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Messages - Paloi Sciurala
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« on: April 06, 2025, 09:08:41 AM »
@aenima: This has already been covered. See here.
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« on: April 06, 2025, 02:53:59 AM »
But what if only one half of the double source tile is in the area of the summer tile being placed?
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« on: March 31, 2025, 04:30:52 PM »
Notice: This material is an April Fools' joke. It's not meant to be taken seriously. But beware of Easter eggs!Today is April 1st. So The Summer is here!  Based on Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz series by @Meepledrone (and on weird rule questions on r/carcassonne, as well). Many thanks to Meepledrone, Chanchito, and The Grinch (What? The next season is The Winter, after all!). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The silliness blows... The rules within Carcassonne dance at its will. A distant C3 official clarification can be heard... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is just a The Spring screen, because the real agenda for today is... The April Fools' Day Summer C3.1 Quiz MMXXV Now, 10 rule question puzzles will follow. But do not bother answering them. The Grinch will simply send your answers to the spam folder. However, before you take a look at those questions, first sing the C4 prime directive: This expansion has been developed for the Carcassonne basic mud. All the basic mud rules still apply in addition to the expansion rules below. You can combine it with Chanchito - but at your own risk – that is, there will be no official oinks for these pig brain freezers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Note: Clicking a picture will display a larger version of it.  Puzzle #1:  Can I place a knight here? The corners are touching! Answer variants:- Wow, this is such an... edge case! The rules do not explain that. I simply don't know!
- We don't know, because you did not say whether you are the red/black player, and whether the red/black player is the active player.
- Next time, email HiG. They will reply fast, that's for sure. Or... simply read the rules.
Inspiration source: here. Puzzle #2:  The blue player believes that their knight is connected to the larger city and thus scores 7 (or 8?) points instead of just 1. What should I do?! Answer variants:- Add 3 ghosts to the blue knight.
- Move the dragon there.
- Why does it matter anyway? If so, the green player would have majority over the city.
- Read WICA. By the way, have you read the ZMG rules? If so, be careful not to blink.
Inspiration source: here. Puzzle #3:  Why did the dragon cross the bridge? Answer variants:Can the dragon step on city tiles? Answer variants:- No. There's no food there.
- Yes, but it will only eat the chickens there. Wait a minute... if I recall correctly, there are no chickens in Carcassonne!
Does the dragon eat tiles? Answer variants:- No. He is neither an earthworm, to feed on earth, nor a cow, to feed on grass.
- Yes. Otherwise, what's the point of the dragon? As far as I know, he does not eat any figures.
What happens when the dragon steps on the tile with the fairy? Answer variants:- The game ends.
- The dragon dies (is returned to the general supply).
- The fairy dies (is returned to the general supply).
- You have to eat the yellow farmer.
- The yellow player may save the yellow farmer by swallowing the dragon. If the yellow player is unable to swallow the dragon, the fairy and the yellow farmer get eaten.
Inspiration source: myself and here. Puzzle #4:  How many pigs are there? Answer variants:Inspiration source: myself. Puzzle #5:  Is the green meeple a knight or a monk? Answer variants:- Both.
- Does it matter?
- Do you play with The Markets of Leipzig?
- I am pretty sure that you can place a meeple as a monk on a cathedral.
Inspiration source: myself. Puzzle #6:  How many fields are there? Answer variants:- It's C3. Who cares?!
- Does it matter? There are no farmers! The Farmers is an expansion!
Inspiration source: myself. Puzzle #7:  We played by the rules. I think that the game is wrong! Or, maybe, did we break the game? Answer variants:- Well, Carcassonne is not for you.
- At least you did not mix the river tiles with the other tiles...
Inspiration source: here and many other questions like that. Puzzle #8:  Can I capture a sheep token? Answer variants:- No. Who will ransom it?
- Yes, but your shepherd will then drown in the river.
Can I capture the three sheeps on the halfling? Or just one of them at once? Answer variants:- Baaah!!!
- CONFIDENTIAL C3 SHEEP PICTURE HERE!
