Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers FAQ
52 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Playing the Game
- What are the steps of a turn in Hunters and Gatherers?
- Can you place a meeple on a feature your tile just completed and score it right away?
- Can a meeple returned from scoring be placed again in the same turn?
- If one player has two meeples on a completed forest, do they score twice?
- When another player's tile completes your river or forest on their turn, when are points scored and are your meeples returned?
- Can one tile score more than one feature at once, such as a lake that closes two rivers?
- Can you place a tile past the edge of the table?
Rivers and Lakes
- Does placing a lake tile that joins two river ends complete the river?
- When a river loops back into its own lake, is that lake and its fish scored twice?
- Does a lake with fish score again when a new river is completed from it?
- Can an already scored river be counted again when a new lake extends it?
- Can a fisherman be placed on a river that a hut already marks?
- Can you place a hut and a fisherman in the same turn, and where can a hut go?
- Is the 3-point river example in the 2015 Z-Man rulebook a mistake?
- Are two river segments on one tile joined when a mountain or forest separates them?
- What is a spring in Hunters and Gatherers, and how does it differ from a river?
Forests and Grasslands
- Do forests that touch only at a tile corner join, and can a hunter score across that corner?
- Are separate forest segments on one tile separate features, and do forests cut off meadows?
- Is a completed forest scored per tile or per forest segment?
- Do mountains split a forest into separate forests?
- If a river crosses a forest on one tile, is the forest one forest or two?
- If you complete a forest that has no gatherer in it, do you score points?
End of the Game, Final Scoring, and Determining the Winner
Menhir Tiles
- Can the Shaman tile return a hut, or only a meeple?
- Is returning a meeple with the Shaman tile mandatory or optional?
- Who scores the Logboat tile, and do huts or other players share the points?
- Can a hunting trap go on grassland that another player's hunter already holds, and what happens to the animals?
- Does the Wildfire tile that scares away tigers need a hunter placed on it?
- How many points do mushrooms add when a forest is scored?
- Do aurochs and mushrooms appear only on the menhir tiles?
- Do you still get the extra menhir turn if you complete a forest with a menhir but have no meeple in it?
- Can one turn give you more than one extra menhir turn or bonus tile?
- Can a meeple returned during your turn be placed on the menhir tile you draw in the extra turn?
- If the menhir tile you draw cannot be placed, do you draw another menhir tile?
- Does a sacred shrine give you the whole meadow, and do other players still score it if you have no hunter there?
- Can you place a sacred shrine tile into a meadow another player already holds?
Carcassonne: King & ScoutExpansion
- When a city is completed, who takes the King: the player who completes it or the player who scores it?
- How is the largest city measured for the King: by tiles, points, or shields?
- Who gets the Robber Baron when a road ties the longest road, or when another player completes the longest road?
- Do the two short road pieces on the Inns and Cathedrals CRCR tile count as roads for the Scout?
- Can the Shaman tile be used from the start of the game, or does it need a turn first?
- How does the King score at game end: only for cities its holder completed, or for every completed city?
- How many points does the Dug Out owner score when a river completes?
- Does a Dug Out count as a fisherman on every river branch from its lake?
Carcassonne: The PhantomExpansion
- Can the Phantom and a normal follower both be placed in the same turn, including through a portal?
- Can the Phantom be eaten by the Dragon, removed by the Princess, or captured by the Tower?
- Can you place a Phantom to score a second feature that the same tile completes?
- Can you place a Phantom on a Festival tile?
- Can you place a Phantom on a turn when you place a Tower piece instead of a follower?