None

It's just a cosmetic difference. Choose whichever you prefer.

Yes

Yes, sorry! For instance, if you have Weapon level 1 and fight a Beast with strength 5, you take 4 Wounds in the fight. Then if the Beast also tells you to reduce the Weapon level by 2, you take a further 1 Wound because of unfulfilled demand.

Nothing

That's just what happens, so hard luck. The Soldier's ability is less useful than it would otherwise be. (Note that the Hunting deck is shuffled each time a new Beast card is added to it!)

Don't know

This is unclear. According to a strict reading of the rules, resources gained during an Action go to the Future Resources space and are unavailable until the end of the Action Phase, but this only happens at the _end_ of the Action. So there is no official decision on whether those resources can be used to pay a cost that arises _during_ the Action. This unclarity is acknowledged, but not resolved, in an online FAQ document.

Yes

Wound first, then Success, then Adventure. (This can make a difference, because you might be killed by a Wound that you could otherwise have avoided through Determination tokens that you gain from the Success die!)

It does nothing

The instruction to raise the Palisade or Roof is just ignored. As it is a one-off immediate effect, you can't save it up until later.

Get them back

Unused resources (from failed Build Actions, for instance) are moved back to the Available Resources space on the board. The rules are unclear about whether this should happen immediately after the Action in question has been resolved, or not until the end of the Action Phase. The game designer has admitted that this is a "grey area" and we know of no resolution yet!

Yes

Yes.

Sometimes

For Items that are flipped back to Inventions: yes, lose/reverse as many benefits as you can, but don't worry if there are some you can't. (This isn't unfulfilled demand.) For terrain types that become unexplored, there is no retroactive effect -- you can still keep the Items you built based on those terrain types, but you won't be able to build more.

Phases

The numbers and their corresponding icons refer to phases of the game when those spaces are used.

Nope

Some editions of this game have scoring mechanisms you can compare game to game. The current (second) edition doesn't have that.

This phrase is printed for the Threat Effect of some Event cards. It is just shorthand for "Go back to the top of the card and do the Event effect again". It isn't intended to create an infinite loop where you do the whole card again and again, (putting it in the Threat space for a second time, etc etc). In the rules on this app, this phrase is spelled out more precisely in descriptions of individual cards.

It's complicated!

Once built, Items and Treasures are available to everyone. Many such cards can only be used by one character per round; if this is the case, it is specified in the rules in this app, and sometimes on the cards themselves. A few cards (Sack, Basket) must be assigned to Actions during the planning step of the Action Phase. Finally, some cards have no ownership, and can be used by multiple characters without limit (Bed, Hammock).

Yes

Yes, you always have to do as much as you can. For instance, if you have to lower your Weapon level by 3, and you only have Weapon level 2, just lower it by 2. You may then take a Wound as the result of the rule of unfulfilled demand, unless the card specifies otherwise. The exception is if there are othe consequences specified: for instance, if a card tells you to "discard 2 wood or take 1 Wound if you can't", and you only have 1 wood, keep the wood and take the Wound.

This is unfulfilled demand, so everyone suffers a Wound. (This applies if you're looking at an island tile that has no uncovered matching sources, or if you're looking at a card, which isn't the kind of thing that can have a source at all.)

Abilities and effects that say they can be used at any time can be used at any time! You can invoke an ability, for instance, after rolling dice or drawing a card, but before resolving the results of that roll or draw. The only limitation is that you can't rewind time: you can't change your mind about something you've already done in order to squeeze in the use of an ability that you didn't want to use until just now!

Mostly

Yes, except the Shortcut. But if there is already an identical token on the destination space, then discard the token that you would be moving.

No

No, you must use either wood or fur in a single Action, but not a mixture of both.

You get one

You just get one Action pawn. You can never have fewer than that.

You can't

You can't. Once the Gremlins card is in the Event deck, it keeps coming back!

Just fight it

Just fight the Beast at that strength, using the normal combat rules. Skip the steps where you would reduce the Weapon level and gain resources.

No

No, he can't even take wounds. Just like in real life, all dogs are immortal.

No

He is just a neutral pawn.

Yes and no

In the planning stage of the Action Phase, you have to assign all characters' Action pawns. But you can leave Friday's pawn and neutral pawns (including Dog) unassigned if you want.

No

No, which means that his presence doesn't affect the cost of the Shelter, Roof or Palisade, or anything else that involves counting the number of players.

He doesn't want to

He's uncomfortable with such creature comforts and prefers to sleep under the open sky.

No

No, which means Friday can be assigned alone to Actions if you want.

He can't

Friday never draws Adventure cards, so he can't get a Special Wound.

Yes

Yes, except the Bed.

