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)
( + ) *
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:
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.htmlBottomline: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)