Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXIV

[oldbonz]

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[Bumsakalaka]

Question #20:

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Note:
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* All the fan expansions in this question can be found on Carcassonne Central and WICA... but one of them has not been made public on WICA yet, so it may require some digging. Good luck!

All fan expansions are there now.

[Liambass]

Question #20:


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Note:
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* All the fan expansions in this question can be found on Carcassonne Central and WICA... but one of them has not been made public on WICA yet, so it may require some digging. Good luck!

All fan expansions are there now.

Though not under the name wanted by the question.

[Meepledrone]

- Chanchita: Dr. Top?
- Dragon: Close enough!
- Dragon: I'm Dr. Pot, Dr. Melting Pot.
- Dragon: Born and raised in Edinburn, Scorchland!
- Meepledrina: Can you help us?
- Dragon: Where is the patient?
- Meepledrina: In box 21.
- Dragon: Oooooh! I see...
- Chanchita: Is that bad?
- Dragon: Winter Edition exposure may have severe side effects.
- Chanchita: Oh, no!!!
- Meepledrina: Is there anything you can do?
- Dragon: Dragon fire is perfect for this condition!
- Chanchita: We don't want him to burn down to a crisp.
- Meepledrina: Is it a safe treatment?
- Dragon: Please make some room!
- Dragon: (muffled ahem ahem!) Ahem ahem!
- Dragon: (spitting fire) Whoooooooooooossssh!!!
- Chanchito: (the ice block melts slowly) OoOoOoOoOoOh!!!
- Chanchito: Ahhhh! Can feel my toes again.
- Chanchito: Tha...tha...thank you, doctor!
- Chanchito: Will you eat us now, as per the rules?
- Dragon: That never happened before...
- Dragon: (muffled) Liar!
- Dragon: (coughing)
- Chanchita: Your breakfast seems to be a bit talkative today...
- Dragon: (muffled) Every dragon has a twisted past!
- Dragon: Hush!!!
- Chanchita: Well! I think it is time to go!
- Dragon: (muffled) Go away before he is hungry again.
- Chanchita:
- Chanchito: 
- Meepledrina: Shouldn't you be back to your supply?
- Dragon: (muffled) Shoo! Shoo! I have things to do...
- Chanchita: Come on, Chanchito!
- Dragon: (muffled) Hold on!
- Dragon: (taking a folded paper from his firey mouth) Ah! Yes! Here you are a prescription...
- Dragon: (muffled) Come on Dr., we have things to do...
- Dragon: Bye!
- Meepledrina: Bye bye! 
- Dragon: (muffled) I spy with my little eye...

[Meepledrone]

- Santa Claus: Ready for another question?
- Chanchito: This warm spring tiles is what I really need right now.
- Chanchito: Too much cold to my taste these past days.
- Santa Claus: Did you have time to catch up?
- Chanchito: I'll do my best!
- Santa Claus: That's the spirit!
- The Grinch: Hope this question activates the cogs in your frozen wooden head
- Chanchito: I would appreciate any question. Love the challenge!
- The Grinch: No way!
- The Grinch: I wish it was a really difficult one.
- Santa Claus:
- The Grinch: (to himself) Aaaaaah! I love to press the right keys to create dissent and chaos!


Question #22: Santa Claus places this tile on behalf of Yellow. The player wants to know:
a) Can Yellow place more than one meeple on the tile just placed? (1 point)
b) How many points will each player score this turn? (1 point)
c) How many cities with a drawbridge can occupy Blue and Red after scoring? (1 point)

Notes:
* No large meeples were used in this question.
* This is a mid-game scenario. The game goes on for a few more turns.

[Paloi Sciurala]

- Snowman: (sighing) Ahhhhhh! This is the life!
- Snowman: I really needed some snow!
- Chanchito: This is really cold!
- Santa Claus: So lovely and cozy!
- Chanchito: I'm the minority here,...
- Chanchito: ...but if you take too long to ask the question I will turn into an iced pig on the spot.
- The Grinch: (turning his attention to this conversation) Ooooooooh!
- The Grinch: Tasty!!!! A frozen lolly pig?
- Santa Claus: (ignored by The Grinch) Hey!!!
- Chanchito:
- Snowman: I'll take you to a bathhouse right after this.
- Snowman: I will stay outside, of course!
- The Grinch: Do you need a little push to get in?
- Snowman: No!
- Snowman: What about some Christmas decorations for your grinchy hat?
- The Grinch: No way!
- Snowman: Ha!!! Gotcha!
- The Grinch: Darn! You are such an impossible meeple!
- Snowman: ...just comparable to the warmth of your wooden heart!
- The Grinch: OK, I'm off!
- Santa Claus: Chanchito?
- Santa Claus: Chanchito!!!!
- Chanchito: (not responding)
- Santa Claus: Are you okay?

