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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, Cash Out, Take 2)
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 than you (after the tile has been placed) according to the majority rule.
- 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.
Opening a gift
After having drawn a tile, but before placing it, you may open exactly 1 gift. [1]
To do so, turn over one of your gifts, resolve the action, then put it onto an open discard pile. [2]
There are 5 types of gifts:
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. |
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Road Sweeper Score any unfinished road right away. [3] It is not necessary for you to have a meeple on the road. After the road has been scored, the player's meeple is put back into their supply. |
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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. |
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Change Position 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. [4] |
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Take 2 In addition to the tile you've just drawn, draw another one. 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.
Tile distribution
Total cards: 25
Footnotes
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- ↑
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. - ↑ Discarded gift cards are placed face up on top of the discard pile.
- ↑ The road should be scored as an incomplete feature at the end of the game for the sake of consistency with other expansions (see Mini #2 - The Messages (Dispatches)).
- ↑ 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.
- Editor Manual - Old numbered parameters - RulesPlacingTile
- Editor Manual - Old numbered parameters - RulesPlacingMeeple
- Editor Manual - Old numbered parameters - RulesScoring
- Editor Manual - Old numbered parameters - Tile
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- Second Edition Minor Expansion