Carcassonne: The Gold Mines Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Contents
• Set-up
• Rules
• Turn Order
• Ties
• End of Game

Contents

• 16 gold bars
• 8 Land tiles with gold symbols

Set-up

Mix the goldmine cards with the normal tiles. Keep the gold bars handy.

Rules

Follow the normal rules of Carcassonne. When a tile with a goldmine on is drawn, the player places it by the normal rules. The player then places a gold bar on the tile, and any adjacent tile (including diagonal), that is 2 gold bars are placed for each gold mine tile. You are allowed to put a gold bar on a tile that already contains one or more gold bar. Gold bars are not connected to a particular feature, just the tile. The player may then place a follower as usual. When a feature on a tile with a gold bar on it is completed, the gold is distributed. The player with the majority on the feature takes all the gold on the tile. When a city or a road is completed, all the gold that is on a tile with a piece of the city or road is distributed. When a cloister is completed, all the gold on the cloister tile and all 8 of its neighbours is distributed.

Editor's note: the source sentence beginning "The player then places a gold bar on the tile, and any adjacent tile (including diagonal), that is" is incomplete as printed (its clause is unclosed and it runs into "2 gold bars are placed for each gold mine tile"). It is transcribed verbatim here; the printed page image shows the same wording. The source also says "the then gold bars" in the tie-break paragraph below, transcribed as printed.

Turn Order

The turn order goes in the following way:

1. Place (gold) tile.
2. Place the gold bars.
3. Place follower.
4. Score the board.
5. Take gold.

Ties

If more than one person has the majority in the feature when the gold is claimed, then the then gold bars are distributed among those tied players, going clockwise from the active player one at a time for as long as there is enough gold left. Players keep the gold until the end of the game. Farmers do not earn gold at the end of the game (they are lazy, lazy people).

End of Game

At the end of the game, bonus points are awarded for gold piece. Depending on how many you have:

• 1-3 pieces = 1 point each
• 4-6 pieces = 2 points each
• 7-9 pieces = 3 points each
• 10 or more = 4 points each