Well,... I've just bought the 20th anniversary edition and it has the river and abbot included. About the abbot, it clearly says: "You may place a meeple in the regular way (not on the garden)." (from Dutch) So that means you cannot place a meeple on a garden, only the abbot. The way you seem to play it makes the garden exactly the same as a monnestry. It's seems to be a small difference, but it's not: now there is a much bigger incentive to remove the abbot on time so you'd not miss another garden opportunity and you have to be more decisive when you place an abbot on a monnestry for a short time or a meeple that's there until it's finished.

Well done Jess. Nice to see you guys having fun together.

What a great family game. We've just started playing with my 5 year old. I was looking for a clear video to bring the rivers expansion in, but current considering the abbots after watching this. keep up the great content.

not only did she win but Jess should of got more points, when her peace was not freed up, for getting the small cities.

There are several carcassonne playthrough videos on youtube, but yours are my favourite.

What a lovely family :) Thanks for the video

Glad I looked this up before I played too many games lol. I knew I was playing with a few things wrong XD And now I know what they are :) Thank you for the simple explanation!

at 4:43 you made a mistake because you put a river that turns twice in the same direction

Red could have taken her Abbott back because the monastery is surrounded. Score 9 points and take the Abbott back instead of skipping.

Great video, very informative 👍

This was a great video, thanks, I've bought this for our Christmas boardgame, my daughter is 6 and a half and I think from looking at your daughter she'll be beating us all the time 🤣

Thanks for the video, it says in my rules that the normal starting tile is removed when the river expansion is used, and also i thought the river couldnt go in a u shape like you have it, it should essentially flow north to south from the start to end, although will have some turns left and righ?

Why don’t you take the fields with a farmer?

Just a small error you made at 7mins 10secs.you placed a meeple in a garden, this is incorrect.you can only place an abbot in a garden.abbots go in monasteries or gardens.meeples can only go in monasteries. However,you could have placed(as per rule book)a meeple on the garden TILE,for example,in the field of that tile,but not in the garden.

The actual reason that I was watching your video is that I was curious about the added value of the river and I'm stil not sure what it does to the game... At least it forces the layout in a shape so that it becomes a bit harder to play, I guess. By the way, we always follow the rule that you have to respect the edge of the table, and you will never move the entire layout to a more suitable pace.

Chci se zeptat..muze byt klaster umisten hned vedle dalsiho klastera ci kostela? My to hrajeme,ze nesmi a ani diagonalne.

Nice Jeff i just bought this game yesterday and i dont know that garden can be place any meeple or abbot

Hi, can you clarify a rule concerning the starter river expansion please. I understand that if you use this expansion, the original starter tile is removed from the game, but you kept it in. It probably doesn't matter but I want to avoid disagreements when playing with others. Also, and you might have been asked this before, can you extend farmland around the end of the spring and lake? My pieces look slightly different to yours and they look like they want to prevent you from doing this. Perhaps later additions have been redrawn to give a clear green space around them so that farms can extend around them. What do you think?

Can farm fields cross rivers?

Interesting, on the PC version gardens can only be used by abbots!

I still don't get abbots. Please explain, somebody! In the instructions in the box, under 'The Abbot', in 2 it states you may place either a meeple or abbot on a monastery or a garden (just as he says in this video). Then in 3, it says only an abbot may be placed on a garden.

If you play with the River expansion, you don't use the normal starting tile

meeples cant go in gardens

You went a bit fast when scoring at the end.

This guy doesnt know what he is talking about. A normal meeple cannot be placed on a garden.

Farmers FTW.