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Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXI
« Reply #180 on: December 30, 2021, 02:51:57 PM »
Question #22: Santa Claus places this tile on Blue's behalf. He has two questions for you:
1) How many points does each player score? (0-5 points)
2) Which player collects all the trade goods? (0-1 points)
   a) Blue, because the player completed the city.
   b) Red, because the player has the majority.
   c) Yellow, because the player has the only meeple on a trade goods tile.
   

   


Answer #22: The tile just placed completes a city occupied by the Red Mayor and a Yellow Meeple. The city has two coats of arms and two trade goods symbols.

Let's answer both questions...

1) Scoring the city:

Red has 2 majority votes due to the mayor and the 2 coats of arms in the city. Yellow has only one majority vote.

Therefore, Red will score 14 points for the city ( (5 tiles + 2 coats of arms) x 2 points = 7 x 2 points).

Moreover, three players have a meeple in the Coiners quarter in Leipzig. Only Red and Yellow occupy the completed city (no matter who has the majority). So both players will receive 6 bonus points (2 coats of arms x 3 points/coat of arms)

2) Collecting the trade goods.

Blue is the one receiving the trade goods tokens for completing the city. So the answer is option a)

Bottomline:
1) Red will score 20 points (14 points for the city + 6 points for the Coiners quarter bonus). Yellow will score 6 points for the Coiners quarter bonus

2) Option a): Blue blue receives the trade goods tokens for completing the city.

Note: In a real game, Blue would not be interested in completing this city (giving away so many points) unless the player was really interested in the trade goods.
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Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXI
« Reply #181 on: December 30, 2021, 02:56:42 PM »
After a poor start, seems that the later questions have been better for me.
Although I don't think I'll be able to manage to get to the podium this year
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Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXI
« Reply #182 on: December 30, 2021, 03:04:16 PM »
Hahahaha this picture of quiz 22 clearly has a little bit bad intention because the position of the meeples and the position of the lights… emoji code23]


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Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXI
« Reply #183 on: December 30, 2021, 04:04:11 PM »
at the question nr 21,on the farm, red score only one complete city.why score  two city?
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Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXI
« Reply #184 on: December 30, 2021, 04:11:00 PM »
at the question nr 21,on the farm, red score only one complete city.why score  two city?

Meepledrone already mentioned it in his explanation:


 Note that the city of Carcassonne is considered as a completed city when scoring fields.

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Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXI
« Reply #185 on: December 30, 2021, 04:17:48 PM »
eheh I just finish read the rule of  city,eheh I didn't know,so today I know a lot of rules!!

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Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXI
« Reply #186 on: December 31, 2021, 05:33:42 AM »
Question #23: Danisthirty completes this city on Yellow's behalf. The player performs the following actions in 1. Placing a tile:
- Opening a Road Sweeper gift card on the occupied road
- Activating an "Add Meeple" symbol with the tile placement
The player decides to add a second Yellow Meeple to the city segment, and Danisthirty would like you to answer these two questions:
1) How many points does each player score? (0-5 points)
2) Instead of adding a second meeple to the city, could Yellow have added a second meeple to the road the player occupies? (0-1 points)
   a) Yes, you can add a meeple to the road.
   b) No, you cannot add a meeple to the road.





Answer #23: Let's answer each question...

1) Scoring the scenario:

Before placing the tile, the Road Sweeper card will trigger the scoring of the incomplete road occupied by Yellow. The player will score 2 points for it (2 tiles x 1 point/tile), and remove their meeple from the road. Note that the road is scored as if at the end of the game, so it receives no points for the German castle.

The tile completes a city occupied by Red and Yellow. Each player has two meeples in the city. Since both of them have meeples on hill tiles, the tie is not broken, no matter the number of meeples on hill tiles. Therefore, both players will score 15 points for the city (12 points for the city itself + 3 points for the German castle):
- 12 points for the city (6 tiles x 2 points/tile)
- 3 points for the German castle tile contributing to the city

2) Adding a meeple to the road:

Gift cards are opened before the tile is placed. So, the Road Sweeper gift card would remove the meeple on the road before the tile is placed. As a result, the "Add Meeple" action will not find a meeple on the road when activated in order to add a meeple next to it. Therefore, the answer is option b)

Bottomline:
1) Red will score 15 points
   Yellow will score 17 points (2 points for the Road Sweeper gift card + 15 points for the city)

2) Option b): Yellow cannot use the "Add Meeple" action to add a meeple to the road, since it will be unoccupied when placing the tile.

