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News and Events / Advent Puzzle Event
« on: December 03, 2023, 09:52:40 AM »
The Grand Puzzlemaster invites you to join us on our Facebook page for an Advent activity/contest: https://www.facebook.com/CarcassonneCentral


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In an interesting development, the C1 version of Monasteries in Germany is now available in the Asmodee shop. This has been difficult to find for many years now. https://shop.asmodee.com/carcassonne-5-german-cloisters-mini-expansion-ze014

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Official Rules / Can the Flier fly over empty spaces?
« on: January 18, 2023, 06:51:30 PM »
Someone asked this question on the BGG Facebook group. If you place a flying machine tile and roll a 3, and a tile exists at that location, but there is a gap in between, can the Flier go over the gap? I didn’t see any existing clarification about this on WICA, but I would imagine it to be possible.


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News and Events / Christmas Present (2013) print-and-play expansion
« on: November 02, 2022, 01:41:00 PM »
Just when you thought you knew every Carcassonne expansion that had been published, one of your friends ([mention]BigBoss [/mention] ) manages to stumble across this long-forgotten gem from nine years ago!

Christmas Present was released in December 2013 by the Hungarian publisher Piatnik through JEM - Játékos Emberek Magazinja as a print-and-play expansion. Although coinciding with the release of the Winter Edition, the artwork on the 64 cards was drawn from the decidedly non-winter original artwork by Doris Matthäus, though this expansion can work well with any edition.

This expansion is so similar to The Gifts (released 2021) that we suspect it may have served as inspiration. The original Hungarian version contains many more abilities, however, and the cards are divided into two separate decks of 32 cards each. Some cards are resolved immediately upon drawing, while others are saved for the right moment.

It’s unclear whether Piatnik ever produced any physical copies. The BGG entry showed zero owners of this expansion prior to registering my handmade copy. Is this the only physical copy in existence?




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General / Le Sac
« on: June 19, 2022, 09:03:48 AM »
This is just a mock-up that I made, but I like it. I would buy one, and I don't even camp.


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General / Victory Tower?
« on: February 22, 2022, 01:19:30 PM »
Interesting item that the Carcassonne Central Discord crew spotted in an eBay auction. This "victory tower" was supposedly a give-away that some (German?) retailers had received. It has flags in 4 player colors ( :red-meeple: :yellow-meeple: :blue-meeple: :gray-meeple:) and goes from 3 to 17. It is intended to be used to track the number of games won when playing several games with the same group of people.


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The Marketplace / WTB: Winter Edition 2020
« on: January 27, 2022, 11:08:30 AM »
You know I NEED to have those winter river tiles. If anybody in or near Germany is able to pick up a copy of the 2020 Winter Edition from their local Müller, I would like to buy it from you.

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JCloisterZone FAQ, Suggestions & Bug Reports / How to create addons?
« on: January 26, 2022, 07:12:36 PM »
I installed the latest version of the software to see how it's coming along, and I have questions.

1. I see a note in the settings menu that "Additional artworks may by provided by add-ons." How can I make an artwork addon?
2. How do you switch between different artwork?
3. How do you make fan expansions to add new tiles?

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General / WICA: Meeple Stacking
« on: January 26, 2022, 11:08:24 AM »
I don't see the rules for Meeple Stacking on Wikicarpedia. Since this has been an official activity at Carcassone fan gatherings, I feel like it deserves a wiki page. HiG even put out official rules for it under the Carcassonne brand name, and Cundco sells 100-packs for this purpose.

https://www.yumpu.com/de/document/view/459879/meeple-stapeln

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The Marketplace / WTB: Carcassonne Für 2
« on: January 25, 2022, 03:07:56 PM »
Regular North American eBay prices are ridiculous. I found this on a German site but I have no idea how to buy it:
https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/carcassonne-fuer-2-zwei-metallbox/1982127248-23-1893

If anyone is able to hook me up, I would greatly appreciate it.

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All of the copies of this expansion on the open market are non-English editions, which isn't a complete dealbreaker, but I'd like to have an English edition if I can find one.

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General / A mysterious figure emerges from the shadows
« on: January 17, 2022, 08:45:03 AM »
Greetings from the Ghost of Christmas Past!

Dan contacted me this morning to make sure that I was aware of the recent announcement regarding the transfer of ownership of this website. He also encouraged me to stop by the forums again to see how things have fared in my absence. I'm not sure how many years it has been, but this place has never faded from my memory, and I was never fully and completely gone either. Throughout my absence, I have continued to make the occasional post to the CarcassonneCentral Facebook page whenever I received something in the mail.

