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If you draw an unplaceable tile, you will discard it and draw a new tile as many times as necessary until you draw a valid tile. At this point, you will be able to open a gift before placing the valid tile. As a result, If the last tile of the game is unplaceable, you will not be allowed to open a gift.
If you draw an unplaceable tile, you will discard it and draw a new one as many times as necessary until you draw a valid tile. At this point, you will be able to open a gift before placing the valid tile. As a result, if the last tile of the game is unplaceable, you will not be allowed to open a gift.
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If you open a Take 2 gift card and the second tile you draw is unplaceable, you will discard it and draw a new one until you have two valid tiles for placement. At this point, you will play one of them and discard the other. If there are no tiles left to draw a second placeable tile, this gift will have no effect and you will play the only tile you have.
If you open a Take 2 gift card and the second tile you draw is unplaceable, you will discard it and draw a new one until you have two valid tiles. At this point, you will play one of them and discard the other. If there are no tiles left to draw a second placeable tile, this gift will have no effect and you will play the only tile you have as usual.
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General info and comments

Expansion symbol

The Gifts was released by Hans im Glück in 2021.

With this mini-expansion released for the 20th anniversary of Carcassonne, you can receive gifts if you help your fellow players.

Contents

  • 25 cards featuring Gifts (5 x Synod, Road Sweeper, Change Position, [1] Cash Out, Take 2)
Back (left) and front of the 5 types of cards in the deck (right)

Note: The expansion does not include printed rules. They can be downloaded from the product here in German and in English:

https://cundco.de/en/mini-expansions/carcassonne/390/carcassonne-the-gifts?c=35

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

Shuffle the 25 gift cards into one facedown deck.

Gameplay

This expansion only changes the course of action in step 1. Placing a tile. The following actions 2. Placing a meeple and 3. Scoring a feature are carried out as usual.

1. Placing a tile

Receiving a gift

If you place a tile in a way that it adds to a road or city of a fellow player, you receive a gift.

This means that:

  • Roads or cities that have been expanded must belong to someone else (after the tile has been placed) according to the majority rule. [2]
  • When your tile extends several roads and/or cities, you still only receive 1 gift.

Now draw the top card of the deck, take a look at it (without showing it to any other player) and place it face down in front of you.

Note: In case all gift cards have already been given out at this point, shuffle the discard pile into a new gift deck. If the rare case occurs that all gifts are lying "unopened" before the players, you do not receive a gift.

Example 1: You place your tile, adding to Blue’s road and take a gift for doing so. Without the blue meeple on the road, you would not receive a gift, because you share the majority in the city.
Opening a gift

After having drawn a tile, but before placing it, you may open exactly 1 gift. [3] [4]

To do so, turn over one of your gifts, resolve the action, then put it onto an open discard pile. [5]

There are 5 types of gifts:

Gifts C2 Card 01.png

Synod

Place a meeple from your supply onto any unfinished monastery (if possible).

The monastery can already be occupied by one or more meeple – yours or someone else’s.

The monastery may also be unoccupied.

Example 2: You use the card “Synod” and place a meeple onto the monastery 1, which is already occupied by a blue, a green and one of your own meeples. Now you place a tile and complete the monastery 2. You score 9 points, Blue and Green do not score any points.
Gifts C2 Card 02.png

Road Sweeper

Score any unfinished road right away. [6]

It is not necessary for you to have a meeple on the road.

After the road has been scored, all the meeples on it are returned to their owners. [7] [8]

Example 3: You score the road and receive 4 points and take your meeple back into your supply 1. Next you continue the road by placing your tile 2 and place the meeple back onto the road 3.
Gifts C2 Card 03.png

Cash Out

Take your own meeple from a feature (city, road, monastery, or field), put it back to your supply and score points for doing so.

You score 2 points for each meeple, placed on that feature – also for the one you are taking back.

Example 4: You take your meeple back from the city and score 6 points.
Gifts C2 Card 04.png

Change Position [1]

Change the position of one of your meeple on a tile.

If your meeple is standing on a road, a monastery or a city, place it lying down in a field on the same tile. If your meeple is lying down in a field, place it standing up on a road, city or monastery on the same tile.

You may place your meeple standing up or lying down onto features that are already occupied.

You may only change the position of the meeple from lying down to standing or standing to lying down. Moving the meeple between features such as a road, a city, or a monastery is not allowed. [9]

Example 5: You change the position of your meeple, placing it, lying down, onto the already occupied field next to the city.
Gifts C2 Card 05.png

Take 2

In addition to the tile you've just drawn, draw another one. [10] [11]

Now pick one of them and place it according to the usual rules. The other tile is shuffled back into the facedown stack of tiles.

2. Placing a meeple

When you place a tile, you may place a meeple on it according to the usual rules.

Note: This expansion does not affect this action.

3. Scoring a feature

When you complete one or more features (e.g. a monastery, a road etc.), you score them according to the usual rules.

Note: This expansion does not affect this action.

Final scoring

At the end of the game, you score 2 points for each unopened gift in front of you.

Other expansions

>> Synod

  • Exp. 3 - The Princess & the Dragon:
    • Interpretation from the Community Adding a monk to a monastery with the fairy does not assign it automatically to the meeple, even if the fairy is alone.



>> Road Sweeper

  • General Comments:
    • Interpretation from the Community This action allows to trigger the scoring of any uncompleted road and leave it unoccupied. The road should be scored as if at the end of the game. This should be taken into consideration if the road is affected by other expansions.



