The 4 Seasons - Spring / Summer / Autumn
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The 4 Seasons is a series of four mini expansions each one dedicated to a different season with individual illustrations. The Spring mini expansion contains 12 tiles featuring spring-themed motives. The Summer mini expansion contains 12 tiles featuring summer-themed motives. The Autumn mini expansion contains 12 tiles featuring autumn-themed motives. You can use these sets of tiles to simply expand the landscape with beautifully ornated tiles or as mini-expansions.
 Promotional image of The Spring |
 Promotional image of The Summer |
 Promotional image of The Autumn |
Spring has arrived in Carcassonne! Admire the gardens and flowers that are spreading across the fields!
Summer is finally here! Refresh yourself in the cool water -whether it's a lake, fountain or river! Let your meeple splash around and score extra points!
Autumn is harvest time! That‘s why we pay special attention to the farmhouses and stables in and around Carcassonne in autumn.
General info and comments
 Spring expansion symbol |
 Summer expansion symbol |
 Autumn expansion symbol |
The Spring and The Autumn were released in the 3rd edition (C3 for short) in April and in November 2024 respectively by HiG. The Summer was released in the 3rd edition (C3 for short) in March 2025 by the same publisher. They are part of a series of expansions called The 4 Seasons.
These expansions don't exist for the 1st edition (C1 for short) or the 2nd edition (C2 for short).
These expansions have cities with clipped buildings.
Contents
- 12 new landscape tiles with spring-themed motives for The Spring.
 Spring tiles |
- 12 new landscape tiles with summer-themed motives for The Summer.
 Summer tiles |
- 12 new landscape tiles with autumn-themed motives for The Autumn.
 Autumn tiles |
Rules
Preparation
Mix the new tiles with the landscape tiles from the base game.
Gameplay
1. Placing a tile
If you draw a season tile, you place it according to the usual rules.
2. Placing a meeple
You can place one of your meeple on the season tile according to the usual rules.
Statue tiles
You will find 1 statue tile in each of the The 4 Seasons series.
 The Spring statue |
The Summer statue |
The Autumn statue |
The following rule applies to all 4 statue tiles of The 4 Seasons:
If your tile is horizontally, vertically or diagonally adjacent to a statue tile of the 4 Seasons after being placed, you may place 2 meeples on this tile in different features.
3. Scoring a feature
You now score points for garden and spring tiles that are horizontally, vertically or diagonally adjacent to the spring tile you have placed:
- For each garden you get 3 points
- For each spring tile you get 1 point
Note: The flowers and flowerbeds on the spring tiles, especially the flowerbeds around the monastery, do not count as a garden.
A garden always looks like this:
For water that is vertically, horizontally or diagonally adjacent to the summer tile you have placed, you now receive points.
For each tile that shows water and/or a water tower, you receive 2 points.
Note: You also score 2 points for a summer tile with water on it, if it's placed within the radius of the summer tile you have placed. If there is more than one water on a tile, you still get 2 points.
The summer tile just placed does not generate any points itself, even if it has water on it. Water can be depicted in different ways, e.g:
Water tower
Water trough
Fountain
River source
You can find water on tiles here, among other places: the river, the ferries, the drawbridges, the Ukraine tile, the castles in Germany, inns. Water wells in cities, at crossroads and on roads in general will not be considered.
Question: Do water wells grant points when placing a summer tile? You may find them in cities and at crossroads.
Answer: No they don't.
They would fit thematically, but the water wells are too small and hidden in the middle of the cities, which would be too confusing in a larger game. (4/2025)
 A well in a city |
 A well at a crossroads |
For farmhouses and stables that are vertically, horizontally or diagonally adjacent to the autumn tile you have placed, you now receive points. You immediately receive 2 points for each farmhouse or stable.
Farmhouses and stables (cowshed, donkey stable or pigsty) always look like this:
New land tiles
The Spring tiles
The Summer tiles
The Autumn tiles
Other expansions
This section contains additional information about the interactions with other Carcassonne expansions.
Placing 2 meeples
A tile adjacent to a statue allows you to place 0, 1 or 2 wooden meeples. This is one single action.
- If you only place one wooden meeple, you cannot perform any other action instead of placing the second wooden meeple. [5]
- If you only place one or two wooden meeples, you may use direct placement and even another placement mechanic available for one of the meeples: magic portal (
Exp. 3 - The Princess & the Dragon), flying machine (
Mini #1 - The Flying Machines), "Add Meeple" / "Place Meeple" (
20th Anniversary Expansion).
The wooden meeples that can be placed on the tile placed adjacent to a statue are the following:
- Normal meeple (
Base Game) - Abbot (Base Game -
The Abbot) - Large meeple (
Exp. 1 - Inns & Cathedrals) - Wagon (
Exp. 5 - Abbey & Mayor) - Mayor ( Exp. 5 - Abbey & Mayor)
- Ringmaster (
Exp. 10 - Under the Big Top) - Guard meeple (
Exp. 11 - Ghosts, Castles & Cemeteries)
After placing 0, 1 or 2 wooden meeples on the tile adjacent to a statue, you may place:
If you place a wooden meeple on a tile adjacent to a statue, you cannot remove your abbot instead of placing a second wooden meeple.
If you place a wooden meeple on a tile adjacent to a statue, you cannot place your builder or your pig instead of a second wooden meeple.Exp. 3 - The Princess & the Dragon
If you place a wooden meeple on a tile adjacent to a statue, you may not move the fairy instead of placing a second meeple. If you place a tile with a magic portal adjacent to a statue, you can use the magic portal with one wooden meeple and place the other on the tile as usual.
