![]() Ringmaster Meeples are special meeples with fancy hats who love the circus and everything about it. Ringmasters count as meeples! Then, remove the Animal Token from the game and place it face-up next to the scoreboard. When that happens, the previous Circus Tile scores! Reveal the Animal Token, and then each player with meeples on the Circus Tile and the eight adjacent tiles scores points equal to the Animal Token’s value per meeple on those spaces. ![]() Once a subsequent Circus Tile is placed, the Big Top moves to the new location. When placing the Big Top, first choose a random face-down Animal Token and place it on the Circus Space, and then place the Big Top on top. Circus TilesĬircus Tiles bring the Big Top to town! Whenever you place a Circus Tile, you may place a meeple as normal on any of the tile’s features except for the Circus Space. Additionally, Ringmaster meeples and Abbotts and other fancy meeples cannot be part of a pyramid their ridiculous hats interfere with the balance. You can score a pyramid that you have no meeples in, but I am not sure why you’d want to do that. After a pyramid is completed, the same Acrobat Tile can be used again to create a new pyramid following the standard rules. Each player earns 5 points for each of their meeples in the pyramid, and then those meeples are returned to their players’ supplies. Once a pyramid is completed, in lieu of placing a meeple of any kind on your turn, you may score that completed pyramid. Pyramids of meeples can be multiple colors there are no restrictions on who can add to a pyramid. Nothing happens if you knock the tower over just fix it. If both spaces are occupied, the tower can be completed by adding a third meeple on the other two meeples’ shoulders. On subsequent turns, any player who places a tile adjacent to an Acrobat Tile (diagonally counts) can place a meeple of theirs on the other space. So, when you first play an Acrobat Tile, you can either place on the field or road as normal, or you can place your meeple standing on one of the two spaces as an acrobat. Let’s go through what each of them do! Acrobat TilesĪcrobat Tiles are probably my favorite new addition? They’re goofy. So Carcassonne: Under the Big Top plays effectively the same as the base game, with three major changes, each corresponding to the major elements added. ![]() Once you’ve done that, you should be ready to start! Gameplay ![]() Not a ton of additional setup! There are a handful of Acrobat Tiles:Īnd then Ringmaster Meeples and the Big Top! Give each player a Ringmaster in their color, and set the Big Top aside, for now.įinally, shuffle the Animal Tokens up, face-down, and set them near the score board, for now. Master the circus’s many arts and wiles, and make way for the Ringmaster to astonish, surprise, and delight if you want to become a major name in this up-and-coming region. As they try and master their acrobatic prowess, workers of all kinds are delighted whenever the circus ends up near them, even if the circus only has a trained flea to show off this time. As it zips up and down and around, it leaves joy in its wake and teaches some of the locals new tricks. And come to town again! It’s a traveling circus, after all. In Carcassonne: Under the Big Top, the traveling circus has come to town! And left town. Got a new expansion to try out, though, so let’s dive into that and see how it plays! Maybe I’ll check out the others, one day. Anyways, I’ve covered Carcassonne a few times in the past, and so, getting a chance to check out the newest expansion along with the 20th Anniversary Edition has been a real highlight. Must be in a good mood or something haven’t felt like writing in weeks. Making good progress this week! Only three days in and I’ve written three reviews, so far. Full disclosure: A review copy of Carcassonne: Under the Big Top was provided by Z-Man Games.
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