BoardGameArchiveCitadels Scoring & Game End: Districts, Colors and Completion
Understand Citadels final scoring from district costs, color-set bonus, first-city bonus, later completion bonus and special purple districts.
Understand Citadels final scoring from district costs, color-set bonus, first-city bonus, later completion bonus and special purple districts.
Guide at a Glance
District values
Add the gold cost printed on every district in your completed city. For most normal districts, cost and base VP are…
Color-diversity bonus
Gain the standard bonus if your city contains at least one district of each of the five district colors required by…
First player to complete a city
The first player who reaches the city-completion threshold earns the larger completion bonus, even if another player…
Other completed cities
Players who also reach the required city size before the round ends receive the smaller completion bonus defined by…
Overview
Citadels final scoring begins after a player completes the required number of districts and the current round is finished.
District values
Add the gold cost printed on every district in your completed city. For most normal districts, cost and base VP are the same number.
Color-diversity bonus
Gain the standard bonus if your city contains at least one district of each of the five district colors required by the current edition’s scoring rule.
First player to complete a city
The first player who reaches the city-completion threshold earns the larger completion bonus, even if another player later finishes with more total points.
Other completed cities
Players who also reach the required city size before the round ends receive the smaller completion bonus defined by the rules.
Purple district scoring
Add or modify points from unique districts whose text explicitly changes final scoring. Resolve these effects individually.
Highest final score wins
Add all categories and use the current rulebook’s tie procedure, which references the final-round character hierarchy if needed.