Obviously, the real-life human players are players. Beyond that, Jenny (scenario 3) is a character, and she counts as a player for the purposes of cards that affect all players, but not for the purposes of working out the costs of the Shelter, Roof and Palisade. Friday is not a character or a player: effects that specifically affect characters do not affect him, he can never be the First Player and his death doesn't end the game.

Yes

Yes, but you don't lose the game, just Friday's card and pawn.

Ignore it

Just ignore the instruction with no penalty.

Yes!

Yes. Use any convenient markers to record the higher values.

It depends

The instruction that tells you to halve something will always tell you whether to round up or down. BUT note that some cards say "Lose half of X, rounding down". In this case, read it literally: it is the LOST part that is rounded down, i.e. you lose less than you otherwise would -- it is rounded in your favour!

If you are instructed to find the "closest source" of resources to the camp, the closest source is on the same Island tile as the camp. If there is none there, then the closest source is adjacent, and if there is none there either, then further away. Exhausted sources don’t count when working out the closest source.

You cover it up with a black marker, and it no longer produces resources, either in the Production Phase or for Gather Actions.

The two types of food are are identical in game terms, except that non-perishable food is not discarded at the end of the round.

It depends!

When Wounds must be suffered because of unfulfilled demand, all characters suffer the Wounds, except: (1) during the Action Phase, only the character resolving the Action suffers the Wound(s); (2) in the specific case of combat that takes place during the Event Phase, the outcome of the combat (including any unfulfilled demand) only affects the First Player.

An Invention is an Item that hasn't been built yet -- or, to put it the other way, an Item is an Invention that has already been built!

Yes.

Yes. In the Weather Phase, you first discard 1 wood for every snow cloud, and then you compare your Roof level to the amount of snow and rain clouds. If the amount of clouds is greater, you have to discard more wood and food.

From left to right

Actions are resolved in order from left to right along the bottom of the board. But if the same Action is performed more than once, you can choose the order. This applies to Build Actions too.

No!

All requirements must already be met during the planning stage of the Action Phase in order to assign pawns. You can’t assign pawns to an Action unless you already meet the requirements, even if you expect to meet the requirements during the resolution stage.

Yes, in general

Yes, unless the Item's rules say otherwise, or unless it is discarded when used. Note that some Items can only be used by one character per round, but even in this case, that character can use them multiple times.

Supporting Actions

Neutral pawns are used exactly like a character’s pawns, except that they can only be used for certain Actions corresponding to their colours. Also, no Action may be resolved with only neutral pawns. A neutral pawn can only be used to participate in an action after at least 1 character Action pawn has been assigned by a character who will resolve that Action (and suffer any consequences).

Resolving character

The resolving character is the one whose pawn is placed on top of the stack during planning. That character suffers all the consequences, both positive and negative. Other characters' pawns in the stack are supporting, and can't be affected by the consequences.

It's to make the Hunting deck during the game. During setup, leave the space empty and put the Beast deck off to the side.

You lose the game!

If the Island tile with the camp token becomes completely inaccessible, you lose the game. This could happen, for instance, if the tile gets flipped over because of scenario special rules and you are unable to move the camp.

No

The Morale marker cannot move further left than the leftmost space, or further right than the rightmost space. If a game effect would cause this to happen, do not move the marker, and do not suffer any additional penalty.

It depends.

In general, when cards are discarded they're removed from the game, so when a deck runs out, it's gone. Mystery cards are an exception: resolved Mystery cards go into a discard pile which you can reshuffle if the deck runs out, while unresolved ones are shuffled straight back into the draw pile. Another exception is the Carpenter's 'A new idea' ability: Invention cards you don't choose when using this ability form a discard pile which gets reshuffled if the deck runs out.

It depends.

Discarded Mystery cards are kept and reshuffled if the deck runs out; all other discarded cards are removed from the game. Discarded Discovery tokens are removed from the game; all other tokens and markers are returned to the stock. (The Carpenter's 'A new idea' special ability is an exception to this rule.)

Starting Equipment

It means 'draw a random Starting Equipment card'. It appears on the Captain's Chest Wreckage card.

Lots of cards

A large number of cards, especially Event cards, require the Shovel to complete their Threat Action.

Other Inventions

A number of other Inventions have the Rope as one of their requirements.

Avoiding penalties

If you have Medicine, the Wounds you take from a variety of game effects (especially Mystery and Event cards) are reduced.

The difference is mostly just thematic. Both food sources (parrot and fish) just produce food, and any game effect that just refers to a food source refers to both. However, a few cards specify that they affect either the parrot or the fish icons.

Inventions

A few Inventions, Starting Equipment cards and even some Events give you non-perishable food. And a few other Inventions make all your food non-perishable.