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General / Re: Problems with WICA
« on: January 20, 2024, 08:21:01 AM »
Glad it got sorted.
It's all trickier these days, with so many browsers and configurations to keep in mind.
Almost makes you want to go back to the days of just Internet Explorer (please don't; it was horrible hahahaha)

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News and Events / 30th Anniversary Gathering of Friends Meeple
« on: January 20, 2024, 04:21:43 AM »
Hey all!

A while back, someone shared an eBay listing for a bag with translucent meeple. This set was said to be a special giveaway at the Gathering of Friends convention in 2019. One of only 300 sets.

As I hadn't heard of these yet, and the asking price was very high, I actually contacted HiG to ask if they knew about these, and if they could confirm they were indeed from a giveaway from them.

Very soon, I got a response, that they indeed were involved with a giveaway at the Gathering of Friends. Moritz had commented that he remembered these, and I was told that if something has the HiG and Cundco logos, it's often really from them, as not many people internationally know of Cundco so they want to promote that.

So I contacted the seller on eBay, to see if something could be worked out. The eBay global shipping put a very high shipping price on them, so I was hesitant for that, but fairly quickly the seller suggested to continue the conversation on BGG.
On BGG we managed to work something out, and a few days ago I received them!



The Gathering of Friends convention seems to be an invitation only event, in the US. Haven't been able to find much about it, other than some reports from people who've been.
When talking on discord, the general thought seems to be that the organisers may have gotten a bunch of meeple sets from HiG and put the sticker on the bags, with their permission of use if the logos.

HiG confirmed that they are the standard translucent meeple sets, but somehow I still wanted them, so here we go!

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General / Re: I love the postman...
« on: January 17, 2024, 07:14:20 AM »
Those bonus winter tiles look really nice! Hope you have a good game with them soon Scott!
And yeah, the meeple look all to have a slightly different shade from the "originals". Perhaps done on purpose my Meeplesource to not be told off by someone  C:-)

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General / Re: I love the postman...
« on: January 11, 2024, 10:14:18 AM »
The pest is here! :D
Good surprise: it came with the Spielbox magasine, it wasn't specified when I ordered it :)

That is a great surprise!

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General / Re: Spin-off Rankings?
« on: January 09, 2024, 11:40:19 PM »
Wheel of Fortune could be seen as both, like Mists over Carcassonne.
Winter edition, if it's not a spin off, how would you classify it?
It doesn't have its own rules, so I can imagine it's not as clearly different from the base game as other games, however keeping terminology for 1 or 2 games out of ~20 doesn't seem practical  ;D
They are not the base game, not are they a clear cut expansion, so spin off works for me

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Congratulations to @Challa007 !! This was a difficult one, so really well done!

And of course thanks to @Meepledrone for organising this quiz! (And the Grinch for not making it easy for us)

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General / Re: Reassurance requested :-D
« on: January 04, 2024, 01:01:02 PM »
I was going to check mine, but this works great!
Thanks for checking, Scott!

The main difference to see is how saturated the colours are on the box. The front is easier to distinguish than the back though, so you might want to ask for a better picture of the front.
You can also look at the tiles themselves. Unfortunately my fake copy is sealed, so i dont have pictures for direct comparison, but i believe you should be able to tell from the thickness for example.
From the small picture of the front, it doesn't look too saturated or darker, compared to the Safari box next to it, which is a good sign, but the picture is very small unfortunately

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General / Re: I love the postman...
« on: January 03, 2024, 03:21:43 PM »
That is definitely a great set of new arrivals!
Some great games to be had!

And if it's $85 AUD, then it could be reasonable for New World; depends on your preference of course.
I've once paid that for a base game  :o

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Great quiz! Had fun trying to solve some of these, and finding some answers to interesting interactions on the WICA!

Gracias Meepledrone!

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General / Re: What's up with the River in Big Box 5?
« on: December 15, 2023, 07:23:01 AM »
So on that logic, Inns&Cathedrals, Traders&Builders and the 6 Minis don't exist anymore?
(And the minis haven't existed since C2)
As they are now part of the big box (both bb6 and bb7).
But, BB6 doesn't exist, nor does BB7, as they are just called Big Box.
But, the Spanish& Portuguese have been called Carcassonne Plus, so for them, a Big Box didnt exist until recently...

All to say, naming is and will be a mess across languages and years.

If anything, what were aiming at is a naming convention that makes it clear as to what we're referring to. River 3 is clear to all on what we mean.
The BB5 river could work just as well (other than the above logic that there is no BB5, so it wouldn't be a single iteration to refer to)

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General / Re: What's up with the River in Big Box 5?
« on: December 15, 2023, 06:54:00 AM »
(on the back of both C1 and C2 Exp 6, it calls out the different components, including River 2....)

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General / Re: What's up with the River in Big Box 5?
« on: December 14, 2023, 10:57:04 PM »
All you heretics still calling it River 1....
Is like calling the first Lion King movie Lion King 1... There's no such thing!  >:D

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General / Re: What's up with the River in Big Box 5?
« on: December 13, 2023, 05:10:28 AM »
Define "official".
That is one of the most mis used words out there for many things  :D
If you mean "as referred to as such by the publisher", there are different things said by different publishers, which makes that a fluid definition as well.
Even C1/C2/C3 was a fan-term, until HiG fully adapted it with the C3 release
Even in doubt if HiG ever referred to the first River as the River 1. I think they just call it The River, and the River 2 as The River 2... (So is River 1 not an "official" name?  :o )
I'm sure I can get someone from HiG to say it's river 3  ;)

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The shop display is purely a display box that shops could use for the dice game.
It holds the actual game tins.
These displays had been made for Phantoms, King&Scout, the 6 Minis anf the Count of Carcassonne as well. Those are all easier to find, but it seems the ones for the Dice game have not made it to the free market as much. Perhaps as it is a bigger display than all the others?
Here's a picture of one:

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That display seems to be the most difficult to find! Hope you find one soon!

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