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Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXI
« Reply #187 on: December 31, 2021, 05:42:01 AM »
Question #24: The Grinch places this tile on Yellow's behalf. This is the last tile of the game. He would like you to answer the following questions:
1) How many points does each player score due to the tile placement? (0-5 points)
2) How many points does each player score after the game? (0-5 points)
3) If you understood the secret code of the Oracle of Carcassonne, what is the result of this expression? (0-1 points)
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( + ) *
   a)
   b)
   c) 

4) Where is the Oracle of Carcassonne contacted during the trial? (0-1 points)
   a) The Mayor's Office in Carcassonne, France
   b) The Spiel Main Office in Essen, Germany
   c) CundCo in Munich, Germany
   d) Hans im Glück's HQ in Munich, Germany
 
Note:
- The Oracle of Carcassonne is mentioned in the dialogs starting here

   



Answer #24: Let's answer each question...

1) Scoring during the game:

The tile placed with the bridge connects a field occupied by Yellow with a farmer and a pig (just added on the connecting tile) to another field with the player's barn.

The resulting field has the following elements:
- A completed small city by the river lake.
- A completed city closed by the abbey tile.
- A completed besieged city connected to the field by a city bridge.
- A castle occupied by Red (the besieged city segment has no effect on the castle when scoring it or on any field scoring).
- A castle occupied by Blue.
- 2 tiles with little buildings (even if one of them seems to be on the other side of the road).
- A FFFF tile from the Games Quarterly #11 mini expansion that does not count as a pig-herd as per the clarifications provided by the authors.
- Yellow's farmer and pig.
- Yellow's barn triggering the scoring of the resulting field and the removal of the farmer and the pig on it.


Yellow will score 16 points for the resulting field:
- 4 points for the two completed regular cities (2 cities x (1 point for the city + 1 point for the pig) = 2 x 2 points)
- 4 points for the completed besieged city (1 city x ( ( 1 point for the city + 1 point for the pig) x 2 for the siege ) =  1 x (2 x 2) points = 1 x 4 points)
- 6 points for the castles (2 castles x (2 points for the castle + 1 point for the pig) = 2 x 3 points)
- 2 points for the little building sheds (their value is 1 point each no matter the rules applied: basic rules or variant rules)

Red and Blue will score no points for their castles, since no feature triggered their scorings.


2) Scoring after the game:

Yellow has will score points for the barn in the previous resulting field.

Additionally, Red will score points for the field occupied by the player's farmer, which has the following elements:
- A completed small city by the river lake.
- A completed besieged city.

Yellow will score 28 points for the barn:
- 8 points for the two completed regular cities (2 cities x 4 points for the city)
- 8 points for the completed besieged city (1 city x (4 points for the city x 2 for the siege) = 1 x 8 points)
- 10 points for the castles (2 castles x 5 points for the castle)
- 2 points for the little building sheds (their value is 1 point each no matter the rules applied: basic rules or variant rules)

Red will score 9 points for their farmer:
- 3 points for the completed regular city (1 city x 3 point for the city = 1 x 3 points)
- 6 points for the completed besieged city (1 city x 3 points for the city x 2 for the siege =  1 x 3 x 2 points)

Red and Blue score no points for their uncompleted castles.


3) The expansion symbols map to the expansion numbers and the C symbol to 0 in this case.

0:   /  1:   /  2:   /  3:   /  4:   /  5:   /  6:   /  7:   /  8:   /  9:   /  10:

So, ( + ) * maps to (2 + 5) * 10 = 70. The answer is Option b)


4) The secret message was:
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It maps to 49893005419 that is HiG's phone number (+49 89 3005419), as you can see here:

https://www.hans-im-glueck.de/impressum.html

Bottomline:
1) Scoring during the game:
Blue scores no points
Red scores no points
Yellow scores 16 points

2) Scoring after the game:
Blue scores no points
Red will score 9 points for the field top right
Yellow will score 28 points

3) Option b)

4) Option d)
« Last Edit: January 01, 2022, 03:45:15 AM by Meepledrone »

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Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXI
« Reply #188 on: December 31, 2021, 05:48:33 AM »


