Question #8: Santa Claus places this tile on Yellow's behalf. The player has a hunch that they can complete the road and even receive extra points for the German cathedral. Here you are some questions:
a) Which ferries can be moved?
b) In order to complete the road and get the German cathedral extra points, what position changes should the player apply to the ferries?
c) How many points would each player score in this case?
Answer #8: Yellow places this tile and can only change the first two ferries down the road:
* The top ferry (on the same tile as the
blue meeple) can be moved, since it is directly connected to the road from the tile just placed.
* The left ferry (on the same tile as the
red meeple) can be also moved, since it is directly connected to the road through the tunnel connected by red tokens when you follow the road from the tile just placed.
* The bottom ferry cannot be moved, since when following the road from the tile just placed you meet the ferry at the top first before going through the tunnel marked with yellow tokens.
In order to complete the road as
Yellow would like, you must change the position of the ferries as follows:
* Top ferry: New position "-"
* Left ferry: "New position "/"
The following image marks (i) the completed roads in the blue and yellow colors accoding to the player with the majority in them, and (ii) the ferries moved in red. The black dots show the ends of the roads.
As a result the new road configuration will be as follows:
* The
blue meeple would be on a completed 2-tile road.
* The
red meeple would be on an incomplete 2-tile road ending at a tunnel not connected to another tunnel entrance.
* The
yellow meeple would be on a completed road with 8 tiles, where one of the tiles is a German cathedral. Since the road ends at two segments on the German cathedral tile -it is actually a loop-, it will be scored as a 9-tile road (7 normal tiles + 2 road segments on the German cathedral tile). Note that the tiles with tunnel entrances contributing more than once to the road are counted only once.
All this being said, the scoring will be as follows:
*
Blue will score 2 points (2 tiles x 1 point per tile)
*
Red will score no points
*
Yellow will score 18 points (9 tiles x (1 point for the road + 1 point for the German castle) = 9 x 2 points)
Bottomline:a) The top ferry and the left ferry can be moved.
b) The position of the ferries should be as follows:
- Top ferry: New position "-"
- Left ferry: "New position "/"
c) The scoring would be as follows:
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Blue will score 2 points
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Red will score no points
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Yellow will score 18 points
Note:There are other options not so favorable to
Yellow as illustrated in the image below. The roads completed in them do not for a loop ending at the German cathedral, so
Yellow scores less points and the different scenarios affect the outcome for
Blue as well. They are not the expected answers, but they are still valid:
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Option A: An option consisting in moving the top ferry to a "-" position and the left ferry to a "|" position.
In this case,
Blue would score 2 points for a 2-tile road and
Yellow would occupy an 8-tile road, and would then score 16 points for it (8 tiles x (1 point for the road + 1 point for the German cathedral) = 8 x 2 points).
Red would score no points, the same as above.
Bottomline:a) The top ferry and the left ferry can be moved.
b) The position of the ferries should be as follows:
- Top ferry: New position "-"
- Left ferry: "New position "|"
c) The scoring would be as follows:
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Blue scores 2 points
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Red scores no points
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Yellow scores 16 points
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Option B: Another option consisting in moving the top ferry to a "|" position and the left ferry to a "/" position.
In this case,
Yellow would occupy a 6-tile road, and would then score 12 points for it (6 tiles x (1 point for the road + 1 point for the German cathedral) = 6 x 2 points).
Blue and
Red would score no points in this case as both players occupy uncompleted roads.
Bottomline:a) The top ferry and the left ferry can be moved.
b) The position of the ferries should be as follows:
- Top ferry: New position "|"
- Left ferry: "New position "/"
c) The scoring would be as follows:
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Blue scores no points
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Red scores no points
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Yellow scores 12 points
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Option C: Another option consisting in moving the top ferry to a "\" position and the left ferry to a "/" position.
In this case,
Yellow would occupy a 6-tile road, and would then score 12 points for it (6 tiles x (1 point for the road + 1 point for the German cathedral) = 6 x 2 points).
In this case,
Blue would occupy a 5-tile road with one segment ending at the German cathedral, so the player would score 10 points for it (5 tiles x (1 point for the road + 1 point for the German cathedral) = 5 x 2 points).
Red would score no points in this case.
Bottomline:a) The top ferry and the left ferry can be moved.
b) The position of the ferries should be as follows:
- Top ferry: New position "\"
- Left ferry: "New position "/"
c) The scoring would be as follows:
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Blue scores 10 points
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Red scores no points
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Yellow scores 12 points
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Option D: Another option consisting in only moving the left ferry to a "/" position.
In this case,
Blue and
Yellow would share the same 6-tile road, and would then score 12 points (6 tiles x (1 point for the road + 1 point for the German cathedral) = 6 x 2 points) each.
Red would score no points in this case.
Bottomline:a) The top ferry and the left ferry can be moved.
b) The position of the ferries should be as follows:
- Top ferry not moved
- Left ferry: "New position "/"
c) The scoring would be as follows:
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Blue will score 12 points
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Red will score no points
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Yellow will score 12 points