River

General info and comments

Expansion watermark for 2014 version

The River was originally released by Hans im Glück in 2014.
The River II was originally released by Hans im Glück in xxxx as part of Count, King and Robber.

The River modifies the beginning of the game by having players place a set of specific river tiles before the normal tiles.

Contents

• 12 river tiles, each with with a dark back, which replace the start tile.

Rules

Preparation

The River contains 12 river tiles, each with with a dark back, which replace the start tile. Set aside the source and lake tiles. Shuffle the remaining river tiles and stack them facedown. Add the lake tile to the bottom of the stack, and place the source tile faceup as the starting tile.

Preparation of River II

River expansion added to Count, King and Robber includes fork tile. It should be set aside along source and lake tiles. Fork tile is to be placed first (after source tile) by the first player.

Playing the game

Placing a tile You draw a river tile and place it in a way that its edges match the edges of tiles already in play. However, the river cannot turn in the same direction twice in a row, as this risks forcing the river to loop onto itself. Players must draw and place all river tiles before they can draw normal tiles. Forbidden placement Placing a meeple Like any other tile, you may place a meeple on other features of a river tile you just placed. Meeples cannot be placed on the river itself. If you place the last River tile (the lake with the volcano), you cannot place a meeple on that tile. Immediately after placing it, take another turn by drawing the normal tile. Volcano tile Scoring River feature itself cannot be scored. All other features on river tiles are scored as usual.

Completed river example.

Note on River II special features

Pigsty

The inn and the volcano on the River follow the rules from their expansions (Inns and Cathedrals and The Princess and the Dragon, respectively). The pigsty has the same effect as a pig in a field (Expansion Traders and Builders). If you are playing without these expansions, simply ignore these features.

Clarifications for new landscape tiles

Following tiles do not split farms, there is one farm

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Farms do not go under bridges, there are 4 separate farms here.

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And three farms here, one north and two south.

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Tile distribution

The River

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The River II

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Footnotes

For Icons explanation and licensing please visit Icons page.