The Abbot

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File:Abbot C2 Logo.png

The Abbot logo

The Abbot introduces the abbot meeple and garden features.

File:Abbot C2 Example Garden.png

A garden

Rules

Setup

Each player adds the abbot of their color to their supply.

Playing the game

1. Placing a Tile

When placing a tile with a garden, you must place it so that it its edges match the edges of tiles already in play.

2. Placing a Meeple OR the Abbot

When you place a tile with a monastery or garden, you may either place a normal meeple or your abbot meeple. If you place an abbot, you must place it on the monastery or garden you just placed.

3. Scoring with the Abbot

When the monastery or garden occupied by your abbot is surrounded by eight tiles, you score 9 points (just like a regular monastery scoring). During final scoring, incomplete monasteries occupied by abbots are scored the same way as those occupied by monks. On your turn, you may decide to not place a meeple, and may instead return your already-placed abbot to your supply. If you do so, you score as many points as the garden or monastery your abbot occupied is worth at that time, exactly like how monasteries are scored during the final scoring.

You place this tile, but choose to not place a meeple. Instead, you return your abbot to your supply, which you placed on a previous turn. You score 6 points (1 for the garden, and 5 for the tiles surrounding it).

Tile distribution

The following tile distribution includes all the tiles featuring a garden that can be found in the Base game and the expansions released until now for the new edition.

Base game

Total tiles: 8

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