I still do not understand who/what froze Chanchito in the first place.

[jamontoast]

Perhaps the Grinch has recruited the Snowman?

[Paloi Sciurala]

Perhaps the Grinch has recruited the Snowman?

I like your reasoning! So the Snowman hates Chanchito?

[Meepledrone]

- The Grinch: I looooove all your twisted conspiracy theories!
- The Grinch: ...but you should concentrate any healthy cells left in your brains on the questions ahead.
- The Grinch: I don't need to recruit anybody...
- The Grinch: The Snowman, really?
- The Grinch: That spineless meeple?
- Snowman: My snow is as pure as the ice from a virgin glacier.
- Snowman: 
- Snowman: How can he hate Chanchito or anyone?
- The Grinch: But I don't have to explain myself!
- The Grinch: Shoo! Shoo!
- The Grinch: Get back to the quiz, you lazy participants!
- Chanchito: Yes! YES! YEEEES!!!
- Chanchito: Where the next question? When will it be published?
- The Grinch: Why don't you ask Danisthirty?
- Chanchito: Danisthirty, Danisthirty! When are you posting the next question?
- Danisthirty: Soon!
- Danisthirty: (looking at The Grinch) Will you stop this?
- The Grinch: Why should I?
- The Grinch: He is so charming!
- The Grinch: Chanchito, don't forget your scarf just in case it is another Winter Edition question...
- Chanchito: I won't forget it this time!
- Chanchito: My mother always told me I was too sensitive to low temperatures.

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- Meepledrone: (approaching) Ahhhh! Isn't it a beauty?
- Chanchito: What are you talking about?
- Meepledrone: The trophy for the winner of the Advent Quiz 2024.
- The Grinch: What?
- The Grinch: A trophy?
- The Grinch: You will spoil them!
- Meepledrone: Well, it is actually @Matisek who offered!
- The Grinch: No way! How despicable!
- Meepledrone: Are you envious?
- Meepledrone: ...Thinking of this trophy that will never touch your hands...
- The Grinch: It's not working! Don't bother!
- The Grinch: I invented envy! Envy is my middle name!
- The Grinch: Are the stakes higher now?
- Meepledrone: Hope this is an extra push for the participants!
- Meepledrina: (storming in) Where were you?
- Meepledrina: I've been worried sick.
- Meepledrina: I've been looking for you everywhere.
- Meepledrina: I haven't left any token unturned...
- Meepledrone: What a mess for The Tollkeepers!
- Meepledrina: Don't you dare be FUNNY with me...
- The Grinch: 
- Meepledrone: OK, I'l try to be funnier then!
- Meepledrina: DON'T!... DON'T!!!
- Meepledrone: I don't understand!
- Meepledrina: You left without letting me know...
- Meepledrone: I tried to call you... several times!
- Meepledrone: You never picked up!
- Meepledrone: I had to be away for a few days to get the trophy sorted out.
- Meepledrone: I... I... also texted you... and no answer!
- Meepledrina: I don't have a phone!
- Meepledrone: Yes, you have!
- Meepledrina: No, I don't...
- Meepledrone: Yes, you have!
- Meepledrina: No, I don't...
- Meepledrone: It was a surprise!
- Meepledrina: This is a surprise!
- Meepledrone: It was the surprise in the roscón I left you!
- Meepledrina: What roscón? I'm on a diet!
- The Grinch: I'm not.
- Meepledrone: What do you mean?
- Chanchito: You ate it! 
- Chanchito: The Grinch ate the roscón!
- Meepledrone: Nooooo!
- The Grinch: Nice phone, by the way!
- Meepledrina: You can't be serious!
- The Grinch: Finders keepers!
- Meepledrone: Give her her phone back!
- The Grinch: What for?
- The Grinch: I love playing Carcassonne on the BGA on that magnificent phone!
- The Grinch: I have a smashing ELO!!!
- The Grinch: Scripts and tricks with secondary accounts are welcome!
- Meepledrina: So you knew all this time and never told me anything?
- The Grinch: I didn't know... 
- The Grinch: I should have known better... I could have made you all suffer even more...
- Meepledrina: I hate YOU! You will pay for this!
- Meepledrone: It isn't worth the effort!
- The Grinch: Challenge accepted!

[Meepledrone]

- Danisthirty: Hope that the tempest calms down!
- Danisthirty: In the meantime, here is the next question!
- Chanchito: Yaaaaaaaaay!!!!!
- Chanchita: Let the fun continue!


