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With this mini-expansion, you'll send your meeples to the barber surgeon's. A bathhouse had several purposes during the Middle Ages. You could take a bath sharing the latest gossip, as well as enjoying a highly professional medical treatment. Of course, your meeple will be enjoying his time in the bathhouse, so he won't be able to help you. To get him back there are various possibilities …

General info and comments

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Originally released by Hans im Glück in 2018 during Essen Spiel.

This expansion doesn't exist for the 1st edition (C1 for short).

This expansion has been developed for the Carcassonne basic game. All the basic game rules still apply in addition to the expansion rules below. You can combine it with other expansions - but at your own risk – that is, there will be no official rules for these combinations.

Contents

• 6 new land tiles with bathhouses marked with expansion symbol.

One of the new buildings

Rules

Preparation

Shuffle the 6 bathhouse tiles and select as many as needed according to the number of players.

Number of players	2	3	4 and more
Bathhouses	4	5	6

Now, shuffle the right number of bathhouse tiles with the rest of the land tiles. Put the unneeded bathhouse tiles back into the box.

Scoring bathhouse points

1. Placing a tile

When you draw a bathhouse tile, you place it according to the normal rules.

2. Placing a meeple

After having placed a bathhouse tile, you may place a meeple according to normal rules, that is, you may place him on a road, in a city or on a field. However, you cannot place the meeple on the bathhouse itself.

Example: You place the tile with the bathhouse and put a meeple in the city.

3. Scoring a feature

Scoring with a bathhouse

Having finished a city with a bathhouse, you score as usual. In addition to the normal points, the owner of the city gets the number of points shown on the banner (3, 4 or 5). If there are several bathhouses in a scored city, add all the bathhouse points in it.

The same applies to roads with bathhouses.

Example: You finish and score a city. You get a total 9 points (6 points for the 3 city tiles and 3 points for the bathhouse).

Final Scoring

Bathhouses will provide no bonus points to features scored after the game.

Visiting a bathhouse after scoring

3. Scoring a feature

Placing a meeple in a bathhouse after scoring

If there is only one meeple involved in a scoring and if there is at least one free bathhouse, instead of returning the meeple to your hand, you must place your meeple sideways in (any) one of the free bathhouses (or in the only free bathhouse) immediately after the scoring. You score the feature as usual before doing so.

Example: After scoring the small city, you place your meeple in the bathhouse.

Respect the following rules:

• A bathhouse is free if there is no meeple in it
• If there are several free bathhouses, you can choose in which one you place your meeple
• If there are several meeples involved in scoring a feature, all meeples are returned to the players' supply (even if all meeples belong to one player) - no meeple is placed in a bathhouse
• If there is no free bathhouse, you get your meeple back
• If there are several features scored (by placing one single land tile) you have to consider the order in which the features are scored - the player who placed the land tile decides the order in which the scoring is carried out, as this may affect which meeples are placed in free bathhouses (if applicable).

Final Scoring

No meeples will be moved to any free bathhouse during the final scoring.

Leaving the bathhouse

There are two possibilities to get back a meeple that has been placed in the bathhouse.

1. Placing a tile

Getting back a meeple from the bathhouse for free

If a player places the last land tile surrounding a bathhouse (the same way you complete monasteries), the meeple placed in the bathhouse can be taken back immediately and for free. The returned meeple does not score any points when returned.

Example: Blue surrounds the bathhouse completely with his land tile. You can take your meeple back.

Note!

• If you place a meeple in a bathhouse which is already surrounded by 8 land tiles, you cannot get him back for free.
• If you realize that there is still a meeple in a bathhouse which was completely surrounded in a preceding round, you are not allowed to take it back for free anymore.

2. Placing a meeple

Buying back a meeple staying in a bathhouse

To get back your meeple you can also pay with points. The number of points you lose depends on the number shown on the respective bathhouse (3, 4 or 5). Move your meeple back on the scoring board. You are allowed to have less than 0 points.

Example: You take your meeple back to your stash after having paid 4 points (as indicated by the bathhouse tile). You move your meeple 4 points backwards.

You can buy a meeple back after having placed a land tile. You are allowed to place this meeple in the same round.

If a meeple leaves the bathhouse, the bathhouse is free again and ready to welcome another meeple.

Clarifications for new landscape tiles

The bridge does not end the roads displayed on it, nor does it combine them; the road with the bathhouse continues from left to right, while the other continues from top to bottom. The roads split the field into four separate fields.

Other expansions

This section contains additional information about the interactions with other Carcassonne expansions.

General comments

If there is only one meeple involved in a scoring, it may go to a bathhouse even if it scores 0 or negative points:

• A mayor scoring 0 points for a city without coats of arms or a castle may go to a bathhouse ( Exp. 5 - Abbey & Mayor)
• A meeple with ghosts scoring 0 or even negative points may go to a batthouse ( Exp. 11 - Ghosts, Castles & Cemeteries)
• A meeple scoring 0 points for a feature due to the active scoring tiles may go to a batthouse ( The Land Surveyors)

Exp. 3 - The Princess & the Dragon

The fairy can be assigned to a meeple trapped in a bathhouse. The player may receive the fairy 1-point bonus at the beginning of their turn but may not receive the fairy 3-point scoring bonus when the meeple is taken back for free or bought back by its owner. In this case, the fairy will prevent the dragon from visiting the bathhouse tile.

The dragon can eat a meeple trapped in a bathhouse.
If a meeple is sent to a bathhouse on a tile with the dragon, it will eat the meeple automatically.

A meeple cannot be sent to a bathhouse with a magic portal.

Exp. 5 - Abbey & Mayor

If a wagon is alone on a feature and scores, it will go to an empty bathhouse, if any. If it is not possible, the wagon will be allowed to move to another valid feature if its owner decides so.
Note: If you cannot remove the wagon after scoring due to a bathhouse, you will not be able to move it either.

A wagon cannot move from a completed feature to an empty bathhouse after scoring. Bathhouses cannot be occupied like a normal feature.

A wagon trapped in a bathhouse cannot move to a neighboring feature when the bathhouse is completely surrounded. The wagon can only return to its owner, if the player remembers to take it back (for free at this point). A completely surrounded bathhouse is not associated with a normal scoring.

Mini #1 - The Flying Machines

A meeple cannot be sent to a bathhouse with a flying machine.

The Markets of Leipzig

No meeple on a road sending meeples to Leipzig may go to a bathhouse.

Tile distribution

Total tiles: 6

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Footnotes

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