The Festival
General info and comments
Originally released by CundCo in 2016 to mark the 15th Anniversary of the first publication of Carcassonne.
Contents
- 10 new Land tiles with a Festival symbol and a 15 logo set amongst some coloured starbursts
Rules
Preparation
Shuffle the 10 Festival tiles together with the Land tiles of the basic game.
This expansion has been developed for the Carcassonne basic game. All of the rules remain the same.
Placing a tile
When you draw a Land tile with the 15th Anniversary logo, you place it according to the normal rules.
Placing a meeple
You must then choose either:
- deploy one of your own meeples to the tile in the usual way; or
- return one of your own meeples[1][2] being already on the tiles [3] to your supply.[4]
The player can also choose to do neither of the above.
Captured meeples (from The Tower expansion) cannot be returned to the player's supply in this way.
Scoring a feature
When you complete one or more areas (e.g. a monastery, a road etc.) by placing a Festival tile, you score them according to the normal rules.
Final scoring
There is no additional scoring at the end of the game with the Festival tiles.
Tile distribution
Footnotes
For Icons licensing and explanation please visit Icons page.
- ↑ All of your own meeples are meant here, including normal and big meeples, wagon, mayor, builder, pig, and barn.
- ↑ A player cannot return a meeple from another player. Also, a player cannot return a neutral meeple (such as the fairy or the dragon).
- ↑ As the City of Carcassonne is also considered a tile, this allows removal of meeple from there (even if the Count is in the same space)
- ↑ If the Festival is used to remove a meeple, the fairy cannot be moved, as an action was still taken in the "Move Wood" or "Deploy a meeple" phase.