Inspiration source: myself. Puzzle #9:  Can a signpost point towards a wonder? Answer variants:- No. The wonder tile is simply too large!
- Yes. The wonder is not in Carcassonne anyway, so a wrong signpost will do no harm.
Is Stonehenge in Rome? The Leipzig ROMA signpost seems wrong! Answer variants:- Do not combine The Markets of Leipzig with The Wonders of Humanity!
- {{IconPadlock}} Questions that we still don’t have an official answer for (or even a good suspicion of).
There is a mayor in a castle. Why? Answer variants:- The mayor is... not quite intelligent.
- Ha! That's Meepledrone's favorite torture technique for mayors in Carcassonne Central: Advent Quizzes... placing mayors in fruitless features!
Inspiration source: myself. Puzzle #10: Can I eat my meeplesfigures? Answer variants:- Only the Exp. 2 pigs. The big pink pig tastes like chicken!
- Eat the gingerbread man. He is so spicy...
- Not the dragon. He is just a boring reptile.
- Sell the gold ingots! Do not eat them!
- What about Chanchito?
- Those fruit tokens look so tasty!
Can I eat my tiles? Answer variants:- Only halflings. They taste like maize tortillas.
- (Deep sigh, followed by a choke caused by ingesting too much cardboard and ink.)
Inspiration source: myself and some Carcassonne Central comments.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Well done, you made it until the very end! 
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« on: February 01, 2025, 01:25:26 PM »
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« on: January 28, 2025, 06:12:23 AM »
@Whaleyland: You are pretty dramatic. 
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« on: January 27, 2025, 05:04:36 PM »
@PRND21: It's possible, but not very easy. Go to any WikiCarpedia page and press Alt + Shift + P.
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« on: January 27, 2025, 03:17:28 PM »
The downside of this edition is that you cant tell the different language versions apart from eachother from the front of the boxes,
@Willem: What about the Finnish and Russian boxes?
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« on: January 27, 2025, 06:15:33 AM »
@djiksvampir: From where did you buy your copy of the 20AE?
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« on: January 27, 2025, 05:09:21 AM »
I have the 20AE from CundCo, and I can confirm that the colors here are exaggerated. Your Google Drive files are inaccessible.
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« on: January 26, 2025, 05:57:47 AM »
[Q2] Does this tile have 1 or 2 fields? Do the castle towers separate the field between the castle and the city?
[A2] Yes, the towers separate the fields.
The castle towers separate the fields. There are several field patches visible between the towers, but we should see the towers as one block. It is just an artistic license and we should see only 2 fields on this tile.
It is a case similar to Q1.
So this tile has 2 fields?
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« on: January 19, 2025, 01:12:43 PM »
Note: From time to time, I'm asking him about the PDF rules of the minis in the Mini Bundle - Set I. Still waiting for them.
I hope that you use different emails/accounts for that! 
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« on: January 19, 2025, 08:26:50 AM »
Impressions General- The Advent Quiz would not be the same without that (kitchen?) countertop as the background for the pictures.
- Grinch questions were not very difficult (as usual). The Murdle question was more stressing, but it turns out that I would have still won had I not answered it.
- The 'question' word is misleading. How many questions do you see at "Question #21", for example?
 - Considering the 2023 edition, I have thought that the only way to win was to have a better time than Challa007. But again, it turns out that I would have still won had I had an astronomical time.
- In December 24th, I began retaking the quiz from zero. Then, I have compared my new answers with the answers I have already sent Meepledrone. This helped me correcting a few answers (Question #6, Question #11, Question #20, some additional lengthy clarifications for some of my previous answers to stay on the safe side). If you want to be the next edition's winner, I suggest you to do exactly that next time.
- I haven't checked WICA that much (excepting for Q#20). I have checked some clarifications/paragraphs to stay on the safe side, but I could have largely managed even without checking them.
- I have been on first place since Q#2 until the very end.
 - Many questions are more easy to check/solve if you download the image and paint on it using a simple image editor, like Microsoft Paint.
- Some expansions are fully (no questions involving them) or largely (too few questions involving them) neglected by these quizzes: Exp. 7, TWoF, The Plague, Mini #1 (somewhat), Mini #2, Mini #6, Exp. 8 (bazaars only), Exp. 3 (the dragon and somewhat the princess), Wind Roses. Maps and spinoffs could also be used. There is also the Solo Variant. And the Saint Nicholas Scoring Board. And Meeple Stacking... Just imagine scoring such a pyramid! But of course, all of these are up to Meepledrone.
- I have turned on email notifications for this thread (the button "NOTIFY"). This helped me answer very fast.
Questions- #2 & #18 – As I have previously said, the time spent translating this thing paid off.
- #4 – Too simple a trap to me to fall into it.
- #5 – I haven't realized that there were actually two different roads until I saw @oldbonz's comment. Of course, I already knew that the Autumn statue tile does not have any roundabouts, but when I was answering the question for the first time, I have not been able to use that higher piece of knowledge, unfortunately.
- #6 – I have initially gave a wrong answer. After having changed my answer (After you have scored everything, you look on the scoreboard where the scoring meeples are.) after many days, I have corrected it. And seeing that Challa007 gave a wrong answer to this question raised my hopes.
- #7 – Same as #4.
- #8 – Watchtowers scoring per meeple can be confusing because some of the adjacent meeples might be removed before the watchtower is scored. I have added a lengthy explanation on that!
- #8.5 – This question lingered on my mind for a long time. What helped me answering it was Meepledrone practically saying on Discord that a each meeple is of a different color and in a different location (which was not deductible from the question itself); see here. That "The normal meeple seemed red to Chanchito" drove me to make some research on what colors do pigs see. That "blue-ish" meeple was clearly a blue phantom, though.
- #9 – Some players really enjoy wasting castle tokens and mayors.
- #10– Not very hard. I had to make some explanations about the wagon, though, and I have forgotten for a while that the Tikal Temple tile has a 3-tile road.
- #11 – I have answered point h) only as a result of the December 24th revision.
- #13 – Annoying, because I had to make that lengthy explanation about why those middle bets could not have been placed. But I have received 1 bonus point for it!
- #14 – As always, ferry related explanations can be hard. The only scenario I missed in my answer is 1C, but this did not change my score.
- #16 – Really, Grinch? How many fields are there in this scenario? I am disappointed in you... I want something harder from Grinch the next quiz.
- #19 – See here. And WICA helped me, too.
- #20 – There is so much to say about this one... Multiple revised answers, very lengthy explanations. Under my first answer, only tiles D and E were placeable. I have later realized, out of the blue, that this was not true. Royal gates for farmers were tricky. What do vistas score and what they do not was tricky, too. I have revised my answer over and over. Eventually, my only mistake in this quiz was an interaction between the black fairy and the Hans statue. I have read this passage, "The -3 point penalty when scoring a feature is halved if the Black Fairy is on the same tile as the Hans Statue.", but I have failed to grasp the true meaning of it. More exactly, I am talking about "if the Black Fairy is on the same tile as the Hans Statue.". I am still not a fan of questions involving fan expansions, though. But it was very easy to recognize the expansions, because I have read their names multiple times on WICA, even though I have not previously properly read the rules themselves.
- #21 – Ghost questions are not really hard, but it is easy to give a wrong explanation. Once I saw that I gave the correct answer, I was already pretty sure that I have won.
- #22 – Annoying, lengthy explanations about drawbridges and cities...
- #23 – The same classic trap involving the Exp. 5 CCCF tile with the city bridge.
- #24.1 – I highly doubt that's true. We all know that Chanchito is actually at fault.
- #24.2 – The School and Russian Promos are always tricky, but I have survived this question.
- #24.3 – Very easy. But I was wondering whether this question was actually a trap. But this helped easing my fears.
ConclusionI hope that I will see Chanchito in Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXV, too. I really enjoy making fun of him! I think that he is one of the best characters in the Advent Quizzes! And I still want a Safari question with Chanchito.
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« on: January 18, 2025, 06:43:21 AM »
Wow, negative points really damaged @corinthiens13's score!
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