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Introduction

• The word “you" throughout this section refers to the active player.
• Steps written in yellow represent deviations from the official HiG rule set.
• Steps written in blue are features from other editions of Carcassonne adapted for the preferred version with a little creativity when required.
• If playing with the Messages (Dispatches) expansion, the player scoring points chooses which scoring figure to move each time points are awarded. When you see MESSAGES (#ROUND), after scoring is completed for a given round of scoring, if one of your scoring figures has just landed on a dark space of the scoreboard, you may draw a Message tile if there were no other players' scoring figures on it (ZMG rules only). The (#ROUND) identifier indicates the round of scoring within a turn sequence. Only one Message tile can be drawn per round or scoring (even if both scoring figures ended up on dark spaces the same round). Note that resolving a Message tile could also trigger the drawing of another Message tile.
• If playing with the Robbers expansion, robbers must take points from the first allowable event. When you see the word ROBBERS, robbers must take points if possible (ignoring rogue points). When you see ROBBER CHOICE, robbers must take points but they may need to choose which countingscoring figure to take the first points from; this may happen when a robber is on the same space as multiple countingscoring figures that will be scoring points during Step 3B.
• If playing with the Russian Promos, followersmeeples can be trapped by the following tiles:
  • Solovei Razboynik: It will trap followersmeeples placed on any road segment connected to this tile. The affected followersmeeples will be sent to the tree on this tile. When you see TREE TRAP, check if this action applies.
  • Vodyanoy: It will trap followersmeeples placed on this tile or any adjacent tile. The affected followersmeeples will be sent to the lake on this tile. When you see LAKE TRAP, check if this action applies.

Any time during your turn:

• Any number of times:
  • You may ask for advice.
  • You may read the rules.
• Only once (even throughout a double turn granted by the builder):
  • You may buy back any one of your imprisoned followersmeeples by paying the captor 3 points. ROBBERS
  • You may claim an unclaimed tunnel portal by placing a tunnel token on it. TREE TRAP
  • You may allow a followermeeple to take flight from the Plague (once an infestation is active).
  • You must spread the plague by placing a flea token (once an infestation is active), if the tile placed is not a new plague source.

1. Placing a tile

Step 1A: Begin Turn

1. If the fairy is next to one of your followersmeeples, score 1 point. (If the fairy is next to an acrobat, each of your acrobats in the pyramid gets this bonus point.) MESSAGES (#1A) ROBBERS
2. if no fleas are left in the supply, eliminate the oldest Outbreak unless this would eliminate all Outbreaks.

There are no particular actions for this step.

Once or twice, if double turn

1. Placing a tile

Step 1A: Begin Turn

1. If the fairy is next to one of your followersmeeples, score 1 point. (If the fairy is next to an acrobat, each of your acrobats in the pyramid gets this bonus point.) MESSAGES (#1A) ROBBERS
2. if no fleas are left in the supply, eliminate the oldest Outbreak unless this would eliminate all Outbreaks.

There are no particular actions for this step.

Step 1B: Draw a Tile

1. If you have a tile from a previous bazaar auction, you must use that tile.
2. If you have an abbey tile and there is at least one valid space to place it, you may choose it in place of drawing a regular tile.
3. If you have a Halfling tile and there is at least one valid space to place it and did not play an abbey tile, you may choose it in place of drawing a regular tile.
4. If you have an German castle tile and there is at least one valid space to place it and did not play an abbey tile and did not play a Halfling tile, you may choose it in place of drawing a regular tile.
5. If you did not perform any previous action in Step 1B, randomly draw a tile. If a dragon is depicted on the tile and the dragon figure is not in play, put the tile aside (to be re-shuffled when the first volcano tile is drawn and placed) and draw randomly a new tile.
6. Randomly draw a tile. If a dragon is depicted on the tile and the dragon figure is not in play, put the tile aside (to be re-shuffled when the first volcano tile is drawn and placed) and draw randomly a new tile.
7. Show the tile to all players.
8. If a Wheel of Fortune icon is on the tile, resolve Wheel of Fortune. MESSAGES (#1B) ROBBERS
9. If a hill is depicted on the tile, immediately draw a second tile if any available. If so, keep the second tile face-down underneath the tile with the hill.