I have missed you all, and although I am not returning in full capacity, I am back to a limited extent. I will try to visit somewhat regularly, but I won't be reading everything.

The reason that I left was to focus on my search for a wife, and I'm happy to report that in four months we will be celebrating our third wedding anniversary. I began my search very close to home, but the ladies in my town were too scared to date anyone. I then expanded my search south of the border to the United States of America. I travelled from northwest Washington to southeast Georgia and many points in between, but didn't find the right person there. I expanded my search again to include the rest of the world. I met people from the United Kingdom, continental Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and South America. It was in Africa that I finally found the most amazing woman for me. She shared my values and enough of my interests that we would be able to have fun together for a very long time, but with some differing interests so that we would also have fun introducing each other to new things. We became friends in January 2018, started "dating" in May 2018 (7-hour Skype sessions!), and by December 2018 we were pretty sure of what we wanted, so I got on an airplane and flew to South Africa (via London, England which is a long story in itself). We spent two weeks together in her country where I got to meet her friends and family and see the places that were special to her. We got engaged while I was there, and then in January 2019 I went back to Canada. In May 2019, I was back on an airplane heading back to South Africa for another two weeks to get married, have a short honeymoon, and help my wife get ready to move to Canada. Getting her here was quite the process, but we made it. For the remainder of 2019, I got to show her some of the places that were special to me, with the expectation that we would continue doing that in 2020, but the pandemic put those plans on hold. We hunkered down, became reclusive hermits, and focused on getting through the global crisis.

One constant throughout everything has been that I'm still working for the same employer. I went from working full-time in an office to working full-time from home, and it has been fantastic being able to have lunch with my wife every day. While waiting for the Canadian government to give her permission to work, she focused on maintaining social contact with friends and family back in South Africa, and staying active with daily exercise. While we were thriving in some aspects of our lives, our 1100 square foot apartment was starting to feel claustrophobic, so last summer we decided it was time to buy a house. The area that we were living in was very expensive, so we could not afford to buy a house there on my salary, so we moved to a more affordable city. Although we are not far from the city where we used to live, the friends from our previous city are not as much in our lives anymore, which is a bit sad, but we have made new friends in our new city. My wife was able to start working this past October, which was very exciting.

Yes, I still play Carcassonne when I can. My wife enjoys the game very much. I have done my best to continue collecting as new mini-expansions were released, but I've certainly missed some opportunities along the way. In our new home we have a dedicated game room, and my Carcassonne collection is on prominent display.

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Reviews & Session Reports / Four-player game
« on: July 10, 2014, 07:28:56 PM »
I keep forgetting to post this, but I finally remembered! Last week my cousin and her friend were visiting and we were talking about board games. Her friend asked if I had heard of Carcassonne? After everyone had finished laughing, my family explained to her who I was and what we do here on this site, and the following evening we got a 4-player game together with my cousin, her friend, my brother, and me. My cousin had never played before, so we only played with the base game and river for the first game, and then added I&C and T&B for the second game. We used my 100-point scoreboard with 10-sided dice, which I was excited about even though the scores ended up being very low.

Both games ended up being quite frustrating, as each player was drawing tiles that they had no use for but someone else needed desperately. My cousin didn't seem very into the game, stating that she "never wins anything", and the reason for that became obvious quite quickly: she doesn't try to win. ::) I ended up helping her complete features a few times. During the second game there was quite a nasty situation brewing between my cousin and my brother. She had a nice city going, and my brother set himself up to get his large meeple into it. He wasn't able to draw a tile that allowed him to make the final connection, and I happened to draw the only tile in the bag that would allow the city to be completed (due to the surrounding tile geography) and leave him with a 2-tile city. >:D

Sorry, didn't take pictures. They already thought I was weird for having a 300-page rulebook.

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General / Call for global moderators 2014
« on: June 21, 2014, 08:15:54 AM »
Hello everyone,

Some of our global moderators are not as active as they used to be, so we're looking to add a few active people to the moderation team. We have some ideas about who would be good candidates for this, but I think the most important thing is to find out who is interested and has time to take this on? We have a pretty good community here, so the additional workload is very minimal. The odd time we get a new member that posts something in the wrong place and it just needs to be moved.

Please reply below if you're willing to help us out.

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