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Is it possible to have an unplayable tile?
I found this rule very quickly in the rules.
In the rare circumstance where a drawn tile has no legal placement
(and all players agree), the player discards the tile from the game
(into the box)...
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Carcassonne - taking control of a city
Basic Rules:
On your turn you place a tile. After placing the tile you can place your meeple onto any uncontrolled feature on that tile. After placing meeples, all completed features are scored.
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In Carcassonne Rivers, does the Abbey Tile stop a road?
It plays as illustrated: the road is unbroken.
See the scoring example that shows the road is "not ended":
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How do I score this field in Carcassonne?
According to the rules:
Each field is worth 3 points per adjacent completed city.
So the city must share a line with the field. It does this for three of the cities. The small vertical city is ...
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Carcassonne: how to score city points when tied
When multiple players score a feature, each player gets the full amount.
There is only one way to score a feature, and if the rule says that each player scores that feature, each player will get the ...
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Can you place a meeple on a tile you didn't place?
You can only place it on the tile you just placed. From the Rio Grande edition rules:
After the player places a land tile, he may deploy one of his followers, using the following rules:
The player ...
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Are the yellow roof buildings inns?
No, that's just scenery. The inns all have lakes next to them.
This copy of the rules appears to be for the new edition (it says ©2002, 2015 and it doesn't look quite like my copy of the original ...
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How many unique outcomes can be made from the 12 river tiles in Carcassonne?
As mentioned in the comments, I think the U-turns of the river in your example board are invalid; see (this version of) the rules. If, as you say "We must also exclude possibilities that become ...
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Carcassonne: two builders on the same city?
At any time when the builder is on the table, it functions as documented in the rules.
The number of builders in a single city does not affect the way in which each builder functions. Nor does the ...
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Carcassonne Flying Machines + Ferries
To answer the first half of the question:
Which of the three road pieces would be considered valid placements for the meeple?
(cited from the Complete Annotated Rules ver 7.4 pages 142-143 available ...
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Can a Mayor be used to create a Castle?
Short and simple answer: The mayor cannot be placed in a castle.
(From footnote 161 in the Carcassonne Complete Annotated Rules)
If the mayor is in a city that is turned into a castle, you won't get ...
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Carcassone Hills & Sheeps - how do the sheep rules make sense?
Yes, you are missing something.
'Lucky guy' in your example gains the same benefit as 'clever guy', despite playing fewer field tiles.
Each time you place a tile and cash in the accumulated points ...
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Can you place a meeple on a tile you didn't place?
You can only place a meeple on a tile you just placed. The Princess & Dragon expansion provides an exception to that rule.
As Gendolkari already quoted, the rules in the vanilla game are clear:
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When was "pennant" renamed "coat of arms" in Carcassonne?
The original German is Wappen.
English rules have translated that variously as Pennant, Banner, Shield, or Coat of Arms.
The Rio Grande edition called it Pennant.
The Z-Man edition called it Banner.
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Carcassonne: how to score city points when tied
Interpreting the sentence as regular English, and comparing it with the official rules in other languages, lead me to believe that all players get 10 points. There's no splitting involved.
Here is the ...
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Carcassonne fairy - scoring with a fairy for multiple areas and at the end
As per the rules:
When a feature (city, road, cloister, or farm) with the fairy is scored, the player whose follower stands on the tile with the fairy scores 3 points for standing there, and may ...
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Can the Tower capture the Wagon and/or the Mayor in Carcassonne
In the file Carcassonne CAR (this is the link https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/87531/carcassonne-standard-complete-annotated-rules ) page 52, section the tower, before note 120 says: "Whenever a ...
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Does moving the wagon after scoring stop you from taking the fairy?
No. Redeployment of the Wagon following scoring (at the end of a turn) is a separate step from the figure deployment step (for the next turn), so it has no effect on any of the actions you can take ...
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What are the odds a player doesn't draw a monastery or garden tile?
This should happen to you about 1 in every 620 games that have 3 players, 14 tiles that an Abbot can be played on, 1 start tile, and 57 other tiles.
Given that there are 72 tiles, in a 3-player game, ...
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Does the Carcassonne Hunters & Gatherers tile with 3 fish, 2 rivers and 2 forests have a menhir?
Simple answer: If the tile doesn't have a picture of a menhir, it doesn't contain a menhir.
I suspect the point of confusion here is differentiating between "tiles with a menhir on them" and ...
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German Carcassonne fan expansions - available in English?
A quick Google web search reveals this post for the Easter Festival (yes, it's the same author although a different name). The full rules for both expansions can be found in the downloads sections of ...
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Does Keep score points when another Keep is completed?
If a Keep is built next to another Keep, neither are completed as a city. The next feature that's scored next to either of them, though, will trigger both. First the Keep that's next to the feature, ...
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Carcassonne interaction between "The Robbers" and "The Messages"
Official answer, taken from Carcassonne Central. The source is Georg Wild from HiG, via telephone call.
TL;DR; yes, it is possible that the robber might stand still until the end of the game. You ...
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Can I move the fairie on a bonus turn due to the builder?
A player may move the fairy instead of placing a follower.
A player can move the fairy on the placement of the first tile, the second tile, or both.
A player can only score the one point when the ...
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Carcassonne: how to score city points when tied
Z-Man Games English rules for the current edition (p. 5, bottom of page):
If there are multiple meeples in a single scored feature, the player with the most meeples is awarded full points and
all ...
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Carcassone scoring for a city with a mayor and a cathedral
The Mayor doesn't affect the number of points received for completing a City. The Mayor only affects WHO might get the points. If someone has a meeple in a city and you get your Mayor in the city, ...
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Does the mayor count as multiple knights during taxes?
The annotated rules FAQ version 7.4 (and presumably for some versions prior) does answer this question directly and matches the conclusion that @freekvd did above. The current and recent versions can ...
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Are newer editions of Carcasonne compatible with older expansions?
I just bought inns and cathedrals today and the new set of needles does include an abbot piece.
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Difference between a knight and a meeple
The meeples are any of the roles in the game. Knight, thief, farmer or monk. The big one counts as two.
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Difference between a knight and a meeple
A meeple is a humanoid-shaped physical object.
You will find in the box 40 regular meeples, including 8 meeples in each of these colors: yellow, red, green, blue, and black.
They were called "...
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