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I had sent a question about the mini expansion "The barber surgeons"  to HiG and we got the following clarifications.

Following Kettlefish's tradition...

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Q: Can players buy back only one meeple or several meeples during their turn?

Here the long version of the question:
Can players buy back only one meeple or several meeples during their turn?
The rules are not entirely clear. In the section 2. Place a  meeple, in German, there is the header "buy back meeples from the bathhouse" (=plural) and the whole section always refers to "a" meeple which is written more as a generic "a". Nowhere it is specified that it is exactly one meeple.
That is why we always assumed that you could buy back several meeples at once. However, I have now met people who question this.
A case where this becomes important:
1) place a tile
It is my turn. The tile completes a city (where I want to place one of my meeples) and two roads (where there is 1 meeple each from another player).
2) place a meeple
All bathhouses are full. I buy back 2 of my meeples that are in bathhouses and place one of them in the city.
3) Score features
I have triggered several scorings and can therefore decide the scoring order. I decide that the roads are scored first and so the meeples of my two opponents must go to the two bathhouses I have just vacated. I then score the city and can take the meeple into my supply.
This means that buying back 2 meeples is a strategic move to send my opponents' meeples "onto the waiting bench".


A: Buying back meeples is independent of the actual placing of a meeple. As you have always done, this is not limited.


C: So basically, what they say is: the action "Buy back a meeple" and the action "place a meeple" are independent. Therefore, the fact that you can only place one meeple during your turn does not mean that you can only buy back one meeple during your turn - since there is no connection between the two actions. The action "Buy back a meeple" is not limited, so you can buy back as many meeples as you want during your turn.


Thanks @Bumsakalaka for constructing the example for this question

Linkback: https://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=6819.0

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Re: Clarification of rules (The Barber Surgeons) - with HiG - 28.01.2025
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2025, 10:16:02 AM »
+1 merit to manage it :)
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Re: Clarification of rules (The Barber Surgeons) - with HiG - 28.01.2025
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2025, 10:24:27 PM »
Thank you for this clarification.

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Re: Clarification of rules (The Barber Surgeons) - with HiG - 28.01.2025
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2025, 11:08:33 PM »
great example and interesting tactic.  :(y)
I can already see that it will be in the quiz (But if it will be updated on the wiki)

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Re: Clarification of rules (The Barber Surgeons) - with HiG - 28.01.2025
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2025, 11:10:04 AM »
 O:-)


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