The Land Surveyors

General info and comments

The Print-and-Play mini expansion was released by Hans im Glück in 2020.

In this mini expansion land surveyors move throughout the Carcassonne area, redetermining its value over and over. Timing is everything as you plan and wait for the right time to score your features

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, since this has not yet been tested.

Contents

• 12 Scoring tiles divided into:
  • 5 city scorings

City scorings

• 4 road scorings

Road scorings

• 3 monastery scorings

Monastery scorings

Rules

Preparation

Divide the Scoring tiles into three stacks (cities, roads and monasteries), the top side with the information facing up. Shuffle each of the three stacks and place them next to each other under the scoring board. Next, take the upper tile of each stack and place it next to the stack. Those three tiles are the active scoring tiles.

File:Land Surveyors C2 City Scorings Setup.png

Example: City scoring setup:

• 1 Stack
• 2 Active tile

File:Land Surveyors C2 Road Scorings Setup.png

Example: Road scoring setup:

• 1 Stack
• 2 Active tile

File:Land Surveyors C2 Monastery Scorings Setup.png

Example: Monastery scoring setup:

• 1 Stack
• 2 Active tile

This expansion only affects the scoring. You will conduct the following steps: 1. Placing a tile and 2. Placing a meeple as usual.

3. Scoring a feature

For each of the three features (cities, roads and monasteries) one scoring tile is always activated. During the scoring of a feature, the scoring tiles determine, how many points a player receives. If you score more than one feature during a turn, all of those scorings are being influenced by their respective scoring tile.

After a turn in which you scored at least one feature, take all active scoring tiles and put them underneath the respective pile. After that, take the upper tile of each of the three piles and put it next to the pile (becoming the active scoring tile). If you complete a feature, but no points are being scored (because it has no meeple on it), the active scoring tiles remain and are not being replaced.

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The scoring tiles in detail

	Citizens' Jury | If a city is scored, the rule of the meeple majority does not apply. Any player, who has at least 1 meeple in the city, scores the points. Example 1: You have completed a city. Due to the Citizens’ Jury scoring tile both Red (having the majority of meeples) and Blue (with only 1 meeple) score 14 points.
	Bad Neighbourhood | During the scoring of a city, these completing city segments are not part of the scoring and do not get you any points. Example 2: Red's city only scores 6 points, because of the Bad Neighbourhoods. All city tiles with X do not score.
Wealth / Poverty | During the scoring of a city, road or monastery, you either receive +3 or -3 points. Therefore scoring minus-points is also possible and it can happen for your overall score to fall below 0.

Tile distribution

Total Scoring Tiles: 12

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