>> Cash Out



>> Change Position [1]

  • Exp. 2 - Traders & Builders:
    • Interpretation from the Community The builder is removed when its last supporting meeple on the feature (road or city) is moved to an adjacent field.
    • Interpretation from the Community The pig is removed when its last supporting farmer in the field is moved to a feature.
    • Interpretation from the Community If you use this action to place a farmer in a field, you may place afterwords your pig in that field in 2. Placing a meeple.
  • Exp. 3 - The Princess & the Dragon:
    • Interpretation from the Community Moving a meeple to a feature with the fairy does not assign it automatically to the meeple, even if the fairy is alone.
  • Exp. 5 - Abbey & Mayor:
    • Interpretation from the Community If you use this action to place a farmer in a field with a barn, the scoring of the farmer will take place in 3. Scoring a feature.



>> Take 2

  • Exp. 5 - Abbey & Mayor:
    • Interpretation from the Community This action will not have effect if you decide to place an abbey.
  • Halflings:
    • Interpretation from the Community This action will not have effect if you decide to place a Halfling from your supply.
  • Castles in Germany:
    • Interpretation from the Community This action will not have effect if you decide to place a German castle from your supply.
  • The Fortune Teller:
    • Interpretation from the Community This action will not have effect if you decide to use your fortune teller(s).
    • Common house rule or variant This action may add an extra tile to choose from if you decide to use your fortune teller(s).

Tile distribution

Total cards: 25

Gifts C2 Card 01.png  x5
Gifts C2 Card 02.png  x5
Gifts C2 Card 03.png  x5
Gifts C2 Card 04.png  x5
Gifts C2 Card 05.png  x5

Footnotes

For Icons explanation and licensing please visit Icons page.

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Notorious rule difference among editions or publishers The original name for this card in the English rules is "Change on the lie." We used this name instead to make it closer to the German wording.
  2. ↑ Interpretation from the Community You have to consider the majority rule once you placed the tile, that is, at the end of 1. Placing a tile. Therefore, you may be just extending the road or city, or even connecting it to another feature, so the initial majority balance may be altered at this point.
    This means that you receive a gift when:
    • You extend a feature where you are not present but at least another player is after placing the tile.
    • You extend a feature that you may share or not with other players but you don't have the majority after placing the tile.
    This means that you do not receive a gift when:
    • You extend a feature where you are not present but you obtain (or share) the majority after placing the tile.
    • You extend a feature that you may share or not with other players but you have (or share) the majority after placing the tile.
    Note that the rules do not take into consideration if the tile placement is completely beneficial for your opponents: you may receive a gift for extending a feature but you may be creating a situation where the feature cannot be completed or it is easier for you to obtain the majority in future turns. Lastly, it is irrelevant whether you complete the feature you extend.
  3. ↑ Interpretation from the Community This action is optional. This means you open a gift when interested in the outcome.
    If you open a gift that has no effect at a given point in the game, the gift will be just wasted.
  4. ↑ Interpretation from the Community If you draw an unplaceable tile, you will discard it and draw a new one as many times as necessary until you draw a valid tile. At this point, you will be able to open a gift before placing the valid tile. As a result, if the last tile of the game is unplaceable, you will not be allowed to open a gift.

     Official clarification from the publisher Question: What happens after drawing an unplaceable tile if you want to open a gift?

    Answer: You are only allowed to open a gift once you draw a placeable tile. (4/2022)

  5. ↑ Interpretation from the Community Discarded gift cards are placed face up on top of the discard pile.
  6. ↑ Interpretation from the Community The road should be scored as an incomplete feature at the end of the game, taking into consideration the majority in the chosen feature.
  7. ↑ Interpretation from the Community When using a Road Sweeper gift card on a road, you trigger its scoring and remove all the meeples on it afterwards. Since the road is left unoccupied before placing a tile, you may occupy it again during your turn, if possible.

     Official clarification from the publisher Question: Whose meeples are removed when you use a Road Sweeper gift card on a road?

    Answer: Like in other scorings, all the meeples on the road are removed afterwards, even those in minority or tied during the scoring. Afterwards, you may add a meeple to this road just unoccupied, for example, when adding a tile to it. (12/2021)

  8. ↑ Notorious rule difference among editions or publishers This sentence has been reworded to match the clarifications provided. The original wording was misleading, assuming the active player had to remove only one meeple, if any present on the chosen road:
    "After the road has been scored, the player's meeple is put back into their supply."
  9. ↑ Interpretation from the Community In other words, you may change a meeple to another feature only if it requires a position change. Moving a meeple to another feature without a position change is not allowed. This wording is based on the base game.
    In general terms, the position change implies that a meeple on a feature becomes a farmer on the same tile, or that a farmer is moved to another feature on the same tile.
  10. ↑ Interpretation from the Community If there are no tiles left to draw a second tile, this gift will have no effect and you will play the only tile you have.
  11. ↑ Interpretation from the Community If you open a Take 2 gift card and the second tile you draw is unplaceable, you will discard it and draw a new one until you have two valid tiles. At this point, you will play one of them and discard the other. If there are no tiles left to draw a second placeable tile, this gift will have no effect and you will play the only tile you have as usual.

     Official clarification from the publisher Question: If you open a Take 2 gift card and you draw an unplaceable second tile, how do you proceed?

    Answer: You basically "ignore" the tiles that can't be placed until you have two valid options. (4/2022)

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