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Quizzes, Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXIV

« on: December 02, 2024, 03:55:16 PM »

...5 turns later...

- Snowman: Uffff! She's gone!
- Santa Claus: Oooooh! This is my first question this year.
- Snowman: So thrilled!
- Gingerbread Man: Ahhhh! How are the participants doing?
- Santa Claus: I think they will love the warmup.
- Snowman: Are you sure?
- Gingerbread Man: Indeed!
- Snowman: How can you be that sure?
- Gingerbread Man: No complaints so far. 
- The Grinch: Complaints and requests are thoroughly processsed...
- Santa Claus: How kind of you...!
- The Grinch: You see? My email application diligently filters those messages....
- The Grinch: ...and sends them to the spam folder...
- Santa Claus:
- The Grinch: Cool, huh?


Question #3: Santa Claus places this tile on Yellow's behalf. How many points does each player score? (1 point)

Notes:
* This question does not use large meeples.
* This is a mid-game scenario. The game goes on for a few more turns.
* We are expecting an answer for C2/C3, unless you specify otherwise in your reply. 

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Quizzes, Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXIV

« on: December 02, 2024, 03:48:07 PM »

- Mepledrina: I'm all ears for any suggestion you may have...
- Mepledrina: Want to say something?
- Mepledrina: (waiting)...
- Mepledrina: What I suspected...
- The Grinch: But...
- Mepledrina: Shut up! You are not allowed to speak unless you are spoken to...
- The Grinch:
- Snowman: Me too?
- Mepledrina: What did I tell you?
- Snowman:
- Mepledrina: (thinking out loud) Where did Meepledrone go?

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Quizzes, Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXIV

« on: December 01, 2024, 03:08:12 PM »

- Mepledrina: Stop this nonsense right now!!!
- Mepledrina: Wait a minute, wait a minute!
- Snowman: Excuse me?
- Mepledrina: Do you think you have the right to enslave my little tin lovebird year after year after year?
- The Grinch: (fluttering his eyelashes) And you are, sweet cocoa puff?
- Mepledrina: I could rip both your arms off with a spoon for less than this, mister.
- The Grinch:
- Mepledrina: I will never understand how you can control my sweetheart...
- Mepledrina: The Advent Quiz has started and Meepledrone will only live for this.
- Mepledrina: No sleeping, no cooking, no knitting, no walking the animeeples...
- Mepledrina: Do you think this is reasonable...?
- Mepledrina: He should be at home chopping wood and keeping the house warm...
- Mepledrina: Don't you think so?
- Snowman: Well, it is not my idea of a cozy home....
- Mepledrina: (pausing and staring at the Snowman) Men! What will you know about all this?!?!?
- Mepledrina: (storming away) If you see him, just let him know I stopped by..
- The Grinch: What a character!... I like her...
- Snowman: She is something indeed...
- Snowman: Shall we proceed?


Question #2: The Snowman places this abbey tile on behalf of Yellow. How many points does each player taking into account the scoring tiles? (1 point)

Notes:
* This question does not use large meeples.
* This is a mid-game scenario. The game goes on for a few more turns.

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Quizzes, Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXIV

« on: December 01, 2024, 08:27:48 AM »

- The Grinch: We might allow it after a lot of begging and crawling on the floor.
- Santa Claus: That is a yes.
- The Grinch: 

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Quizzes, Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXIV

« on: December 01, 2024, 04:16:15 AM »

- Gingerbread Man: Here we go with the first question...
- The Grinch: 
- Gingerbread Man: (hashly) What?
- The Grinch: Are you trying to keep the participants busy with that?
- Chanchito: Ooooohhhhh! Is this a warm-up question? Let me see! Let me seeeeee!
- Gingerbread Man: You see? Not everyone is so unenthusiastic as you are... all the time!
- The Grinch: Well, not everybody shares my high standards of decorum and excellence!
- Santa Claus: (bursting into laughter) Woooooo Ho! Ho! Ho!...
- The Grinch: (frowning and in a low voice) What!?!?
- Chanchito:
- Santa Claus: Ho! Ho! Ho! Ha! Ha! Ha!...
- Santa Claus: Sorry! Ha ha! So funny! Woooooo Ho! Ho! Ho!...
- The Grinch: This is outrageous!!!
- Santa Claus: Ho! Ho! Ho! ...Best... Ha! Ha! Ha!...
- Santa Claus: Ho! Ho! Ho! ...Joke... Ha! Ha! Ha!...
- Santa Claus: (walking away) Ha! Ha! Ha! ...Ever... Ho! Ho! Ho!...
- Gingerbread Man: Ahem! Ahem! Shall we proceed?
- Chanchito: Yes! Yes! YESSS!
- The Grinch: (shrugging humiliated) OK.
- Gingerbread Man: Ahem! Ahem! Thank you! Let's go!!!


Question #1: The Gingerbread Man places this tile on behalf of Yellow and asks you to answer the following questions:
a) How many points does each player score? (1 point)
b) How many goods tokens will have each player after this turn? (1 point)
c) If this was the last turn, how many points would earn each player with their goods tokens? (1 point)

Notes:
* This question only uses normal meeples. No large meeples were used.
* No meeple is placed on the tile.

