Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXII

[Meepledrone]

- Snowman: At last...
- Fir Tree: (a bird flies) 
- Danisthirty: How can we find him?
- Grim Mike: Hello, gentlemen!
- Fir Tree: (two fir cones drop)
- Snowman: Is that scythe sharp?
- Grim Mike: Yes, it can cut wood like butter!
- Danisthirty: (swallowing)
- Grim Mike: It can cut snow like melted butter!
- Snowman: Aaaaaaah!!!!
- Danisthirty: (sweating sap) Eeeeeeeh!
- Grim Mike: Follow me this way!
- Snowman: Do we have any other option...
- Grim Mike: What about "no"?
- Grim Mike: My guards will scort you.
- Blue Guard: (unlocking a heavy door) Hey! We bring you company!
- Fortune Teller: Hi, guys!!!
- Blue Guard: (exiting the dungeon) Good luck!
- Fortune Teller: What are you doing here?
- Snowman: That's what I was wondering precisely...
- Fortune Teller: This spa is awesome!
- Danisthirty: Excuse me?
- Fortune Teller: Yes, they stretched for ever...
- Snowman: What?
- Fortune Teller: And I also got this crazy tattoos...
- Fir Tree: (two more fir cones drop)
- Fortune Teller: The iron pokers were really hot...
- Snowman: (sobbing) I want my frozen mommy? Aaaaaaaah!
- Danisthirty: Are you alone?
- Fortune Teller: Not at all! This is a very popular place...
- Fir Tree: (the breeze makes waves in the canopy) 
- Fortune Teller: Yes! Santa Claus is here.
- Fortune Teller: And the Gingerbread Man, and the Easter Bunny and even The Grinch.
- The Grinch: (from another dungeon) I can heaaaar yooou!
- Danisthirty: Everyone!
- Fortune Teller:
- Snowman: (still sobbing) They also followed the signposts...?
- Fortune Teller: The Royal Riddle lead me here...
- Santa Claus: (from the distance) We got a note: "The answer is 1)"
- The Grinch: (muffled) I got a hunch! The answer is 6).
- Fortune Teller: But the answer is... (stops)
- Danisthirty: We were all tricked and lured here.
- Snowman: What does this evil meeple want from us?
- Snowman: (still sobbing) Bwaaaaaah! I'm melting away!
- Danisthirty: Freeze yourself together!
- Fortune Teller: Why are you so upset! This is a fun place...
- Snowman: (crying) You are not helping at all...
- Fortune Teller:
- Danisthirty: Let's all calm down...
- Danisthirty: But before anything else, here is today's question.



Question #23: Danisthirty draws and places this tile on Blue's behalf. Before the tile is placed, the player has to face a peasant revolt and also decides to open this gift card to use it on the road occupied by Red and Yellow.
a) What do you perform first: the peasant revolt or the opening of the gift? (0-1 point)
b) How many points does each player score during this turn? (0-5 points)

Note: The turn sequence is:
1. Blue
2. Red
3. Yellow

[davide]

hi,what can they tell?

[Meepledrone]

- Meepledrone: Hey! How are you doing?
- Santa Claus: We are just having fun!!!
- The Grinch: Nope! I'm not...
- Snowman: Come on!!!
- Fir Tree: (a bird pecks on a branch) 
- The Grinch: 
- Santa Claus: Ha ha ha! Yes that chili pepper was too hot fo him...
- The Grinch: One more reason to hate you all!!!
- Snowman:  Merry Chirstmas!!!

[oldbonz]

why yellow and blue are placed flat on the road?

[Challa007]

why yellow and blue are placed flat on the road?

This is something the players can do when playing with the Peasant Revolt Expansion. You can find all the explanations in the rules of this expansion. 

[Meepledrone]

- The Grinch: Protecting meeples from peasant revolts is overrated!
- Yellow Meeple: I love the view from up here. Even more if being protected...
- The Grinch: You could also play dead. Like run over by a cart!
- Yellow Meeple: Weeeeee! This is fun!
- The Grinch: 

[Meepledrone]

The End is Nigh - Part 1

A while later, at the Dragon Menagerie...

