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Originally released by Hans im Glück in 2000

A clever tile-laying game for 2 to 5 players aged 8 and above by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede

The city of Carcassonne in southern France is famous for its unique Roman and Medieval fortifications. The players take their chances with their followers on the roads and in the cities, cloisters, farms around Carcassonne. The development of the land is in their hands, and the skillful deployment of the followers as thieves, knights, monks and farmers is the path to success.

Contenuti

• 72 land tiles (including one with a dark reverse) which depict road, city and field segments, as well as cloisters and crossings.

Tile description and features:
A. Reverse of the starting tile B. A cloister C. City segments	D. Farm segments E. Road segments F. Crossings

• 40 followers in five colors:

	Followers in five colors

  Question: Too few followers—are we playing wrong or are there really too few?

Answer:

This is the number intended by designers. A certain shortage of followers is entirely intentional. An important element of the game is precisely learning to be economical with one's followers.

Each follower can be deployed as a knight, monk, thief or farmer. One follower of each color is used as a scoring marker.

• One scoreboard. This is used to track players' scores
• One rule booklet and one supplement.

Regole

Panoramica

The players place the land tiles turn by turn. This leads to the growth of roads, cities, cloisters and farms, to which the players may deploy their followers in order to earn points. As points can be won during the game as well as at the end, the winner will only emerge during the final scoring.

Preparazione

The starting tile is placed in the middle of the table. The remaining tiles are mixed and placed face-down on the table in several stacks, so that each player can access them easily. Tiles can also be placed into a sack or game box and drawn randomly. The scoreboard should be placed at the edge of the table if possible.

Scoreboard

Each player chooses a color and receives the eight followers, placing one on the ‘0’ field of the scoreboard as a scoring marker. The remaining seven followers stay with the player for the moment, as his or her supply.

The youngest player decides who starts the game.

Come si gioca

Il gioco prosegue in senso orario. Il giocatore di turno compie le seguenti azioni in questo ordine:

1. The player must draw one new land tile and place it.
2. The player may draw one follower from his or her supply and deploy it to the tile just placed.
3. If any roads, cities, or cloisters are completed through the placement of the tile, they must be scored now.

E poi tocca al giocatore successivo.

1. Posizionare una tessera

As their first action, the player must draw a tile from one of the stacks. The tile is then shown to the other players (so they can ‘advise’ the player about where to place it) and placed on the table. The player must take care to observe the following points:

• At least one side of the new tile (with a red border in the examples below) must touch one or more tiles already in play. Corner-to-corner placement is not permitted.

• Any city, road, and field segments must continue segments already in play. A newly placed land tile must fit the adjacent terrain on all edges. During placement it is not enough to look for only one side that fits.
  

  Illegal tile placement

In the rare case that a tile cannot legally be placed anywhere, and all players agree, it is removed from the game, and the player draws another.

2. Schierare un seguace

When the player has placed the tile, he or she may deploy a follower. In doing so the following points must be observed:

• Only one follower may be deployed each turn.
• The follower must come from the player's supply.
• The follower may only be deployed to the tile just placed.
• The player must decide which part of the tile the follower is deployed to as either:

a thief on a road segment

a knight in a city segment

a monk on a cloister (monastery)

a farmer on one of those two field segments. Place farmer lying down!

• There must be no other follower (not even one belonging to the same player) on the road, city, or field segments connected to the tile just placed. It does not matter how far away the follower is. The following two examples may help to explain:

BLUE can only deploy a farmer: there is already a knight in the connecting city.

BLUE can deploy the follower as a knight or a thief, or as a farmer on the small farm segment: the large farm is already occupied.

If a player runs out of followers during the course of play, he or she may only place tiles. But don't panic: you can also get followers back.

If you complete a previously unoccupied feature when placing a tile, you do not have to occupy it and earn the points. You can close the city or road without it being occupied and (for example) deploy a farmer as long as the farm is unoccupied. The city does not necessarily require a knight to look after it.

Earning points from a closed city

Ora che il turno del giocatore è finito, tocca a quello alla sua sinistra.

  Question: We have difficulty deciding when a placed tile represents a new city or belongs to one already being built.

Answer:

'Corner to corner' is not a connection. Segments can only be connected on the edges. In the example shown there are two cities at the moment.

  Question: On cloister tiles, are we allowed to deploy a follower on the surrounding field segment?