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Quizzes, Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXIV

« on: November 30, 2024, 01:33:09 PM »

- Chanchito: Ready or not, here we comeeeee!!!

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Quizzes, Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXIV

« on: November 30, 2024, 11:58:00 AM »

- Chanchito: By the way, why are those Spiel tiles placed that bad?
- The Grinch: Whaaaat? (looking back) Meepledrooooooone!!!!

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Quizzes, Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXIV

« on: November 30, 2024, 11:52:32 AM »

Meeple Council Hall, 15:47 CMT (Central Meeple Time)



- The Grinch: Whaaaat?
- Chanchito: Like I said, I want to be a Carcassonne ninja!
- Danisthirty:
- Santa Claus: Interesting...
- Gingerbread Man: What's that?
- Chanchito: I want to master all the Carcassonne expansions!
- Snowman: You know what you are asking?
- Chanchito: Yes!
- Santa Claus: Endless hours of reading!
- Chanchito: Yes!
- Danisthirty: Endless piles of tiles about to collapse and bury you alive!!!
- Chanchito: Yes!!!
- The Grinch: Endless pain in your brain from trying to make sense of all the existing clarifications!!!
- Chanchito: YES!!!!!
- Fir Tree: (shaking all its brunches)
- Chanchito: YES!!!!! YEEEES!!! YEEEEESSSSS!
- The Grinch:
- The Grinch: Wait! Whaat?!? Do you understand this log on steriods?
- Chanchito: He's my cousin-in-log! How couldn't I?
- The Grinch: Holy cut-throat expansions!
- The Grinch: But, who are you?
- Chanchito: I'm Chanchito du Carcassonne! And I want to be a Carcassonne ninjaaaaa!!!
- Santa Claus: (gasping)
- Danisthirty:
- Gingerbread Man: Ahhhhh! I saw you in the papers!
- Gingerbread Man: Lady Carcas threw you over the wall, right?
- Chanchito: Well, we put on a show!
- Danisthirty: Quite impressive!
- Gingerbread Man: The Catapult is something!
- Snowman: How did you...?
- Gingerbread Man: (moving his arm in an arc and making an explosion sound) 
- Chanchito: (with a grave attitude) Carcassonne ninjas develop their secret tricks!
- The Grinch: Well, well, well!
- The Grinch: Let's cut to the chase!
- The Grinch: If you want to become a Carcassonne... ninja... you will have to pass the test!!!
- Chanchito: Love tests!!!  What is it? What is it? What is IT?
- The Grinch: The Advent Quiz 2024!!!!
- Chanchito: (disappointed) Awwwwwww! Only that?
- The Grinch: It is really hard!
- Chanchito: Really?
- The Grinch: (solemnly) ...hard... like a dragon's bottom!
- Santa Claus: Wait!!! Were you the one who bit the dragon?
- The Grinch: Oooops! ...Erm... Who meeeee?
- The Grinch: You must be confusing me with someone else... 
- The Grinch: (with Kawaii eyes)
- The Grinch: ... Ahem... Where is that Meepledrone minion?
- The Grinch: We have to start the Advent Quiz!
- The Grinch: That lazy meeple must be hiding somewhere to skip work... Again!!!
- Santa Claus: Ahem! Ahem! Shall we revisit the rules of the Advent Quiz?
- Danisthirty: What a lovely idea!!! 
- Chanchito: Yeah!!! Gimme gimme gimme!

Between the 1st and 24th December we will post a small Carcassonne scoring question each day (at a random time), to which the answer will be points scored by one or more players according to the question (and maybe some side questions). Each question will be presented by a member of the Meeple Council, who will indicate the number of expansions but will not participate as a meeple in the scenario itself. Here is a reference:

- Gingerbread Man	1 expansion
- Snowman	2 expansions
- Santa Claus	3 expansions
- Danisthirty	4 expansions
- The Grinch	5 expansions (or more, of course )

When you know the answer, don't post it on this thread! Because then everyone will know, and we don't want that. Instead, send Meepledrone a PM including the question number and your answer for that day. He won't respond to your PM (please don't be offended), but if you get the answer correct you will win one or more quiz points depending on the question.

There's no cut-off date for any particular questions so don't despair if you miss any. You can even answer all 24 questions on Christmas Eve if you want.

Once Christmas and Boxing Day are behind us, the correct answers will be posted – one at a time – along with who won the points and total scores per participant. Contestants with the same number of points will be sorted by the time they took to respond.  This is where it gets really fun!

The overall winner will be the person with the most points at the end of the quiz, but there is likely to be a small prize for everyone who answers all questions regardless of whether they manage to answer any of them correctly. It will be a surprise.

Any questions, please ask now. Otherwise, you can expect question 1 of 24 sometime on December 1st!

