Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers

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• bonus tiles (pit traps, wildfires, shaman, etc.) — Some tiles provide immediate or end-of-game bonuses (pit traps, wildfires, shamans) and other effects explained in the rule book.
• Compound Scoring — Grasslands are scored only at the end of the game; hunters score based on prey within controlled grasslands, including special scoring for mammoths, aurochs and deer, with tigers affecting deer scoring.
• edge matching and placement rules — Tiles must touch along a full edge with matching artwork; corners-only touches are not allowed.
• end-of-game conditions — The game ends after the last regular tile is placed; remaining tokens may be left on the board, but non-hunter/hut pieces are cleared for scoring.
• end-of-game scoring and ties — At the end, players with the most huts within a river system score fish points; in ties, all tied players share points; grasslands scoring also involves hunter placement and tie rules.
• extra turns from menhir tiles — Certain menhir tiles grant extra turns when used to score or extend features, but multiple extra turns are limited per turn.
• feature scoring (forests) — Forests score when surrounded by grasslands on all sides with no internal gaps; points are awarded per tile in the forest, and the active player may earn a bonus turn if there are hunters in the forest.
• feature scoring (grasslands and hunters) — Grasslands are scored only at the end of the game; hunters score based on prey within controlled grasslands, including special scoring for mammoths, aurochs and deer, with tigers affecting deer scoring.
• feature scoring (rivers) — When a river is completed (ends closed by lakes/forests) or loops back, points are awarded based on the number of tiles plus any fish in the river or connected lakes.
• hut rules and river systems — Huts can be placed on rivers or lakes and can join river systems, but at most one hut per river system and huts do not score until the end of the game.
• meeple or hut placement on a placed tile — After placing a tile, you may place a single meeple or hut onto a feature on that tile, with restrictions about where you can place and which feature you must choose.
• tile drawing and placement — On a turn you draw and reveal one land tile from a stack and attach it to the current landscape, ensuring edges match and you can rotate the tile.
• tile placement — On a turn you draw and reveal one land tile from a stack and attach it to the current landscape, ensuring edges match and you can rotate the tile.

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• on your turn you'll perform up to three steps
• you may see other artwork as well but your meeples can't be placed specifically on them

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Area Control — Players score points based on controlled features as the board grows.
• tile placement — Players place terrain tiles to create features and shape the map.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Area Control — Claiming areas with meeples
• tile placement — Players add tiles to expand a shared map

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