Answer:

Yes! The same rules are valid for a field surrounding a cloister as for any other field. You can also deploy a farmer next to a cloister. In this case the cloister remains unoccupied for the rest of the game.[unless the cloister is occupied via a magic portal, or from a follower in Carcassonne—ed.]

3. Punteggio per le strade, città e monasteri completati

Strada completata

A road is completed when the road segments on both sides end in a crossing, a city segment, or a cloister, or when the road forms a closed circle. There is no limit to the number of road segments which can lie between these endings.

A player who has a thief on this completed road scores as many points as the road is long, decided by counting the number of tiles.

RED scores 4 points

RED scores 3 points

Whenever points are scored, they are immediately recorded on the scoreboard (more on this in the section about the scoreboard).

  Question: Can a road end in nothing?

Answer:

No, like all the usual land tiles, a road segment must continue to another road segment on all edges.

  Question: How are the road segments between T-junctions scored? Are the horizontal segments (on top of the T) also ends, or do these count as straight roads that have to be completed elsewhere?

Answer:

Every crossing (or junction) ends a road, irrespective of which direction they reach the junction from. The thieves cannot enter the small villages on the junctions either. In the example shown, every thief is on its own road.

Città completata

A city is completed when its segments are fully encompassed by a city wall and there are no gaps within the city. There is no limit to how many segments a city may contain.

A player who has a knight in a completed city scores 2 points for every city segment. Every pennant (banner / shield symbol) scores an extra 2 points. Note that a pennant only affects the city segment it is in, not the whole tile (if there is more than one segment on a single tile).

RED scores 8 points (three city segments and one pennant)

RED scores 8 points (four city segments, no pennants)

When both city segments on a tile are in a single city (marked with A), they only count as one segment.

What happens if there are several followers on a completed road or in a completed city?

Through the wily placement of land tiles it is quite possible for several thieves to be on a road, or for several knights to occupy a city.

The points are then scored by the player with the most thieves or knights. In the case of a draw, all players involved score the full number of points.

The new tile joins the previously unconnected city segments, forming a single completed city.

BLUE and RED both score the full 10 points, as they both have one knight in the city—a draw!

Monastero completato

Un monastero si considera completato quando è circondato da otto tessere paesaggio. Il giocatore che ha un monaco nel monastero ottiene immediatamente 9 punti—1 punto per ogni tessera paesaggio.

RED scores 9 points

Returning followers to their owners

After a road, city, or cloister has been completed and scored – and only then – any thieves, knights, or monks involved are returned to their owner. From the next turn onwards, the player can then use them again in whatever role he or she chooses.

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It is possible to deploy a follower, score immediately, and have the follower returned, all in the same turn. In this case, you must use the following order:

1. Complete a road, city or cloister with the new tile.
2. Deploy a thief, knight or monk.
3. Score the completed road, city or cloister.
4. Return the thief, knight or monk to your supply.

RED scores 4 points

RED scores 3 points

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  Question: If a player draws a tile with two city segments and completes a small city, earning 4 points, can he or she then deploy a follower to a new city segment in the same turn?

Answer:

A player may only deploy one follower per turn, and that follower may be deployed only once, and it must be before any scoring. If the player already occupies the small, now-completed city, he or she may deploy a second follower to the other city segment immediately after placing the tile. The small city will then be scored and the follower involved returned to the player. If the player does not yet occupy this city, he or she can decide which of the two city segments to deploy a follower to. If the follower is deployed to the small city, it will be returned immediately and the player will earn four points, but the follower cannot be redeployed.

Farms

Several connected field segments form a farm. Farms and field segments are not scored during the game. They serve only as places to deploy farmers; the owner of the farm only scores points at the end of the game. As such, farmers remain on the farm for the duration of the game and are never returned to their owner! In order to make that clear, the farmers should be laid on their backs.

Farms are separated from each other by roads, cities and the edge of the playing field – this is important during the final scoring.

All three farmers are on their own farms. The road segment and the city separate the farms from each other.

After the placement of the new tile, the farms of the three farmers are joined to form one.

Be careful: The player who placed the new tile may not deploy a farmer, since the (now connected) farm is already occupied by farmers.

The scoreboard

Any points scored should be recorded on the scoreboard immediately. The board is a track of fifty fields that can be lapped many times. When the field "0" is reached or passed the player takes a point tile (from  Inns & Cathedrals) and places it in plain view of all other players, with the number "50" face up. In this way it is clear to all that the player has already scored 50 points or more If the player reaches or passes the field "0" again, they should turn the point tile over so that the number "100" is face up. It is quite possible that the player might lap the circuit a third time: then he or she should take another point tile and display it next to the first, the "50" face up.

