Question #12: The
Snowman places this tile, which completes a road connected to Leipzig through a village. It is
Red's turn, who would like to send his meeple to Leipzig, to the Wainwrights quarter. How many points does each player score?
Answer #12: The tile placed completes the road occupied by
Red and the monastery occupied by
Blue.
Red has a meeple on the road and decides to it to Leipzig (this is possible since the road just completed is connected to Leipzig through a village). Also the fairy could have been placed in this turn or in a previous one. Let's analyze each element separately.
1) The Fairy bonus at the beginning of Red's turnThere may be two scenarios:
a) The fairy was placed in a previous turn, so
Red would score 1 bonus point
b)
Red just placed the fairy in this turn, so
Red would score no bonus point
2) Scoring the roadSince
Red wants to send a meeple to Leipzig,
Red scores 0 points for the road, that is, the player renounces to score the road.
However Red scores the fairy scoring bonus, since the fairy was next to the meeple occupying the road being scored. So Red will score 3 points for the fairy.Note: Red cannot score the Wainwrights quarter bonus right away, since it would require at least two
Red Meeples on the road.
3) Scoring the monasteryBlue will score 9 points for the completed monastery.
Additionally, The players with meeples in the Bookbinders quarter in Leipzig will score the bonus. So
Yellow and
Blue will score 4 points each..
Notes: * Scoring the monastery for 9 points follows the ruling for monasteries with tiles in other shapes like Halflings from 2014 and 2020, where a monastery is scored by occupied spaces no matter the tiles placed in those spaces. So the monastery is always worth 9 points in this grid-oriented approach. All the participants chose this approach.
* Another option would be to score the monastery by tiles, following the clarifications from 10/2015. In this case
Blue would score 7 points for the monastery ( (2 double sized tiles + 5 square tiles) x 1 point = 7 points)
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As clarified in a rules revision in 1/2022, the meeples are sent to Leipzig before the scoring takes place, so any meeple sent to Leipzig cannot receive the fairy 3-point scoring bonus (updated in 12/2022). Bottomline:>> Grid approach for scoring the monastery (C2 rules):A) Fairy placed on a previous turn
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Red will score 4 points in two separate scoring events in two rounds of scoring (1 point for the fairy at the beginning of the turn and 3 points for the fairy during scoring) will score 1 point for the fairy at the beginning of the turn.
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Blue will score 13 points in two separate scoring events (9 points for the monastery and 4 points for the Bookbinders quarter bonus)
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Yellow scores 4 points for the Bookbinders quarter bonus too.
B) Fairy placed in this turn
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Red will score 3 points for the fairy no points.
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Blue will score 13 points in two separate scoring events (9 points for the monastery and 4 points for the Bookbinders quarter bonus)
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Yellow scores 4 points for the Bookbinders quarter bonus too.
>> Tile approach for scoring the monastery (C1 rules):A) Fairy placed on a previous turn
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Red will score 4 points in two separate scoring events in two rounds of scoring (1 point for the fairy at the beginning of the turn and 3 points for the fairy during scoring) will score 1 point for the fairy at the beginning of the turn.
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Blue will score 11 points in two separate scoring events (7 points for the monastery and 4 points for the Bookbinders quarter bonus)
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Yellow scores 4 points for the Bookbinders quarter bonus too.
B) Fairy placed in this turn
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Red will score 3 points for the fairy no points.
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Blue will score 11 points in two separate scoring events (7 points for the monastery and 4 points for the Bookbinders quarter bonus)
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Yellow scores 4 points for the Bookbinders quarter bonus too.
Note on scoring for this questionDue to a misunderstanding of the rules, I initially considered that
Red could score the Wainwrights quarter bonus when sending a meeple to that quarter in Leipzig. The wording of the Markets of Leipzig rules on WICA was correct, but the information on the Reference Pages covering the scoring during the game were reflecting the misinterpretation.
So I decided to award points to both options as if correct in order to be as fair as possible in this case. In the long run, this doesn't affect the final ranking for any participant, just the total points obtained.
Notes on answer updateThis answer was updated in 12/2022 to accomadate a rules update affecting Markets of Leipzig, that affected the fairy points assigned to
Red.