Question #23: Danisthirty places this tile on Red's behalf. The player has the following questions:
a) How many points does each player score with this tile placement? (1 point)
b) What will happen to the figures in the fields? (1 point)
c) If this is the last tile of the game, how many points does each player score during the final scoring? (1 point)

Notes:
* No meeples are placed during this turn.
* No large meeples were used in this question.

[oldbonz]

Who is he placing the tile for?

[Meepledrone]

- Meepledrone: Let's say Red. It is not relevant in this case.

[Meepledrone]

- The Grinch: Well, well, well!
- The Grinch: You know I love your atention, and now that I have it, I will use it properly...
- The Grinch: Gather round and be amazed!
- Meepledrina: What is this all about?
- Chanchito: How exciting!
- Chanchita: Oooooooooooh!
- The Grinch: Let me ask you all one thing...
- The Grinch: Did you notice anything odd with the Advent Quiz this year?
- Santa Claus: Huh?
- Snowman: Meepledrone was away all the time?
- Meepledrina:
- The Grinch: Unexcusable, but irrelevat to the case?
- Danisthirty: The order... the order of the questions was somewhat off...
- Danisthirty: The call sheet was amended several times half way through...
- Chanchita:
- The Grinch: Think deeper!
- Chanchito: The questions...
- Chanchita: Something odd started to happen to them as well...
- The Grinch: For example?
- Chanchito: Question #3 has a purposeless hill.
- The Grinch: Keen eye! What a missed opportunity to fool the participants I thought!
- The Grinch: Anything out the ordinary after that?
- Santa Claus: The unscored red meeple in Question #5!
- Santa Claus: What an evil move!
- Santa Claus: Are you implying it wasn't you?
- The Grinch: Well, although I took the fall for it and played along, I knew something fishy was happening...
- The Grinch: ... But I needed to be sure.
- The Grinch: Who could be the one behind all this? And why?
- Meepledrina: What about the mixing of C2 and C3 tiles?
- The Grinch: Nah! That is also irrelevant...
- The Grinch: We all know how lazy Meepledrone is...
- The Grinch: He didn't want to go to the vault and update the tile set in time for the quiz...
- Meepledrone: What?
- Meepledrone: I used the new wachtower tiles...
- The Grinch: But didn't run to take the other conveted expansions...
- Meepledrone:
- Meepledrina: Will you stop this nonsense?
- Meepledrina: He works too hard on the quiz to be treated like this...
- Meepledrina: Are we done?
- The Grinch: Nope! We are just getting started!
- The Grinch: Just buckle up for the ride!
- The Grinch: Question #11, too many meeples in Cacassonne? Am I too picky?
- The Grinch: Question #13, misplaced bets - popular uproar again.
- The Grinch: Question #16, how there can be two meeples already in Leipzig? An unseen flying machine?
- The Grinch: Question #19, a builder in the Winter Edition... really?
- The Grinch: And then, Question #20, a question about fan expansions - the final nail in the coffin?
- Chanchito: Oohohohohoh! So many breadcrumbs!
- Chanchito: Don't forget about the misplaced builder in Question #22.
- The Grinch: I was the one to blame for anything that happened, so I only had to go with the flow.
- The Grinch: However, I knew Chanchito was after something.
- The Grinch: He was very eager to help Meepledrina along with Chanchita to find clues about Meepledrone.
- The Grinch: But danger could be lurking around for it... Closer than expected...
- Chanchito: What?
- The Grinch: Meepledrina and Chanchito tried to solve the enigma in Question #8.5 to find if it was a lead to Meepledrone's whereabouts.
- The Grinch: I'm sure that question was planted.
- Chanchita:
- Meepledrone: Well, the format was the same... but I just checked the result and... it differs.
- The Grinch: Who tampered with the result then?
- Santa Claus: Oooooooh!
- Snowman: Do we have a saboteur among us?
- The Grinch: The answer is yes... but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
- The Grinch: I suspected that our mysterious saboteur noticed an unwanted witness.
- The Grinch: How to trap the unfortunate meeple?
- Meepledrina: Shall we go get some popcorn?
- Meepledrina: Tell us more!
- The Grinch: Our saboteur managed to lure the witness and tried to finish him off.
- The Grinch: But I got there first.
- The Grinch: I needed to delay our saboteur, so I asked the Snowman for help in Question #19.
- The Grinch: I would never do this but sorry, Chanchito, for the inconvenience...
- The Grinch: It was a matter of life or death.
- Chanchito:
- Chanchita: He could have been hurt really bad...
- Meepledrina: So it was you!!!
- The Grinch: Come ooooon! Don't be sooooo dramatic!
- The Grinch: We are all just wooden meeples!
- Chanchito: Erh... Well, my paint could have just peeled off!
- Chanchito: Or the dragon,... ahem... Dr. Melting Pot could have charred me...
- Chanchita: Noooooo!
- Chanchita: The voice... the inner voice...
- Chanchito: ...of Dr. Pot...
- Meepledrina: ...was the missing witness!
- The Grinch: And you, Chanchito, have the key to this mystery...
- The Grinch: Did you check the prescription?
- Chanchito: Holy Meeples! I forgot!
- Chanchito: (looking at the prescription) It is an encoded message...
- Chanchita: Whaaaat?
- Meepledrina:
- Danisthirty: Nooooooo waaaaay!
- Snowman: Ooooh!
- Santa Claus:
- Fir Tree: (a bird whistles)
- The Grinch:


