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Carcassonne Mystery Cache

Hidden : 9/3/2022
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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The Game: Carcassonne was published in 2000, designed by Klaus Jürgen-Wrede, and become Spiel des Jahres 2001. It is a very family friendly, easy access game with simple rules and has great repeatability given its modular board setup. I highly recommend this game as an easy start into board games.

Fun fact: The term Meeple was coined playing the game of Carcassonne. In 2000 Alison Hansel tried to say "my people" when making up this new and now iconic word in the board game world.

Background: When I talked to one of Canberra's prominent cachers about board games and he did not know this absolute classic, I just knew I had to get him familiarized with it by setting up a puzzle about it (as this could not stand given his heritage). Now you all can benefit from it, if you don't already know the game you will need to work through the rules and might as well learn and play it! (I am happy to organize a game night if there is interest among people, put notes into the listing if so)

Puzzle: In the picture you see the final board at the end of a 1st edition design base game (no extensions but with farmers (farmers post 2002 rules -> farm perspective, 3p, a cities can be scored more than once)). The last tile has been played, now is final end-of-game score counting. What is the end-of-game score count for each player, sort those from largest to smallest and put them without spaces into the checker. 

 

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

unatvat, fgrc hc

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)