The Labyrinth

General info and comments

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Expansion watermark

The Labyrinths was originally release by Spiel Doch in 2016.

Issue 1/2016 of the Spiel Doch! magazine contains two new tiles for Carcassonne. One has been illustrated in the style of the 1^st edition by Doris Matthäus, the other in the style of the 2^nd edition by Anne Pätzke. Both tiles can be used in all editions. The combinations with other expansions and mini-expansions are not completely tested and there are no official rule explanations covering such cases.

Spiel Doch provided a basic set of rules and HiG released a variant for advanced players available on their website at the tile of release.

Contents

• 2 landscape tiles, one 1st Ed. Carcassonne and another for 2nd Ed. Carcassonne

1st edition labyrinth

2nd edition labyrinth

Rules

Preparation

Mix the Labyrinth tiles with the other landscape tiles.

Placing a tile

Labyrinth tiles are placed according to the normal Carcassonne rules.

Placing a follower

Basic rules

A player who places a labyrinth tile is allowed to put a follower on it (also in compliance with the standard rules). The labyrinth is not a crossing; all outgoing roads are interconnected. Consequently, a follower can only be placed on it if all the roads connected to the labyrinth tile are unoccupied. The follower then is a thief on all the connected roads.

Advanced variant

Since the labyrinth makes the connections of the roads quite unmanageable, the placing of followers is regulated differently in this variant. A player who places the labyrinth may place a follower on it even if there is already a follower on one or more connected roads. It does not matter who owns those followers.

RED places the labyrinth next to a road that connects with it. Although there is already a follower on this road, RED may place a follower on the labyrinth.

As the game progresses, if a player places a tile at an exit of the labyrinth that does not have a follower yet, he or she may place a follower there, even though the network of roads and the labyrinth itself may have a follower.

GREEN later adds a road to an unoccupied labyrinth exit. He too is allowed to use a follower, although followers are already on the labyrinth and the adjacent roads.

If a player adds a road to an existing road that already has a follower on it, a follower cannot be placed on it (as usual.) The labyrinth and the four outgoing roads are the exceptions.

RED later attaches a road to a labyrinth exit. Since there is already a BLACK follower, RED may not place a follower on the road.

Scoring

Basic rules

The labyrinths are scored according to the normal Carcassonne rules for roads.

Advanced variant

The labyrinth and the connected roads are scored when all 4 of the roads are completed. The player with the majority of followers on the labyrinth and the connected roads will get 1 point for each tile as usual. In addition, he or she will get 2 points for each follower standing on the labyrinth or on a connected road. If several players have the majority, each of them gets the full number of points.

All the roads are completed. RED and BLACK are tied for majority. RED and BLACK get 8 points for the tiles and 10 points for the 5 followers on the tiles. Altogether both players get 18 points.

Tile distribution

Total Tiles: 2

 x1 (1^st Edition)

 x1 (2^nd Edition)

Footnotes

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