- Meeple Council: Congratulations, corinthiens13!!! You are the winner of the Advent Calendar Quiz MMXXI.  ;D
- The Grinch: This can be right! Again?
- Santa Claus: Yes! Isn't awesome?
- The Grinch: (to himself) Roasted meeples! Were my questions too easy!?
- Meepledrone: I would also like to thank all the participants, who worked so hard answering all the questions.
- The Grinch: (to Meepledrone) What's your part in this, you tin vermin?
- Meepledrone: (grinning) I was just passing by!
- Santa Claus: Come on, Leave the poor thing alone.
- The Grinch: Well... Only the day he earns it!
- The Grinch: Hard work and commitment is what we need here.
- The Grinch: He spent the whole month doing nothing... as always!
- Meepledrone: (shocked)
- The Grinch: (to Meepledrone) At least you could do something. (angry)
- Meepledrone: What is it?
- The Grinch: What do you think?
- Meepledrone: Playing Catan for a change?
- The Grinch: WHAT?
- Meepledrone: Ha ha ha!
- The Grinch: Sending the prize, you silly meeple.
- Meepledrone: But for that I would need the winner to confirm his address by PM...
- The Grinch: Do you want me to do it for you?
- Meepledrone: Oh no! That be so nasty of you...
- Meepledrone: You could break a fingernail or something.
- The Grinch: (shocked)
- Meepledrone: Before I go back to sweeping the back sides of all the tiles in the Big Box 2021,...
- The Grinch: (with a killing stare) ...And...?
- Meepledrone: And sharpening their corners too,...
- The Grinch: ... good meeple...
- Meepledrone: Please, corinthiens13...
- The Grinch: Ahem!
- Meepledrone: ...and the rest of the participants,...
- The Grinch: (smiling)
- Meepledrone: ...confirm your address by PM if you want to receive a small token of the Meeple Council's appreciation for participating.
- Snowman: That sounds good!
- Fir Tree: (a branch bends in the winds)  :o
- Santa Claus: Indeed.
- Danisthirty: What about the Spiel'21 tile and the bridges?
- The Grinch: Bah! Decar can help!
- Decar: (to himself) I should have gone home earlier. (angry)
- Easter Bunny: OK. I'm have an appointment with the Fortune Teller?
- Santa Claus:  Is she back?
- Easter Bunny: She told me she had a vision about Expansion 11...
- Santa Claus: Does it have tunnels?
- The Grinch:  Does it have a catapult? (devil)
- Snowman: Does it use the water tower?
- Fir Tree: Omelette au fromage?
- Danisthirty: Does it include Russian Promo tiles?
- Gingerbread Man: Does it brigde winter and regular tiles?
- Meepledrone: Does it...? (interrupted abruptly)
- The Grinch: Shhhhh! Enough questions!
- The Grinch: Meepledrone's questions are unbearable!
- Easter Bunny: I have no idea... She said it was important.
- Easter Bunny: Let's go see here!
- Easter Bunny: Happy 2022 to everybody!

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Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXI
« Reply #189 on: December 31, 2021, 06:22:05 AM »
Congrats Corinthiens13! Really impressive score, yet again!
As I thought, I wasn't able to make it to the podium, but looks like I did finally get better at answering the questions later on hahaha

Thanks Meepledrone for organising, and happy 2022 to all!

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Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXI
« Reply #190 on: December 31, 2021, 06:31:37 AM »
Congratulations corinthiens13!
Thank you Meepledrone for hosting the quiz!
Not only was I able to learn more about the rules of the expansions I haven't played yet (like Big Top or Gingerbread Man) by analyzing why I answered the questions wrong, it also confirmed that rushing doesn't always pay off :D
In my case, questions: #3 counting the garden for a road with a bridge, #6 taking the blue shepherd as a normal meeple on the road #11 not including points for roads printed on the map #19 not adding one point for the blue abbot from the small building.
Small mistakes, but they significantly affected my score.
bonusDucks congratulations for answering question #24 fully correct :)

Meepledrone, would you prepare a table of who answered the questions correctly/incorrectly and the scores not including points for speed? Simply 1 point for the correct one.
And for question #5 was all thre scenarios required?
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Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXI
« Reply #191 on: December 31, 2021, 06:34:46 AM »
thank you for this Meepledrone quiz, definitely I worked better at school

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Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXI
« Reply #192 on: December 31, 2021, 06:38:17 AM »
Thank you Meepledrone, good quiz, quite hard this year, isn't it?

Congratulations cotinthiens13 and all other participants!  8)

Best wishes to all

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Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXI
« Reply #193 on: December 31, 2021, 06:49:38 AM »
Wow, good start, but then after half the answers I thought I'd be out of 1st place  :o  Looks like going through WICA again and again to keep my French order of play up to date (next update coming soon) is paying  :yellow-meeple:

Merit again for you Meepledrone for organizing this awesome quizz!!!

And congratulations everyone for your participation and progress into knowing the game's mechanics, it's great to see so many participants  :)

And don't forget to PM your address to Meepledrone, he's got something for every participant  :yellow-meeple:

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Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXI
« Reply #194 on: December 31, 2021, 06:51:26 AM »
Oh, and I'm also interested in a ranking 1 point per question, without the time being taken into account  :yellow-meeple:


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