The 4 Seasons
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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. You can use the tiles to expand the field or as a small mini-expansion.
 Promotional image of The Spring |
Spring has arrived in Carcassonne! Admire the gardens and flowers that are spreading across the fields!
General info and comments
 Spring expansion symbol |
The Spring was released in the 3rd edition (C3 for short) in April 2024 by HiG. It part of a series of expansions called The 4 Seasons.
This expansion doesn't exist for the 1st edition (C1 for short) or the 2nd edition (C2 for short).
This expansion has cities with clipped buildings.
Contents
- 12 new landscape tiles with spring themed motives
 Spring tiles |
Rules
Preparation
Mix the 12 spring tiles with the landscape tiles from the base game.
Gameplay
1. Placing a tile
If you draw a spring tile, you place it according to the usual rules.
2. Placing a meeple
You can place one of your meeple on the spring tile according to the usual rules.
Statue tiles
You will find 1 statue tile in each of the The 4 Seasons series.
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 meeple on this tile in different areas.
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.
New land tiles
Other expansions
This section contains additional information about the interactions with other Carcassonne expansions.
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. [2]
- 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.
Tile distribution
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Footnotes
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All of the branches have to be completed in order to score the road scoring.
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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).