Step 1C: Place the Tile

1. Place the tile. If the placement is illegal, you must discard the tile (and the second tile drawn to place underneath a hill as well, if any) and go back to Step 1B.
   • You may build a bridge on the tile just placed or a tile orthogonal to the tile just placed if you have any left in your supply. The bridge may be required to make the tile placement legal. (Otherwise, a bridge can be placed at any time during the turn but taking into account restrictions imposed by feature completion and figure placement.) If the placement is illegal without the bridge, you may choose to discard the tile. TREE TRAP
     • If placing a bridge on a tile with a tower, you may need to move it slightly to make room for the bridge.
     • No bridge can be built on an acrobat tile with one or more acrobats.
     • You can build a bridge on a circus tile (with or without the big top).
2. Note: any tile-based feature that is finished is considered complete at this time.
3. If a volcano symbol is on the tile, place the dragon on this tile.
4. If a princess symbol is on the tile, and the tile is added to an existing city with a knight on it, you may remove a knight of your choice and skip Steps 2B-1 and 2B-2.
5. If a plague source is on the tile, the lowest numbered Outbreak token not yet in play must be placed on it.
6. If a gold symbol is on the tile, you must place a gold piece on that tile and an adjacent tile.
7. If a mage and witch symbol is on the tile, or if the tile joins the features with the Mage and Witch, you must move the Mage or the Witchthe Magethe Witch.
8. If a robber symbol is on the tile, your robber and next player’s robber still in his/her supplythe other players' robbers may be placed on the scoreboard. If you had already played your robber, you may move it.
9. If there is a quarter-wind rose on the tile and you place the tile in the appropriate quadrant of the playing farmfield, you score 3 points. MESSAGES (#1C) ROBBERS
10. If a hill is on the tile, place the hill tile while keeping the face-down second tile underneath it.
11. If placing the Solovei Razboynik tile on a road (or if connecting roads to it), all the thieveshighwaymen on the road are affected by this tile. TREE TRAP
12. If placing the Vodyanoy tile, all the followersmeeples on adjacent tiles are affected by this tile. LAKE TRAP
13. If the tile placed shows La Porxada, the player may choose between two actions:
    • Swapping followersmeeples in play: the player can exchange one followermeeple with one of another player. If the other player rejects, he or she must eliminate one of his or her followersmeeples for the remainder of the game
    • Final scoring bonus
14. If placing a circus tile for the first time, place an animal token facedown on the circus area and then the big top on it.
15. If there is a fruit-bearing tree on the tile, place a stack of 4 fruit tokens of the same type facedown on the tile (it doens't matter if it matches the type of tree.)
16. If the tile placed is the last one to surround a bathhouse with a trapped followermeeple, the followermeeple can be taken back by its owner for free. If the owner forgets, the player will have to pay to get it back.

2. Placing a followermeeple

Step 2A: Move the Wood (Prologue)

1. If you have a followermeeple on a bathhouse, you may buy the followermeeple back by losing as many points as the number on the bathhouse tile. You can place the followermeeple in the same turn.

There are no particular actions for this step.

Step 2B-1: Move the Wood (Phase 1)

Skip this step if you removed a knight with a princess symbol.
Otherwise, you may do one and only one of the following: You may do one and only one of the following:

1. Deploy a followermeeple. The magic portal and flier can be used, if present on the tile.The magic portal can be used, if present on the tile.The flier can be used, if present on the tile. (Forbidden if volcano or plague source was played.)(Forbidden if plague source was played.)(Forbidden if volcano was played.) TREE TRAP / LAKE TRAP
   • Normal followermeeple on feature or wooden bridge
   • Big followerLarge meeple on feature or wooden bridge
   • Mayor in city
   • Wagon on feature (not farmfield) or wooden bridge
   • Abbot on garden or monastic building (cloistermonastery, abbey, shrine, German monastery, Dutch & Belgian monastery, Japanese building, Darmstadt church)
   • Ringmaster on feature or wooden bridge
2. Deploy a followermeeple to tower piecefloor LAKE TRAP
   • Normal followermeeple
   • Big followerLarge meeple
   • Ringmaster
3. Perform an acrobat action
   • Add a normal followermeeple to an uncompleted acrobat pyramid with no wooden bridge on the tile LAKE TRAP:
     • By direct placement, if the newly placed tile is an acrobat tile or is adjacent to one.
     • By means of a magic portal, if present on the tile and not used earlier.
     • By means of a flier, if present on the tile and not used earlier.
     If the acrobat pyramid has three followersmeeples now, it will be considered complete at this time.
   • Score a completed acrobat pyramid finished in a previous turn and remove all the acrobats from it to allow players to build a new acrobat pyramid in future turns. ROBBERS
4. Deploy one of your other figures. (Forbidden if volcano was played.) (Unknown if allowed after playing plague source.)
   • Pig to a farmfield containing one of your followersmeeples
   • Builder to a city or road containing one of your followersmeeples
   • Shepherd to a farmfield not already containing a shepherd. You must perform the following action:
     • ExpandGrow the flock action (draw a token)
5. Deploy the barn. The farmfield will be scored as a normal feature in Step 3B.
6. Perform one special action
   • Place a followermeeple on the Wheel of Fortune
   • Remove one of your own figure from anywhere in the playing area if the festival symbol was on the played tile
   • Retrieve 1 followermeeple trapped by Vodyanoy or Solovei Razboynik.
   • Remove your abbot and score its points ROBBERS
7. Deploy / move a neutral figure or token
   • Place a tower piecefloor on any tower base or available tower.
     • You may capture a followermeeple if appropriate.
     • If two players have captured one of each other’s followersmeeples, they must immediately be exchanged.
   • Place a little building on the tile just played
   • Move the fairy next to one of your followersmeeples (not allowed if on a castle)
   • Place or move your tollhouse on a free crossroad

