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Carc Central Community => Quizzes, Puzzles and Challenges => Topic started by: jungleboy on October 11, 2014, 02:03:32 PM
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I had some time to spare tonight so I took out the Winter Edition and played some solitaire. The rules come from a thread over at BGG and are quite simple: play 20 tiles plus the start tile, and using only four meeples, try to score as many points as you can. I played eight games with a high score of 72 and a low score of 52.
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Lets put up a competition. Im going to try with the base game
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I'm up for that, basic game 20 tiles plus start with four meeples. I can imagine the best scores will be from multiple farms with small cities.
Guy
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I'm up for that, basic game 20 tiles plus start with four meeples. I can imagine the best scores will be from multiple farms with small cities.
Guy
Lets find it out.
Post the picture and you can have multiple trys.
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My biggest farm was worth 12 points (from memory). Another very useful piece is the cloister with road because it basically means that one farmer will feed virtually all cities on the board, on either side of the road on the start tile.
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Why not try to make a chain of cities so you can score them in two fields?
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Nice idea but quite difficult with only 20 tiles!
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Well i tried a few times.. really have a problem with meeplemanagement
Took them a little to fast so its a little blurry and i wasnt very good in counting so i had to redo that! xd
(http://imageshack.com/a/img661/2271/CYXeiO.jpg)
(http://imageshack.com/a/img743/4083/fnuwh4.jpg)
(http://imageshack.com/a/img537/3168/OkyGqJ.jpg)
Seems to me that the bad luck is in the big citys.. and indeed the cloister with road is very powerfull
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I played again today and was less successful, with scores ranging from 35 to 66. But I must reiterate that the winter tiles are beautiful and I always enjoy playing with them.
Game 1 - 52 points
Unfortunately I had to discard the CCCC tile early on which wasn't a good start. I managed to complete three cities and lay two farmers.
Game 2 - 35 points
I drew the two cloister-road tiles on my second and third turns. I decided to gamble and put monks on both of them. I finished one but not the other, and this was my worst score so far (my only score under 50 in 12 games). Completing my city would have made it respectable.
Game 3 - 53 points
I drew one of my favourite tiles, the CCCC tile with four different cities, and chose to play the farmer in the middle, who ended up being worth 9 points. But my main city got too big and was impossible to finish with only 20 tiles.
Game 4 - 66 points
This was my best game of the day. I closed four cities and with about five tiles left I had all my meeples back. This allowed me to strategically place four farmers in four different farms for a total of 21 farm points.
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Late farming. An excellent technique of you've got the meeple! Haven't had a chance to try this out yet but will post as soon as I do.
Guy
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Tonight's best score was 70. I managed to complete five cities and claimed a farm that supplied them all, thanks to a road-cloister tile.
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Tonight I scored a personal best of 82. The key is definitely to try to close small cities and then supply as many of these as possible with multiple farms. If I had drawn the CCCC four-city tile earlier (it was the second last tile), I could have scored even more.
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you also have to be very lucky on the tiles.. haha
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you also have to be very lucky on the tiles.. haha
Yes of course. But you can play four games with one winter set so you have a few chances to get a good group of tiles. In last night's games, the first group of tiles contained a lot of large city pieces so I was able to complete a 26-point city but this obviously wasn't good for farming. Another group had a lot of road pieces so I didn't score very well. And the 82-point group had a lot of single-edge city pieces so it was perfect.
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I think it would be better to play 4 games with 21 tiles each. Using all tiles of one game reduces luck of drawing and only all points together is the result.
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I think it would be better to play 4 games with 21 tiles each. Using all tiles of one game reduces luck of drawing and only all points together is the result.
maybe we should use a selected set of tiles?
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I'm surprised I missed this. Apparently nobody can beta 82!
Will have a go this evening and see what I can get...
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Here are my attempts so far...
(I also used the winter edition tiles at it seemed fitting of the time of year, but the snowmen meeples probably weren't the best idea)
58 points...
(http://www.dan.tehill.net/SoloWinterCarc_58.jpg)
72 points...
(http://www.dan.tehill.net/SoloWinterCarc_72.jpg)
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Was on holiday in Sorrento 2 weeks ago and played a bit of solo Carcassonne on my final purchase from Carcassonne Shoppe - the travel edition. Scored 67 points. Nowhere near the 82 point record but thought I'd share the photo I took. With a volcano in the background I felt a little bad for not playing with the Dragon...
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Was on holiday in Sorrento 2 weeks ago and played a bit of solo Carcassonne on my final purchase from Carcassonne Shoppe - the travel edition. Scored 67 points. Nowhere near the 82 point record but thought I'd share the photo I took. With a volcano in the background I felt a little bad for not playing with the Dragon...
What a lovely image. Thank you for the upload. Worth even if only 67 points. :(y)
:)