Carcassonne

Use the 72 base land tiles without the River. Each player has eight meeple of one colour: one on the scoreboard and seven in their supply. Place the starting tile centrally and shuffle the rest facedown. Leave abbots out.

Take clockwise turns: draw and place one tile, optionally place one meeple, then score features completed by this placement. A tile must share an edge with the existing landscape, and every touching road, city and field edge must match.

You must place the drawn tile legally. If no legal position exists anywhere, return it to the box and draw another. Touching only at a corner does not connect a tile to the landscape.

Place at most one supply meeple on the tile just placed, choosing a road, city or monastery. You cannot place directly into a connected road or city occupied by any player’s meeple. You cannot retrieve an old meeple first to place it on the new tile.

A road completes when both ends are closed by features or it forms a loop. It scores one per road tile. Eligible followers on that road determine who scores, regardless of whose placement completed it.

A city completes when walls fully enclose it with no internal gaps. Score two per city tile and two per shield. A monastery completes with eight surrounding tiles and scores nine including its own tile.

Score every feature completed by the turn’s tile placement, then return all meeple from those features to their owners. An occupied feature can still be extended, and having no supply meeple does not prevent drawing and placing tiles.

Later tiles can merge separately occupied features. The player with the most meeple scores the full feature value; players tied for the most each receive the full value rather than splitting it.

Introductory play may omit fields. When included, lay a farmer on an unoccupied connected field on the new tile. Roads, cities and other dividers separate fields. Farmers remain until final scoring; each field scores three per completed city touching it, using farmer majority or tied majority.

The game ends when tiles run out and the next player cannot draw and place one. Unfinished roads score one per tile; unfinished cities one per tile and shield; unfinished monasteries one plus surrounding tiles. Add field scoring if included. The highest total wins, with tied players sharing victory.