Step 2B-2: Move the Wood (Phase 2)

Skip this step if you removed a knight with a princess symbol.
Otherwise, you may do one and only one of the following: You may do one and only one of the following:

1. Place the phantom in the same way as a normal followermeeple on feature or wooden bridge. The flier and magic portal, if present on the tile, can be used as long as they were not used in Step 2B-1.The magic portal, if present on the tile, can be used as long as it was not used in Step 2B-1.The flier, if present on the tile, can be used as long as it was not used in Step 2B-1. This step is forbidden if a volcano or plague source tile was played.This step is forbidden if a volcano tile was played.This step is forbidden if a plague source tile was played. TREE TRAP / LAKE TRAP
2. Deploy a phantom to a tower piecefloor LAKE TRAP
3. Perform an acrobat action
   • Add a phantom to an uncompleted acrobat pyramid with no wooden bridge on the tile LAKE TRAP:
     • By direct placement, if the newly placed tile is an acrobat tile or is adjacent to one.
     • By means of a magic portal, if present on the tile and not used earlier in Step 2B-1.
     • By means of a flier, if present on the tile and not used earlier in Step 2B-1.
     If the acrobat pyramid has three followersmeeples now, it will be considered complete at this time.
4. Perform one special action
   • Place a phantom on the Wheel of Fortune

There are no particular actions for this step.

Step 2C: Resolve Move the Wood

1. If a ferry lake was on the placed tile, place a ferry. TREE TRAP
2. If placement of a tile extended a road with a ferry, the ferry may be moved. Each ferry may only be moved once per turn. TREE TRAP
3. If placement of the tile extended the farmfield with your shepherd, you must choose one of the following two actions:
   • ExpandGrow the flock (draw a token)
   • Herd the flock intoGuide the flock to the stable (score 1 point per sheep) ROBBERS
4. Additionally, if placement of the tile closed the farmfield completely (by roads and/or city walls for example) with one or more shepherds, the following action is triggered automatically:
   • Herd the flock intoGuide the flock to the stable (score 1 point per sheep) ROBBERS
5. If the tile placed has one or more followersmeeples on any of its features, and it has one fruit-bearing tree or is adjacent to one or more of them, you may perform one of the following actions per tree and followermeeple:
   • Harvesting: Take the top-most fruit token (if available) and score fruit points ROBBERS
   • Selling: Sell from 1 to 4 fruit tokens and score accordingly ROBBERS
6. Consider the total movement of your counting figures after all the actions are scored: MESSAGES (#2) ROBBERS

There are no particular actions for this step.

2b. Moving the dragon

Step 2D: The Dragon Moves

1. HiG & ZMG rules: If a dragon symbol was on the placed tile, move the dragon.
2. If a dragon symbol was on the placed tile, move the dragon.