- The Grinch: Whaaaat? No points boost for players answering first again...
- Santa Claus: Nope. The response time will help resolve ties, but the winner will be the player who answers the most correct questions.
- Gingerbread Man: Of course, the faster the better...
- The Grinch: I hate the idea... Let's do it!
- Chanchito: This is gonna be FUN! Yaaaay!!!!

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Quizzes, Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXIV

« on: November 30, 2024, 05:36:15 AM »

- Chanchito: Ooooh! I'm so impatient!!!
- Chanchito: Where can I get more info?
 

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Quizzes, Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXIV

« on: November 30, 2024, 05:34:54 AM »

Yes indeed!

For those unaware of what it is going on, I will just break it for you: Christmas is coming again!!!

In preparation of the coming events, here at Carcassonne Central, a lot is happening behind the scenes once again. The Meeple Council is in session discussing whether field separation discrepancies between C2 and C3 should be kept consistent with the zodiac signs...

This is just a smoke screen, because the real agenda for today is...

The Advent Calendar Quiz MMXXIV

Stay tuned, because on December 1st Fate will be knocking at your door... Will you be there to open? What surprises will it bring?

Ready or not, the clock is ticking! Can you hear it?

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Official Rules / Re: Wonders of Humanity + River or with "personnal" tiles

« on: November 29, 2024, 10:21:50 AM »

Hi all,

Preparing to be a menace for the coming advent quiz, it's time to study the rules!
Is it what I'm doing? Maybe not. Or maybe yes. Who knows? 

Quiz? What quiz? Ha ha ha!

I have 2 questions regarding the use of the Wonders of Humanity with other expansions:

1) Playing with WOH, a River expansion and an expansion allowing to earn points during the river placing:
If we are still placing River tiles, and a player gets a Wonder tile (thanks to points earned with the Abbot or the Shephered for example), does he place it on his next turn, even if River tiles are still possible to draw, or shall he wait until the River is completed, and play it on his first turn after the River is completed?

As expected, there is no official clarification about this case. In order to avoid any conflict with the river, the player should take the wonder during the river placement and keep it their supply until the last river tile is placed. Any player with a wonder tile once the river is completd would place their wonder instead of drawing a normal tile. That is, their first tile during the normal phase of the game after the river would be a wonder tile.

2) Playing with WOH + "personnal tiles" (Halflings, Abbey, Castles in Germany):
With Abu Simbel, when playing with Halflings, Castles in Germany or Abbey, the player has the choice to draw a second tile (and play it or play the one he has already in front of him) or to place one of these special tiles (and keep the tile he has in front of him for next turn), is that correct?

Best regards,

That is correct. If you place a Halflings, a Castles in Germany or an Abbey from your supply, the previous tile you may have stays where it is until your next turn, since you are not drawing a new tile.

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Official Rules / Re: Darmstadt Spielt majority

« on: November 29, 2024, 10:03:52 AM »

Check how majority, as defined in the base game, evolves as new expansions are added to the game (especially Exp. 1, Exp.5, Exp. 9)...

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Quizzes, Puzzles and Challenges / Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXIV

« on: November 29, 2024, 09:41:16 AM »

The wind blows... The fields around Carcassonne dance at its will. A distant bell toll can be heard...



Suddendly, an oinky voice resonates all over the empty landscape:
- Chanchito: (echoing) Has the Advent Quiz started yet?
- Tile 1: (from underneath) Will you shut up?
- Tile 2: How dare you disturb our beauty nap!?!?!
- Tile 1: What? You see? Now I will have to treat my whitening edges again...
- Tile 3: Uhhhhhh! That looks terribly terrible.
- Tile 1:
- Tile 4: Oh my! What a disaster!!!
- All tiles: (deafening chatter)
- Chanchito: Now I understand why the dragon cannot eat tiles...
- The dragon: (spewing fire from the distance) Ho ho ho! (under his breath) 1... 2.... 3...
- All tiles: (all shut up abruptly)
- Tile 1: Hey you! I heard you...
- Tile 2: Shut up that snout of yours...
- Tile 3: I will kick you with my corner where it hurts the most...
- Chanchito: (stuttering) But I,...
- Chanchito: Erhhhh! Time to flee!!! (running away) Ciaoooooooo!
- All tiles: (deafening chatter goes on...)
- The dragon: (Sighing) Ahhhh! Ignorance is bliss...
- All tiles: (deafening chatter goes on and on and on...)

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General / Re: Carcassonne Winter

« on: November 28, 2024, 06:50:57 AM »

Enjoy it! It deserves great games!

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Official Rules / Re: Darmstadt Spielt majority

« on: November 27, 2024, 02:49:40 PM »

This is a very good question!

For the sake of consistency, "the most followers" valid for the base game is treated as the usual extended majority evaluation when involving other expansions that alter the basic definition of majority. This said:
* The large meeple has 2 majority votes (counts as two meeples)
* The mayor has as many majority votes as the number of coats of arms in its feature (city or castle)
* Hills are considered as usual

So, in this case, majority is computed as usual, considering the majority votes each meeple has in its current location. For the time being, the only special case would be acrobats in a pyramid, where each meeple has 1 majority vote although the acrobat space ignores majority.

Hope this helps.