"50"/"100" tiles and a scoring marker after 50 points.

Note: When two followers of one color are occupying a road, city, or farm, you DO NOT score double in these cases. The number of followers (or in  Inns & Cathedrals the size of the followers) has no effect on the points that a player earns from a road, city, cloister, or farm. Two knights do not double the points. The number of followers is only important in establishing who has the majority.

Scoring when two followers are in the same city

La fine del gioco

The game ends at the end of the turn in which the last land tile is placed. Any roads, cities, and cloisters completed in this round are scored as usual. This is followed by the final scoring.

Punteggio finale

Scoring incomplete roads, cities and cloisters

The first things to be scored during the final scoring are the incomplete roads, cities and cloisters. For every incomplete road, city and cloister the owner scores 1 point for every tile. Pennants also now score only 1 point. As soon as the feature in question has been scored, the followers involved are removed.

RED scores 3 points for the incomplete road. YELLOW scores 5 points for the incomplete cloister. BLUE scores 3 points for the incomplete city on the bottom right. GREEN scores 8 points for the large incomplete city. BLACK scores nothing, since GREEN has more knights in the city.

  Question: Final scoring: segments of incomplete roads. 1 point per follower or 1 point per road segment? Cloister: 1 point for every neighboring tile (e.g. 5), or is an incomplete cloister worth only 1 point?

Answer:

During the final scoring, roads earn exactly as much as during the game, that is, 1 point per tile that the road occupies. In the example shown, BLUE earns four points at the end of the game. The only exception in the final scoring is a road with an inn from  Inns & Cathedrals, which earns no points whatsoever at the end of the game. The cloister earns 1 point for the cloister itself and 1 point for every neighboring tile. When there are five tiles surrounding the cloister it earns 6 in total.

Scoring farms

Only the farmers and their farms are left, and these will be scored now. The owner of each farm should be established. If several players have farmers on a given farm, then the player with the most farmers is the owner. In the case of a draw, all the players with the most farmers are considered to be owners. The owner (or owners) of the farm score 3 points for every completed city which borders the farm, or lies within it. A bordering city is one that has a wall bordering the farm; a single point of contact at the corner of a tile is not sufficient. If a city borders more than one farm, the owner(s) of each farm score(s) 3 points for the city.

BLUE scores 9 points.

BLUE scores 6 points. RED scores 3 points. The incomplete city generates no points.

The numbered boxes indicate the order in which the tiles were placed.

Having the majority of farmers, RED owns the large farm, and scores 6 points: 3 each for the cities A and B. BLUE owns the small farm, scoring 3 points for city A.

On the large farm RED and YELLOW both have two farmers, and so both score 6 points: 3 each for the cities A and B. BLUE owns the small farm, scoring 3 points for city A.

Every farm scores the bordering cities in the same way. When this has been done, the game is over.

The player with the most points wins.

  Question: It is unclear whether incomplete farms earn points during the final scoring.

Answer:

It is almost impossible to close off or complete most of the farms. The most important thing when scoring the farms are the cities, which do indeed have to be complete. So: completed cities count on incomplete farms as well.

  Question: At the end of the game, do we score farms which are completely closed off by roads, but which don't have any adjacent cities? If so, how?

Answer:

Strictly speaking, they should be scored exactly like every other farm, with 3 points for every completed city. In this case, that makes a total of zero points. And the farmer is nevertheless unable to leave the farm. All this is of course highly frustrating and cries out for revenge!

Example of farmer scoring

Here is a more detailed example of how farmers and their farms are scored.

Be careful with the edges of the farm: farms are separated from each other by roads, cities (if they don’t lie within the farm) and the edge of the playing field.

* Farm 1: BLUE owns farm 1. Two completed cities (A and B) border the farm. For each completed city BLUE scores 3 points (irrespective of their size), or a total of 6 points.

* Farm 2: RED and BLUE own farm 2. There are three completed cities (A, B and C) bordering or lying within this farm. RED and BLUE therefore score 9 points each.

Notice that cities A and B score points for BLUE on farm 1 as well as RED and BLUE on farm 2, since these cities border both farms. The city on the bottom left is incomplete, and so generates no points.

