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The Signposts was released by Hans im Glück in 2021.

With this mini-expansion you can score additional points when you finish a street. To do this, you have to steer the course of the road as the signposts show you.

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.

Contents

Expansion symbol

• 12 new land tiles, each depicting 2 of 3 different types of signposts:

Signpost tiles

Signpost symbols

Rules

Preparation

Shuffle the 12 tiles of this mini expansion together with the other land tiles.

Gameplay

1. Placing a tile

Draw a land tile and place it according to the rules of the base game.

2. Placing a meeple

You may place a meeple on the tile just placed.

3. Scoring a feature

When completing a road, check if there are signposts next to it. If that is the case, in addition to the points of the road you also score points for each signpost pointing in the right direction.

There are three types of signposts: left, straight, right.

Example 1: Tile with 2 types of signposts: straight and right

For a signpost to be pointing in the right direction, the following requirements have to be fulfilled:

• The course of the road on the next tile has to follow the direction indicated by the signpost (left turn, right turn or straight ahead).
• The road must not end on the first tile after the signpost.

How to count the signposts:

• Count the signposts showing the correct course of the road on the road you want to score.
• Now count how many different types of signposts are pointing in the right direction on your road.

You may score:

• Only one 1 type of signpost: 1 point for each correct signpost.
• 2 different types of signposts: 2 points for each correct signpost.
• All 3 different types of signposts: 3 points for each correct signpost.

Signposts, that do not show the correct course of the road, do not score points.

Example 2: In this example, 5 signposts point in the right direction . The rules for the roundabout are as follows: If a signpost points in one of the two directions of the roundabout, it is showing the correct course of the road (here: the blue 1 and the red 2 arrow).
Three arrows are not correct . Three are pointing in the wrong direction 3, 4 and/or the road already ends on the next tile 4, 5.
You complete your road by placing the tile and score 9 points.
For the 5 correct signposts , which include all 3 different types, you score (5×3) 15 extra points.

Final scoring

At the end of the game you receive 1 point for each signpost on your roads, pointing in the right direction. The different types of signposts do not matter at this point.

Other expansions

• General comments:

• The rules assume the signpost condition is met if a road segment connects the edge of the signpost to the required edge on the adjacent tile. If the road segment ends on the tile before touching the required edge or does not touch it at all, the signpost condition is not met.

Example 3: This image shows examples meeting the signpost condition (case A) and not meeting it (case B). Case B shows a straight road (dotted in white) that ends at a feature on the tile (yellow circle) so it does not continue to the opposite edge (section dotted in black), and a curved road (dotted in white) that doesn't meet the signpost requirement (dotted in black).

In general terms, the road segment must connect the required edges to meet the conditions, but this connection may happen to include other features that provide this connection on the tile beyond a simple printed road on the tile.

Example 4: Roads may include a number of features affecting them and even modify their layout at times. The rules cover roundabouts (case A). For other features, the same logic should apply also covered in the image:

• Tunnels without tunnel tokens (case B) and with them (case C)
• Ferries (case D)
• Bridges (case E)

Case C - right may present many variations when not meeting the singpost condition:

• The signpost road enters a tunnel and exits on the same tile but not reaching the required edge (the case presented in the example)
• The signpost road enters a tunnel and exits on another tile (the second tunnel token is placed on another tile) including those where the tunnel entrance connected to the signpost has no tunnel token or the exit tunnel token may be placed on another tile, if any
• The signpost road enters the tunnel but it may not exit (no tunnel token on the entrance or no second tunnel token to match it)

The labyrinth (case F-left) would always meet the signpost condition, the same as the 4-legged roundabouts in Exp. 7 or the Spiel '18 tile. The abbey tile would never meet the condition (case F-right), the same as any edge with a city gate.

• The extra points scored for the correct signposts is a feature-level scoring modifier the same as the points scored for:
  • Bathhouses (The Barber-Surgeons)
  • German castles (Castles in Germany)
  • Labyrinth with advanced rules (The Labyrinth
  • Little Buildings (Little Buildings)

These points will be added to the feature after applying other scoring modifiers such as:

• Inns (Exp. 1 - Inns & Cathedrals)
• German cathedrals (Cathedrals in Germany)
• Mage and Witch (Mini #5 - Mage &Witch).

• The points for the correct signposts are part of the total scoring for the feature, the same as the other feature-level scoring modifiers. These points are not a separate scoring event when considering the following cases:

• A castle scoring (Exp. 8 - Bridges, Castles & Bazaars)
• Messages #1 and #8 scoring points for a road (Mini #2 - The Messengers)
• A Robber stealing points from a road scoring (Mini #6 - The Robbers)

• Exp. 5 - Abbey & Mayor:
  • Any signpost on an road edge connected to an abbey tile will be considered in an incorrect position.

• Exp. 8 - Bridges, Castles and Bazaars:
  • Signposts consider a bridge as a straight road segment.

• The Markets of Leipzig:
  • The Wainwrights quarter bonus is not affected by signposts.
  • The long road segments on the Leipzig tiles end on the double-sized tile, so they will not meet the requirements for any signpost.

• Castles in Germany:
  • The road segments on the German castle tiles end on the double-sized tile, so they will not meet the requirements for any signpost.

• Cathedrals in Germany:
  • Roads ending at a German cathedral will receive extra points for the correct signpost on the road
  • An archbishop will not score extra points for the correct signpost on the road ending at the German cathedral.

• Halflings:
  • Two triangular tiles sharing the same square space will be considered as one regular tile regarding signposts, so those roads running across both tiles will be considered as a road on a square tile.
  • A road interrupted at a triangular gap or ending at a triangular tile will not meet the requirements for a correct signpost.

• 20th Anniversary River:
  • The road segment on the double-sized river source tile ends on tile, so it will not meet the requirements for any signpost.

• The Gifts:
  • The Road Sweeper gift card will take the signpots into consideration when scoring a road (1 point per correct signpost, as if scoring after the game).

Tile distribution

Total Tiles: 12

To be completed.

Footnotes

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