TILE PLACEMENT

Now for the placement rules - where and how do you place a tile?

The fundamental rule is:

All of a player’s tiles must always be placed so that they maintain a single connected group of tiles. This means that you must place each tile with at least 1 of its 6 edges along an edge of a tile that is already in your play area.

Beyond that, there are only 2 more placement rules:

• Tracks and Streams must always match edges with their own type. For example, you may not connect an edge with a Stream to an edge without a Stream. (Of course, you may start several, non-contiguous Tracks or Streams.)

• On the other hand, you are allowed to place the tile edges depicting Forest, Grain, and Village, as well as the neutral Meadow, however you wish. They are not required to match edge types.

These examples are all allowed:

These examples are not allowed: