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Quizzes, Puzzles and Challenges / Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXX

« on: November 30, 2020, 06:55:37 AM »

Hi all,

For those unaware of what it is really going on, I will just break it for you: Christmas is coming!!! Again... So does Winter... at least in the Northern Hemisphere!

In preparation of the coming events, here at Carcassonne Central, a lot is happening behind the scenes. The Meeple Council is in session discussing whether frozen meeples should considered as Phantoms...

This is just a smoke screen, because the real agenda for today is...

The Advent Calendar Quiz MMXX

Stay tuned, because tomorrow you have a date... Ahem... a date with DESTINY!

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Official Rules / Re: WikiCarpedia update

« on: November 29, 2020, 06:28:53 AM »

The list you describe would be more like a tile reference cheat sheet, right? You could use it for tile counting too... 

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General / Re: Swan 47x47mm sleeves for Carcassonne tiles

« on: November 28, 2020, 04:26:15 PM »

Looks good!

Did you try to play a game to see how smoothly it goes?

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Official Rules / Re: Vodyanoy traps also Solovey Razboynikov trapped meeples?

« on: November 27, 2020, 03:01:23 PM »

Since both tiles are the same, it doesn't matter which Vodyanoy tile you choose as final destination for your trapped meeples. No Schrödinger meeples needed in this scenario... 

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Strategy Guide / Re: Izbushka - Baba Yaga's Hut breaking the limits...

« on: November 27, 2020, 02:16:39 PM »

Here the point is if we can count those areas that cannot be occupied or we should ignore them the same way monasteries ignore them to be considered completed:

Around a monastery or Baba Yaga's Hut, we may find:
1. Map squares occupied by tiles:
    * Score 1 point for a monastery
    * Score 0 points for Baba Yaga's hut.
2. Map squares not occupied by tiles:
    * Score 0 points for a monastery
    * Score 1 point for Baba Yaga's hut.
3. Map areas that cannot be occupied by tiles beyond the country border:
    * Not considered for monastery scoring as occupied spaces (even those printed road segments or printed semicircular segments)
    * Not considered for monasteries as spaces (the allow to complete a monastery on the border with less tiles)
    * Should they be considered for Baba Yaga's Hut?

Following the approach for monasteries, I would only consider in the tiles and spaces in printed squares... If so the islands would not be a way to score more points, just to complete a feature faster.

Any thoughts? Too strict?

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General / Re: Can your postman dig a hole through the Earth to make Cundco shipping cheaper?

« on: November 27, 2020, 12:03:13 AM »

Thanks for the clarification! 

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News and Events / Re: Advent package 2020 - Including Phantom and CutCassonne!

« on: November 26, 2020, 01:47:14 PM »

You can talk to wolnic about creating an expansion for the Ocean that includes tortoises... 

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News and Events / Re: Advent package 2020 - Including Phantom and CutCassonne!

« on: November 26, 2020, 10:11:17 AM »

What a shame! We will have to lecture her 

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News and Events / Re: Advent package 2020 - Including Phantom and CutCassonne!

« on: November 26, 2020, 08:31:53 AM »

They are flushing their old stock... 

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News and Events / Re: New mini expansion Carcassonne - The Peasant Revolts on cundco.de

« on: November 26, 2020, 05:54:06 AM »

It seems so... Or it was their lunch break... 

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News and Events / Re: New mini expansion Carcassonne - The Peasant Revolts on cundco.de

« on: November 26, 2020, 05:39:51 AM »

They probably weren't designed with the extra safety margin for printing. An issue with the requirements?

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News and Events / Re: New mini expansion Carcassonne - The Peasant Revolts on cundco.de

« on: November 26, 2020, 05:24:30 AM »

The credits on the Expansion read:

Illustration: Marcel Gröber
Layout: Christof Tisch

So Anne Pätzke didn't participate in the tiles and maybe Marcel Gröber wasn't aware of this little detail until it was too late, if ever. You can also see the difference in style of the revolt symbols... 

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General / Re: Can your postman dig a hole through the Earth to make Cundco shipping cheaper?

« on: November 26, 2020, 05:19:24 AM »

I only maps similar to the previous one... This is from wikipedia:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Zealand_antipodes.png

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General / Re: Can your postman dig a hole through the Earth to make Cundco shipping cheaper?

« on: November 26, 2020, 03:39:14 AM »

I checked, and looked what I found... In Spain we always talk about it but I never saw it on a map...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tradies/6991656198/in/photostream/



Hello neighbor in the antipodes! When are you stopping by? 

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Official Rules / Re: French version of the rules in pdf

« on: November 25, 2020, 03:52:42 PM »

Sehr gut!