Carcassonne Central: April Fools' Day Quiz MMXXV

[Paloi Sciurala]

Notice: This material is an April Fools' joke. It's not meant to be taken seriously. But beware of Easter eggs!

Today is April 1st. So The Summer is here!

Based on Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz series by @Meepledrone (and on weird rule questions on r/carcassonne, as well). Many thanks to Meepledrone, Chanchito, and The Grinch (What? The next season is The Winter, after all!).

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The silliness blows... The rules within Carcassonne dance at its will. A distant C3 official clarification can be heard...

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

The April Fools' Day Summer C3.1 Quiz MMXXV

Now, 10 rule question puzzles will follow. But do not bother answering them. The Grinch will simply send your answers to the spam folder.

However, before you take a look at those questions, first sing the C4 prime directive:

This expansion has been developed for the Carcassonne basic mud. All the basic mud rules still apply in addition to the expansion rules below. You can combine it with Chanchito - but at your own risk – that is, there will be no official oinks for these pig brain freezers.

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Puzzle #1:

Can I place a knight here? The corners are touching!
Answer variants:

• Wow, this is such an... edge case! The rules do not explain that. I simply don't know!
• We don't know, because you did not say whether you are the red/black player, and whether the red/black player is the active player.
• Next time, email HiG. They will reply fast, that's for sure. Or... simply read the rules.

Inspiration source: here.



Puzzle #2:

The blue player believes that their knight is connected to the larger city and thus scores 7 (or 8?) points instead of just 1. What should I do?!
Answer variants:

• Add 3 ghosts to the blue knight.
• Move the dragon there.
• Why does it matter anyway? If so, the green player would have majority over the city.
• Read WICA. By the way, have you read the ZMG rules? If so, be careful not to blink.

Inspiration source: here.



Puzzle #3:

Why did the dragon cross the bridge?
Answer variants:

• The chicken crossed the road in order to get to the other side.
• Actually, it's a chicken, not a dragon. That is not a bridge, but a grey bridge. And it crossed it to get to C3. In Exp. 3 C3, the dragon gets replaced by 1000 hypercarnivore giant chicken figures.
• To get to the other tile.
• To get to the other meeple.
• Because the rules say so, that's why!

Can the dragon step on city tiles?
Answer variants:

• No. There's no food there.
• Yes, but it will only eat the chickens there. Wait a minute... if I recall correctly, there are no chickens in Carcassonne!

Does the dragon eat tiles?
Answer variants:

• No. He is neither an earthworm, to feed on earth, nor a cow, to feed on grass.
• Yes. Otherwise, what's the point of the dragon? As far as I know, he does not eat any figures.

What happens when the dragon steps on the tile with the fairy?
Answer variants:

• The game ends.
• The dragon dies (is returned to the general supply).
• The fairy dies (is returned to the general supply).
• You have to eat the yellow farmer.
• The yellow player may save the yellow farmer by swallowing the dragon. If the yellow player is unable to swallow the dragon, the fairy and the yellow farmer get eaten.

Inspiration source: myself and here.



Puzzle #4:

How many pigs are there?
Answer variants:

• Where's the big pink pig?
• Carcassonne is full of pigs! Not to mention the majestic pig statues! It's time to include some squirrels. What about chickens?! P.S. Some interesting C3 rules.
• Chanchito, I miss you! Where are you? You are yet to explain how you managed to survive after Dame Carcas threw you over the Great Wall of Carcassonne, from a 30-piece Exp. 4 tower!

Inspiration source: myself.



Puzzle #5:

Is the green meeple a knight or a monk?
Answer variants:

• Both.
• Does it matter?
• Do you play with The Markets of Leipzig?
• I am pretty sure that you can place a meeple as a monk on a cathedral.

Inspiration source: myself.



Puzzle #6:

How many fields are there?
Answer variants:

• It's C3. Who cares?!
• Does it matter? There are no farmers! The Farmers is an expansion!

Inspiration source: myself.



Puzzle #7:

We played by the rules. I think that the game is wrong! Or, maybe, did we break the game?
Answer variants:

• Well, Carcassonne is not for you.
• At least you did not mix the river tiles with the other tiles...

Inspiration source: here and many other questions like that.



Puzzle #8:

Can I capture a sheep token?
Answer variants:

• No. Who will ransom it?
• Yes, but your shepherd will then drown in the river.

Can I capture the three sheeps on the halfling? Or just one of them at once?
Answer variants:

• Baaah!!!
• CONFIDENTIAL C3 SHEEP PICTURE HERE!

Inspiration source: myself.



Puzzle #9:

Can a signpost point towards a wonder?
Answer variants:

• No. The wonder tile is simply too large!
• Yes. The wonder is not in Carcassonne anyway, so a wrong signpost will do no harm.

Is Stonehenge in Rome? The Leipzig ROMA signpost seems wrong!
Answer variants:

• Do not combine The Markets of Leipzig with The Wonders of Humanity!
• {{IconPadlock}} Questions that we still don’t have an official answer for (or even a good suspicion of).

There is a mayor in a castle. Why?
Answer variants:

• The mayor is... not quite intelligent.
• Ha! That's Meepledrone's favorite torture technique for mayors in Carcassonne Central: Advent Quizzes... placing mayors in fruitless features!

Inspiration source: myself.



Puzzle #10:
Can I eat my meeplesfigures?
Answer variants:

• Only the Exp. 2 pigs. The big pink pig tastes like chicken!
• Eat the gingerbread man. He is so spicy...
• Not the dragon. He is just a boring reptile.
• Sell the gold ingots! Do not eat them!
• What about Chanchito?
• Those fruit tokens look so tasty!

Can I eat my tiles?
Answer variants:

• Only halflings. They taste like maize tortillas.
• (Deep sigh, followed by a choke caused by ingesting too much cardboard and ink.)

Inspiration source: myself and some Carcassonne Central comments.




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[Meepledrone]

Ho ho ho!!! 

[Bumsakalaka]

Amazing post. Who is reading rules when you can ask worldwide?

Odoslané z SM-A346B pomocou Tapatalku

[Halfling]

I have recently played Carcassonne with a couple who happily advised "we have played once before with friends. The friends had  occasionally played with their own son...but never without.  It was their son who did all the scoring etc. The game that these 4 people played was peppered with comments of 'all these 1 tile rivers are very hard to complete, and I can't see in the rules the value of a completed river!"

I took the liberty of explaining that the river is completed ahead of drawing any of the 72 main game tiles. They much preferred this version of play with the exception of my farming.

Upon fessing up that I have more museum of Carcassonne visitor stamps than all the world champions put together, that I had met the great Tom Hill on more than 1 occasion and that I own a mustachioed tile - they declined to play again and quickly turned the conversation to 7 Wonders.

Here endeth the lesson.

Amen.