3. Scoring a feature

Step 3A: Identify Completed Features

1. Identify all completed features:
   • Features completed by tile placement or by abbey placement or by halfling placement or by German castle placement
     • Roads
     • Cities
     • Monastic buildings:
       • Monastery
       • Abbey
       • Shrine
       • German monastery (with monk)
       • Dutch & Belgian monastery (with monk)
       • Japanese building (with monk)
       • Darmstadt church
     • Baba Yaga's hut
     • Gardens
     • German castles (except by another German castle)
     • German cathedrals
   • Roads or German cathedrals completed by placement of a bridge
   • Roads or German cathedrals completed by placement of a tunnel token
   • Roads or German cathedrals completed by placement or movement of a ferry
   • FarmsFields to be scored due to barn placement or joining of a farmfield with a farmer to one with a barn
   • Castles completed by the completion of a nearby feature (not on the same turn that the castle itself was built)
   • If the tile placed completed the city with La Porxada, all players with knights in the city (majority is not considered) take one token to indicate their presence. This action is only necessary if the player who placed La Porxada chose the final scoring bonus
2. Each player receiving points chooses the order in which his or her features resolve.
   • Exception: You determine the scoring order if scoring multiple features controlled by different players and some arbitration is required.
   • Exception: You determine the scoring order if there are free bathhouses and multiple features with one followermeeple are scored.
   • Exception: A castle must be resolved immediately after any feature which triggers its completion (the castle owner selects the feature if multiple features in the fief were completed by the same tile placement).
   • Exception: Completed castles overlapping other completed castles' fiefs must be resolved together.
3. Perform Step 3B for each completed feature in the order chosen.

Step 3B: Resolve Completed Features

1. If a townsmall city was created by the tile placement, the townsmall city may be converted into a castle by the occupying player. If converted, this feature’s completion is considered to be resolved. Go to the next feature.
2. If the Gingerbread Man is in a completed city, all players with knights in the city receive points. You then place the Gingerbread Man in an unfinished city of your choice. (How this would interact with a newly-formed castle is unknown. As a castle is no longer a city, the Gingerbread Man should likely be removed with no scoring.) ROBBER CHOICE
3. Rewards for completing the feature
   • Collect any trade good tokens
   • If the completed feature is a city or road, check to see if it is the new largest one and, if so, receive the King or Robber Baron. Place the king token or robber baron token on the new largest feature accordingly
4. The player to your left may move one or more followersmeeples from the City of Carcassonne to the current feature. Everyone has this opportunity in turn, ending with you. TREE TRAP / LAKE TRAP
5. Resolve control of the completed feature
   • Normal followermeeple (1 vote)
   • Big followerLarge meeple (2 votes)
   • Wagon (1 vote)
   • Mayor (1 vote per pennantcoat of arms)
   • Phantom (1 vote)
   • Abbot (1 vote)
   • Ringmaster (1 vote)
   • Hill (If there is a tie, tied players with at least one followermeeple on a hill are considered to have control)
   • Citizen's Jury scoring tile: All players in a city share the majority no matter their votes
6. If scoring a city or a road with at least one watchtower, score the watchtower bonus for each player with followersmeeples on a watchtower (no majority applied.) ROBBER CHOICE
7. If scoring a road beginning or ending at crossroads with a tollhouse, score the toll for each tollhouse owner. ROBBER CHOICE
8. Players with majority on a completed road leading (directly or indirectly) to Leipzig may send one followermeeple to a quarterdistrict where they have no presence yet. If a player has majority with only one followermeeple, he or she does not score the feature as a result (although he or she may get bonus points from the Markets of Leipzig.)
9. Tally points and award points to the controlling player(s) ROBBER CHOICE
   • Road (feature tiles + German cathedrals + inns + mage + witch + little buildings + German castles + bathhouses + labyrinths, taking into account scoring tiles)
   • Cities (feature tiles + Cathars / siege / besiegers + cathedrals + mage + witch + little buildings + German castles + bathhouses + Darmstadtium, taking into account scoring tiles)
   • Monastic buildings (feature and adjacent tiles + vineyards + little buildings, taking into account scoring tiles)
     • Monastery
     • Abbey
     • Shrine
     • German monastery (with monk)
     • Dutch & Belgian monastery (with monk)
     • Japanese building (with monk)
     • Darmstadt church
   • Fields with barn(s) (completed cities / castles + pig + pig-herd + Cathars / siege / besiegers + little buildings)
   • Baba Yaga's hut (feature tile + little buildings)
   • Gardens (feature and adjacent tiles + little buildings)
   • German castles (feature and adjacent tiles + little buildings)
   • German cathedrals (roads tiles and road segments on German cathedral tiles + inns + little buildings)
   Note: If applicable, these tallied points (that is, the feature points excluding any bonus points) will be used by:

