Cards that can move either a wizard or a tower; these depict a tower on the left, a wizard on the right. When playing such cards, you MUST choose 1 side to resolve.

If the card depicts a number, advance the shown piece clockwise exactly that number of spaces.

No

If the card depicts a number, advance the shown piece clockwise EXACTLY that number of spaces.

Wizards CAN move past Ravenskeep. To enter Ravenskeep, they MUST end their move EXACTLY on Ravenskeep's space.

If the end space that you move a Wizard to already has a tower, you place the Wizard ATOP that tower.

MAX 6

Each tower and each empty space can hold up to 6 wizards. If a move would exceed that limit, you cannot make that move.

If the card depicts a die, roll the die to determine exactly how far a shown piece will advance.

For each additional die depicted on the card, you may reroll the die once; however, if you do, you forfeit the previous roll. Only after your final roll must you choose a wizard to move.

No

Only after your final roll must you choose a wizard to move.

No

For each additional die depicted on the card, you may reroll the die once; however, if you do, you forfeit the previous roll. But you can also stay with the first-rolled result.

MAX 6

Each tower and each empty space can hold up to 6 wizards. If a move would exceed that limit, you cannot make that move.

Can't

If a move would exceed that limit, you cannot make that move. If you have already picked up the Wizard to make a move, return it and forfeit the move.