- Grim Mike: You thought you could get away with it!
- The Grinch: Release us or something really bad will happen to you.
- Grim Mike: It is impossible to escape. You will be soon dragon food...
- The Grinch: I'm starting to hate that rules supplement.
- Fortune Teller: The one from 2015?
- The Grinch: (struggling with the tight ropes) I loved it until now... (to himself) A pity the dragon cannot eat tiles though...
- The Grinch: Because I could gnaw on your wooden bones for this.
- The Grinch: (shouting) What did you do to the phantoms?
- Grim Mike: You will know soon enough...
- Grim Mike: Guards, tie them up really tight... and bring the dragons!



- Fortune Teller: Oooooh! I love shows with fire !
- Danisthirty: Not this one... 100% guaranteed...
- Easter Bunny: We are all going to be burned down to a crisp...
- Snowman: Excuse me, I will end up melted or even evaporated...
- Santa Claus: Who will be running Christmas in Carcassonne from now on?
- Gingerbread Man: Who will bring joy to every meeple home?
- The Grinch: All the extra candy will go bad if not stolen as early as possible.
- Grim Mike: Go on! Despair will be your only companion left...

[Meepledrone]

The End is Nigh - Part 2 (This episode starts here)

- Fortune Teller: (pick up a call with a free arm) Hello, Your Grace!
- Fortune Teller: How couldn't I know it was Your Majesty?
- Fortune Teller: I'm a fortune teller...
- Fortune Teller: Clairvoyance is my bread and butter...
- Fortune Teller: Caller ID? What's that?
- Fortune Teller: Ahem! Yes... I'm afraid that is not possible...
- Fortune Teller: Well,... a bit of a pickle!
- Fortune Teller: We can't...  we are waiting for our execution.
- Fortune Teller: Yes, of course!... Location sent...
- Fortune Teller: Thank you, your majesty!
- Grim Mike: Drop that phone!
- Fortune Teller: Sorry, I thought it was on vibration mode.
- Grim Mike: Who didn't frisk her?
- Fortune Teller: Sorry for the interruption... Please continue.
- Pixie: (to Flooxie) Should we leave know?
- Flooxie: Come on! And miss all the fun?
- Grim Mike: Where are those lazy dragons? Hurry up!



- His Meeple Highness: (storming in) Stop whatever you are doing or my Mega-Mecha-Phantoms will crush you!!!
- His Meeple Highness: All this disgusting display looks rather invalid and off-the-grid...
- Grim Mike: (with a reverence) Your Majesty! What an unexpected surprise!
- His Meeple Highness: We demand an explanation...
- Grim Mike: It is very simple, Your Grace!
- Grim Mike: First, turning the phantoms into ghosts!
- Grim Mike: Second, getting rid of this annoying Meeple Council...
- Fortune Teller: What are you going to call me?
- Grim Mike: ...and this meddling milquetoast Fortune Teller...
- Grim Mike: Third, take on the world!!!
- Pixie: (cheering) Yeah!
- Flooxie: (cheering) Go evil go!
- His Meeple Highness: (staring at them) Not now!
- Flooxie: Not now?
- Pixie: (confused) But that was our cue...
- His Meeple Highness: This taking over the world ends here and now!

[Meepledrone]

The End is Nigh - Part 3 (This episode starts here)