   • A castle scoring triggered by this feature (not applicable to fields with barn(s))
   • The teacher bonus triggered by this feature
10. If a player has the teacher, that player scores the same number of points that were awarded to the feature. (If more than one player is receiving points simultaneously, the holder of the teacher can choose which points to receive.) The teacher is then returned to the school. ROBBER CHOICE
11. If a fairy is next to a followermeeple in the completed feature, that followermeeple’s owner receives 3 points. (This bonus does not affect acrobats in a pyramid.) ROBBER CHOICE
12. Each player scores his or her ringmaster, if placed on a completed feature (no majority is considered). ROBBER CHOICE
13. Each player complying with the Markets of Leipzig requirements for the completed feature will score the appropriate bonus. ROBBER CHOICE
14. If the feature completed is a Darmstadt church, the player(s) with the majority in the vicinity of the church will receive 3 bonus points. ROBBER CHOICE
15. If there are free bathhouses, any followermeeple that takes part in a scoring on its own has to be moved to an unoccupied bathhouse, if possible. You choose the order of these actions if several followersmeeples are involved, and also the bathhouse(s) you want to keep, if affected. LAKE TRAP
16. Remove the mage or witch if they were involved in the scoring of this feature.
17. Remove the mage if it was involved in the scoring of this feature.
18. Remove the witch if it was involved in the scoring of this feature.
19. If a heretic or monk completes its feature, determine if a “race to completion" has been won. If so, return the losing followermeeple to its owner.
20. Move any wagons on the completed feature to any adjoining unoccupied uncompleted featureany unoccupied uncompleted feature on the same tile or around it, if any. If more than one wagon can move, you move first, and then order of movement proceeds clockwise. TREE TRAP / LAKE TRAP
21. Return all remaining followersmeeples on the completed feature to their owners.
22. If one or more of the school's roads were completed, you receive the teacher from the school tiles.

Step 3C: Resolve the Tile Scoring

1. If there is at least one gold piece on a tile with the completed features, gold pieces are distributed to the controlling player(s)
2. For each tollhouse that just scored at least one group of travellers, turn over the tollhouse token once (even if the tollhouse affected several completed roads)
3. If you scored points for at least one road, city or monastic building, change the active scoring tiles for the three feature types.
4. If a new circus tile was placed, score the animal token under the big top. Then place new animal token facedown on the new circus tile and place the big top on it. ROBBERS
5. If you played a Gingerbread Man tile on this turn but it didn't complete a city, move the Gingerbread Man to a different uncompleted city. All players receive points for any knights they have in the city that the Gingerbread Man just left. ROBBERS
6. If you did not score any points from placement of the tile this turn, but one or more opponents did, you may place a followermeeple in the City of Carcassonne. Then, if you did the placement, you may move the Count to a quarterdistrict of your choice.
7. Consider the total movement of your counting figures after all the features are scored: MESSAGES (#3) ROBBERS

There are no particular actions for this step.

3b. Moving the dragon

Step 3D: The Dragon Moves

1. RGG rules only: If a dragon symbol was on the placed tile, move the dragon.

4. Additional actions

Step 4A: Resolve the Tile Actions

1. If a fair symbol was on the placed tile, use the catapult. MESSAGES (#4) ROBBERS
2. If a crop circle was on the placed tile, you decide whether all players now A) may deploy a followermeeple next to one already in play or B) must remove a followermeeple. The type of followermeeple is determined by the type of crop circle.
3. You may remove one knight from a besieged city if a cloistermonastery / shrine / abbey / German or Dutch & Belgian monastery / Japanese building / Darmstadt church directly borders:
   • Any tile of that city (Siege)
   • A Cathar tile (Cathars) or Besiegers tile (Besiegers)
4. If a bazaar symbol was on the placed tile (and the tile was not purchased during an auction), and there are enough tiles left:
   1. Perform an auction. ROBBERS
   2. Perform special bazaar round to allow all players to place their purchased tiles, starting clockwise from the player to your left and ending with you (players follow the Order of Play placing the purchased tiles instead of drawing new ones.)
5. If a bazaar symbol was on the placed tile (and the tile was not purchased during an auction), and there are enough tiles left, repeat actions 1 and 2 until no player has a pending delayed auction:
   1. Perform an auction. ROBBERS
   2. Perform special bazaar round to allow all players to place their purchased tiles, starting clockwise from the player to your left and ending with you (players follow the Order of Play placing the purchased tiles instead of drawing new ones.) During this special bazaar round, the following special cases may happen:
      • A player triggers a double turn: Carry out the two parts of the double turn normally before the next player's bazaar turn.
      • A player draws and places a new bazaar tile in the second part of his/her double turn: Proceed as usual but delay the associated auction until the current bazaar round is finished (A new bazaar round will be carried out.)

There are no particular actions for this step.

Step 4B: Resolve the Turn

There are no particular actions for this step.

4. Additional actions

Step 4B: Resolve the Turn

1. If you had a builder on a road or city that was extended by the placement of the tile, repeat Steps 1B through 4A once more and only once more.

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