If you place a wooden meeple on a tile adjacent to a statue, you cannot place a tower piece instead of placing a second wooden meeple. If you place a wooden meeple on a tile adjacent to a statue, you cannot place a wooden meeple on a tower instead of placing a second wooden meeple. If you place a wooden meeple on a tile adjacent to a statue, you cannot place your barn instead of a second wooden meeple.
If you place a wooden meeple on a tile adjacent to a statue, you cannot place your shepherd instead of a second wooden meeple. If you place a tile with an acrobat space adjacent to a statue, you cannot add two acrobats to the pyramid. If you place a tile adjacent to an acrobat space and to a statue, you can only add one acrobat to the pyramid instead of placing wooden meeples on the tile just placed.
If you place a wooden meeple on a tile adjacent to a statue, you cannot score an acrobat pyramid instead of placing a second wooden meeple.
If you place a wooden meeple on a tile adjacent to a statue, you cannot place a wooden meeple on the crown of the Wheel of Fortune instead of a second wooden meeple. If you place a tile with a flying machine adjacent to a statue, you can use the flying machine with one wooden meeple and place the other wooden meeple on the tile as usual.
If you place a festival tile with a wooden meeple adjacent to a statue, you cannot remove a figure instead of placing a second wooden meeple. If you activate an "Add Meeple" symbol when placing a tile adjacent to a statue, you can use the action with one wooden meeple and place the other wooden meeple on the tile as usual. If you activate a "Place Meeple" symbol when placing a tile adjacent to a statue, you can use the action with one wooden meeple and place the other wooden meeple on the tile as usual.
If you place one or two wooden meeples on a tile adjacent to a statue, you may protect each of them individually. If you place a wooden meeple on a tile adjacent to a statue, you may not protect a meeple previously placed on the board instead of placing a second wooden meeple.
If you place a wooden meeple on a tile adjacent to a statue, you may not place or move your tollhouse token instead of placing a second wooden meeple.
If you place a wooden meeple on a tile adjacent to a statue, you may not place a little building token instead of placing a second wooden meeple.
If you place a wooden meeple on a tile adjacent to a statue, you may not remove a meeple trapped by Solovei Razboynik or Vodyanoy instead of placing a second wooden meeple.Water tiles
Tiles with water wells in cities, at crossroads or on roads in general are not considered water tiles. All river tiles are considered water tiles.
- 12 river tiles (
River I) - 12 river tiles (
River II) - 17 river tiles ( 20th Anniversary River)
- 12 river tiles ( River C3)
- 3 cut-n-play river tiles ( CutCassonne)
- 2 river tiles ( Games Quarterly #11)
Each half of the double-sized river source tile counts as a separate water tile ( 20th Anniversary River).
Question: If a summer tile is placed adjacent to the double-sized tile with the river source, does it grant 2 points per half tile? If the answer is yes, the active player would score 6 points for the tile placement in this example.
Answer: Yes, you get 6 points. (4/2025)
Tiles with inns are water tiles. The River II tiles are water tiles.
Exp. 8 - Bridges, Castles & Bazaars
Tiles with inns are water tiles.
All ferry lake tiles are water tiles.
Tiles featuring moats with water are water tiles. Tiles with dry ditches are not water tiles.
All bathhouse tiles are water tiles.
Only the left half of the Bentheim Castle tile counts as a water tile (it contains a fountain).
The Bentheim Castle tile has a fountain on its left half.
Both halves of the Konradsheim Castle tile count as water tiles (the moat spans across both halves).
The Konradsheim Castle tile has a moat spanning across both halves.
The Spiel'22 tile has an inn so it is a water tile.
The Spiel'22 tile has an inn.
The Ukraine Promo tile is a water tile.
The Kinkakuji tile is a water tile (it contains a lake).
The Kinkakuji tile has a lake.
The Goryoukaku tile is a water tile (it has a moat).
The Goryoukaku tile has a moat.
The School tiles are water tiles (they feature a lake). The Vodyanoy tile is a water tile (it has a lake).
The Vodyanoy tile has a lake.
One of the sides of the 3D Starting Landscape includes a lake. It will count as a water tile.
Lake on one side of the 3D Starting Landscape
The empty square spaces with water are not considered as water tiles (there are no actual tiles in those spaces).Tile distribution
Spring tiles
×1 ×1
×1
×1
×1
×1
×1
Summer tiles
Autumn tiles
Footnotes
For Icons explanation and licensing please visit Icons page.
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All of the branches have to be completed in order to score the road scoring.
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The tile with a fountain has two cities.
Question: Does the tile with the fountain have 2 city segments separated by a shared wall?
Answer: Yes, these are two separate cities. (4/2025)
Example: Tile with the fountain as is and another image marking (in black) the wall separating the two city segments on the tile. - ↑
The city tile with a lake has two cities.
Question: Does the city tile with the lake have 2 city segments separated by a shared wall?
Answer: Yes. (4/2025)
Example: City tile with the lake as is and another image marking (in black) the wall separating the two city segments on the tile. - ↑
The tile with a water trough has a farmhouse.
Question: Does the tile with the water trough have a regular farmhouse?
Answer: Yes. (4/2025)
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The placement of 1 or 2 meeples as one single action would exclude the possibility of performing any other action in Step 2B-1 (see Order of Play).