* Farm 3: YELLOW owns farm 3, since YELLOW has more farmers on it than BLACK. There are four completed cities bordering or lying within farm 3, so YELLOW scores 12 points.

Variants

There are a number of variants for the base game, which modify or redefine the rules of the game to achieve different effects. In the early years of the game, expansions were not so common and many fans started to explore alternative rules to exploit the game's potential. HiG noticed and posted many of these variants on their website for several years.

You can find more information about these variants here.

Regole della casa

• The players decide who starts the game by any method they choose—such as by rolling three followers. The first player to ‘roll’ a standing follower decides who plays first. (Thanks to Joff.)

• To determine the first player; each player draws a tile from the bag, the player that drew the tile with the most roads (0 to 4) plays first, if there is a tie for most roads, a draw-off takes place. This is repeated until someone wins. (Thanks to michael.)

• Take your next tile at the end of your turn, to give you time to think about placement and avoid analysis paralysis.

• Play with a three-tile hand. The abbey counts as part of your hand. Play your turn, including the builder, and then draw back up to three tiles. These tiles could be visible to all or hidden to the other players (Thanks to DavidP and youtch.)

• When playing with a bag for the tiles, the original starting tile may be put into the bag, and unplayable tiles can be put back into the bag rather than set to one side. (Thanks to dwhitworth.)

• Trees (bushes) on roads do not end the road—only houses do (when the road forks). This makes road building a lot more dynamic. (Thanks to Tobias.)

• When a tile is the only tile which can currently complete a structure, other players can offer to ‘buy’ it by offering points, trades counter, abbey, and so on. (Thanks to Deatheux.)

• If you place a tile that fills a hole in the playing field by touching something on all four adjacent sides, you get another turn. This helps motivate people to finish the board even if they do not get an advantage from the placement. (Does not apply to the abbey tile). (Thanks to viberunner.)

• Incomplete features at the end of the game do not score points at the end of the game. (Thanks to metoth.)

• The edge of the table limits the playing area. Thus, a player may not place a tile past the edge of the table or move the playing area to place a tile that would have been past the edge of the table. (Thanks to metoth for prompting this one, and to SkullOne for pointing out that this is an official rule from Hunters and Gatherers.)

• Table borders COMPLETE features as an abbey would. (Thanks to PreGy.)

• Use colored dice instead of meeples on the scoring track. Start out with the 6 showing on top. When the marker completes one lap, turn it to the number 1 to indicate it has completed one lap. This shows at a glance which player is on what lap and who's ahead. On the 100 space track it’s even easier to determine someone’s score at a glance. (Thanks to Carcking.)

Use of a Table

A number of questions have been asked about rules related to the play area itself, including what happens when the edge of the area is reached, or if a table has to be used for play. The following clarifications are from Georg Wild from HiG (5/2013):

• The edge of the table is the limit for the game if, as stated in the rules, a table is used.
• The rules state that the starting tile is placed in the middle of the table. If all of the tiles are shifted to allow more room, the starting tile would no longer be in the middle. So in principle, total shifting of the tiles is not allowed. Additionally, with a manual shift of all of the tiles, the tiles and figures on the field can slip, which could lead to incorrect positioning of tiles or figures.
• Addition of a second table is possible if one of an appropriate height is added to the first table. If a table is extended (as with an additional panel), make sure that the tiles and figures on the playing field do not slip.
• Playing on the floor: The rules technically do not allow this, because the rules state that the first tile is placed in the middle of the table. Playing on the floor is not forbidden, however, if use of a table is not feasible. If the floor is used, tiles must be placed so all tiles are visible to all players. Tiles cannot be placed under the sofa, cabinet/shelf, etc.
• It is important generally, that all the players in the round agree how to play:
  • Table - Standard
  • Table - with "total shifting" of tiles
  • Table - with extension
  • Floor
• Continue to play fairly and not intentionally unfair to other players.

Distribuzione delle tessere

Total tiles: 72

 ×1

 

 ×3

 ×1

 ×2

 

 ×1

 ×3

 ×2

 

 ×2

 ×3

 ×2

 

 ×3

 ×2

 ×1

 

 ×5

 ×3

 ×4

(S)

 ×3

 ×3

 ×4

Cloister

 ×2

Cloister

 ×9

 ×8

 ×4

 ×1

One of the tiles marked with "(S)" is the starting tile (with a dark back).

Note

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