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Rules assistance for Carnival: The Sideshow
Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.
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Rules assistant for Carnival: The Sideshow
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Carnival: The Sideshow is an expansion for Carnival released in 2011. It was designed by Christopher Kirkman and Cherilyn Joy Lee Kirkman.
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About the game
The Sideshow comes complete with three promotional products - expansion cards, collector's dice, and the game Lucky Dice. These products will never be offered for sale in stores by Dice Hate Me Games. This six-card addition to your Carnival box is sure to add even more fun! These cards replace the Wilds from the base game and all feature a character from the carnival sideshow. In play, they can behave just as the original Wilds or they can be discarded to perform the event specified on the card.
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Questions and answers
Carnival: The Sideshow has a complexity rating of 1.5 out of 5 from BoardGameGeek players, which makes it a light game. The rating reflects how much rules knowledge, planning and decision-making a typical game demands. Expect a longer first teach for heavier games, and use a preparation guide before game night.
Carnival: The Sideshow belongs to these categories: Expansion for Base-game. Categories describe the theme, setting and style of a game rather than its rules. Filter the catalogue by the same category to find similar games when you enjoyed Carnival: The Sideshow and want something comparable for your next game night.
The credited designers of Carnival: The Sideshow are: Christopher Kirkman and Cherilyn Joy Lee Kirkman. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Carnival: The Sideshow as an expansion for Carnival. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need Carnival to use it. Check that your edition of Carnival is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.