Carcassonne: 4 Seasons – The Summer Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Components
• Overview
• Setup
• Playing the Game
  • 1. Place a Land Tile
  • 2. Place a Meeple
  • 3. Score Points
• Statue Tiles

Components

• 12 new landscape tiles with summer-themed motives.

Overview

The Summer is part of the 4 Seasons tile series with individual illustrations. You can use the tiles to expand the field or as a small mini-expansion.

Setup

Mix the 12 summer tiles with the landscape tiles from the base game.

This mini-expansion was developed for the Carcassonne base game, and its rules still apply. You can combine The Summer with other expansions. However, there will be no official rules for these combinations.

Playing the Game

1. Place a Land Tile

If you draw a summer tile, you place it according to the usual rules.

2. Place a Meeple

You can place one of your meeple on the summer tile according to the usual rules.

3. Score Points

For water that is vertically, horizontally or diagonally adjacent to the summer tile you have placed, you now receive points. For each tile that shows water and/or a water tower, you receive 2 points.

Note: You also score 2 points for a summer tile with water on it, if it's placed within the radius of the summer tile you have placed. If there is more than one water on a tile, you still get 2 points.

The summer tile just placed does not generate any points itself, even if it has water on it.

Water can be depicted in different ways, e.g.:

• Water tower
• Water trough
• Fountain
• River source

You can find water on tiles here, among other places: the river, the ferries, the drawbridges, the Ukraine tile, the castles in Germany, inns and cathedrals.

Example: You place your drawn summer tile. At the end of the turn you score 8 points: 2 points each for the two river tiles, a water tower and the fountain. For your placed tile itself you do not score any points.

Statue Tiles

You will find 1 statue tile in each of the 4 Seasons.

The following rule applies to all 4 statue tiles of the 4 Seasons: If your tile is vertically, horizontally or diagonally adjacent to a statue tile of the 4 Seasons after being placed, you may place 2 meeple on this tile in different areas.

Example: You place the tile you have drawn next to the summer statue. Now you place a meeple on the city and another meeple on the field.

Note: The traffic circle at the statue is interrupted in the Summer due to the construction site. There are therefore 2 roads on this tile.