- His Meeple Highness: Yes! This taking over the world ends here and now!
- Grim Mike: (looking down) But I...
- His Meeple Highness: No buts!
- Fortune Teller: Your Majesty, he wanted to create a new major expansion, also the means chosen were not the best ones!... To say the least...
- Flooxie: But we love the new cemeteries... So cozy!
- Pixie: ... and what about the haunted castles?
- Flooxie: So cool!
- Pixie: Now we have a purpose... Phantoms have been thrown into oblivion in C2...
- Flooxie: ... and C3 doesn't seem to change the statu quo.
- Pixie: Only some hardcore fans remembered us...
- Flooxie: But we cannot turn back into phantoms now...
- Pixie: Please...
- Flooxie: He is only this mean from dusk to dawn!
- His Meeple Highness: OK... But We have one condition.
- His Meeple Highness: Expansion 11 will be Ghosts, Castles & Cemeteries...
- His Meeple Highness: But with the same elements you will also have to work as a cooperative spin-off.
- The Grinch: Cooperative? Are we cazy or...? (shutting down slowly)
- His Meeple Highness: (staring furiously at The Grich) Let's name it Mists over Carcassonne.
- Everyone: Hurray!!!! Hurray!!!! Hurray!!!!



- His Meeple Highness: And to commemorate this day, I will stamp my signature on this Scoreboard that will go to the winner of the Advent Quiz 2022!
- Grim Mike: Thank you, Sire!
- Grim Mike: Release the prisoners...
- Snowman: Can we keep The Grinch tied for a while? I think he likes it...
- His Meeple Highness: Granted!
- Danisthirty: How would Meepledrone love to see this!
- The Grinch: Whaaaaat?

[Meepledrone]

The End is Nigh - Part 4 (This episode starts here)

Epilogue

Some turns later...

- His Meeple Highness: We rejoice with such a good progress!
- Pixie: Level 1 is ready...
- Flooxie: We have some ideas for other levels
- Grim Mike: We also brought some token pals to help us up



- His Meeple Highness: Oustanding!
- Grim Mike: It's going to be a hit.
- The Grinch: (from a dungeon) I know you can hear me...
- Flooxie:  Should we release him?
- Grim Mike: Hah! Let him simmer there a little longer...

The end... for now...


Epilogue 2

Disclaimers...

- Meepledrone: No phantoms were harmed during the production of this quiz.
- Fir Tree: I AM Groooot!!!

[Meepledrone]

- Danisthirty: Finally we are back!
- The Grinch: Sorry for the delay!
- Meepledrone: Caught maybe in traffic?
- Meepledrone: Er.... Sorry? Are you ill...
- The Grinch:  I'm just practicing for next year...
- Danisthirty: I fear the worst...
- Snowman: Well! Let's see what the The Grinch has for all of us today!
- Santa Claus: Hope you enjoy it.
- Gingerbread Man: We'll see you soon.
- Fir Tree: (a bird sings)
- Easter Bunny: (absent minded) What happened to that phantom?
- The Grinch: Will you all shut up for once?
- The Grinch: I should have stayed in my damp dungeon...   


Question #24: The Grinch places this tile on Red's behalf. The player has the following questions:
a) Which meeple will be trapped by Solovei Razboynik along with Yellow's meeple when this tile is placed? (0-1 point)
b) How many points does each player score if applying the advanced variant rules for the Labyrinth? (0-5 points)
c) When distributing the gold ingots, is there any that only Red can pick? (0-1 point)
d) Which opponent's meeple can Red send to the free bathhouse? (0-1 point)

Note: The turn sequence is:
1. Blue
2. Red
3. Yellow

[Meepledrone]

- Meepledrone: There is only one thing left to do...
- Meepledrone: Have a great Christmas on behalf of the Meeple Council.
- Decar: What shall we do now?
- Meepledrone: Allow answers until Dec 28th? I will start checking the answers on Dec 29th and announce the winner...
- Decar: Nervous?
- Meepledrone: How so? I'm an android...
- Decar: Whatever!
- Meepledrone: Merry Christmas everyone!!!!

[corinthiens13]

Merry Christmas Meepledrone, thanks for this awesome quizz, I can't wait for the answers 

And Merry Christmas everyone!!!

[Challa007]

The Grinch really hates Christmas! The "worst" question is always on Christmas Eve....   


Thank you very much @Meepledrone for yet another entertaining and fun Advent Quizz !! Merit from me!


I wish you and all the other participants

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[Scott]

Indeed, that last question was the worst of them all.