Question #24.1: Chanchito has the following message jotted down on the fake prescription. Can you decode it? (1 point)

Question #20 hides the truth... Everything is [Word #1] [Word #2].
 
Word #1: 6.3 / 9.3 / 5.10 / p / 2.8 / 3.13 / 4.10 / 1.12 / 7.2 / 3.6 / 1.6 / 6.8 / 8.8
Word #2: p / 4.5 / 2.5 / 3.9

[Meepledrone]

Intermission

- Meepledrone: After this shocking revelation, fear not about time constraints...
- Meepledrone: The Advent Quiz will be open until January 1st.
- Meepledrone: So you can complete and review your answers during any vacation days you may have...
- The Grinch: Whaaaaat?
- Meepledrone: I have a New Year's concert to attend in Vienna...
- The Grinch: Really?
- Meepledrone: Nope! I watch it on MeepleTV!
- The Grinch: You can't afford a trip like that!
- The Grinch: I'm the one shrinking down your salary year after year!
- Meepledrone: What a novelty!
- The Grinch: You are becoming lazier and lazier each year...
- Meepledrone: You bet!
- Meepledrone: I will close the quiz at the end of the concert!
- Meepledrone: I know you hate classical music, so you won't be around to bother us.
- The Grinch: Me? Bothering anyone? Never...
- Meepledrone: In any case, do you want anything in particular?
- The Grinch: Me? Ah yes! I wanted a hankie!
- Meepledrone: Stop deflecting!
- The Grinch: ...a coaster?
- Meepledrone: Stop deflecting!
- The Grinch: ...a cookie cutter?
- Meepledrone:
- Meepledrone: I know what you are after.
- Meepledrone: You just want to bite the tile in the trophy....
- The Grinch: It looks sooooo delicioooooooussss!
- Meepledrone: I knew it...
- Meepledrone: Stay away!
- Meepledrone: I'm calling the guard meeples to keep you away this very second.
- Meepledrone: It's under lock and key! Three padlocks! In a vault inside a vault inside a vault!
- The Grinch: The ones with combination "1234"?
- Meepledrone: Seriously?
- The Grinch: Alright! Alright! I'm pulling your leg...
- Meepledrone: Good try! 
- Meepledrone: In that case, you may lick this poster I prepared for you.
- The Grinch: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! 



- Meepledrone: After this, I hope that you fill us in with all you know after this intermission!
- The Grinch: Oooh! Duty calls!
- The Grinch: Why I'm always the one doing the heavy lifting?
- The Grinch: What have I done to deserve all this?
- The Grinch: What a dreadful fate!
- The Grinch: Always clearing my spotless good name!
- Meepledrone: (facepalming)

[KBellon]

- Santa Claus: Ready for another question?
- Chanchito: This warm spring tiles is what I really need right now.
- Chanchito: Too much cold to my taste these past days.
- Santa Claus: Did you have time to catch up?
- Chanchito: I'll do my best!
- Santa Claus: That's the spirit!
- The Grinch: Hope this question activates the cogs in your frozen wooden head
- Chanchito: I would appreciate any question. Love the challenge!
- The Grinch: No way!
- The Grinch: I wish it was a really difficult one.
- Santa Claus:
- The Grinch: (to himself) Aaaaaah! I love to press the right keys to create dissent and chaos!


Question #22: Santa Claus places this tile on behalf of Yellow. The player wants to know:
a) Can Yellow place more than one meeple on the tile just placed? (1 point)
b) How many points will each player score this turn? (1 point)
c) How many cities with a drawbridge can occupy Blue and Red after scoring? (1 point)

Note:
* No large meeples were used in this question.
* This is a mid-game scenario. The game goes on for a few more turns.

Did Blue also forget to take back his builder in a previous turn? 
As far as I know, that builder could not be on that tile before the current turn?