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'''The River''' was originally released for the New Edition by [[Hans im Glück|Hans im Glück]] in {{Year|2014}}. The 1st. Edition of [[River (1st edition)|River]] was released in {{Year|2001}}.

'''The River II''' was released for the New Edition by [[Hans im Glück|Hans im Glück]] in {{Year|2017}} as part of [[Count, King and Robber|Count, King and Robber]]. '''The River II''' was originally released for the 1st. Edition in {{Year|2005}}, and later bundled in the major expansion [[Count, King and Robber (1st edition)|Count, King and Robber]] in {{Year|2008}}.

The '''20th Anniversary River''' was released by [[Hans im Glück|Hans im Glück]] in {{Year|2021}} as part of the [[Variants#20th Anniversary Edition|20th Anniversary Edition]].

'''[[CutCassonne|CutCassonne]]''', the cut-n-play 10-tile promo from  {{Year|2014}}, included 3 river tiles that can added to any river expansion.

Copies of '''The River''' printed in the period 2014-2016 and '''[[CutCassonne|CutCassonne]]''' have the [[Visual Changes in the 2nd Edition#Darker cities|darker city backgrounds]]. The '''20th Anniversary River''' and '''The River C3''' have [[Visual Changes in the 2nd Edition#Cities with clipped buildings|cities with clipped buildings]].

This expansion was originally released for the [[River (1st edition)|1st Edition]], known as C1 for short, in {{Year|2001}}.

* '''12 river tiles''' ([[#The_River|The River]]): with a dark back and no symbol (original version) or a stream symbol ([[Variants#Big Box 6|Big Box 6]] version).

* '''12 river tiles''' ([[#The_River C3|The River C3]]): with a dark back and no symbol (both the base game version and the [[Variants#Big_Box_7_(Big_Box_v3.0)|Big Box 7]] version).

The river expansion added to [[Count, King and Robber|Count, King and Robber]] includes a river fork tile. It should be set aside along with the source and lake tiles. The fork tile is to be placed first (after the source tile) by the first player. <ref>

  This is not standard procedure for placing a volcano tile, according to the rules for [[The Princess and The Dragon|The Princess and the Dragon]]. Under those rules placing a volcano tile does not allow the player to draw a second tile; instead, the player may only perform actions not connected with meeple deployment.

The inn and the volcano on the river follow the rules from their expansions ('''Exp.  1 - [[Inns and Cathedrals|Inns and Cathedrals]]''' and '''Exp. 3 - [[The Princess and The Dragon|The Princess and the Dragon]]''', respectively). The pig-herd <ref>

The English rules called this feature "pigsty." We use pig-herd for consistency with Carcassonne I and also in order to avoid the confusion with the pigsty feature introduced in Carcassonne II, scored by some expansions such as '''[[The Markets of Leipzig|The Markets of Leipzig]]''' or '''[[The Tollkeepers|The Tollkeepers]]'''.  

</ref> has the same effect as a pig in a field (from '''Exp. 2 - [[Traders and Builders|Traders and Builders]]'''). If you are playing without any of these expansions, simply ignore their associated features.

This was incorporated in the [[Rio_Grande_Games|'''RGG''']] edition of the '''[[Variants#Big Box 1|Big Box 1]]''', which includes The River (the [[Hans_im_Glück|'''HiG''']] edition does not) and states that "The field space on the lake and source tiles wraps around those features."

The city bridge does not separate field segments. Only the river separates the field segments on this tile. Thus, there are 2 field segments on this tile. [This is logical, as similar city bridges in other expansions such as '''Exp. 5 - [[Abbey and the Mayor|Abbey &  Mayor]]''' do not divide the city underneath. – Chris O.] (1/2013)

There are no official rules for using two pig-herd tiles, as there are no rules for using two copies of The River II, and the similar GQ11 tile is not officially a pig-herd tile ('''[[Games Quarterly 11 (1st edition)|Games Quarterly #11]]'''). However, if one field has multiple pig-herd tiles, it seems that they should not stack; in other words, the bonus should only be awarded once, in keeping with other landscape bonuses such as inns and cathedrals.

{{IconWorld}} We recommend not to use a river and The Count of Carcassonne. Combining the two can lead to situations where the river cannot be completed.  

This is a general version of a paragraph new in the [[Hans_im_Glück|'''HiG''']] and [[Rio_Grande_Games|'''RGG''']] editions of '''[[Variants#Big Box 2|Big Box 2]]''', and is rather suggestive for a game of '''[[Mega-Carcassonne|Mega-Carcassonne]]'''.  

The original rules for The Count of Carcassonne included the following clarification: "If the river is being used, then the source tile should be placed next, and in such a way that the river leads away from the city." Yet the rules still said that it was probably better not to use the expansions together, and this was the only piece of advice to make it into the introductory paragraph of its rules in '''Exp. 6 - [[Count, King and Robber (1st edition)|Count, King & Robber]]''' for Carcassonne I: “It is not recommended to combine The Count of Carcassonne and The River II, as situations may arise in which it is impossible to place tiles properly."

As indicated above, this is no longer the recommended approach. Instead, one should always remember the rule from the basic game: "In the rare case that a tile cannot be placed anywhere, it is removed from the game, and the player draws another." If the river winds around the City of Carcassonne in such a way that you cannot place the next tile (river or otherwise), the tile should be placed to one side, and another drawn. An interesting corollary of this is that the river does not have to be finished: if it is impossible to do so, you do not have to place the final lake tile, and a permanent gap in the playing field might arise (which could, of course, subsequently be filled by an abbey from '''Exp. 5 - [[Abbey and the Mayor|Abbey & Mayor]]''').

* Lay the river in reverse order, from lake to spring. No real advantage, but might be more desirable, when playing the [[Count, King and Robber#The city of Carcassonne and the count of Carcassonne|Count of Carcassonne]] expansion, to have the lake near the City of Carcassonne for purely aesthetic reasons. (Thanks to Scott)

* Play both rivers backwards starting with the city/lake. This is more realistic because you then get two springs producing rivers that join and flow ‘down’ to a lake. Discard two lakes—the plain one from '''River I''' and the volcano. To set up, place the lake tile, put one spring tile aside as a final ending tile, and then split the balance of the river tiles into two stacks. The junction tile is shuffled into stack 1 and the other spring into stack 2. Then the stack 1 is placed on stack 2—so that the junction will be drawn sometime before the spring. If playing with the [[Count, King and Robber#The city of Carcassonne and the count of Carcassonne|Count of Carcassonne]], place the city/lake so that it completes one of the small cities around Carcassonne. (Thanks to dwhitworth)