The Bets

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The Bets was originally released by Hans im Glück in 2022.

With this mini-expansion you place bets on how many tiles a road or a city will consist of upon completion. Influence these areas in your favor and get the extra points.

This expansion has cities with clipped buildings.

This expansion has been developed for the Carcassonne basic game. All the basic game rules still apply in addition to the expansion rules below. You can combine it with other expansions - but at your own risk – that is, there will be no official rules for these combinations.

Rules

Preparation

Each player receives 6 betting chips in their color and places them face down in front of them. Shuffle the 10 bookmaker tiles of this expansion together with the other land tiles.

Placing bets

If you draw a tile with a betting office depicted, carry out all three actions according to the usual rules 1. Place a tile, 2. Place a meeple and possibly also 3. Score points. Then, perform the new action 4. Place bets unless it is the last tile in the game.

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Settling bets

When a city or road with bookmaker tiles is completed, you will also score the bets on them.

3. Score points

Settling a bet

When scoring a road or city with segments on one or more bookmaker tiles with betting chips on it, those betting chips must be scored after the usual scoring. To do so, flip them over.

If the number on your chip matches the number of tiles in the completed road or city, you score points.
If your number does not match the number of tiles, you do not score bonus points.

Take your betting chips back into your supply after you have scored them. You may use them on new bookmaker tiles.

Betting chips

Most betting chips depict 2 numbers. Hence, they offer 2 possibilities to bet on the right number. If you are right, you score the respective points depicted on the chip.

	The betting chip depicting only the number 4, requires the road or city to consist of 4 tiles exactly. In return you score double the points depicted (8 points).
	The plus sign after the numbers means that more than 7 or 8 tiles can be part of the feature to win the bet. You still only score 7 or 8 points.

Example: You finish the city with your tile and score the feature. You score 10 points for the city, as usual. One of the tiles of the city has betting chips lying on it. You flip them over and settle the bet. Blue and Green have bet on the right number. Blue scores 4 points and Green scores 8 points. You missed the right number with your chip and don't score any bonus points. Now everyone takes their betting chips back into their supply.

Final scoring

Score all remaining betting chips on tiles at the beginning of the final scoring. For the scoring, the number of tiles placed until this point applies. Before flipping over the betting chips you decide which city or road you want to score. Afterwards, you proceed with the final scoring as usual.

Other expansions

General comments

The tile count considered when settling a bet is not modified by any expansions. You always consider the original number of tiles.
One or two triangular tiles in one square space are counted as one tile.
Each half of a double-sized tile is counted as a separate tile.
- Edge case: The long road segment on a Markets of Leipzig tile is counted as one single road segment even if it runs across the two halves of the double-sized tile.
A 2x2 tile is counted as 4 separate tiles.

German Cathedrals

A bet on a road only counts a German cathedral tile once even if several road segments on the cathedral tile are connected to the same road.

The Land Surveyors

The Highway scoring tile does not affect the number of tiles to be considered when settling a bet on a road.
The Bad Neighborhood scoring tile does not affect the number of tiles to be considered when settling a bet on a city.